Ophie DokieHey! I've already talked about Girl Defined/Bethany Beal and Fundie Snark on my channel once before but I recently watched what I thought was a really fascinating collaboration video between her and Zelph On The Shelf and I was fascinated by the discussions around it on the reddit.
I thought the Zelph video was great. I didn't use posts from the reddit other than that it's where I downloaded youtube comments from the AntiBot. I watched another AntiBot video after filming this and really liked that one too. I said I don't think I personally would have defended Paul of Paul and Morgan but I don't blame her for making that choice at all. That's pretty clear in the video, I'm overexplaining myself in here.
As always this is my analysis/understanding/what I put together after seeing some stuff online and talking to my besties about it, I don't know all the information about all parties and made that pretty clear in the video, but I have nothing but support for the genuine desire to make deconstruction content and to distinguish that from Snark and I think both Taylor Antibot and Sam and Tanner Zelph On The Shelf are doing a really good job of that.
(Camera was less steady on my desk than I thought sorry it's shaky in this! I'm trying to get it more stable in future videos. Audio should be better than in the beginning of the swoop video though)
checking in on fundiesnark, Bethany Beal, and Deconstruction Content [video essay] [analysis]Ophie Dokie2024-06-01 | Hey! I've already talked about Girl Defined/Bethany Beal and Fundie Snark on my channel once before but I recently watched what I thought was a really fascinating collaboration video between her and Zelph On The Shelf and I was fascinated by the discussions around it on the reddit.
I thought the Zelph video was great. I didn't use posts from the reddit other than that it's where I downloaded youtube comments from the AntiBot. I watched another AntiBot video after filming this and really liked that one too. I said I don't think I personally would have defended Paul of Paul and Morgan but I don't blame her for making that choice at all. That's pretty clear in the video, I'm overexplaining myself in here.
As always this is my analysis/understanding/what I put together after seeing some stuff online and talking to my besties about it, I don't know all the information about all parties and made that pretty clear in the video, but I have nothing but support for the genuine desire to make deconstruction content and to distinguish that from Snark and I think both Taylor Antibot and Sam and Tanner Zelph On The Shelf are doing a really good job of that.
(Camera was less steady on my desk than I thought sorry it's shaky in this! I'm trying to get it more stable in future videos. Audio should be better than in the beginning of the swoop video though)
ko-fi.com/ophiewriteslearning as much about Abortion Access Ballot Propositions as I can in one weekendOphie Dokie2024-10-14 | Here's a video about abortion!! I am thoroughly and completely pro-abortion, and I wanted to know as much as I could about the 10 states that get to vote to either protect or expand abortion access in the 2024 election, so that's what I did.
0:00 Introduction/Abortion Is A Miracle 0:09:12 Abortion Access In Arizona 0:19:38 wait why was that ban from 1864?? 0:27:40 What's On That Ballot- Arizona 0:31:26 INTERMISSION 1- Exceptions Are Bullshit. 0:43:52 Abortion Access in Colorado 0:48:37 What's On That Ballot- Colorado 0:50:51 INTERMISSION 2- the time i yelled at protesters 0:54:59 Abortion Access in Florida /What's On That Ballot- Florida 1:00:53 INTERMISSION 3- what's DeSantis up to about that 1:05:17 What's On That Ballot-Maryland 1:08:23 Abortion Access in Missouri 1:15:40 What's On That Ballot-Missouri 1:19:54 What's On That Ballot-Nebraska 1:23:15 What's On That Ballot-New York 1:25:05 What's On That Ballot-Nevada 1:26:42 LAST INTERMISSION- Abortion Does Well On The Ballot 1:30:52 South Dakota (on the backup mic) 1:36:12 final thoughts
Videos i clipped from: youtube.com/watch?v=rU0oeY9Ji3Y youtube.com/watch?v=DMJUf8iur2k (they did not let me use the bojack clip without copyright striking it and I wanted to donate to states with bad abortion bans if this video ends up making upwards of like $50 (i am not positive I'm earning enough for rent next month so I would like this weekend worth of work to contribute somewhat to my financial needs, but ad rev beyond that I'm going to donate to abortion funds in the states discussed in this video, we'll wait to see which ones and how much based on who can access abortion after they vote)
reproductiverights.org/maps/abortion-laws-by-state/I Wanna Talk about the Liam Payne AllegationsOphie Dokie2024-10-11 | I was not a One Direction girlie, but there are allegations coming out against one of the former members of the boy band Liam Payne by way of his former fiance Maya Henry and former fans, and I wanted to talk about them
content warning for mentions of domestic abuse and of referenced pregnancy loss/forced abortion.
