Eh, I want to write something up and it's midnight and oh my god it's only 42 hours until the polls close in most of Indiana. OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't take any more of this!!!!
Anyway, I figured that to forestall madness, I'd pick my 5 favorite Youtubers from this here campaign season, with my favorite video and a bit about them
- rx2008-Power to the People vs. Give Peace a Chance
Not really mainstream in any sense, rx2008 nevertheless managed to have a major effect on me. I must've spammed this here 10,000 times.
- barelypolitical-I Got a Crush on Obama
Probably the least political (i.e. "barely" political) as anything can get, but Amber Lee Ettinger, despite not having bothered to vote in the primary in New Jersey; yet this video's been seen as much as any other this campaign season.
But nothing beat the Gravel rock video, made by "billinsi"
- billinsi-Mike Gravel-rock
- hmatkin- Barackroll
Anyone who combines rickrolling (i.e. Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give you Up") with Barack Obama deserves a mention
- twentythreesix-Swift Kids For Truth-Barack Obama
twentythreesix has been doing political videos in an Onion-like style this cycle. My favorite thing they've done is SwiftKids for Truth; as an homage to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they got together a bunch of little kids and did SwiftBoat type ads.
It's great.
They even did a SwiftJews for Truth ad recently