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'''BreadTube''' or '''LeftTube''' is a loose and informal group of online content creators who create video content, including [[video essay]]s and [[Livestreaming|livestreams]], from [[socialism|socialist]], [[Social democracy|social democratic]], [[Communism|communist]], [[Anarchism|anarchist]], and other [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] perspectives.<ref name=":6">{{cite web |last=Williams |first=Wil |date=June 1, 2021 |title=The video essays that spawned an entire YouTube genre |url=https://www.polygon.com/22417320/best-video-essays-youtube-history |accessdate=August 11, 2021 |work=[[Polygon (website)|Polygon]] |archive-date=August 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811131717/https://www.polygon.com/22417320/best-video-essays-youtube-history |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Somos|first=Christy|date=October 25, 2019|title=Dismantling the 'Alt-Right Playbook': YouTuber explains how online radicalization works|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/dismantling-the-alt-right-playbook-youtuber-explains-how-online-radicalization-works-1.4655174|access-date=July 3, 2020|website=[[CTVNews]]|language=en|archive-date=February 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215011000/https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/dismantling-the-alt-right-playbook-youtuber-explains-how-online-radicalization-works-1.4655174|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Alexander|first=Julia|date=January 31, 2020|title=Carlos Maza is back on YouTube and ready to fight|url=https://www.theverge.com/tech/2020/1/31/21112724/carlos-maza-steven-crowder-vox-youtube-harassment-policies-breadtube|access-date=July 3, 2020|website=[[The Verge]]|language=en|archive-date=July 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731142040/https://www.theverge.com/tech/2020/1/31/21112724/carlos-maza-steven-crowder-vox-youtube-harassment-policies-breadtube|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=January 13, 2020|title=Youtube: Auf der anderen Seite die linken Influencer|url=https://blog.zeit.de/teilchen/2020/01/13/youtube-influencer-linke-social-media/|access-date=July 3, 2020|website=[[Die Zeit]]|language=de-DE|archive-date=July 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703235442/https://blog.zeit.de/teilchen/2020/01/13/youtube-influencer-linke-social-media/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=Citarella|first=Joshua|date=September 12, 2020|title=Marxist memes for TikTok teens: can the internet radicalize teenagers for the left?|url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/12/marxist-memes-tiktok-teens-radical-left|url-status=live|access-date=August 8, 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200912105738/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/12/marxist-memes-tiktok-teens-radical-left |archive-date=September 12, 2020 }}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite journal |last=Cotter |first=Kelley |date=2022-03-18 |title=Practical knowledge of algorithms: The case of BreadTube |journal=New Media & Society |language=en |pages=146144482210818 |doi=10.1177/14614448221081802 |s2cid=247560346 |issn=1461-4448|doi-access=free }}</ref> BreadTube creators generally post videos on [[YouTube]] that are discussed on other online platforms, such as [[Reddit]].<ref name=TripleC>{{Cite journal|last1=Kuznetsov|first1=Dmitry|last2=Ismangil|first2=Milan|date=January 13, 2020|title=YouTube as Praxis? On BreadTube and the Digital Propagation of Socialist Thought|url=https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1128|journal=[[TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique]]|language=en-US|volume=18|issue=1|pages=204–218|doi=10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1128|issn=1726-670X|doi-access=free|access-date=July 3, 2020|archive-date=July 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703232456/https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1128|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
BreadTube creators participateare often accused of participating in a form of "algorithmic hijacking".<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|last=Roose|first=Kevin|date=June 8, 2019|title=The Making of a YouTube Radical (Published 2019)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html|url-status=live|access-date=June 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210522212633/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html|archive-date=May 22, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> They will choose to focus on the same topics discussed by content creators with [[right-wing politics]], which enables their videos to be recommended to the same audiences consuming right-wing or [[Far-right politics|far-right]] videos,<ref name=":4" /> and thereby exposes a wider audience to their perspectives.<ref name="TripleC" /> Many BreadTube content creators are funded through [[crowdfunding]], and the channels often serve as introductions to left-wing politics for young viewers.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book|last=Fuchs|first=Christian|url=|title=Social Media: A Critical Introduction|publisher=[[SAGE Publications]]|year=2021|isbn=978-1-5297-5274-8|edition=3rd|pages=199–200}}</ref>
 
BreadTube creators align with [[Collectivism and individualism|collectivist modes of governance]], while opposing [[liberalism]], the [[alt-right]], and the far-right.<ref name=":8" /> Infighting is common within the BreadTube community, which has been attributed to "the community host[ing] a spectrum of beliefs, ranging from Social Democratic to [[Maoism|Maoist]]".<ref name=":8" />
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