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Reward Level Updates, Upcoming Livestream
🕑 Added 2017-04-05 21:03:45 +0000 UTC Hi friends,(Quick note to new patrons: if you became a patron last month, you'll be in the credits for the first time this month. If you became a patron this month, you'll be in the credits for the first time next month. This is because you're not charged for anything until the beginning of the month after you pledge. Hope that makes sense!)
Here's letting you know that I've updated the reward levels. No major changes: the $10 level now specifies that names will either be read aloud in the credits or featured more prominently than the rest of the rolling credits somehow. Probably what I'll do is read them all in one video per month, and simply display them separately in the other video. The other change is that I've dropped the "ask a question" $15 reward and replaced it with an invitation to a monthly Google hangout. If you're in the $15 level you should get another notification from me soon to schedule that.
Oh and I also gave each level a cute name.
Also, just want to let you all know in advance that I'm going to be doing a livestream this Friday at 2pm Eastern Time (link attached, I hope). Basically what I'm going to do is watch the first several videos on my channel and sort of comment on them: what I was thinking at the time, what I disagree with or would do differently now, etc. Sort of like those bonus features on DVDs that no one watches. If you can't make the stream, don't worry, I'll record the stream and reupload bits of it on my livestream channel as little responses to my original videos.
Welcome to all new subscribers, and many thanks to the rest of you for your continued support!
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I agree with you to some extent, though I think if Anita's target is teenage gamers she has rhetorically failed to appealed to them.
Listening to these reviews again with commentary, I wonder: do you find what Anita Sarkeesian does fundamentally different from Laci Green's mission, style aside? If Laci Green isn't for debauched old perverts because she's offering basic knowledge and skills to naive kids, isn't Anita Sarkeesian just teaching cultural criticism and basic feminism to an audience presumed to be naive? Given that the main audience of gross people like Bearing seems to be teenagers, I find the repetition and directness of Anita Sarkeesian's videos useful in that they're drawing in kids who don't know about and need to learn feminism. Is it just that they should be fun and not severe? I'm glad her next project is short animated features about Emma Goldman, which I also hope lots of impressionable kids watch.
