So Caleb Maupin is now labelled a Nazbol. That seems to be the newest buzzword that means ‘bad person’ And i say that, because if you go look at the comments, not one person mentions anything that he did that is nazbol-ish.

And now Thought Slime, the Serfs, and now apparently Luna Oi, and Noncompete are attacking or cancelling or cutting ties with him.

So, opinions? On Caleb, or the others?

I value your opinion as communists, because something similar happened to me, involving alleged communists.

  • Augustus@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 years ago

    So i googled the first on your list as i had a bet with myself hes plugging a patreon like so many other ‘left’ grifters

    Oh what a surprise

    • veganarkiddie@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      4 years ago

      Workers should be compensated for their labor. Yes, that means that communist and anarchist YouTubers could, and I think, should, have Patreons. Especially if you refuse to run ads, which Thought Slime does.

      How are you supposed to make leftist content? Running ads? That seems hypocritical. Working a day job? That’s fine, but you’ll but have less time to make content. Honestly I think Patreon is probably the best way because everyone gets the content for free, the creator gets compensated for their labor.

      Of course, once we live in a classless, moneyless, stateless society, then the conversation would be different, but YouTubers got rent due every month, too.

      • Augustus@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        4 years ago

        Ive got no problem with anarchists or communists being paid for their labour

        But in the workers movement there has always been a petit bourgeois strata that has always wanted to make a ‘living off being a marxist’ and in doing so set about organising their life about selling their petit booj views out in a book (or YouTube channel in this case)

        My comments in this thread is only to say that people shouldnt care what these people say and if they were serious about organising for socialism they would organise within their communist party, funnel their funds to their communist party and seek an average workers wage from their communist party like…Communists always have

        It speaks to their individualism that they dont

        And thats fine…but communists shouldnt take them seriously

    • Hildegarde@lemmygrad.ml
      1·
      4 years ago

      IDK who any of these people are, and it can be a sign of grifting to be collecting on Patreon, but to play devil’s advocate, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are. To be honest, just looking at that screenshot it does look HD and professional so I’d guess that they are well-off with YouTube and Twitch money alone, but just saying if you’re a full-time content producer, you can have a Patreon without being a grifter.