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Why are so many Star Trek/Sci Fi YouTubers far right? (startrek.website)
submitted 1 year ago by startrekexplained@startrek.website to c/quarks@startrek.website
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Here's a few examples:

The Popcast (recently made a video warning of the "dangers" of the Barbie movie because it's feminist. Now Im going to go see it lol), Midnights Edge (general right wing conspiracy theories regarding media, occasional delving into new age crank too), Nerdrotic (thinks Hollywood is engineering a communist Red Guards plot to kill conservatives), The Critical Drinker (typical edgelord anti feminist), Dave Cullen (extreme anti feminist who believes in all the QAnon, Agenda 21 conspiracy theories).

And it goes on and on. I know there's popular left wing and liberal reviewers too, but for whatever reason so many of the ones I run into are far right. Is there some sort of draw for conservatives to geekdom or is something else going on?

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[–] startrekexplained@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually I guess you're right now that I think about it, NuTrek does preach occasionally in a really dumb way, and often the wrong message IMO.

I’ve been watching SNW with someone who’s never seen Trek before

Yeah that's why I sometimes wish I haven't seen every 700 or so Trek episodes out there, because SNW would be far better then. Admittedly it's also a problem with The Orville as well, because they also rehashed and straight up ripped off old Trek episodes in an inferior way, but did enough original (for TV anyway) and interesting things for me to forgive this.