How Contrapoints Reinvented Philosophy for YouTube with Natalie Wynn

Factually! with Adam Conover

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4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Since 2016, Natalie Wynn has been making wildly popular video essays on YouTube under the name ContraPoints. Her videos, which cover everything from politics, to gender, to society's obsession with the apocalypse, gracefully distill academia-level research into insightful and highly digestible packages. Despite winning a Peabody award and holding a master’s degree in philosophy, Natalie proudly calls herself a YouTuber. Is this a new form of media? One that eschews the conventional structure of academia to bring university level discourse to anyone with an internet connection. This week, Adam chats with Natalie Wynn about gender, conspiracies, and the evolving role of academia in the digital age.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast. I don't know what to think I don't know what to say
0:16.0	and that's all right that's okay
0:21.0	I don't know anything.
0:25.0	Hello and welcome to Factually.
0:27.0	I'm Adam Conover.
0:28.0	Thank you so much for joining me on the show again.
0:30.0	I am so excited for today's episode. We have on the show today again. I am so excited for today's episode. We have on the show today a guest I have wanted
0:35.8	to have on the show for years and frankly one of the people I most admire working on the internet
0:41.1	or really in all of media today.
0:43.2	I first saw a video from the YouTube channel ContraPoints
0:46.4	five years ago in my trailer while I was working on one of the last seasons
0:50.1	of Adam Ruins Everything and this video blew me the fuck away.
0:54.8	It was brilliant, it was fiendishly funny, it was stylish, and it was unlike anything
0:59.4	I had ever seen on the platform before.
1:02.0	In just 30 minutes, Natalie Wynne, the host of
1:04.6	contrarpoints, explained the right-wing psychologist and self-help guru Jordan
1:08.7	Peterson better than any piece of media I had ever come across and from then on every single one of her videos
1:15.5	became a must watch for me.
1:17.5	What is so impressive about Natalie's work is that she doesn't just repackage other people's
1:22.2	thoughts like so many people do on YouTube.
1:24.0	No, she delivers original philosophical insight and analysis that is genuinely new.
1:30.0	But rather than deliver that in a lecture room or a book, she puts them into video essays on
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