Shorter video suggestion box post~

I recently watched your 10k Q&A, and you talked about your favorite non-fiction book being City of Darkness. Would you be interested in a video about the book? The city? Any other book you like? You hate? A book. Do you have any thoughts on making a video about a book. Or any cities; cities are interesting.

i want a video where you lift weights for an hour

I read the "short" and "less depressing" bit but I couldn't think of anything. I would love to see a video on vaccine hesitancy and the whole ivermectim crowd.

It's always fun to dunk on Jordan Peterson :D

Maybe something more UK related?

Hi there! I'm new here. I'd love to watch a response to Jordan Peterson's more harmful arguments, although the video might end up being not so short.

you should make a video about imperialism: the highest form of capitalism by lenin! if it's a tough read there is a really great reading group that takes you through it/lots of key anticapitalist theory texts :)

Possibly a video about incel culture and your own experiences? ...I watch the twitch streams so I know that's the plan anyway, just wanted to get involved

You know, I don't know what part of the UK you hail from, but I am always amused in my Tennessee heart when you start your missives off with "howdy".

I would like to see something about GB news. Or something about laws on protest, the latter is not talked about much and it's of utmost importance.

Maybe a video about New York City's B-HEARD program to start replacing police with Mental Health responders. NPR put out an article about it here: https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1019704823/police-mental-health-crisis-calls-new-york-city. It seems like some uplifting news in a sea of news about police brutality.

this is obviously not a light or short topic but eventually i would love to see a video about the Weathermen and why leftist movements dissolve

Ancient Roman infrastructure

Echoing the suggestion for another Cinemasins is Wrong About Everything video, those are amazing and would hopefully be more fun and less depressing to make

You make a lot of videos about why some beliefs are wrong (ie PragerU, Black Pigeon Speaks, etc). For something more uplifting/positive, you could consider writing something about affirming a particular belief, or an attitude held by an individual. Perhaps a discussion about someone you find inspiring or optimistic.

Why are there so many versions of Crest toothpaste?

I agree with the others -- talk about something you enjoy/luv. There's a lot of darkness out there and we could use a break!

Bdsm.

Trains.

Bit of an odd one, but I'd watch just a simple live reaction and response to the Unlearning Economics video about you. It'd be interesting to see some responses to lefty content, which I imagine is far less depressing and stressful

Oh, and actually, it looks like i'm going to be moving to Liverpool in about a month at short notice. So if you could whip up an Intro to Liverpool that would be neat.

I'd be interested in more videos along the lines of the Pratchett one – not in the sense of tying it in to recent news stories, but in the sense of short videos about authors (or filmmakers or musicians or whatever) who you like/admire beyond just enjoying their work. Whether that means like, profiles or introductions or short analyses of a work by them, I don't know. That would be up to you.

How about, for old time sake, Cinemasins is Wrong About Everything III: Tokyo Drift.

I've always enjoyed the reactions to bad movie reviews myself.

Gonna be a bit cheeky and suggest a second one. I would really like you to do a video about the appalling hypocrisy of the likes of Joe Rogan pretending it's dangerous for trans women to fight cis women in MMA, while completely ignoring the very real and very serious problem of cisgender male teachers and students abusing women students of Martial Arts, many of whom will be prevented from getting to fight trans women in MMA because they are sidelined and abused too much.

If u watched atla, I’d love a video on the politics of atla and the avatar

Talk about how there’s a lot of people whose ideology is just “I’m against x”. They don’t have any theory/reasoning etc. it’s just, “I hate someone/something”. This leads them to believe in crazy things (tankies, anti-libs like Glenn G. and Matt taibbi, anti-Bernie folks etc.) These people are really interesting to observe and shows why it’s important to believe in things, not just be against things. Hopefully this make sense

I would love to see a video analysing the false equivalence some people draw between transgender people and the phenomenon of some people (most notably, recently, influencer Oli London) identifying as 'transracial'. I would find it useful to learn how to articulate that being transgender and 'transracial' are different even though both gender and race are social constructs.

It seems you like vtubers, a video that looked at them as a critic (what works vs not with the format) and some of the material concerns, such as how easy a professional actor/VO would be to replace theoretically compared to traditional actors vs the number of people who for safety or other reasons can't/don't want to appear on camera and facerig is a fun way to self express online? Or you could keep it light, whatever, it would be a good excuse to get your own avatar (as a bit) either way.

Terry Pratchett's political views?

