2019, Mike Watson, Can the Left Learn to Meme?: Adorno, Video Gaming, and Stranger Things, unnumbered page:
The macro level impact of this emergent movement, often called 'LeftTube' or 'BreadTube', is yet to be seen, though marginal victories by the left in both Finnish and Spanish General Elections in early 2019 suggest there is everything to fight for still.
BreadTube is still small. Ms. Wynn, the most prominent figure in the movement, has 615,000 subscribers, a small fraction of the audience drawn by the largest right-wing creators.
Angie is close with many members of BreadTube, an overlapping, more radical YouTube community […]
2019, Joseph Feng, "In The Oven of YouTube, Bread Rises", The Prog (Princeton University), November 2019, page 10:
Before the rise of BreadTube, engaging with leftist theory took a more active effort, often one only those who were already developing class consciousness would attempt.
2020, Dmitry Kuznetsov & Milan Ismangil, "YouTube as Praxis? On BreadTube and the Digital Propagation of Socialist Thought", tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, Vol 18, No 1, page 204:
Including such content creators as Contrapoints, Hbomberguy, and Philosophy Tube, BreadTube stretches beyond YouTube, with a presence on various social media platforms (e.g. Reddit, Something Awful), as well as its own websites (e.g. BreadTube.tv).
2021, Christian Fuchs, Social Media: A Critical Introduction, unnumbered page:
One problem of Breadtube is that its influencers act purely individually.
