ContraPoints / William Nicholas Parrott / Natalie Wynn Parrott / Nykytyne2 - GamerGhazi Cannibalism Victim, Youtube "Intellectual"

[Icasaracht]

the name wynn is prob from the rune "Wynn" (spelled the same) which looks like a P, his actual (original) last initial:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynn

symbol of "joy, bliss, ecstasy" & all that other stuff druggies worship.
you'll notice rune tattoos growing in popularity among both troons & millenials. game of thrones?

Note the Latin origin of the name Natalie: 'Natale' or 'Natale Domini' meaning "Birthday (of the Lord.)" One could contend that Contra's new name is a tribute to Nyk's rebirth as Natalie, through a kind of pseudo-transsexuality, into a hedonistic queen. If Wynn looking like a 'P' holds up I will guess that Contra is trying to bridge or reconcile his old self with her newly assumed identity (as in the "Yes, this is who I was all along" sort of thinking.) The fact that Natalie also starts with the original 'N' initial of his first name lays credence to the idea that Natalie is uncomfortable with discarding one's old identity. Rather, she is simply re-engineering it. Taken one step further, I suspect that that explains the slow pace of Contra's 'transitioning'. She is as 'empowered' by it as she is terrified of its potential ramifications.

 

[Nykysnottrans]

I agree he would never stick to a therapist who did anything but jerk him off, but I think a good shrink might be able to teach willing patients with personality disorders some healthier coping skills.

There was this really bizarre part in the Psychiatry video where Nyk suggested that his parents basically lied to his therapist to get the diagnosis they wanted:

"Meaning that, if you know what words to say, you can kind of get the diagnosis you're looking for, or that your parents are looking for.". So, is Nyk saying his parents basically lied to his therapist to get him diagnosed and put on drugs? It would seem so. If Nyk grew up with parents who were lying to his therapist to get the diagnosis they wanted... didn't Nyk basically learn by example? I mean, his dad is a psychology professor, so Nyk basically learned from the best. He openly admitted in this tweet how he taught himself to game the personality test so that he would come out as an ENFP instead of an INFP.

God, his narc-streams must be treasure troves. Wish I could read them, because there’s no way in hell I could sit through that much of his voice. You’re braver than a whole loaf of woke troons for presumably enduring that.

I am not doing it for pleasure, I can assure you that. I can't stand his Michael Jackson impersonation, it's so cringy and forced. On top of that, he's just such a boring vapid person, the Livestreams are so terminally boring. He has nothing to talk about, but people still treat him like the fucking oracle on the hill with all these seemingly deep questions they are asking him, to which he then responds with an ummm and shrug and a lolwut. Like he's having so much fun acting dumb before an audience that expects him to be smart and making them swallow his stupid girl act. Not that he was particularly captivating before, but on his pre-transition Livestreams he would sometimes tell stories from his own life, like going to Wales with his brother and his girlfriend and visiting all these cool places there, or his trip to Iceland. Or he would discuss books he had read, he would talk about films or discuss some philosophical topic with the chat. He was often drunk, which made him progressively more stupid as the Livestream commenced and even agitated sometimes (he would get pissed off at the chat and start calling them "motherfuckers", which was terribly funny and embarrassing at the same time), but at least it was somewhat amusing and interesting to listen to. Sometimes he would play opera and lip-sync along (I still remember Nyk lip-syncing to Mozart's Don Giovanni in his Lord Foppington costume and wig), or he would play some live piano for his audience. This was when he was still streaming in his living room where the piano is, instead of in his bedroom like he does nowadays (because he thinks streaming in your bedroom is more girly or some shit excuse like that), and it was quite nice to listen to Nyk playing the blues on his piano. He has become so vapid and shallow on HRT, he has literally nothing to talk about anymore. He's no longer keeping up with politics or world affairs, he's not reading books, he's not playing music, he's just obsessed with his looks and his fucking aesthetic. Oh, he might show off his collection of fake nails or chokers or talk about his sex life and his drawer full of poppers. Sometimes he gets a probing question where his interest is piqued enough to where he temporarily drops the stupid trans-LARP (like he did in that tweet about fascism) and tries to answer that question like a serious or sincere person would, but immediately he goes right back into this fucking irritating blasé nonchalant attitude that he puts on, that he thinks is "girly" but is really just bratty and so goddamn annoying to have to sit through for the duration of a stream. He has become a nothing, "an empty shell of his former self" as one of the old Youtube Atheists once described it on /pol. I suspect that's why he's coming over to Kiwi Farms to lurk because otherwise he doesn't know what's been going on and doesn't care to read up to learn. He treats this website like his reader's digest or cheat sheet to keep up with there the internet is at.

