'The internet is about jealousy': YouTube muse ContraPoints on cancel culture and compassion

To call Natalie Wynn a YouTuber seems like a terrible understatement. On a platform awash in makeup tutorials, guys playing video games, horrible comedy and conspiracy theorists, Wynn – whose YouTube channel is called ContraPoints – is someone truly original: a provocateuse, a video essayist and a warrior against the alt-right in ways you would never expect.Her videos are political in nature but feel like theater, involving many costume changes and references to philosophers and academic texts. She can switch from discussing Taylor Swift to Wittgenstein with the snap of a fan. Sharp and funny, she’s a comedian who wields her wit in the service of exposing bigotry and making people examine their own biases.She also happens to be a trans woman, and often talks about trans identity and rights. She’s unafraid of not fitting into anyone’s idea of what she’s supposed to think, and that catches her a fair amount of flak.Millions of people know this already. ContraPoints, which launched in 2016, has more than 1.3 million subscribers. Her videos over the last few years – on cancel culture, on the conservative author Jordan Peterson (whose image she speaks to directly from the bathtub, referring to him as “daddy”)…
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