0:00 - 5:49: intro 5:30 - 11:17: Internet Already Doesn't Like Liam Payne 11:19 - 22:48: Maya Henry 22:49 - 23:33: audio gets funky for a minute sorry 23:43 - audio is normal again 25:52 - other victims come forwardI think Jill Stein is a grifterOphie Dokie2024-10-08 | I'm here to be your normie lib friend and let you know why I don't think Jill Stein deserves even a conscience vote, as she doesn't really embody those throughout her political attempts. I try in this video to talk a hypothetical dem-curious voter through why people think Jill lost the 2016 election for the democrats, how Jill Stein courted antivaccine conspiracy theorists, and why, despite disagreeing with Kamala Harris' positions so far regarding Israel and Palestine, I am still more willing to vote for her than I am for Stein, because Donald Trump is the alternative. I did not, however, realize when I filmed that this video would be finished on 10/07, so I just feel a need to note that that's a conversation I kept intentionally brief in case you're expecting more from me than I am equipped to deliver.
This isn't a huge deep dive- for more about why I think Jill Stein's advocacy for Gaza is more for her own optics than actual concern to fix things, you can find Noura Erakat's thread about declining the green party VP nomination when they refused to agree to her strategy: https://x.com/4noura/status/1824637069945147622?lang=en
I support, have supported, and will support both a ceasefire and an arms embargo and a free Palestine, and I feel more assured that that support will eventually be heard and that pressure will eventually be felt under a Harris administration than that it ever would under a Trump administration, or, at the very least, that protesters will not be ripped of their right to vote in future elections under a Harris administration the way Trump promises.
12ft.io/proxy?q=rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/the-case-against-jill-stein-251562I wanna talk about the Diddy memesOphie Dokie2024-10-01 | it's a shorter one today, I just kind of wanted to voice some discomfort I've been having around some pretty egregious decentering of the victims in the Sean Combs case as everyone on social media focuses instead on memes about Baby Oil and Justin Bieber. I'm also nervous about conspiracy swallowing up discourse about domestic violence and sexual assault.
Nobody asked even a little but this is kind of similar to me like a sister video to the Cody Ko one, not anywhere near a deep dive, just a knee jerk reaction to what I'm seeing and things I'd like to talk about in relation to that.
patreon.com/ophiedokie ko-fi.com/ophiewritesre: Alexa Nikolas NDA talk & revisiting Eat Predators vs Neds Declassified School Survival GuideOphie Dokie2024-09-23 | two topics in today's video: following up on the conversation opened up in my most recent Alexa video, where she spouted NDA misinformation to Christy Carlson Romano, and then also revisiting her beef with the Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide podcast.
I said one hundred thousand but it said 1000+ in Caeli's twitter thread, that's a misspeaking on my part, but the real number is onscreen with the tweet AND I'm not sure where I saw the Corey Feldman episode being november of 2023, looks like it was in the spring Corey was on Vulnerable but i struggled to pin down the right date since that episode has now been deleted lol - Alexa addressed it in the fall, that date is correct and to my knowledge so is the date of the vulnerable episode Corey Feldman was in. apologies for that!
vulnerable & deleted drake bell stream: https://x.com/ItEndsNow_Blog/status/1772292019517297023?t=ZhVv4uWc0_cX9vUuNjJp0Q https://x.com/ItEndsNow_Blog/status/1771576513378349495?t=eS9ZTLYWCPAAVoCiqUYfgw
gonna add timestamps later tonight but I'm publishing on my way out the door to the doctor lolAlexa Nikolas Leaks The Drive: Eat Predators new lowOphie Dokie2024-09-14 | she leaked the drive. I'm mad about it. This video is a commentary podcast and not allegations of true facts, I'm telling you what I'm seeing on twitter and the fight I got into with her husband. I don't care that there was a freedom of information act already done for this information, that doesn't mean someone like Alexa should weaponize it like this. Alexa was not the one to request the FOIA for the Drake Bell 2021 Court Case and I don't understand why she did not provide the direct link either during her communications with Kat Tenbarge or in the last two days on twitter, but to be clear her narrative is still that she was not given the documents by Drake Bell, I propose a couple of other options for how I think she might have gotten them, but I say she didn't say how she got them at the end of the video and what I mean more accurately would be "without describing a realistic process through which she got them", since nobody else requesting the docs from the courthouse was directed to this police document record.