 

[Francis Dollarhyde]

Note the Latin origin of the name Natalie: 'Natale' or 'Natale Domini' meaning "Birthday (of the Lord.)" One could contend that Contra's new name is a tribute to Nyk's rebirth as Natalie, through a kind of pseudo-transsexuality, into a hedonistic queen. If Wynn looking like a 'P' holds up I will guess that Contra is trying to bridge or reconcile his old self with her newly assumed identity (as in the "Yes, this is who I was all along" sort of thinking.) The fact that Natalie also starts with the original 'N' initial of his first name lays credence to the idea that Natalie is uncomfortable with discarding one's old identity. Rather, she is simply re-engineering it. Taken one step further, I suspect that that explains the slow pace of Contra's 'transitioning'. She is as 'empowered' by it as she is terrified of its potential ramifications.

Terrified because of being uncertain of the transition. As I see it anyway.

 

[Icasaracht]

Terrified because of being uncertain of the transition. As I see it anyway.

That is a valid view and is completely compatible with any other sort of fear Contra faces regarding his transition. If true, I believe a major issue of his transition might be related to Francis Dolarhyde, howbeit indirectly. The character of Jame Gumb (Buffalo Bill) from Silence of the Lambs is an excellent example of an individual misdiagnosing themselves with transgenderism to escape his own inadequacies (explicitly stated so in the book and the movie adaptation.) Contra at one point invokes this character as a sort of boogeyman for the trans community. Later Contra depicts herself transforming into a butterfly, which I see as a rebuttal of Buffalo Bill, who relied on moths as an allusion for his own metamorphosis. The point I'm getting to is that I guess that Contra, at least on a subconscious level, fears that she, like Gumb, isn't a true transexual, but rather a person who has appropriated this state of being to escape one's own turmoils.

 

[Y2K Baby]

I wonder what his rainy taint smells like.

Unfortunately, women cannot get away with being any of those things without being harshly judged,

How optimistic.

 

[Icasaracht]

How optimistic.

Inspiriting really.

 

[queue-anon]

That's a very good find. Nyk said he was into Norse mythology when he was a kid and even learned how to read the runic alphabet. He was into Morrowind for that reason. Interesting how he's drawn to using such "Teutonic" sources for his name despite rejecting the idea of Western cultures. This coupled with the fact that he dyes his hair blonde and the fact that he got his nose and jaw butchered (which were distinctly Italian, I've already said that Nyk has Italian genes on his mother's side), all of this shows that he is using the trans-LARP to ethnically modify himself to look more white, more "Aryan" if you will. Nyk used the FFS to give himself finer, more Western-European facial features. He doesn't want his more harsh Italian/Mediterranean features to show, he wants to look like a Nordic elf. OK dude, we get it, you hate the idea of a white race just because you don't look more white yourself. Your rejection of the idea of a white race and of Western cultures is nothing more than racial envy on your part because you are a mutt and you look like it. Your trans-LARP was a wonderful excuse to make yourself look more stereotypically white and Western. Good job Westernizing and white-washing yourself through Facial Westernization Surgery, Nyk.

It’s looking to be common for troons to make themselves look more Aryan (Munroe Bergdorf and Laverne Cox have also done a shitload of plastic surgery and skin bleaching) which really illustrates how self-loathing and full of shame they are. What great role models for kids.

 

[tuscangarder]

It’s looking to be common for troons to make themselves look more Aryan (Munroe Bergdorf and Laverne Cox have also done a shitload of plastic surgery and skin bleaching) which really illustrates how self-loathing and full of shame they are. What great role models for kids.

HRT can cause skin lightening. Idk to what extent tho.

 

[Nykysnottrans]

I can't use the quoting module for some reason, so I'm just gonna copy-paste everything I wanna respond to:

It’s looking to be common for troons to make themselves look more Aryan (Munroe Bergdorf and Laverne Cox have also done a shitload of plastic surgery and skin bleaching) which really illustrates how self-loathing and full of shame they are. What great role models for kids.

