Pop Culture Detective

Pop Culture Detective does deep dives into troubling and damaging tropes in media. His videos take a long time to produce as he’s not talking about one movie or one show, but about how a trope replicates across media. A frequent collaborator of Anita Sarkeesian, usually his videos help put words to a trend that I’ve found unsettling but had never quite gelled. Both his and Anita’s videos have a way of making it impossible to unsee a pattern.

One of his classics is Born Sexy Yesterday, which examines just how in love Hollywood is with characters (almost but not always women) who have adult bodies but childlike personalities. When you start digging into why that’s so popular, it gets real ugly real fast.