No, I am not linking to it here. I have not downloaded or read them, I will not read them. I filmed this one quickly, and I'm sure this is going to keep escalating, but so many people aren't on twitter (good for you!) so here you go. Does literally anyone read these.Alexa Nikolas vs Kat Tenbarge & Adam McIntyre: Eat Predators FINALE?!?Ophie Dokie2024-09-12 | not MY last video about Alexa Nikolas but if she keeps her word for once the late night livestream she did a couple of nights ago is apparently going to be her final Eat Predators livestream, so she decided to go after feminist journalist Kat Tenbarge for asking her extremely reasonable questions for an article, and Adam McIntyre for.... being friends with her.
Tweet abt Alexa testifying for Nick Carter https://x.com/asiobhan01/status/1829021829589283236?t=RqVevbXlfCKet8URCGUkeg
my twitter is @Ophiedokies I forgot to say!!!
chapters: 0:00:00 night one of twitter drama 0:08:46 adam's video 0:18:36 the livestream 0:27:37 Paranoid Ramblings About Kat 0:37:06 Just Kat's Email 0:40:03 Drake Bell Apologia 0:51:11 Question One 1:00:18 Alexa's "gotcha" tweet 1:05:43 Question Two 1:10:09 Question Three 1:13:06 Question Four 1:17:05 Question Five 1:19:59 Question Six 1:22:01 Question Seven through Ten 1:28:28 T-Shirt Backlash 1:31:11 Question 11 through 16 1:37:31 Final Questions & Alexa's Conclusion 1:42:34 reading and responding to her husband's open letter to Kat
my version: - rotiserrie chicken -cream of chicken soup -dump a bunch of cheese in -store brand crescent rolls -bake for 20ish minutes at 350I wanna talk about the It Ends With Us dramaOphie Dokie2024-08-12 | Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni are making headlines for their film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's book It Ends With Us and for a red carpet event where one of the stars didn't pose with the others. I looked into the drama, I think there are interesting conversations to be had about it, I wanted to do that here.
CHAPTERS: 0:00:00 - 0:03:58: introduction 0:03:59 - 0:06:55: what is It Ends With Us even 0:06:55 - 0:15:43: It Ends With Us synopsis 0:15:43 - 0:24:36: stuff to say about It Ends With Us 0:24:36 - 0:34:54: Movie rollout 0:34:55 - 0:53:06: The Blake Friendly Version 0:53:07 - 1:00:32: The Justin Cut 1:00:33: closing thoughts patreon.com/ophiedokie gofund.me/c55a0b31 ko-fi.com/ophiewrites
Also I'm referring to Andrea Skinner's stepfather/biological father that I mixed up, her mother is Alice Munro, I didn't phrase it very clearly in my correction lol
As usual do not harass Alexa, that's not helpful, providing commentary on how and why what she's presenting fails is, you can do that in the comments if you're nice
I believe Neil Gaiman's victims. I think harassing Amanda Palmer on their behalf is misguided. I think distrusting Rachel Johnson is fair, but I think we can do that without disregarding the victims allegations.
0:00 - 5:54 opening nuance 5:55 - 18:05 the allegations 18:06 - 30:18 criticizing the podcast 30:19 - 39:45 the Amanda Palmer of it all 39:46 - 50:25 Neil's response 50:26 -53:32 Alice Munro 53:33 - the conversation
[You can gloss over most of even the summarized details if you skip "The allegations" and the initial "Alice Munro" situation!]
Also sorry I crossed wires, Skinner's biological father owned the bookstore and not her stepfather/abuser. I also said we don't hear Amanda's response to the text messages and that was fully a failure of my own note taking -- Amanda responded something to the effect of "this entire situation is so fucked."
This video was made before any additional complaints were brought forward-- there have been more allegations made against Neil by additional women in podcast episodes both from Tortoise and from another publisher. Those episodes didn't exist yet when I filmed/scripted/posted this. I'm planning on following up, but I'm not sure when I will.