Absolutely. I see this all the time in troons, especially coloured ones that get FFS. I still remember Maritza (from Transition Radio Show) making fun of Youtuber Vanity being Cuban but trying to look white with that fake blonde hair. Eden The Doll too looked more coloured pre-transition and also adopted the fake beach blonde hair look. They don't just want to look female, they want to look like a rich white woman. It's definitely ethnic modification. Or look at Kathy Crotch, the journalist who covered Nyk for the Verge, who adopted that fake-ass RP British accent post-transition. There is a lot of racial envy and class envy at work in transitioning that's consistently covered up by making it all about gender. Troons absolutely project onto and try to bring about their class aspirations through their transitions. The transition is also a fantasy of upward mobility, both in terms of race and class. But Nyk of course doesn't believe in race so he's going to deny that he hated his facial features because they made him look Italian rather than the Nordic elf he wants to be. I wonder whether Nyk would have hated the way he looks if he had just grown up in Italy with lots of Italian boys and girls who look just like him. Would he still have hated his Italian features so much that he would go and break his face and destroy his ability to smile just to look more Western?

HRT can cause skin lightening. Idk to what extent tho.

"Skin lightening" or rather "looking sickly pale because you've fucked up your metabolism"? Blaire White for example said she's anemic, didn't disclose whether this was caused by the HRT or whether she was already anemic before. She also said she's also refusing to take her medicine like a dumbass. She said because she's already taking HRT, she doesn't want to take her iron pills as well on top of that. She will end up depleating her iron deposits and will start to feel sick and decrepit. Trannies don't understand how that shit begins to compound and stack up to ruin your health.

 

[Francis Dollarhyde]

"Skin lightening" or rather "looking sickly pale because you've fucked up your metabolism"? Blaire White for example said she's anemic, didn't disclose whether this was caused by the HRT or whether she was already anemic before. She also said she's also refusing to take her medicine like a dumbass. She said because she's already taking HRT, she doesn't want to take her iron pills as well on top of that. She will end up depleating her iron deposits and will start to feel sick and decrepit. Trannies don't understand how that shit begins to compound and stack up to ruin your health.

This can also be due to a shitty diet. I know eating liver or adding a bit of tartare here and there is a good way to avoid anemia, mostly for women, not sure if it works well for Blaire because not full man and on girly hormones, or if that is her plan at all.

Still, if you can avoid anemia by eating better I think that is preferable to having to go get pills every now and then.

 

[Brain Problems]

This can also be due to a shitty diet. I know eating liver or adding a bit of tartare here and there is a good way to avoid anemia, mostly for women, not sure if it works well for Blaire because not full man and on girly hormones, or if that is her plan at all.

Still, if you can avoid anemia by eating better I think that is preferable to having to go get pills every now and then.

Sort of off-topic but I donate blood regularly and take iron supplements just to keep myself at a good level since I don't eat that much red meat or enough dark-green leafy vegetables.

 

[whatintheheck]

Ever notice that there's hardly any trannies that aspire to look like a Robert Crumb drawing?

They all would rather look like some kind of fucked up Egon Schiele painting or an anime character from some male jerkoff fantasy.

It isn't about emulating real, actual feminity; none of these trans people want the "fertility goddess" look because of course they're sterile and fertility interests very few of them. Interests beyond themselves actually interests very few of them. The most important and defining quality of womanhood and feminity is basically nothing more than a footnote and irritation in the trans-quest for subjective aesthetic perfection (and before some libtard does a whataboutism re: lesbians, infertile people or those who just choose to not have children, even the *absence* of fertility is still a major, if not perhaps still the primary dominating factor in the lives of such women). Instead, they want the male-centric jerkoff fantasy look of being some sort of humanoid, vaguely-alien waifish creature frequently present in male-directed erotic art, both high and low. Fertility, menstration and related issues are nothing but a nuisance for these people* (*aside from a few fetishists with extremely bizarre tastes). Trans-women should really just consider themselves transhuman instead of trans-women, as the freakish visages they end up adopting resemble actual women far less than they resemble some sort of mythic monstronsity out of Antiquity's nightmare.

There simply aren't enough psychoanalysts in the world to stem the tide of this generational narcissism.

"We don't really want to get what we think that we want.

