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Lindsay Carole Ellis (born 1984)^[1] is an American film critic, YouTuber, and author. From 2008 to 2014, she was part of the Channel Awesome production company under the web name The Nostalgia Chick, a counterpart to the Nostalgia Critic.^[2] In 2014, Ellis ended her affiliation with Channel Awesome to focus more on long-form video essays. Her debut novel, Axiom's End, published in July 2020, became a New York Times Best Seller.^[3]

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Life and career[edit]

Lindsay Ellis grew up in Johnson City, Tennessee.^[1] She received her BA in Film Studies from New York University in 2007 and MFA from USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2011.^[1][4] Along with her friends Elisa Hansen and Antonella 'Nella' Inserra, she wrote Awoken, a paranormal romance parody of Twilight about a woman falling in love with Cthulhu, under the alias Serra Elinsen.^[5] In 2010, she wrote and directed the documentary short film 'The A-Word' about women's experience with abortion.^[6] While studying for her MFA, Ellis was selected to host The Nostalgia Chick, a web series based on the Nostalgia Critic; she went on to create over 100 videos as part of the series before leaving in 2014.^[1]

On her YouTube channel, Ellis frequently makes videos about Walt Disney Pictures films.^[4] Other works include 'The Whole Plate,' a long-running series examining the Transformers film series and the work of Michael Bay which has received more than 4 million views,^[1][7] and a three-part series about the production of The Hobbit trilogy and its effect on the New Zealand film industry.^[8][9] Her Loose Canon series explores derivations of literary and film characters over time. Since 2017, her focus on her channel has been on video essays about films. Ellis says she most enjoys thinking about 'things that are deeply flawed but have this really interesting potential.' Her videos are created alongside a small team of part-time staff.^[1]

In addition to covering film topics, she has also created videos on being a YouTube content creator.^[1] Ellis also co-hosts the It's Lit! web series, alongside fellow YouTuber Princess Weekes, for PBS Digital Studios, which explores trends in American literature as a companion piece to The Great American Read on PBS itself.^[1][10]

The three-part documentary The Hobbit Duology (2018), which Ellis wrote and edited with Angelina Meehan, was a finalist for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Related Work.^[11]

In 2019, Ellis announced her debut novel, Axiom's End, an alternate history set in 2007, planned as the first book in the Noumena series.^[12] It was published by St. Martin's Press on July 21, 2020, and entered The New York Times Best Seller list at number 7 on August 9, as well as appearing on the Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.^[13][14][3] Ellis was subsequently nominated a Hugo Award for 'Best New Writer'.^[15]

She was one of the founders of the Standard creator community along with Dave Wiskus, CGP Grey, Philipp Dettmer and many other creators. Through Standard, she has released most of her content on Standard's Nebula streaming video service, including an extended cut on Tom Hooper's Les Miserables.^[16]

She releases content early on Patreon where she has over 9,000 patrons, making her one of the top 50 creators on the platform.^[17]

In early 2020, Ellis co-founded MusicalSplaining, a podcast in which she, accompanied by director and illustrator Kaveh Taherian, discusses a different musical every two weeks. It was included in O, The Oprah Magazine's top 20 new podcasts of 2020.^[18]

Throughout her career online, Ellis has been subject to multiple campaigns of harassment.^{[1][19][20][21][22]}

Personal life[edit]

Ellis is bisexual.^[23] As of 2019, she and her husband live in Long Beach, California.^[1]

Works[edit]