(Also I just don't think it's misogynistic to refer to Rachel Johnson as Boris Johnson's sister. You're telling me if Donald Trump's sister was a journalist and she never disagreed with his politics and also thought Ghislane Maxwell was an empathetic figure you would call me sexist for saying "It's fair not to trust Donald Trump's sister?" probably not. I said that because Boris Johnson is a more familiar name than Rachel Johnson is to someone not in a country like me where they're not exactly household names.)
(you should watch this entire series, it's so good)
Trash's video: youtu.be/mi-lDYEtHq8?si=34Oag7PnDzdk18-NALIVE & WELL: The HIV/AIDS Denialist Death Cult that fooled the Foo FightersOphie Dokie2024-06-29 | Dave Grohl took a shot at Taylor Swift and the Swifties dug up some RECIEPTS. I take a look into how their bassist fell for such dangerous misinformation and into the nonprofit "Alive And Well" the Foo Fighters performed a benefit show for back in the year 2000, seemingly based entirely on the testimony of Christine Maggiore, who died of AIDS related complications about a year and a half after the band scrubbed their involvement with her organization from their website.
About 5 minutes after I finished editing this I learned that Dave Grohl has also supported Autism Speaks, which I would have disavowed while filming if I'd seen earlier. I hate Autism Speaks and anyone who fundraises for them is doing harmful medical misinformation.
youtu.be/LRNkDZy30xU?si=V_80BSBLdroGTO8o youtu.be/6i91PzpWDAM?si=3CuKIwP12ekp3NAuRUTHLESS: The REAL Story Behind the Cemetery Angel of Arkansas [All The Young Men] [Scam Exposed]Ophie Dokie2024-06-22 | Ruth Coker Burks, the "AIDS ANGEL" Of Hot Springs, Arkansas is a grifter. In this video I uncover some of her scams and I interview people who were in the area, who were providing resources to HIV/AIDS patients in Hot Springs, Arkansas at the time of the memoir All The Young Men.
This video is a passion project and would not have been possible without the participation of Tim Looper or Mike Melancon. It is dedicated to the memory of Daymon Jones, another pioneer in AIDS treatment in Hot Springs, and we tell some of his story in the video, since Ruth neglected to do so in her memoir. We also talk about the upcoming stage production "ANGEL OF ARKANSAS", which promises to be ghoulish, and which we will discuss if it ever actually hits broadway after its previews. I thought I would finish uploading the video before midnight on the 21st, I say the video was uploaded the same day as previews but that was a deadline I also missed after my initial World AIDS day one.
Mike Melancon's cashapp (this is specifically for the Tuggle Shelby Clinic, I confirmed with him when I asked how best to donate to their work.) $mikemelancon55 -- I'll make a community post the first time I get a payout after the Ruth video to let you know how much we raised to donate to the clinic that way and I'll make update posts there for subsequent months.
for some reason my transcription says "the owner" on screen during the call when mike said "them" re: the hospital, to my understanding there's no specific owner of Mercy hospital in Hot Springs
CHAPTERS: 0:00:00 - Dedication/Introduction 0:09:42 - The Myth of Ruth 0:20:07 - Tim Looper and Mike Melancon 0:36:32 - All The Young Men pt 1 0:55:43 - Vodka Sponsored Short Film 1:02:08 - The GoFundMe Grift 1:10:58 - The Cemetery Lie 1:16:55 - Eternally Together, At Peace 1:33:11 - Ruth Coker Burks Disgusts Me 1:47:38 - All The Young Men pt 2 2:11:35 - Not This Dumphole Town 2:28:48 - Angel Of Arkansas, The Musical! 2:42:28 - I'm Done Talking About Ruth
thank you to @Trash-Garbage-Trash for voicing the article pull, thank you again to Tim Looper and Mike Melancon, thank you again to Kit for diving into this with me ten months ago, thank you to Austin Gelder and Alexander Kacela for blowing this open in the first place.
ryanwhite.hrsa.govAll The Young Men Complaint SpeedroundOphie Dokie2024-06-10 | full Ruth Coker Burks video coming this month!