I am married to a wife and relationship with her are cold and I have a mistress. And all the time I dream oh my god if my wife were to disappear - I'm not a murderer but let us say- that it will open up a new life with the mistress.Then, for some reason, the wife goes away, you lose the mistress.

You thought this is all I want, when you have it there, you turn out it was a much more complex situation.

It was not to live with the mistress, but to keep her as a distance as on object of desire about which you dream.

This is not an excessive example, I claim this is how things function. We don't really want what we think we desire.”
-Slavoj Zizek

 

[queue-anon]

Ever notice that there's hardly any trannies that aspire to look like a Robert Crumb drawing?

They all would rather look like some kind of fucked up Egon Schiele painting or an anime character from some male jerkoff fantasy.

It isn't about emulating real, actual feminity; none of these trans people want the "fertility goddess" look because of course they're sterile and fertility interests very few of them. Interests beyond themselves actually interests very few of them. The most important and defining quality of womanhood and feminity is basically nothing more than a footnote and irritation in the trans-quest for subjective aesthetic perfection (and before some libtard does a whataboutism re: lesbians, infertile people or those who just choose to not have children, even the *absence* of fertility is still a major, if not perhaps still the primary dominating factor in the lives of such women). Instead, they want the male-centric jerkoff fantasy look of being some sort of humanoid, vaguely-alien waifish creature frequently present in male-directed erotic art, both high and low. Fertility, menstration and related issues are nothing but a nuisance for these people* (*aside from a few fetishists with extremely bizarre tastes). Trans-women should really just consider themselves transhuman instead of trans-women, as the freakish visages they end up adopting resemble actual women far less than they resemble some sort of mythic monstronsity out of Antiquity's nightmare.

There simply aren't enough psychoanalysts in the world to stem the tide of this generational narcissism.

A lot of them are transhumanists, what’s puzzling to me is that they don’t embrace it more.

They’d do a lot better in a lot of different areas if they played up being fake. They can be better women by being the fakest “women” on the block. The few trannies who are actually attractive are often a weirdly flawless caricature of women, and the “straight” men who are attracted to trannies seem to be into that look specifically. I think it goes to show that their obsession with being seen as real true women is the result of their cornucopia of mental illnesses and not necessarily something that materially benefits them (unless they’re stealing cash prizes in women’s sports).

 

[Nykysnottrans]

Nyk, who is a narcissist in love with himself, is having trouble dating both men and women. Who would have expected that:

bisexual FOMO:
when you're dating a man you miss the good things about dating women,
when you're dating a woman you miss the good things about dating men

https://twitter.com/ContraPoints/status/1139434949642260481

I guess it's not working out with Theryn?
Two dudes who think they are women LARPing that they are lesbians, who would have thought that would ever go to shit?

[generic snark about how there's nothing good about dating men]
ok whatever hypocrites

https://twitter.com/ContraPoints/status/1139434950254628864

Nyk, who is the lover who won't hold your hand in public that you mentioned in the Gender Critical video?
Was it Oliver or one of your 2500 panty sniffers on Tinder?

Also this thread about how he has totally moved on from having never deradicalized anyone at all back in 2017. Filed under: "I don't want to be my past self but I totally wanna claim of my output as that past person I don't want to be and supposedly never was.". He doesn't want to be William Nicholas Parrott anymore but he sure has no problem with the Library of Congress archiving all the shit he posted to Youtube as that person with him taking the credit in his current state. If this person he is now, this "Natalie Wynn Parrott" person, hates the past person he was, hates William Nicholas Parrott so much that "she" can't even bare to watch those old videos anymore, why the hell give those unbareable videos to the Library of Congress then? Because you are a narcissist and you do want the credit for your past achievements, even as you claim to hate the person who made those achievements? How is that not totally batshit crazy?

 

[whatintheheck]

Nyk, who is a narcissist in love with himself, is having trouble dating both men and women. Who would have expected that:



I guess it's not working out with Theryn?
Two dudes who think they are women LARPing that they are lesbians, who would have thought that would ever go to shit?



Nyk, who is the lover who won't hold your hand in public that you mentioned in the Gender Critical video?
Was it Oliver or one of your 2500 panty sniffers on Tinder?