I'd love to hear more about the discourse about Fauci/Fauci LIED people. There's a lot of noise between Dems wearing "Fauci is the king" shirts and Q conspiracy theorists doing their conspiracy theory shit, and I'd like to hear a take on the Q conspiracy that isn't also thoughtlessly uncritical of the covid response/Biden.

A brief review of Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations". The Right (at least here in the US) has long pointed to Adam Smith as a sort of founding father figure of a decidedly social darwinist view of the market, however if you actually read his work it is very much about regulating markets to make sure the market players, ie corps, do not rig the game in their favor, as Smith points out they are always trying to do. It is also about the dangers of allowing too much wealth to concentrate in the hands of the few, particularly banks.

your favourite Columbo episodes vid?

I agree with everyone saying it's nice to hear you speak of media you enjoy. Or even just find fascinating or deep in some way.

How about a video on the philosophy of Cynicism?

Glenn Greenwald

literally anything about anime so i can watch it with my weeb gf

Cinema Sins is back in the discourse... just saying...

I would like to see a video about the refugee crisis.

400k qand a? if debunking right-wing arguments against immigrants isn't too depressing you could do that

Or you could explain Materialism and Empirio-Criticism so I can understand it for my reading group lol

Maybe a video about a game or movie that you enjoyed? Saw someone above mention disco elysium. I also love your cinema sins videos but for the sake of your sanity I probably shouldn't recommend that...

There's this channel called Cinema Sins. Maybe you could review them.

your pratchett video was great and I think reviews of other works of his that you really like would be interesting (or any other piece of media you enjoy). I also loved your videos about doom and cuphead, as somebody who didn’t play either lmao so a video focusing on a game would be cool. or something about rome - you’ve never done a video about rome that wasn’t connected to some bullshit (that i’ve seen) so if there’s something about roman history that you find particularly cool that would be fun to see

could you make a video where it's just 400 different takes on "hello, everyone"?

Maybe something about your idea of where society ought to be going. I get that you're pretty far to the left, but be more specific. If a book entitled, World History, 2025-2050 fell out of a time machine into your lap, what would you want it to say?

I'd love a deep dive into literally any aspect of FFX that interests you. Just gush about Auron for 10 straight minutes.

It was rad hearing you talk about Terry Pratchett. It'd be great to hear you talk more about media you love. (Giving the finger to TERFs and such in the process is always welcome, but not required).

Less depressing is tough!

If you’ve seen doctor who, I’d love a video on the politics of the doctor. Some kind of media analysis would be nice

I'd like to see a video about seagulls

Maybe a light video talking about some of the weird topics in Q anon? I opt not to engage with them, but every once in a while I hear something ridiculous come from there. Like them thinking that Trump signaled “Q” to them with his hands in morse code in one of his last addresses.

Stuff that makes you hopeful that we aren't doomed? If you have any?

Have you played Disco Elysium? Could make for an interesting video, I dunno!

I agree with the James Joyce commentor. That would be a rockin vid

I'd love anything that's more personal -- I feel like we know nothing about you!

Maybe something about the response to trans women in the Olympics, and the way that women who were excluded for ridiculous reasons were treated.

How about a video about some sort of book, game, film, documentary, or video that you feel had an influence on you as a person that you think others should perhaps watch? Fiction or non-fiction, doesn't matter.

Another response to a really bad pop culture take from some conservative YouTube is always fun and not depressing.

Would love to hear your take on modern Hollywood movie trends a la The Critical Drinker (whose film criticism I actually enjoy, but feel his anger/blame is misplaced).

I really enjoyed your Hiroshima and Nagasaki video (which I know, depressing) because it's something I knew but high school history can be pretty lacking in perspective. So I'd like anything where you add in some context on historical moments. But short, like a slightly longer version of Canada's Heritage Minutes? "A Misconception of our Heritage"

A video talking about the racism of cryptozoology would be fun. It's kind of frivolous but considering how a lot of people talk about it from either a fandom or zoological perspective, but they rarely talk about how it's basically an industry for turning indigenous mythological characters into a product meant for white people, it would probably also be good to have.

I've always thought the story of Alaric was pretty fun. Just dreaming of conquering Rome then doing it.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on something you particularly like or think is underappreciated, and why. One of the things I love that Hbomb does is balance out his 'x is terrible' videos with 'y is genius'. It's always interesting to hear why people love something, and one of the things I enjoy most in a good conversation, our serves as a good reminder that life is, you know, good and people have real reasons for getting out of bed that are valid, unique, and interesting.