I'm reviewing a book and a short film and a series of increasingly unlikely claims from a straight woman who has made her name by calling herself "The Cemetery Angel" and telling her story at the complete expense of actual HIV/AIDs related work still happening in Hot Springs, Arkansas. There are articles by Alexander Kacela and Austin Bailey that go over why I am so confident when I say her claims are increasingly unlikely. We will get into it in a video that's coming out this month.Hot Springs activist and former friend of Ruth Coker Burks agrees her book is badOphie Dokie2024-06-05 | another clip from the upcoming video about Ruth Coker Burks and the exaggerations of the AIDs Angel. Tim Looper was friends with Ruth for many years and he confirmed so many of my worst fears when i read this memoir.Ruth Coker Burks wrote the words AIDs Memoir Ive Ever Read!Ophie Dokie2024-06-05 | full video coming later this month!! I'm reviewing a book and a short film and a series of increasingly unlikely claims from a straight woman who has made her name by calling herself "The Cemetery Angel" and telling her story at the complete expense of actual HIV/AIDs related work still happening in Hot Springs, Arkansas. There are articles by Alexander Kacela and Austin Bailey that go over why I am so confident when I say her claims are increasingly unlikely. We will get into it in a video that's coming out this month.I read a Lesbian How-To Guide from the 90s! SO YOU WANNA BE A LESBIAN? [lesbian reaction]Ophie Dokie2024-06-02 | I read a lesbian How-To guide from the 90s!!!! It's called So You Want To Be A Lesbian by Liz Tracy and Sidney Pokorny and I found it absolutely delightful. This is a light and breezy video for pride month, let me know if you'd like more of the sort :)
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8FHYJtMZKREary4hiMGRdGJ6s3XYAlW8Im worried about the Tiktok Birthday Mom & So Should You [feminist analysis] [video essay]Ophie Dokie2024-05-28 | This is a video about Elizabeth, tiktok’s Crying Birthday Cupcake Mom who was exposed by her former husband. Of course the internet hates women and nothing is as it seems, and this was a huge DARVO campaign, but that’s not how I’m worried this will be remembered. I wanted to make a video before the unnuanced version of this becomes common knowledge about this woman, who I am very concerned about. Think of it as an emergency nuance corner meeting. I'm heated in this one.
Elizabeth's tiktok is @MoreThanElizabeth, you can find her there. I am not linking to the website where she is doxxed or to her ex husband's account.
support me on: Patreon patreon.com/ophiedokie Ko-fi ko-fi.com/ophiewrites twitter: ophiedokes email ophiedokieyt@gmail.com Suggest a video topic: https://forms.gle/yQmXzH11rN1je6J97how Swoop derailed the Toxic Gossip Train [analysis] [commentary video essay]Ophie Dokie2024-05-25 | I have no ill will toward Swoop as a person but I've been aware of her for just around a year now and have felt as though I cannot criticize Alexa Nikolas as much as I did in my Eat Predators Deep Dives without talking about someone who does many of the same things more successfully. Do not go talk to her about this video, we can have our discussion here, she did not ask for me to critique her channel, I did so as commentary and for the sake of my own future content/my audience. This is not beef or drama, it's just commentary youtube.
OPENING NUANCE: 0:00 WHO IS SWOOP: 18:48 WHO IS JOHNNY SILVESTRI: 34:34 THE DEVIL IN COLLEEN BALLINGER'S SHADOW: 48:31 DO WE KNOW THEM?: 1:23:24 ASSORTED OTHER ISSUES/SPONSOR NUANCE AGAIN: 2:06:21 GLAM AND GORE BEAUTY: 2:25:15 PROTECTIVENESS OF SWOOP: 2:34:43 COMMENTARY ON COMMENTARY: 2:49:43STRANGE FRUIT: Zoe Leonards long closeted AIDS crisis art & preservation at the cost of visibilityOphie Dokie2024-05-14 | This is a video essay about Zoe Leonard's art piece "Strange Fruit," some 300 fruit husks she emptied, consumed, and sewed back together to decompose that way as a piece of art during the height of the AIDS crisis, as well about its namesake, "Strange Fruit," a poem written by Abel Meropool and performed very famously by Billie Holliday in 1930
All sources are in my document linked below but this one is required reading, it really laid out all I remember the tour guide telling us on that tour and the video wouldn't be possible without it.
patreon.com/ophiedokie ko-fi.com/ophiewritesI dont want to talk about James Somerton foreverOphie Dokie2024-05-10 | James Somerton, a commentary video essayist who was called out in HBomberGuy's 2023 video Plagiarism and You(tube) was recently found to be active on alt accounts, which inspired me to talk about this even though I assumed I was going to leave this situation alone. Plagiarism and You(Tube) came out about a week before I uploaded my first video and is a piece of work I think about a lot. I also wanted the chance to clarify that I think video essays Can be documentaries, just that many of them are not.