Also this thread about how he has totally moved on from having never deradicalized anyone at all back in 2017. Filed under: "I don't want to be my past self but I totally wanna claim of my output as that past person I don't want to be and supposedly never was.". He doesn't want to be William Nicholas Parrott anymore but he sure has no problem with the Library of Congress archiving all the shit he posted to Youtube as that person with him taking the credit in his current state. If this person he is now, this "Natalie Wynn Parrott" person, hates the past person he was, hates William Nicholas Parrott so much that "she" can't even bare to watch those old videos anymore, why the hell give those unbareable videos to the Library of Congress then? Because you are a narcissist and you do want the credit for your past achievements, even as you claim to hate the person who made those achievements? How is that not totally batshit crazy?

I very rarely bother reading Twitter, Nyk’s posts or otherwise. Twitter is such an irritating format. But I did read the last two tweet threads Nyk posted.

Personally, posting on a thread about Nyk has less to do with gossiping about him specifically, and more to do with using him as a particular subject in order to talk about the general topic of trans-ness.

What I found particularly tragic in that tweet thread was a response from one of his fans, presumably an MTF transperson, who mentioned that she was so happy that there was now more overt social representation of a transperson who had some actual intelligence.

The problem of course is that Nyk seems intent on distancing himself from the trans-ness of his identity: he’s said that he doesn’t want to be reminded of his past life as a cis-man and would likely have it all erased if possible; he’s also complained about how media reports depict him as the 6’ angular transwomen he actually is and instead would much rather be depicted as the “5’2” smol girl [he] really [is]” or something to that effect. Pure denial. Which is so strange and ironic (how ‘closeted’ regarding his transness he is), considering how extravagant and public he made his cross dressing and transition via YouTube videos.

I think society could be more accepting and understanding of this idea of binary sexuality alongside the performative aspect of gender — and perhaps Nyk could accept his status as an outwardly identifiable transwomen while simultantouesly being a worthwhile, productive and contributing member of society and be an inspiration to young transpeople (let’s set aside whether these people should actually pursue this path or not for the sake of argument). I mean I don’t agree with the politics or conclusions in their entirety, but getting your work into the American LoC is certainly indicative of having done something useful to society, or at least the narrow portion that comprises its intended audience.

If you deign to become a celebrity, I think that brings with it some responsibility towards your fanbase. Denying your transness and hurtling towards an early grave doesn’t exactly present a great message to his earnest fans who rely on having a figure to look up to, nor does it help break any existing societal stereotypes about transpeople being hedonistic degenerates. And acknowledging your degeneracy via ironic self putdowns doesnt make the truth any less true.

Come on Nyk, prove us wrong. You already missed joining the 27 club, so why not try actually doing something useful for a cause broader and deeper than your own selfish desires. Be a positive rolemodel for transpeople. Killing yourself, whether it be metaphorically thru erasure of your past or literally thru substance abuse, just proves your harshest critics to be correct.

 

[Nykysnottrans]

he’s said that he doesn’t want to be reminded of his past life as a cis-man and would likely have it all erased if possible

Unless the Library of Congress comes knocking, then his inner narcissist comes out - who craves all the praise and the credit he gets from an official government organization like the LoC. For all his anarchist posturing the fact is that Nyk desperately craves officialdom and being given pats on the back from the government for doing such a great job being self-destructive online and taking others with him going over the cliff.

but getting your work into the American LoC is certainly indicative of having done something useful to society, or at least the narrow portion that comprises its intended audience.

I would like to see a receipt for this BTW because Nyk is known to lie. I did a Google search to see whether the LoC has archived Youtubers' videos before and I cannot find any evidence of this ever being the case. Knowing how narcissistic Youtubers are, I am sure that at least one of them would have made a whole video about being archived by the LoC if this had happened before. I can certainly think of a dozen Youtubers who are more historically relevant or representative than Nyk is. The only thing I could find on the LoC website was this page about archiving websites, not specific Youtube videos. They do have a section about archiving LGBT material but it doesn't say anything about archiving Youtube. From what I know all the LGBT archives out there are most private endeavours/private collections, not something run or facilitated by the State. In their FAQ the LoC states that they're willing to consider suggestions from the public, so I guess if enough people send them messages telling them to archive Blaire White for being a historically significant content creator they might do so as well. If the LoC has really reached out to Nyk, rather than Nyk himself contacting them and offering to submit his videos to them, pictures or it didn't happen.

