Pop Culture Detective

@popculturedetectiveUShost: Jonathan McIntoshAnalyzed

Film analysis & essayspop culturesocial commentarymedia analysiscritical theorycultural critique
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Audience and activity

Subscribers1.2M
Views per video273Kmedian of the last 30
Views per subscriber0.23how many actually watch
Comments per video1.5Kmedian
Uploads per month0.2
Last upload1.4y ago2025-05-27
Total views113M
Total videos121
Long-form / Shorts7% / 10%

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What Pop Culture Detective makes

Topics pop culture, social commentary, media analysis, critical theory, cultural critique

Video essays and shorts by cultural critic Jonathan McIntosh investigating meaning and messages in popular media Help me make more videos! https://www.patreon.com/popdetective

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Recent videos

TitlePublishedViewsLength
Guardian Caps won’t fix football2026-09-14744K3 min
We are living in The Truman Show2026-09-09187K3 min
Weaponized incompetence2026-08-29659K3 min
Spider-Man & Mass Surveillance2026-08-22227K3 min
Absurd product placement in Spider-Man2026-08-15357K3 min
Love Magic and Mixed Messages2026-08-10241K3 min
Story time: 9/112026-08-03210K3 min
The future is gender fluid2026-07-31260K3 min
Spider-Man and disconnected male heroes2026-07-24258K3 min
Why does the show Elle exist?2026-07-21262K3 min

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