-- support me on: Patreon patreon.com/ophiedokie Ko-fi ko-fi.com/ophiewrites twitter: ophiedokes email ophiedokieyt@gmail.comJennifer Lawrence was never my Katniss Everdeen (Hunger Games Video Essay)Ophie Dokie2024-05-07 | a little mini video essay about how incomprehensibly wrong for the role of Katniss Everdeen I think Jennifer Lawrence was in retrospect. More hunger games content to come from me, hope that's something you want. Her birthday is May 8th but I finished this sooner than I thought I would!!
patreon.com/ophiedokie ko-fi.com/ophiewritesQuiet On Set is an extension of irresponsible Youtube True CrimeOphie Dokie2024-05-05 | Quiet On Set, the recent HBO docuseries, is said to have been largely inspired by web coverage of what was happening at Nickelodeon. I find that very obvious, as well as a general quality decrease in videos uploaded on the subject since the docuseries. This video is about that.Dan Schneiders defamation complaint against Quiet On Set & Why I Think Hes Hoping To SettleOphie Dokie2024-05-03 | Dan Schneider alleged defamation by the creators and distributors of the "Quiet On Set" HBO docuseries, and I found links to his legal complaint so I went through it to tell you what I think, which is that Dan sucks and that also the documentary was a little bit reckless.
kofi: ko-fi.com/ophiewritesThe Fosters is my deeply flawed comfort showOphie Dokie2024-05-01 | this ones an infodump: lesbian tells you about a freeform show she used to really love and rewatches even though she thinks it's maybe not the best as an adult, did you have a favorite ABC Family show?
patreon! patreon.com/ophiedokie ko-fi! ko-fi.com/ophiewritesTortured Poets Department makes me think Taylor Swift is Up To Something again (ex(?) gaylor reacts)Ophie Dokie2024-04-29 | not quite so much a deep dive as I did about Reputation, but I wanted to talk about my initial reactions to the newest Taylor Swift album and why I think she's dropping countdown hints for something beyond this newest release.
Buy me a ko-fi if you'd like! ko-fi.com/ophiewritesDRAKE BELL commented on my video SIXTEEN TIMES?!Ophie Dokie2024-04-27 | my most recent video about Drake Bell caught the attention of the confessed child endangerer it's about and he left me sixteen comments because he hates that I stand with his victims. I did not ever defend Brian Peck, watch my last video to see for yourself:
Glass Klossett tiktok: tiktok.com/@glassklossetDrake Bell Isnt Being Set Up!! Why I Stand With His VictimsOphie Dokie2024-04-20 | content warning for discussions of child sexual abuse and discussions of domestic violence.
Drake Bell pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment or a minor and distribution of materials harmful to that minor. Now he is trying to frame it like a conspiracy theory from his former network and not like a consequence of his actions. I would like to talk about that.
rainn.org/resourcesYour Fave Is Problematic: in defense of outgrowing problematic discourseOphie Dokie2024-04-18 | I keep seeing really mean twitter memes about the tumblr account "Your Fave Is Problematic" and I wanted to talk about how we can grow from coming from unnuanced thought processes without having to carry Oppenheimer levels of shame for having participated in discourse as teenagers. Other people have talked about this far more comprehensively, this is a hang out. I don't think YFIP is how we should still participate in discourse but I also don't think it was the end of critical thought, for a lot of people, myself included, it was some of the beginning of that.
Your Fave Is Problematic tumblr blog: yourfaveisproblematic.tumblr.com/nowwhatHow Eat Predators Ate Itself: my final video about Alexa NikolasOphie Dokie2024-04-14 | Do you think Eat Predators has weird vibes? Were my other videos about Alexa Nikolas and Drake Bell too long for you? Did you like the long videos but just want another hang out where we talk about my feminist critique or Eat Predators? Have I got a video essay for you!
this is a nuanced look at Eat Predators, an activist organization/youtube channel founded by Alexa Nikolas, and what I perceive as some of its shortcomings. it is not defamatory to hold activists to account for what they advocate for and the ways they do it. I do not discredit Alexa as a survivor for what she has lived through with her ex husband, with nickelodeon, with Dan Schneider, or with any other allegations she has made.