 

[Marche]

I saw this tweet and imeditly thought it very fitting to be posted here.

 

[Nykysnottrans]

There you go, I can't find anything at the LoC under ContraPoints, or "Natalie Wynn Parrott", or "Natalie Wynn".

In fact, the Library of Congress doesn't even bother to archive PewDiePie's channel, the biggest and most culturally significant Youtuber currently on Youtube... but I'm supposed to believe that they're going to archive Nyk's channel?

I mean, if the LoC wanted to archive culturally relevant and significant Youtubers, wouldn't they be archiving some of these channels instead?

List of most-subscribed YouTube channels - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Why the fuck would the LoC want to archive some obscure LGBT channel like Nyk? Wouldn't they rather archive some really big and famous LGBT Youtubers like Nikita Dragun (2,3 million subs) or Gigi Gorgeous (2,7 million subs) or homo Jeffree Star (15 million sub) or homo Shane Dawson (21 million subs)? What is more culturally relevant and significant, Shane's carefully crafted documentaries (that get tens of millions of views) or Nyk's mindless self-indulgence set to video for his cult?

I am still trying to find a video or public statement or tweet or anything from another Youtuber who has had their channel archived by the Library of Congress. I still can't find anything. This is really strange. If the Library of Congress was reaching out to Youtubers to let them know they were archiving their whole channels (which is what Nyk claims in the LA Times, that his whole channel is going to be archived), wouldn't at least ONE of them mention this somewhere?

Again: I wanna see receipts or it didn't happen. We know Nyk is using the mainstream media to put out lies about himself, because he already lied to The Verge about how he supposedly only got active on Youtube in 2016 when he's been active on Youtube since 2008.

Here's an example of kinds of websites archived by the LoC:

Cute Overload! ;)

Cute Overload was a widely read blog created by Megan Frost featuring commentary, photos and videos related to various aspects of cuteness in animals. The site's hosts would take submissions and publish what they decided were the most cute pictures for their readers. Through this, they developed...

www.loc.gov

Summary
Cute Overload was a widely read blog created by Megan Frost featuring commentary, photos and videos related to various aspects of cuteness in animals. The site's hosts would take submissions and publish what they decided were the most cute pictures for their readers. Through this, they developed a set of "rules of cuteness," or reasons why something appears adorable, as well as a glossary of their specialized slang used in captions. The site won a range of awards and documents the way the web functions as a platform for sharing pictures of cute animals.

Looking at the way the LoC archives the likes of Giphy.com and Meme Generator as culturally relevant and significant content, the LoC doesn't really seem to focus on individual gifs or individual memes. It's not really about archiving a specific meme or gif, rather about archiving a media habit, highlighting that "this was something the public did at the time" as a form of entertainment or satirical commentary (the public made memes and gifs), with a couple of thousand unique memes or gifs archived as representative examples of this cultural activity. I would assume that the LoC archiving Youtubers would take a similar approach. It wouldn't be about archiving or highlighting a particular content creator or Youtube video, but rather about documenting the fact that during the 2010s there were these digital media content creators called "Youtubers", with a couple of thousand Youtube channels archived as typical/representative examples of "being a Youtuber" as a cultural activity.

To use telephony as an analogy, the LoC wouldn't try to archive individual callers or archive recordings of individual calls per se, but would rather seek to represent the act of calling someone as a significant content-generating social activity people engaged in, with recordings of a couple of thousand phonecalls as representative examples of what a telephone call was like in specific times and contexts.

 

[whatintheheck]

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There you go, I can't find anything at the LoC under ContraPoints, or "Natalie Wynn Parrott", or "Natalie Wynn".

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In fact, the Library of Congress doesn't even bother to archive PewDiePie's channel, the biggest and most culturally significant Youtuber currently on Youtube... but I'm supposed to believe that they're going to archive Nyk's channel?

I mean, if the LoC wanted to archive culturally relevant and significant Youtubers, wouldn't they be archiving some of these channels instead?

List of most-subscribed YouTube channels - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Why the fuck would the LoC want to archive some obscure LGBT channel like Nyk? Wouldn't they rather archive some really big and famous LGBT Youtubers like Nikita Dragun (2,3 million subs) or Gigi Gorgeous (2,7 million subs) or homo Jeffree Star (15 million sub) or homo Shane Dawson (21 million subs)? What is more culturally relevant and significant, Shane's carefully crafted documentaries (that get tens of millions of views) or Nyk's mindless self-indulgence set to video for his cult?

