How YouTube forged the online Right

Article by Gavin Haynes, published in UnHerd

As a form, the YouTube video essay is entirely at odds with how we’re told we should receive our media — in five second Idiocracy doses. Yet for perhaps five years, this brand of often half-hour-long philosophical treatise was not only everywhere, but was vaguely hip. For something chiefly made by one-man bands and bedroom hacks, it was actually an excellent approximation of the liberal ideal of “debate in the public square”.

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