Rebecca Watson

Hey patrons! Enjoy this video early and ad-free until Friday morning! Transcript: No, Ukraine wiping out Russian data centers did not, in fact, lead to a direct reduction in the number of MAGA and other rightwing fascists’ posts on social media. Sorry. That did not happen. I’ve been sitting on this

Hey patrons! Enjoy this one early and ad-free until Tuesday morning! Transcript: Before I start on today’s topic, I want to encourage you to stick around to the end of this video. I don’t take sponsorships, or even grants from dark money political groups or anonymous Russian oligarchs, so I rely for

Hey patrons! Here's the last video of the month. Enjoy it early and ad-free until Thursday morning! Transcript: What’s the most dangerous food for humans to eat? When I first contemplated that question, my mind immediately went to exotic fare: fugu, for instance, the pufferfish that contains lethal

Breaking news here, folks: an extensive new report from Mother Jones, in conjunction with the podcast “Pablo Torre Finds Out,” has found that thousands of Christians are being sold a terrible lie: apparently, someone has told them there’s an omnipotent deity nonconsensually impregnated a young virgi

Hey patrons! Running behind (again) this week so this one is going live immediately. You'll get a bonus ad-free video later today, though! Transcript: I just saw the movie Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson who plays the real-life host of To Catch a Predator: Chris Hansen. And today I want to talk

Hey patrons! Enjoy this video early and ad-free until Monday morning! Transcript: Today I have an update on one of those topics that I know you guys come to me expressly for. That’s right: Hollywood gossip. Remember to submit your anonymous tips about celebs to okay just kidding, this remains a chan

Hey patrons! Enjoy this video early and ad-free until Friday morning! Transcript: Today I want to talk about Ed Sheeran and Macklemore. That’s a sentence I never thought I would speak out loud, but it’s the truth: I genuinely want to talk about two musicians I have previously had absolutely zero int

HEY PATRONS! Sorry for getting this up so late but I'm a bit behind this month, so it's going live immediately. Enjoy! Transcript: Have you ever had an out-of-body experience? I’m not speaking metaphorically, like that time you farted in front of your workplace crush, or something. I’m talking about

Howdy patron pals, here's another video for you, early and ad-free just for you until Wednesday morning! Transcript: The midterms are coming up here in the US, which is the election that falls in the middle of the current president’s term and which used to be mostly ignored by normies, when I was a

Hey patrons! Enjoy this video early and ad-free until Tuesday morning! Transcript: Hey, did you really enjoy my previous videos about the unprecedented outbreak of measles in the United States under our antivaccine, anti-science authoritarian government? How about my previous videos about the unprec

Hey patrons! Enjoy this video early and ad-free until Friday morning! Transcript: Many months ago, one of my patrons asked during a livestream how I felt about “network states,” and I’m sorry that the Patreon search function sucks so I’m not sure who asked about it or exactly how I responded but I d

Hey patrons! Enjoy this video early and ad-free until Thursday morning! Transcript: Way back in the Spring of 2021, The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson wrote a piece that went viral, christening writer Alex Berenson as “The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man.” More than five years later, Berenson has worked hard to

Hey patrons! Enjoy this video early and ad-free until Tuesday morning. Transcript: You’re probably familiar with the weather phenomenon known as El Niño, which, of course, is Spanish for “The Niño.” But what you might not know is that this is an El Niño year, and experts are concerned that we might

Hey patrons, this video is all yours ad-free until it goes live Monday morning! Transcript: Another heavy topic today, folks, so here’s a content warning: today I’m going to be talking about a man who ran an international child sex trafficking operation supported by some of the most prominent scient

Hey patrons! Enjoy this video early and ad-free until Friday morning! Transcript: I want to talk more about America’s diarrhea epidemic. So I’m gonna. Yes, I did already make a video just a few weeks ago all about how the Trump administration set the stage for an outbreak of cyclosporiasis by ending

Well patrons, this was going to go up Friday but screw it, I'll just make it live now while people are interested. Enjoy! Transcript: Okay, this is, admittedly, a little story. Part of my process for making these videos is that I read a lot of news and research and stuff and maybe 75% of the time I

Hey patrons! This video is all yours, early and ad-free until Thursday FRIDAY (Dobby video butted in) morning. Enjoy! Transcript: Two years ago, in a desperate and unsuccessful attempt to get people to vote against Donald Trump’s return to the White House, I went over the major problems outlined in

Hey patrons! Enjoy this video early and ad-free until Wednesday morning! Transcript: Because we live in the stupidest timeline, last week the politicians who are meant to represent the interests of us, the American public, spent their time yelling at a retired 85-year old man who did everything he c

Hey patrons! Here's the last video of the month, early and ad-free until Friday morning! Apologies for the deluge but I have guys working on the house this week and they're too loud to film so I had to do it all this weekend. Figured I'd go ahead and edit everything asap so you guys get them as earl