I am still trying to find a video or public statement or tweet or anything from another Youtuber who has had their channel archived by the Library of Congress. I still can't find anything. This is really strange. If the Library of Congress was reaching out to Youtubers to let them know they were archiving their whole channels (which is what Nyk claims in the LA Times, that his whole channel is going to be archived), wouldn't at least ONE of them mention this somewhere?

Again: I wanna see receipts or it didn't happen. We know Nyk is using the mainstream media to put out lies about himself, because he already lied to The Verge about how he supposedly only got active on Youtube in 2016 when he's been active on Youtube since 2008.

Here's an example of kinds of websites archived by the LoC:



Looking at the way the LoC archives the likes of Giphy.com and Meme Generator as culturally relevant and significant content, the LoC doesn't really seem to focus on individual gifs or individual memes. It's not really about archiving a specific meme or gif, rather about archiving a media habit, highlighting that "this was something the public did at the time" as a form of entertainment or satirical commentary (the public made memes and gifs), with a couple of thousand unique memes or gifs archived as representative examples of this cultural activity. I would assume that the LoC archiving Youtubers would take a similar approach. It wouldn't be about archiving or highlighting a particular content creator or Youtube video, but rather about documenting the fact that during the 2010s there were these digital media content creators called "Youtubers", with a couple of thousand Youtube channels archived as typical/representative examples of "being a Youtuber" as a cultural activity.

To use telephony as an analogy, the LoC wouldn't try to archive individual callers or archive recordings of individual calls per se, but would rather seek to represent the act of calling someone as a significant content-generating social activity people engaged in, with recordings of a couple of thousand phonecalls as representative examples of what a telephone call was like in specific times and contexts.

Yes, but at least in the case of film and music, it’s specific albums and films that get archived, not just a smattered collection of the year or decade’s top hits. Otherwise they’d just be putting in club mix CDs.

Also, I don’t think that popularity alone is what matters for deciding what gets added to the LoC’s archive. There’s plenty of (relatively speaking) obscure things that get archived, e.g. Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation is hardly a household name beyond hipster/indie circles, yet it’s been archived all the same in LoC’s National Recording Registry.

However, that also happened in 2005, almost 20 years after that album’s initial release. And even speaking about the indiesphere, Sonic Youth is wayyyy more famous and influential than Nyk is or ever will be. So the likelihood that Nyk’s channel, or even an individual video, would be archived — or certainly anytime so soon — is incredibly, incredibly unlikely upon further reflection.

Now, assuming it is a lie, is this a lie that Nyk himself put out there? Or could it just be something concocted by one of his syncophantic fans? If the former, it says a lot about Nyk’s self-perception: that his work is somehow super relevant and predicted the New Zealand shooting by an alt-right extremist. He basically wants to be externally validated and institutionally remembered, and probably thinks his videos and statements about possible real-world violence are akin to Nietzche’s work and prediction of all the violence of the 20th century.

Except, it’s really not. It’s *at best* a footnote to a constantly shifting online culture, and there were plenty of better and more coherent predictions about what was going to happen once an unhinged person latched onto far right meme-culture. I think on some level, Nyk fears erasure and irrelevance, a worry that he’s actually just pretty normal and mediocre (you know, reality), rather than the tortured genius he likely considers himself to be (narcissistic grandiosity). And like many of his favorite pop culture idols who died young, perhaps he thinks that an early death would help cement his “legacy” into the annals of history and philosophy textbooks. The difference with those people, is that Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Sylvia Plath, Elliott Smith, David Foster Wallace, Amy Winehouse, etc. ad nauseam is that they actually released their magnum opus *before* dying -- there are plenty of people who kill themselves and remain obscure; it's not like it's a ticket to cultural notoriety. It’s like he still has some major neurotic hangups about his failure to succeed in academia — hence all of the dismissals of graduate school culture and meaning, and this 'before I'm 40' deathwish is perhaps in desire of letting society do the actual hard work of making him relevant.

It’s all just so sad and pathetic and conflicted. I don’t know where a therapist could even *start* with a person like Nyk, and that’s assuming that he stops lying for once and is actually brutally honest with someone.

edit: spelling/grammar

 

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