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HEY everyone, it’s The Show With Issues!
That’s what I’m talkin’ about!
You know what I’m sayin’!
Alright…
So almost exactly one year ago, I released this video.
I thought it would be interesting to take a look at what’s changed in the comics since
that video came out and then see the impact it’s had on the channel, because it did
quite a number on us here at ye olde Auram’s Comics.
Starting with the comics, in the case of Kara herself, not a whole lot has changed.
The most notable being that she is, indeed, back in the boob window costume for some reason.
Like I mentioned in the addendum video, she did wear her cousin’s Superman symbol for
a while to honor his memory, but apparently she stopped caring, because with Rebirth,
she started popping up in Harley Quinn’s solo series, cleavage and all.
As far as I know, there’s really not much explanation for this.
I’m assuming the artist and writer genuinely didn’t know that she had the ‘S’ symbol
at the time and the editors just ran with it, because who IS Power Girl without her
boob window?
Other than those occasional Harley team-ups, she’s not really been seen or heard from.
Earth 2 hasn’t been around in DC Rebirth that much, so it stands to reason that Power
Girl is only being used as “Power Girl,” not the character that showed up in the Earth
2 World's’ End to Convergence saga that happened in the New 52.
There is, however, a totally new Power Girl who just kinda came out of nowhere!
Her name is Tanya Spears, your run-of-the-mill 17-year old super genius that worked closely
with Power Girl during her stay on Prime Earth.
Long story short, Kara formed a small group of scientists to help her and Huntress get
back to Earth 2, Tanya was one of them.
Eventually, after some comic book shenanigans, the portal was powered up and off Huntress
and Power Girl went, but not before causing an explosion that somehow gave Tanya her powers,
which are basically just Power Girl’s.
Shortly after the incident, she was approached by a lawyer-man and informed that Kara left
her her namesake.
Tanya took this in stride and went off to join the Teen Titans until Rebirth where she
would start popping up in Deathstroke’s book, not unlike Kara popping up in Harley
Quinn’s.
Tanya actually first appeared in 2014, with World’s Finest #24, but I didn’t mention
her in either of the original videos, so I figured I would do so here.
She’s kind of an interesting character, I guess?
I really don’t understand why she exists, she just showed up and got superpowers.
So that’s pretty much all there is to say about the comics, so let’s move onto what
the video has done for the channel!
Simply, put, a whole hell of a lot.
Statistically speaking, it’s the second most popular video on the channel, being one
of two to break the 100,000 views line and that’s by a wide margin, seeing as the third
most popular is the video I did on Spider-Man having brain damage, which has just over 60,000
views.
The most popular video on the channel is the Parallels I did on Deadpool, by the way.
The video has also accumulated over 400,000 minutes of watch time, with people dropping
off around the four-minute mark, which, coincidentally, is when the video starts to rear its feminist
head.
Speaking of which, the video only has an 8% female audience which, frankly, heavily explains
this comment section.
This is actually a bit abnormal, seeing as the channel currently has about a 10% female
audience, which is great!
Tell your friends!
But, only if they’re girls!
Something that is super interesting to me is that I’m pretty sure the video has been
age-restricted after YouTube started cracking down on this advertiser friendly stuff.
I don’t actually have screenshots or hard evidence of this, so you’re just gonna have
to take my word for it, but when you used to search, simply, “power girl,” in YouTube,
my video would be the first on the list of results.
Now; however, it’s nowhere to be seen.
You have to get more specific, like “power girl boobs.”
This might not mean that it’s been age-restricted, exactly, but I find it very strange that it
just got knocked completely off the search results for “power girl.”
Not pushed down a couple slots, just gone.
Despite whatever black magic YouTube has done to the video, it still gets around five-to-ten
thousand views every month, with more and more hilarious comments being posted every
day.
What’s really special about this video to me though, is what it did specifically for
The Show With Issues, not the channel as a whole.
Regardless of how the video, relatively speaking, blew up, it kinda paved the path for what
TSWI is today.
It was the first time I dove into feminism/diversity/tackling real issues in comics, pun fully intended.
It’s something I’m super passionate about and I didn’t realize that at the time.
In fact, I remember being INCREDIBLY nervous when making that video, which is largely the
reason I invited Celeste on to talk about it with me.
At the time, she was in a somewhat feminist club thing, so I thought she added more credibility
to my argument.
Now, though, I just kinda talk about whatever.
Which is good!
You shouldn’t let your own hang ups stop you from talking about divisive issues, just
roll with it.
Anyway, that’s about all I’ve got to say on this subject.
I really wanted to make this video purely because I have a lot of appreciation for the
original one.
It put me in a good mindset to slowly figure out what Issues could be and I think I’m
there now.
And don’t worry, not every episode is gonna be about feminism or gender identity stuff,
that’s just what I’m really passionate about, so it’s gonna come up a lot!
Sorry?
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People seem to be enjoying them.
They basically just update you on the state of the channel every week to every couple
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Go check it out, once again, at Patreon.com/Auram.
That all being said, thank you so much for watching!
Next time I continue to recycle this one topic that I did a year ago, but it keeps-- every
time I put out a video around Power Girl, it gets a lot of views, so y’know.
Just trying to be transparent with you here.