And it's working - she has a "success" folder on her computer of people whose minds she has changed. In that universe, Wynn is intentionally targeting young white men who've been pulled down a YouTube rabbit hole. … Given its billion or so users, YouTube may be one of the most powerful radicalizing instruments of the 21st century," he said. "It seems as if you are never 'hard-core' enough for YouTube’s recommendation algorithm. University of North Carolina professor Zeynep Tufkeci says that makes YouTube a kind of radicalization machine.
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That might not be so bad when it takes you from videos about vegetarianism to veganism, but it's dangerous when you go from explanations of the history of the West to racist pseudoscience posted by white nationalists. The YouTube algorithm tends to recommend content that gets progressively more extreme, so in just a few clicks, you can go from a mainstream to extreme. After all, that's where political ideas spread these days. It's fascinating because she takes the internet seriously. It's one of four costume changes and three wigs she uses to dissect a popular meme on the far right, "Are Traps Gay?" It means, Is it gay to have sex with a trans woman? While this meme might seem like an offensive but unimportant piece of internet ephemera, Wynn explores what it means for trans women and straight masculinity. The skull headpiece is for a character that delivers a trigger warning at the start of a recent video. She's in the top 20 creators on Patreon, a site where fans can give monthly donations to artists. She makes enough money for YouTube to be her only job. Her top videos get more than 1 million views. She makes 20-to-45-minute videos that unpack the ideas behind the culture wars, using the philosophy education she got in grad school and the makeup education she got on YouTube. Wynn said this as she was holding a giant headpiece trimmed with red and black feathers and a sheep skull.
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On her YouTube channel, Contrapoints, Wynn tries to reframe the debate around issues like free speech, the alt-right, incels, and transgender pronouns in a way that "makes reveal their puritanism and their phobias, and has me as the, like, libertine."
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"And I refuse to allow them to get away with that."
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"One thing the right wing has done pretty effectively in the last few years is, they've managed to frame the discussion as a kind of puritan, moralistic, sermonizing left versus a kind of edgy, rebellious, punk-rock right," says 30-year-old Wynn.