Hey patrons! Enjoy this video early and ad-free until Thursday morning! Transcript: It’s been a long time since I talked about Bryan Johnson, the bonkers grifter who is trying to live as long as possible. Back in 2023, I went over the basics of longevity research and talked about why it’s a fool’s e

Hey patrons! Enjoy this video early and ad-free until Wednesday morning! Transcript: Breaking news: I’ve just received word that there’s reason to believe that Pete Hegseth, Trump’s secretary of defense, may have actually learned something. Making this even more astounding is the news that what he m

Hey patrons! Doing a little weekend working. Enjoy this one early and ad-free until it goes public Monday morning! Transcript: Buckle up, friends, because we have a lot to talk about today and it’s not going to be particularly cheerful: I’m going to be talking about the horrifically tragic death of

Hey patrons, it's another video! Early and ad-free just for you, until Wednesday morning! Transcript: Political scientists recently identified a specific type of person who is an important building block supporting fascist authoritarian regimes throughout world history: giant losers. I’m not talking

Hey patrons! Enjoy this video early and ad-free until Tuesday morning! Transcript: A few years ago I had the idea to make a new series of videos explaining various logical fallacies. I made one, about ad hominems, and then realized I hated it and I never did it again. It wasn’t fun to make, and I di

Hey patrons! This one is again going public immediately because I got delayed in filming. Turns out I am NOT completely over my chest cold and this one took several takes between coughing fits. I guess talking is bad for me. Anyway, enjoy! Transcript: I’ve noticed over the years that the YouTube alg

Hey patrons, I'm going to release this one to the general public immediately because it's a hot topic and honestly I just got angrier and angrier the more I had to go through these clips so I just wanna be done with it. Enjoy? Transcript: Okay, I’m gonna open up this video with a content warning: I’

Hey patrons! Enjoy this video early and ad-free until Thursday morning! Transcript: When I was a kid, my mom drove a Dodge Caravan–the one with the faux wood paneling along the side, obviously. The best kind. It was handy, because my parents had three kids, and each of us had a bunch of friends who

Hey patrons! Enjoy this video early and ad-free until Wednesday morning! Transcript: As I’m sure most of you are aware, currently Europe is experiencing an intense heatwave. How intense, exactly? Well, as BlueSky users Abbey Arletto noted, temperatures are significantly higher in France right now th

Hey patrons! Enjoy this video early and ad-free until Tuesday morning! Transcript: We talk a lot about Supreme Court decisions, here, mostly about how horrible they are: how they are chipping away at the wall separating Church and State, how they’re taking away women’s rights, how they’ve given Dona

Hey patrons! This video is all yours, ad-free, until it goes live Monday morning. Transcript: Last year, when we lost primatologist Jane Goodall, I talked a bit about how she inspired a lot of people to care more about the planet, and particularly how she worked with local conservationists in Tanzan

Hey patrons, another fun video for you! Enjoy it early and ad-free until Wednesday morning! Transcript: It’s been three glorious years since I have thought about or spoken about Gwyneth Paltrow, a woman who really speedran the game of “iconic” to “lunatic” when she took just a few short years to go

Hey patrons! Enjoy this video early and ad-free until Tuesday morning! Transcript: Breaking news! Billionaire Peter Thiel has a super secret society of influential people who gather in super secret meetings to super secretly control the world! Jeeze, where have I heard this before? It sounds so fami

Hey patrons, here's your early and ad-free video! It'll go live Friday morning. Transcript: Hey there! Today I want to talk about how Elon Musk single handedly canceled an important US government program, leading to an international disaster that will affect far too many people. That’s right, he act

Hey patrons! You've probably already guessed that I'm WAY behind this month thanks to the big SF to LA ride followed by a week of being sickly and pathetic. So this is going live immediately but I'll have another early, ad-free video for you later today! Transcript: If you’ve ever seen a motivationa

Hey hey hey, here's the final video of May! Enjoy it early and ad-free until Saturday morning! Transcript: Because I do so much work debunking conspiracy theories, people often ask me if there are any unproven conspiracy theories that I truly believe. It’s a tough question for me because there are s

Hi patron pals, enjoy this video early and ad-free until Friday morning! Transcript: Hey, remember Jordan Peterson? He’s the famous Canadian psychologist who hates “woke” stuff, and who helped popularize the carnivore diet. He and his daughter, Mikhaila, announced that they were thriving on a diet o

Hey patrons! Enjoy this video early and ad-free until Thursday morning! Transcript: A few weeks ago, I talked about the “pandemic” that isn’t actually happening, hantavirus. In the time since then, there have been four new cases and no new deaths, and the Director-General of the World Health Organiz