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Smackems posted...

I thought red letter media was a right wing news joint??

I've always been confused everytime I see it come up

Red Letter Media is a group of middle-aged men from Milwaukee who do contemporary and classic movie reviews, and they collect schlocky video tapes and criticize them on the internet. There's a show called Best of the Worst where they watch three terrible VHS tapes, and they used to physically destroy the ones they liked the least.

My understanding is that they lean conservative, but their content for the most part is apolitical. Like they're gonna make jokes about David Carradine cranking one out in a Thai hotel room and accidentally asphyxiating himself, and one of them has an almost perverse glee at seeing old people doing exercises or talking about getting into accidents - really hyperbolic humor. But they're not jumping on-camera to go "January 6 was legitimate, stop the steal!! Let's Go Brandon!!!".

I'll side-eye some of their content for sure, but I think most people can enjoy the content without worrying about politics. Best of the Worst is an absolute gem, and they began watching unmarked video tapes with no indication to what the contents are at some point as well.

I can't personally speak to their political views. If there's evidence that they're absolutely horrible, I'm going to be really upset. But up to this point, I really like watching them talk about shitty old VHS movies and instructional tapes.