Are video-essays journalism? - Interview with Alice Cappelle on YouTubers, feminism & politics

Publicado 2024-02-23
YouTube video-essayist and author of Collapse Feminism ‪@AliceCappelle‬ discusses her writing process, how she approaches controversial topics, and how much of her work intersects with journalism.

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00:00 Intro
03:25 Journalism on YouTube
16:23 Alice's process
37:27 Being aware of one's audience
40:45 Choice of language
43:41 Dealing with comments
49:00 Alice's book
51:12 'Demographic Rearmament' & falling birthrates
58:00 Ending


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  • @martinsader4637
    fucking love this two channels, their quality, their aproach, go on masters!!!
  • @HeeraK
    Amazing discussions and the topics just in an hour. Thank you!
  • Amazing content that's true to journalism. Would love to see more of this As someone who doesn't follow either this channel, or journalism as much as I probably should, from my young 23-year-old man's perspective - what is with the modern "crisis" of falling birthrates and why do so many people spin their heads in a tizzy about it? A commonly shared, albeit never spoken sentiment among my generation is that: A. We are already way overpopulated, totaling 8 billion humans and far outreaching the carrying capacity of the entire planet B. We are on the brink of oft-agreed upon climate extinction, leaving any future generations with nothing to inherit but certain assured death C. We are often agreed to be AND simultaneously feel the shame of being an invasive species on the entire planet D. Economically, we are all too crushed in my generation, in both the economy of money as well as the economies of energy and time, not only to entertain the idea of children, but also, the idea of having a home of our own, and, in the age of incels and a really terrible dating market, the idea of a partner or sex in the first place E. With so many undereducated white men on the planet I am willing to bet that there is a HUGE swath of people not accounted for that simply. DO NOT want children. It's not "cool" for a lot of people to want babies. Perhaps this point changes with age and time but I am certain that the preceding four points will not go away and in fact only get worse. F. Humans are so abundant on this planet that your own individual decision not to have babies will not at all affect the human population of 8 billion so drastically; everyone faces a feeling of existential boredom and inconsequentiality that so many don't even think on this level. I guess my question is, with this many barriers ahead of us, why is the global emphasis on falling birthrates SUCH an alarm bell? Why is the conversation happening all the way over there, instead of over here? Can someone, at all, make a video about this? To me, and to practically my whole generation, this is the most unrelatable concern of all time.
  • @Aurekbeshisk
    Great idea for a video. Maybe you can do similar interview videos with more content creators, who knows.
  • @yashvardhan2196
    Amazing discussions and insights for someone like me who wants to start indie journalism🙏
  • @raquetdude
    If I write an opinion column and I’m a journalist then I guess. But if you don’t see opinion columns as journalism. Journalism has rules, doesn’t mean you have to follow them but the understanding/ bias aspect needs to be known. Understand it differs and changes
  • @Kroke_Monster
    With background in human geography, I have never understood why it is such a big craze about not meeting population replacement rates (I get all facets, economic, societal, and why it is big craze as in for clicks and fearmongering). If we look at history, how human race works and human geography which is just the study humanities study of people + category (health/edu/ etc etc) + space. Then it is just another chapter not even a challenge just the progression, the whole oh no pop collapse or oh no how we pay for social care for elderly boom, yeh we have no silver bullet for it, but it really is not that big of a deal. It is unironically and the reason why it confuses me much, and to not sound like a closeted malthusian, a really good thing. Current consumer society over overabundance indulgence and w the climate crisis, even if you do not believe it the environment going whack is not fun. Then a lesser shrinking population helps in relieving the pressures causing this, long term when the shrinkage has gone to such an effect the pressures are there no more, say housing shortages as less people and so on. But that does require long-term thought which is the human races biggest weakness, so besides general short-sightedness and capitalist-driven short-sighted culture, the 'collapse' is not an issue. It is more of who is gonna collapse if anything, is a specific group of people gonna go poof, an ethnicity or etc because that is something we can prevent and fix, but if we all are, then we are and that is how it will go so we just got to work on the issues and take the circumstances given not try to prevent something 'bad' when there is no reason for it to be 'bad'. Apologies for the long rant, do not get to express myself in the humanities field anymore! Stuck doing too much transportation these days.
  • If you're going to have guests let them talk more.
  • @patxooo6974
    Oh my god Slater bringing back the two timeline thing aahhh. Let’s move on from that, let’s create something newwww
  • @bazinga-tt9pj
    Heck yeah, the first pseudo intelectual interviewed on this channel 😊😊😊