Beau of the Fifth Column
Well, howdy there internet people, it’s Beau again.
By now if you’ve followed leftist content creators, you’d probably heard his voice and that subtitle set it off in your brain. If not, consider this your introduction.
Just a southern boy making videos in his shack in the woods
I definitely don’t remember the first video I watched of Beau. He puts them out with an alarming frequency. I’m talking at least one a day, usually more.
They’re not hour long video essays with big production value and costumes — they’re usually five to ten minutes of him monologuing in his… garage? Workshop? Shack in the woods?
Hell if I know. Check out an older video of his about the three letters that can make rural whites understand what minorities fear about the cops. You’d think they’d get it, and yet…
He’s got a strong pro-union stance and, like all good lefties when given the chance, points out how the “radical” Democrats don’t.
He has another channel as well which features longer format videos, like this one on information verification, misinformation techniques, and other online rhetorical nonsense.
I’ve already mentioned shown Twitter account up above, but it’s worth mentioning that I really think the YouTube/Twitter combo experience is how Beau is best consumed. The storyline weaves between the two. He does follow up videos to things he was talking about on Twitter, and he tweets about things he made videos about in the past.
It’s like, oh… I don’t know… pairing a nice steak with a good red wine.
Look, I really can’t summarize all of Beau’s content in a couple minutes of read time. You’re just gonna have to watch some of his stuff. You won’t be disappointed.
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