A few years back, Ellis was producing really good videos on Film Theory, that in a fit of genius used the Transformers franchise as a frame of reference. They were clever, funny, and explained some extremely complicated ideas in a straight forward non condescending format.
In the last 16 months she's produced 8 videos. Two were drama videos, detailing her row with a writer that was threatening to sue her (the writer is a broke cat lady, who never had the means to do anything which Lindsay was well aware of) This resulted in public messages of support from YouTube, Patreon and for some reason Legal Eagle who offered to ride to milady's rescue. Two videos were promoting her book, another one attacking Rowling, and of course her cancelation video.
She has zero interest in producing more YouTube videos. She hates the medium. She wanted to work for a large media company, not post videos on an open platofrm. Which is why she agreed to work on PBS's online content. She wants accreditation! I suspect that she'd have kept working minumum wage for Al Jazeera, if the opportunity was there, rather than have to get into the gutter looking for AdSense and Patreon money.
There were the books of course, but the publisher put zero money into promoting them. They only published them because there was a ready made market with her audience. She mentioned in passing on a video that she was so happy that the editor didn't recommend any changes... it didn't even occur to her that the editor probably thought it wasn't worth his time.
Ellis's younger and more stable friend, Jenny Nicholson has made a grand of 3 YouTube Videos over the last 12 months, and has nearly 14 Thousand Patreon subscribers. She has a twitch channel open only to subscribers where she streams Sonic the hedgehog.
Nicholson and Ellis won't go the Spoony route. Like Spoony they hate making content, but they'll throw an odd bone to their paypigs, and just milk them as steady income.
Ellis will be just fine, her editors, that dumb bitch Princess Weekes who Ellis tried to turn into a Literary commentator for PBS. They probably need to find a differnt gig.
Bearup is perfectly sane and her videos are interesting and fun if you like weaponry. I subbed so thanks for the un-recommendation, Lindsay.
If you're interested here's an archived version of the blogpost that got bearup cancelled. 4 Troons attacked a woman at speakers corner, smashed her camera and stole her memory card. Police did nothing of course.
I was reading an article in NYMag recently called The Careful, Pragmatic Case Against Punching Nazis and it had particular relevance to those of us in England because of this thing that happened last week. “They Are No Better Than Fash” Last Wednesday a sixty year old woman got punched and...
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I agree that Doug needed more of a spine against Michaud, but wasn't Holly complicit in the JW coverup?
Michaud is a part owner of CA and part owner of the nostalgia critic brand, Doug couldn't do anything, other than completly wind up the company.