It’s been a while since I was genuinely impressed by a fresh discovery on YouTube, and yet Noah Samsen managed to accomplish this nigh-impossible feat upon first viewing of an hour-long introduction to BreadTube, a space I’ve been documenting, covering and interviewed several subjects of for a few years now. While Samsen has been making and posting videos since an early age, his current style didn’t quite mature into its ultimate form until recently. Curious about his current ongoings and future aspirations, I invited Samsen on to speak about the channel and the space it inhabits within the leftist creator ecosystem–his presence did not disappoint.
To get a good grasp on who Samsen is, one must first know what he does. This is not the first time he’s been privy to some kind of fanfare online, although it is the first in which he seems to more comprehensively control the terms of. “I’m still trying to figure out what [the channel] is [about] but based on the catalogue so far, it’s something between commentary and left-ish political essay content, but mostly commentary,” he says describing his output. “I’ve done some dunking on…
