The Transgressiveness of YouTube

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My son watches these like YouTube and broad kind of YouTube broadcasters that makes me sound really old who are talking about Minecraft and adopt me. I have to admit they're mostly young men and they do drive me crazy there are some there's some really problematic stuff that's on there but let's not go into that for now. They post up a 30 minute video of themselves playing Minecraft going dude bro bro you know like every day and every day 10 million people watch it if that's not famous I don't know what is actually.

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to Angela Barnes, podcaster, comedian and regular panel guest on Mock The Week (and much more!).

Angela Barnes has zero tolerance for anyone reassuring her that she's pretty - it talks over her lived experience, and does nothing to change her self-perception. Here, she discusses living with Persistent Depressive Disorder, which has made her whole life feel like the drizzly English climate, but which has also made her more able than most to endure the hard-knocks life of a stand-up comedian.

A very cheerful chat which always zeroes in on the important points with lazer focus, picking up on where Angela is in the greater pandemic situation, working with her PDD, building daily frameworks, having a comedy tribe which normalizes certain behaviours and actions, fear of rejection, CBT, entitlement, TV, the perils and - well, perils of social media, and the notion of beauty on a grand scale.

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