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This week, Kendall, Ceres, and guest Ashlyn Thomas get into the forgotten history of Dr. Horrible, the phenomenon web series that brought web content into the all-seeing eyes of LA Producers; and how it violated the Writer's Strike of 2007-2008. Join us as we pick at the scab on Hollywood's Knee: Joss Whedon.

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Works Cited and Further Reading:

the entirety of Dr. Horrible

Writer's Guild full list of demands

“Suspension Is Not Firing”: Fox Stops Paying Showrunners & Hyphenates by Nikki Finke

Global Nonviolent Action Database's record of the strike

Writers' strike boosts YouTube traffic by Mark Sweeney

AMPTP's PR Firm Justifies Its Existence But Masters Of Disaster Make Own Mess by Nikki Finke

The Picket Line Is The Place to Meet A Writer in L.A. by Sarah McBride

Joss Whedon's Blog Post on the Writer's Strike

Joss' Post about founding the Fans4Writers Website

Fans4Writers archive

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog was the best thing to come out of the writers’ strike

On top of everything else, Quibi exploits a union loophole to underpay workers

IATSE Members in TV and Film Production Vote to Authorize a Nationwide Strike

Ending song excerpt is "Links on the Chain" by Phil Ochs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an_1tpcnfgw

Neopians, grab your chia flour! in this episode, Kendall and Ceres explore the desecrated remains of one of the kings of the Small Net, Neopets. They explain how one of the world's first social media sites and online MMOs was hastily changed from a communist uptopia to a coporate hellscape and, eventually, fell through the hourglass only to be forgotten. Join them as they figure out how to redistribute fairie paintbrushes to the proletariat.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/BigSoyNaturals

Website: https://bigsoyuniverse.neocities.org/

Works Cited and Further Reading:

History of the Web Timeline

Donna's Reddit AMA

An Analysis of the Neopian Economy by mookie99

How Neopets Predicted the Future of the Social Internet by Claire McNear

How a Small Group of Devotees are Saving Neopets From Extinction by Lauren Young

Looking Back at the Cursed and Controversial Legacy of Neopets by Manning Patston

Inside the Cult of Neopets, Kotaku Archive

In part two of our deep dive into John and Hank Green, we take a look at the proto-Me Too Movement that happened on Tumblr and Youtube; its involvement with both the Brothers Green and DFTBA records; and how people, systemically, forget to be awesome.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/BigSoyNaturals

Website: https://bigsoyuniverse.neocities.org/

Works Cited and Further Reading:

Archive of YouTube Abuse Masterpost

YouTube’s First Big Scandal Was Cancel Culture Done Right — What Happened? by Kathryn Lindsay

Sex, lies and YouTube: The predatory side of internet fame by Saba Hamedy

Mike Lombardo Goes to Jail

Hank and John's Response to Mike's sentencing

Hank's Response to Tom Milsom's allegations

a blog just dedicated to Alex Day allegations

Fault In Our Stars Author John Green Responds to Tumblr Posts Implying He Sexually Abuses Girls by Alyssa Toomey

John Green, YA Authors, and Rape Culture by Camryn Garrett

Uplift's Official Website

Here’s How Your YouTube Faves Are Fighting Sexual Abuse Online And IRL by Katherine Speller

This organization wants to stop YouTube’s sex abuse problem by Rae Vatta

This week, Kendall and Ceres dug deep and remembered that they forgot to be awesome. They explored the media empire of Hank and John Green, the Cain and Abel of Youtube. They dug into the nerdfighter census and scrutinized their (many) business ventures. They analyzed the Brothers Green and asked the question: what exactly, is the ideology behind the infamous phrase DFTBA?

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/BigSoyNaturals

Works Cited and Further Reading:

Nerdfighteria Wiki Page

Project for Awesome Wiki Page

Crash Course Capitalism Video and Transcript

On Anger and Activism, by Hank Green

Hey! Let's Re-Define Capitalism Part 1, by Hank Green

Hey Let's Re-Define Capitalism, Part 2, by Hank Green

2019 Nerdfighter Census

The 2019 Census Survey itself

Foundation to Decrease World Suck Website

This week, Kendall and Ceres decided to switch around the patreon bonus episode and the main episode. Why? Who knows! We have ADHD and are extremely valid. We listen to Tiffany Trump's song from her shortlived pop career; play F*ck, Fight and Validate with Tiffany and Ella Emhoff; and Ceres talks about seeing Grimes' Climate Change exhibit IRL. Also, 9/11 happened and we might be the only ones who didn't forget

Patreon: patreon.com/bigsoynaturals

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BigSoyNaturals

Works Cited and Further Reading:

Like A Bird by Tiffany Trump

The Cut, Meet the Self-Proclaimed ‘Kris Jenner’ of the Clique That Brings Together a Kennedy, a Matisse, and a Trump, by Alexis Swerdloff

The Hollywood Reporter, Tiffany Trump’s Fashion Designer Friend Defends Her Against Online Bullying

Archived Something Awful 9/11 forum

(CW: Mentions of suicide and transphobia) Would you buy the famous Brooklyn Bridge from infamous tumblr user/paleontologist/nurse/hip-hop video girl/NASA engineer Zubat if she told you the funds were going to LGBT Teens? Don't answer until you hear Kendall and Ceres take a deep dive into Zubat aka Alex Yrigoyen aka Alexis Miller, and the scam that started it all, the Leelah Alcorn project. We also give a quick update on our own philanthropic goals; as Ceres drops a bombshell on the debilitating and sexy disease they have been struggling with their whole life.

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Patreon: www.patreon.com/bigsoynaturals

What happens when a community of people spend years, decades of their lives dedicated to tracking and monitoring the life of a Sonic Fan Comic Creator, or a Brooklynite Cool Girl Mason Jar Collector? Are these people beyond the pale, or will they find solace if they just go outside and touch grass? In this inaugural episode of Big Soy Naturals, Kendall and Ceres explore the concept of parasocial hatred.