My usage of clips from Eat Predators daily falls under "fair use" and it is not defamatory to hold activists to account for what they advocate for and the ways they do it. I do not discredit Alexa as a survivor for what she has lived through with her ex husband, with nickelodeon, with Dan Schneider, or with any other allegations she has made.
Support me on patreon! patreon.com/posts/101917628?pr=trueGirl Defined, Influencer Deconstruction, and the ethics of Uncensored Fundie SnarkOphie Dokie2024-04-04 | Hi! The tone of this video essay is less Essay and more we are friends and I want to talk about something. This is my "Lesbian reactions to Girl Defined" video, as it were. This is a video where I kind of a little bit stand up for Bethany Beal, but only the way I stand up for any woman i don't think deserves to be referred to as Birthy.
Videos I did not mention but think are useful: CRUEL WORLD HAPPY MIND: youtube.com/watch?v=WDpOVzMNA7Y Biz Barclay: youtube.com/watch?v=m4pLeoVY09A&t=10sAlexa Nikolas, Drake Bell, Christy Carlson Romano, and why I cant stomach Eat PredatorsOphie Dokie2024-03-30 | this is a nuanced look at Eat Predators, an activist organization/youtube channel founded by Alexa Nikolas, and what I perceive as some of its shortcomings, including the fixation on "apology activism" and the forgiveness campaign for Drake Bell. My usage of clips from Eat Predators daily falls under "fair use" and it is not defamatory to hold activists to account for what they advocate for and the ways they do it. I do not discredit Alexa as a survivor for what she has lived through with her ex husband, with nickelodeon, with Dan Schneider, or with any other allegations she has made. I do, however, find something insidious about her brand of activism, and after she was able to distance herself so far from Christy Carlson Romano regarding their fight about Corey Feldman's episode of Vulnerable, the decision to like all of Drake Bell's posts and platform him so hard struck me as impossible to ignore. This is a feminist analysis and critique, and though it is meant to be constructive it is not meant to directly address Alexa or to ask for a response from her.
more information about the troubled teen industry: unsilenced.org
buy me a ko-fi if you want! ko-fi.com/ophiewriteswhy is Eat Predators giving Drake Bells DARVO campaign free PR? (Quiet On Set) (Video Essay)Ophie Dokie2024-03-25 | I watched Quiet On Set and I did not like it! I think we're going a really long way to excuse Drake Bell from allegations that were sealed in court at his request, and this is just a little chat about how just because an abuser had once been victimized we shouldn't disregard their victims.
Trigger warning: Mentions of child endangerment and grooming/csa
Audio quality is spotty I'm very sorry, my mic was straight up dying, but I didn't want to rerecord this because I didn't feel like it was going to be as good on a retake.
Drake Bell, Alexa Nicholas, Drake and Josh, Dan Schneider, Quiet On Set, Quiet On Set Documentary, Social Commentary, Video Essay, Brian Peck,Useless Lesbians, Lesbian Sheep Syndrome, & the missed point of sapphic hesitation (Video essay)Ophie Dokie2024-03-18 | I'm complaining about the "Useless Lesbian" meme in this one, but really it's a look at some of the reasons that women who are attracted to women might have such a fear of being predatory that it keeps them from pursuing women, and a couple little points I wish someone had thought to tell me when dating was new and scary.
Lesbian analysis lesbian meme lesbian culture lesbian jokes sapphic wlw lesbian sheep syndrome feminism sapphic sapphic culture sapphic meme wlw meme wlw advice wlw dating lesbian dating sapphic datingThe Sapphic Urge to Subvert Taylor Swift: Lesbian Undertones in Reputation (video essay)Ophie Dokie2024-03-17 | "Reputation" by Taylor Swift was almost certainly not intentionally written as a bisexual or lesbian narrative but I think subverting popular culture into something we can identify with is a cornerstone of the sapphic experience, and in this video I unpack my thoughts on the subject and give a little background for some of the theories that circulated this album when it existed as well as provide some examples of why I find it so compelling.
