Hello, pleasant humans.
My name is joyce-stick.
I am a video essayist from 2019, and I am
here to audition for 2020.
And ask for Patreon money.
Spoilers, I guess.
Most of my videos are me being a queer leftist
person with opinions about anime.
Opinions like: how the FLCL sequels are about
climate change, how Doki Doki Literature Club
is about the socially and economically stranded
current generation of under 20s and 20 somethings,
of which I’ve now been both, Re:Creators
is about the common malleability of fiction
and reality, and Madoka Magica is about the
callous exploitation of the gig economy.
And Amazon.
We’re burning the wrong Amazon.
“That the cool fun jobs we’re given, or
rather, manipulated into taking, are just
nicer-looking avenues for exploitation.
All of us, fuel.
Just more energy to burn.”
One might say I’m what’s called an anime
youtuber, or “anituber.”
That being, generally, a YouTuber who talks
about anime.
The anituber is a strange, curious creature,
often preoccupied with one of three things.
Either 1) whatever airing anime from Japan
is currently popular with weebs, 2) tired
thinkpieces about how the only anime anitubers
ever talk about are the currently popular
ones, or 3) f--k if I know.
The anitubers who have good opinions, such
as my own, do not get noticed and do not make
money.
I guess I can’t be an anituber, then.
No great loss, it’s a stupid sounding word.
Still, I needed something to meaningfully
distinguish myself from people who just talk
into their microphone about anime.
So that’s why my videos have a lot of colorful
visual effects and overdone color grading
and AMVs.
It’s how I’ve attempted to compensate
for not being able to afford costumes or a
studio or actors.
And this avatar image which I made with this
picrew icon creator and my photoshop skills
is how I’m compensating for not showing
my face on camera.
One might say I’m a BreadTuber, like that
strange soy man, or the strange skull man,
or the cancelled skull woman.
I guess I could be, but I don’t know about
that.
I don’t seem to have been officially inducted
into any of these weird culty cliques that
all those weirdo liberals cosplaying leftists
on reddit seem to think exist.
At least not yet.
In that case, what am I?
Well, I guess I’m just a hopefully pleasant
human with above average politics who’s
good at writing and video editing, and maybe
other things too.
I enjoy honing my craft, and would like to
keep making things for as long as I’m able.
In the year of killing our lord 2020, I plan
to make all kinds of fun new things!
Like: an internet documentary about how Yandere
Simulator is a natural product of the toxic
gamer culture surrounding it, a critical sequel
to that one video I made emphatically praising
Symphogear for being really good and stuff,
a charitable thinkpiece on the Fantastic Beasts
movies, and an essay putting forth the wild
idea that the Monogatari series is the platonic
ideal of a cinematic universe.
...That last one is a Patreon goal, actually.
So that’s why I want you to support me on
Patreon, so that I can continue to make these
strange video essays that say things about
society and have AMVs in them.
It’s also because I haven’t had the money
to go and get a university degree to actually
get certified to make art, which might help
me get a job, but everyone who’s actually
done it says that it’s a colossal waste
of time, so I don’t know.
For giving me money, you’ll get such wonderful
things as your name in the credits, early
access to my videos, the power to read my
scrapped scripts and notes about ideas I decided
weren’t good, and other miscellaneous extra
things.
That’s all well and marvelous, but the real
reason I’d like you to donate to my Patreon
is so I don’t have to go work at an Amazon
warehouse and get crushed to itty bits by
a transphobic forklift.
[beat]
Please support me on Patreon!
If you can.
That would be great.
If you’re not able to support me on a recurring
basis, I also take one-off donations on Ko-fi.
If you, like me, have no money, just subscribing
to my channel and watching my content so I
can maybe get some money from YouTube would
also be helpful and appreciated.
Thank you for your time, and cue the music!
