Left-Wing YouTubers FAIL in 2025 - Carney has allies online!
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Summary
Canadian left-wing political YouTubers have completely fallen off the map since the election, which is pretty hilarious if you're a conservative. But it's also pretty depressing if you re on the other side of the political spectrum.
Transcript
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Although a lot of negative things have happened in the year 2025,
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one massive victory for the conservative movement in this country
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has been the utter defeat of Canadian left-wing political YouTube.
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They were doing pretty well at the start of the year, especially around the federal election.
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But ever since then, they have completely fallen off the map.
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I didn't expect to cover this in a video today.
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This is not something I've been planning on doing.
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It's not even something I even woke up in the morning wanting to talk about.
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But I saw a few social media links to certain YouTubers' channels.
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I'm always curious to see how different YouTubers are doing,
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especially on the other side of the political spectrum.
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But it's also hilarious if you're a conservative.
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There are a lot of conservative or YouTubers on the right in Canada right now.
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Yeah, there's some channels that are kind of puttering along,
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Eventually, they find their footing and start gaining an audience.
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But there are tons of conservative channels that have a big audience.
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And there are channels multiple times bigger than myself,
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like The Pleb, like Mr. Sunshine Baby, Jasmine Lane, all these people.
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But the left, seemingly, it's not just that they haven't really grown at the same rate.
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falling into a giant crevice and exploding on impact.
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Let's start off with an example that you guys are going to find funny.
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And that is one of our favorite journalists, Rachel Gilmore.
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Now, her channel actually has a bunch of videos that did pretty well.
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These are like nine months ago, seven months ago,
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You know, it's pretty much everything more than four months ago,
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She was getting like 57,000 views, 53,000, 45,000, 42,000.
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And even if I go to the latest, if I go back about four months or so,
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you get 11,000 here, 7.9, 3.9, not so good, 9.1, 42,000, that's pretty good,
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And the problem is, if we actually go to her latest, latest content,
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where you can see it goes from 13 days to two months to three months.
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As of recently, with her, video three hours ago has 406 views,
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3,400 from three days ago, 1,100 from seven days ago.
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This channel is dying, and I don't think that Rachel Gilmore
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has the humility within her to actually turn it around,
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because then she would have to admit to having a personal flaw,
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She will never admit that her content is boring and pedantic and self-indulgent.
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I was just talking to somebody earlier today about this.
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You could say there are definitely flaws on right-wing Canadian YouTube.
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Maybe too many YouTubers talk about politics like they're a WWE wrestling commentator.
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but you can sometimes get a little bit too much tabloidy drama stuff
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that ends up leaking into political commentary.
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I don't even think that's exactly a right-wing flaw.
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that there are, like, philosopher kings out on a mountain in the woods,
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and you're going to go out of your way to go watch their content.
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And then when it turns out that that's not true,
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who I remember started cranking out videos and shorts pretty consistently
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His presentation style wasn't even particularly bad.
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but the content itself is not actually appealing
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unless you're a very snarky left-wing millennial
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but they've kind of been a mini failure to launch,
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so she's not padding her channel views with short videos.
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But you get 3,300, 5,300, 55, 5,600, 6,500, 34, 66.
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she's been doing this for, like, four years or so,
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but you could say that that was when she wasn't really full-time.
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but it's basically just been kind of struggling
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who mostly writes for, I think, Canadian Press,
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so his articles can kind of be syndicated anywhere,
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a straight-up neutral reporter, which is insane.
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But this guy, with all of his media experience and savvy,
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and yes, some of these were being made six years ago,
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Still, I don't think that's any excuse to fail that hard
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when you should know a thing or two about the media,
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You go down here, it's from six days ago, 12 days ago,
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The highest, these are literally not even breaking 1,000 views.
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because you can't force people to consume the content
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or having their articles syndicated on every single outlet.
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These people, again, see themselves as like philosopher kings
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and Canadians are going to hack their way through the jungle
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Here's another person, True North Eager Beaver Media,
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who you have, I believe Laura Babcock has him on her show a lot.
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So this guy at least demonstrates he can punch above his weight
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You can get more views on videos than he even has subscribers.
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and there's no chance this guy's been demonetized
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or he's been somehow, you know, throttled on YouTube.
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And his most recent videos, 112 views, 36 views, 149, 25, 139, 43.
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But if you go to the live stream, it's not better.
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and you can't actually pull in very many views.
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That probably means that the audience watched you for a while.
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And after that, it became the same boring, meandering, whining
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Frankly, I think some people watch Laura Babcock
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Remember how this guy was like an up-and-coming,
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and all of his content, like Rachel Gilmore's is now,
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I once went after him a few times in video responses
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you know, well, we need to understand young men,
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no, we're not talking about Wyatt Claypool on the show.
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We don't talk, we don't respond to people like that.
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And then he wonders why he, like, quit the channel,
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deleted all of his videos to go back to teaching.
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You know, more power to him if he's a good teacher
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to the point where they keep setting themselves
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but I mean in terms of the liberal mainstream media
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and they get to eat good food for the first time.
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What are you watching for your party for next year?
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This is incredibly different space for the liberals.
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that governments were building the plane while flying it.
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but it ended up being a very, very different looking plane.
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around things like the country's ability to build,
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Sir, what is he talking about, incredible change?
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now that they've gone from Justin Trudeau to Mark Carney.
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but, yeah, he is the liberal hack on the panel,
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Other than Mark Carney leading instead of Justin Trudeau,
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the conservatives effectively put them in a corner
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That was the only reason the liberals actually did that
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and then they doubled the industrial carbon tax.
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because he kind of had to promise it to get re-elected.
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This is like a brand new face of the liberal party?
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You know, in 2024, I spoke about how when I'd leave Ottawa,
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people would tell me very clearly if they, you know,
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that they weren't very happy with Justin Trudeau,
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They were at around 43% on average in the polls
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is that they had concerns about Justin Trudeau.
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and the liberal incumbent government a big boost.
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And because Jagmeet Singh was still leading the NDP,
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the liberals disproportionately got that NDP vote
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And so they ended up overcoming the conservatives
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It wasn't exactly like a big repudiation of Pierre Polyev,
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pretty much every artificial advantage possible.
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So Fred, it's a completely different political dynamic
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That's fine, he's supposed to be a partisan liberal hack.
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We are now going to the conservative representative
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there's still the one seat short of a majority.
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You know, I guess that's the big target for them.
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like, this is not the liberal party of Justin Trudeau.
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And when you look at all of the year-end interviews