ALEXANDER AVILA's VIDEO: youtu.be/Mdmhiv7O5m8?si=vzntK-QjrznB5aCf (I said this was a month old and that's not true it's from December!! But everything else I said about it is true, this video is great.)I Wanna Talk About The Lesbian Masterdoc! (Video Essay)Ophie Dokie2024-03-13 | POV you're my friend and I think we should maybe talk about the lesbian masterdoc because it seems like you might not really love dating boys.....
None of this is meant to be prescriptive!!! I make these points in the video as well but please don't take any of this as me telling you what to do, bossing you around or thinking less of you if the conclusion you come to after questioning isn't that you're a lesbian forever, and please rest assured that I speak from a place of trans inclusion in my feminism and my lesbianism
also, these comments are a moderated space. You're free to have whatever opinions you would like about what I say on my channel but you're not welcome to argue with other people sharing their experiences in my comment section and if I feel like what you're saying contributes to an unsupportive space I will delete it. If you did something unsupportive directly to another person in the comments you'll get hidden from the channel. I know who I'm in community with and will protect trans women and bisexual women and lesbians who have insecurities about their lesbianism.
Adrienne Rich, Compulsory Heterosexuality and lesbian existence https://posgrado.unam.mx/musica/lecturas/Maus/viernes/AdrienneRichCompulsoryHeterosexuality.pdf
video essay analysis feminist theory feminist video essay Adrienne Rich Lavender Menance Compulsory Heterosexuality Lesbian Questioning Lesbian Woman Lesbian Feminism Second Wave FeminismWayward Guide is unlike anything I have ever seen beforeOphie Dokie2024-03-10 | Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye is a web series with an accompanying podcast that premiered in 2020 and it's my new favorite thing!! This video is somewhere between an infodump and an elevator pitch, I don't give major spoilers because I want you to watch it for yourself, but I plan on talking about it again in the near future so let me try to convince you to watch it before I go off on that particular tangent, yeah?
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Thank you so much to SPECKforever for suggesting this show and to my bestie for the new microphone
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLODxd0Um5DG8_vO1TM4HDcbmKxhI3dzli tincanbros.com/wayward-guidefeeling skeptical about the Wynonna Earp movie!Ophie Dokie2024-03-07 | This isn't a video essay it's just an infodump about how much I love Wynonna Earp!! I've been watching a web series that reminds me a lot about Wynonna Earp and just felt like shaking out some of my thoughts about season 4 and my hesitance to be too excited about bringing back something with such hard won closure.
Do you like shorter videos from me? Are you more here for the longer stuff? I'm still getting a feel for what kind of videos I wanna make, even if this type of video happens again in the future it definitely won't be my most frequent type of upload, but I could upload Very Often if we like little chats like this! Let me know!!
Email me if you want at Ophiedokieyy@gmail.com support me on kofi: ko-fi.com/ophiewritesthe Emma Approved Revival: Pemberly Digitals failed kickstarter and final Jane Austen adaptationOphie Dokie2024-03-05 | "Emma Approved" was a the follow up to Pemberly Digital's smash hit "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries." Emma Approved is a 2013 adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Emma. It was uploaded on the Pemberly Digital youtube channel and ran for 70 episodes, but it returned with a very short lived revival.
CHAPTERS: 0:00 - introduction 6:03 - inside againEmma Approved is Clueless: a study in Modern Jane Austen Adaptations [video essay]Ophie Dokie2024-02-29 | Emma Approved was an Emmy award winning adaptation of Jane Austen's novel "Emma." Though it was a highly anticipated follow-up to Pemberly Digital's first series, "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries," I thought at the time and again as an adult that it lacked a lot of the magic the first adaptation had. That assessment is even more stark when you add in another adaptation. In this video I compare Emma Approved to 1995's Clueless, a movie I have infinitely more to say about than I got around to in this video, and I take a lot less time to do it than I did about Lizzie Bennet.
Support me on Ko-Fi! ko-fi.com/ophiewritesHow Bernie Su Killed The Lizzie Bennet Diaries [video essay]Ophie Dokie2024-02-26 | The Lizzie Bennet Diaries was a 2013 adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, which I have spoken about at length in my most recent upload. This video explores the fallout with the real world Pemberly Digital and a kickstarter campaign that was not actually paid out to the people it was promised to.