I'll watch a film video essay thing all day every day so I'd be happy to see more of those. media crit is one of my comfort foods when it comes to YouTube. and while it probably doesn't fall under the "less depressing" banner, I do somewhat miss the videos examining some of the more bizarre far right YouTubers as I find those people endlessly fascinating. it's a format that's kind of outdated nowadays and most people making vids from the left have moved on but they were a good laugh back in the day.

Maybe another video game one? Final Fantasy VII? I watched the stream where you and Jen played through FFVII a while back and it seemed clear that you have a lot you want to solidify in people’s minds about the anti-capitalist messaging present within the text. I think that messaging is clear too, but, I’ve seen plenty of liberal and conservative attempts at refutation of said messaging- maybe there’s something there? I ask because the video that I continually use to attract friends to your channel is the “doom outrage” one- and now a lot of those friends have since proceeded to watch everything else you’ve made. (I also love the Doom/fake outrage vid, but fwiw, personally, my *favorite* video is still the one about railway privatization! I reference it all the time!)

I like the way you structure arguments and walk through an issue, so am pretty chill about the topic. You're last vid on discworld was interesting becasue I'd already seen the twitter threads, and was aware of the conversation - so any like current conversations that you find interesting would be cool? Or just hot takes. Also I agree with others, reviews of stuff you like/dislike.

Deep dive into your favourite Vtubers.

I feel like you'd be good at debunking the recent conservative panic surrounding critical race theory. Just like, what are people actually saying, how is it being misconstrued

Since ur accent is clearly Scouse I'd love something about the decline of northern industry towns especially during the Thatcher era. Probs still depressing 😎

More lit and film analysis would be interesting. I'd always welcome another Pratchett video!

I don't know if it would take long or not, but a response to the whole IDW thing about "identity politics" being the worst thing in the world would be nice. Whenever I hear them whinge about it I always roll my eyes but I'm not smart enough to debunk it myself :(

I really enjoyed your videos on films you like, we need more positive videos on films!

I really enjoyed the Pratchett video. More of those would be cool. Reviews you did of films like the Last Jedi and Wonderwoman and Black Panther. Part debunk and part review. You are really good at the review part. I always enjoyed those cuz u have a very unique perspective.

who do you think won the chicken sandwich wars now that popeyes called for a ceasefire via their semi-recent chicken nuggets announcement and do you think we, as a society, will ever recover from that juicy, flavorful war

Just something you genuinely love. Anyone has a thing they can talk about for hours and never stop smiling, right? Do that. Infodump about lizards, anime, silver age comic books, salami, I don't care.

You're channel has become a sort of deconstruction of alt-right lies and manipulations, and that's awesome, but I also liked your video on Doom and TLJ and Cuphead. Those are still deconstructing alt-right bullshit, but you also packaged in your own thoughts of those products in those videos to a little extent. If just talking about games and movies is something you're interested in doing at all, I think you'd find it an easier and lighter subject and I'd like to hear your thoughts on stuff. I remember you talking about Ghost of Tsushima and remember thinking I'd like to hear your thoughts on it in video form, for example.

Semi-Serious Answer: cute animal video Actually Serious Answer: related to fantasy or sci-fi series you enjoy. Honestly, I just like to hear people talk about things they like

Red Dead Redemption 2 is Garbage, and Here's Why

Videos about philosophical concepts or socialism, more broadly.

Could you maybe make a video where you give your thoughts on Anarchism or the various kinds of Anarchism?

Omg holy shit umm. 1) anime recs 2) talk about the strange dissonance between the response to your twitter and your YouTube. Id watch the shit out of that. 3) tell me more about Rome please 4) umm. Talk about Dave Rubin

Anime review of your own choice.

You tend to make some ~spicy takes~ on Twitter that get you a lot of negative attention, and I would love a video about one of those, especially one where someone vastly misinterpreted you

I would like to understand better exactly what you mean by "socialism". What kind of a society would you like, what existing country is most "socialist"/best, how do you respond to common critiques. Also as a Brit many Americans equate "socialism" with universal healthcare, which is a mainstream UK position Maybe not a short video but there are a lot of topics here!

If climate change real, how winter cold? Oh sorry, I thought you wanted depressing ideas

Shaun's Favorite Animes

I'd love to hear you talk about some historical figures you admire, or at least find interesting.

I’d love to see a veganism video