To this day, I’m still fixated on games that let you build a group of friends. You get to feel like the protagonist of the story, as opposed to the weirdo person who didn’t belong.
Video game characters “trust you and like you. “I was obsessed with them because each was their own world,” Maza says. He spent long hours of his youth glued to role-playing video games.
“It’s funny how much he has blossomed, this kid who is all over social media and is such an extrovert. He had issues with weight, so he really kept to himself,” she says over the phone. His mother, Vivian, says he was smart, but socially awkward. Born in 1988 (according to Maza, that makes him 115 in gay-man years) to two Cuban immigrants, he grew up in Miami as the oldest of four siblings, with one biological sister and two half brothers. That ended up being a very good decision.įor someone who makes his living off social media, as a child, Maza wasn’t particularly social. ICYMI: A reporter attended a school board meeting for 3 hours, longer than other journalists. I only track it in the sense that my whole self-esteem is based on that number.” When I bring up his millions of video views, he says sarcastically, “ Yeah, there are people who track the YouTube and Facebook views. Despite the nature of his job, he describes himself as an “aggressive introvert,” who regularly ventures to Taqueria Nacional, a restaurant right next door to his apartment in Washington, DC, to eat egg-and-green-chile tacos in his pajamas. He gets embarrassed when people on social media leave hateful comments on his work. He’s about to turn 30, and he isn’t thrilled with that milestone. He uses his Twitter account, under the handle, to dish hot takes on the media, and even hotter takes on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Online, Maza is a Rorschach test of sorts some viewers see him as a condescending, easily triggered liberal, while others see him as an erudite arbiter of truth. “I’m interested in helping you build the mental tools to make sense of what everyone else is screaming about.” His success may have something to do with the philosophy that informs his work: “I’m not interested in telling you the news,” he says. Basically, he’s Brian Stelter meets NowThis. By combining clips, on-screen graphics, and interviews with experts, he finds new perspectives on media stories, even when discussing well-trod territory like Trump’s mental fitness and harassment on Twitter. Strikethrough is about saying, ‘Hold up-how are we talking about this, why, and how does that affect the way we interpret the events around us?’”Īmid the sea of YouTubers trying to sell audiences on their opinions, Maza’s persuasiveness stands out. “A lot of news outlets are rushing to keep up with an ever-accelerating news cycle. “I love videos that don’t just explain a news event, but explain why the stories we tell about the news event matter,” Maza says. The show uses the outlet’s signature explainer approach to tackle everything from YouTube’s censorship of extreme creators, to the meaninglessness of White House press briefings, to why fact-checking Trump is futile.
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His Vox video series Strikethrough has racked up 80 million views across Facebook and YouTube since it launched in January of last year. These days, Maza openly embraces his identity in front of millions as a well-known media critic. ICYMI: The Times tech columnist ‘unplugged’ from the internet.
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