Patreon exclusive! Going through my old videos, and what I'd change!

I don't think your vids come off as "let's all laugh at the freaks" but I can imagine some people feeling that way if they're particularly defensive. But even then I don't understand how someone could interpret it that way without also including "and I SarahZ am one of the freaks and so are you and so are all of us." I don't think your videos can be legitimately understood to be from the outside looking in. Even if you aren't a part of the specific fandom being discussed, you for certain always come off as being a part of fandom in general do a degree that means you are talking at least about family, if not about yourself/ourselves.

Your Wendys twitter video was the first time I heard someone use the word "capitalism" without ridicule or red scare alarm bells going off. That was a genuine paradigm shift for me!

Yes please to live shows in the US!! I'd like to throw my hat in for Austin. Texas is kind of a hellhole now; we could use the distraction. :)

I have a theory why fandom videos might leave this "she's pointing and laughing at freaks" impression in those fandoms. I think some fandoms are used to being mocked from the outside, and as a result, people develop this involuntary defensiveness. In a sense that they hear so much mockery and bad faith criticism, that good faith criticism or even just retelling of the facts that one might perceive as unflattering immediately invokes a defensive reaction as well. And it's especially unpleasant when it's coming from someone who seems to have a connection to the fandom. Additionally, some people from these fandoms do see the difference between good and bad faith criticism, but they (often correctly) assume that not everyone can see this difference or care about it, and people who just want to mock their fandom would watch your video, cherry-pick the most "insane" stuff, discard all the measured takes and structural criticism, and attack the fandom with more "ammunition". This is just my theory based on personal experience from different fandoms (not those that you covered): sometimes, when there's a wave of outside hate, I'm reading some comments in some relatively small fandom communities that I know usually don't shy away from criticism but approach things in good faith - and someone raises a potentially legitimate concern (sometimes based on experience I don't have), and my first automatic reaction is "nooooo stop piling on, this is what those haters want!" (I don't act on these impulses, but I'm an adult tax paying woman ;)) That's not to say that your videos are a negative thing or that you should never have talked about fandoms, just sharing a theory about the origin of this reaction :) in a way, it's similar to what you saw with the shipping video reaction, sort of black and white fandom wars mentality

The "thing is bad and here's why" genre peaked with Hbomb's Sherlock video.