Kyle Hill YouTube channel
Pop culture commentator with 958K subscribers, by request.
Culture
thought police
"a group of people who aim or are seen as aiming to suppress ideas that deviate from the way of thinking that they believe to be correct" --google
YouTube Covid-19 censorship policy
"YouTube doesn't allow content that spreads medical misinformation that contradicts local health authorities’ or the World Health Organization’s (WHO) medical information about COVID-19." --youtube.com
Jinn/Genie
by request: "A supernatural being in pre-Islamic Arabic culture, popularized in western culture as mischievous, granting wishes that ultimately victimize those who make them."
PewDiePie
110 million subscribers on YouTube. "In 2016, Time magazine named him as one of the world's 100 most influential people." --wikipedia
Eurovision Song Contest
"held annually (apart from 2020) since 1956, making it the longest-running annual international televised music competition and one of the world's longest-running television programmes." --wikipedia
Internet memes
"an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media" --merriam-webster.com
Grimms' Fairy Tales
"The first volumes were much criticized because, although they were called 'Children's Tales', they were not regarded as suitable for children, both for the scholarly information included and the subject matter." --wikipedia
the nuclear family
"a married couple which may have any number of children" --wikipedia
Robert Anton Wilson
by request. "self-described agnostic mystic... emerged as a major countercultural figure in the mid-1970s, comparable to one of his coauthors, Timothy Leary." --wikipedia
Timothy Leary
"He popularized catchphrases that promoted his philosophy, such as 'turn on, tune in, drop out', 'set and setting', and 'think for yourself and question authority'." --wikipedia. Social impact (public) and personal LoC (paid-subscriber access).
Sen no Rikyu, tea master
1522-1591, "considered the... most profound influence on chanoyu, the Japanese 'Way of Tea'.... He was also the first to emphasize several key aspects of the ceremony, including rustic simplicity, directness of approach and honesty of self." --wikipedia
Scott Adams
"created the Dilbert comic, written numerous books on self-development and persuasion. He also has a large follow[ing] on social media and his blog. He does a daily live show on youtube where he talks about persuasion and truth in the media."
selected languages: English, Russian, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese
by request
Aruna Khilanani
Lecturing at Yale: "I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step, like I did the world a f------ favor,"