• Noumena series:^[12]
  • Axiom's End (2020)
  • Truth of the Divine (2021)
  • Untitled Axiom's End Sequel (2022)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdefghijRaftery, Brian (March 3, 2019). 'How YouTube Made a Star Out of This Super-Smart Film Critic'. Wired. Archived from the original on May 4, 2020. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
2. ^Schroeder, Audra (April 4, 2018). 'Former contributors allege mismanagement and misconduct at Channel Awesome'. The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on March 30, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
3. ^ ^abBestseller lists:
   • 'Combined Print & E-Book Fiction'. The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
   • 'Bestsellers List Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020 By The California Independent Booksellers Alliance', Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2020, archived from the original on August 5, 2020
   • 'Bestselling Books Week Ended July 25 With data from NPD BookScan', The Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2020
4. ^ ^abMetz, Nina (October 5, 2017). 'Video essayist Lindsay Ellis takes on Disney'. Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on December 11, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
5. ^Kress, Melanie (October 9, 2013). 'Awoken – Serra Elinsen'. CultureFly (review). Archived from the original on October 17, 2018.
6. ^McCormick, James (April 4, 2011). 'James Reviews Lindsay Ellis' The A-Word [Film Review]'. CriterionCast. Archived from the original on October 8, 2017. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
7. ^Zakarin, Jordan (July 16, 2018). 'Bumblebee Peeing on John Turturro Propelled Lindsay Ellis to Film Criticism Greatness [Ep. #41]'. Syfy Wire. Archived from the original on October 29, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
8. ^Puschmann, Karl (April 26, 2018). 'Is The Hobbit trilogy really that bad? Yes – here's why'. The New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on May 4, 2020. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
9. ^Butler, Tom (April 5, 2018). 'The Hobbit actor says the films became 'a big punch up, driven by technology' after studio interference'. Yahoo! News. Archived from the original on May 25, 2018. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
10. ^'The Case for Fan Fiction (feat. Lindsay Ellis and Princess Weekes) | It's Lit'. YouTube. Storied. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
11. ^Vorel, Jim (April 2, 2019). 'YouTuber Lindsay Ellis Has Been Nominated for a Hugo Award for Her Acclaimed Hobbit Duology'. Paste. Archived from the original on September 1, 2019. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
12. ^ ^ab'Noumena', Macmillan Publishers, St. Martin's Press
13. ^'Video Essayist Lindsay Ellis Announces Her Debut Novel, Axiom's End'. Tor.com. September 5, 2019. Archived from the original on April 28, 2020. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
14. ^Weiss, Geoff (September 6, 2019). 'YouTube Media Critic Lindsay Ellis Announces Debut Novel Axiom's End'. Tubefilter. Archived from the original on March 6, 2020. Retrieved September 11, 2019.
15. ^O'Donnell, Emily (April 13, 2021). '2021 Hugo Awards Finalists Announced - Comic Years'. Comic Years. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
16. ^Hale, James (June 10, 2019). 'Creators Can't Always Take Risks With Their Content. That's Why YouTuber Community Standard Built Nebula — A Platform For Its Creators To Experiment'. TubeFilter. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
17. ^'Top Patreon Video'. Tubefilter. June 23, 2020. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
18. ^Nicolaou, Elena (April 7, 2020). 'The Best New Podcasts of 2020 to Get Lost In'. O, The Oprah Magazine. Retrieved July 12, 2020.
19. ^Ellis, Lindsay (October 18, 2019). Lindsay Ellis, Video Essayist – XOXO Festival (2019) – via YouTube.
20. ^'How psychology is just catching up with the effects of online hate', WHYY-FM, January 16, 2020
21. ^Di Placido, Dani (July 14, 2020), 'The Harper's Letter, Bari Weiss And Tucker Carlson: Why Are We Still Talking About 'Cancel Culture?'', Forbes
22. ^Alexander, Julia (June 5, 2019), 'Creators aren't surprised that YouTube won't enforce its own policies against harassment; 'That's a very selectively enforced policy'', The Verge
23. ^Ellis, Lindsay (June 26, 2015). 'Bisexual Privilege, Bisexual Erasure'. Real Name Brand Lindsay [personal blog]. Archived from the original on June 27, 2015.

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Lindsay Ellis's channel on YouTube
• Lindsay Ellis at IMDb

lindsay ellis saying she got canceled when she was the one who deleted her twitter because she didn’t want to accept that she did a white women victimhood unparalleled

Lindsay Ellis on Twitter

Lindsay Ellis and Contrapoints get all of my love 💛 and gratitude for their work!!

Ayer vi el vídeo de Lindsay Ellis y de verdad que necesitáis salir de Twitter dos semanas o así.

good lord Lindsay Ellis’ vid hit hard. Like i knew what happened to her was nonsense but the fucking extent people went through… holy shit.

The Lindsay ellis stuff has really gotten under my skinall she has to do is apologise!!!! So she did a 1h40m long in depth video addressing everything people werw demanding an apologies for, and accepting blame where it was due. nah she apologised wrong

The people criticizing the Lindsay Ellis video are the ones afraid to take a look at themselves. She’s holding herself accountable — something that’s very rare these days. And you know what? She’s right. Twitter sucks, and you all have the stink on you. Moral hypocrites.

Lindsay Ellis in China be like: IT LOOKS LIKE AVATAR WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE AVATAR???

Signed, an East Asian Studies student who is sick of my people acting like they own this place/someone who is tired of there being some kind of defense for everything Lindsay Ellis ever does while she actually does actionable harm to marginalized people despite her preening!!!!

lol of course Lindsay Ellis would act in her video like fannibals were mad about shipping and not about the massive harassment our queer artists were getting. But after a couple weeks ago (it feels like a million years ago) I don’t expect intellectual honesty from breadtube

So apparently in the same video where Lindsay Ellis apologized for saying that God killing all the first born Egyptian sons was genocide because Moses and his people were Jews, she called a Jew a diet Nazi. Hope she has more fake whisky to drink.

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I like Lindsay Ellis and her video made me think a lot about why I’m still on Twitter. I think probably because I’m afraid of losing a voice? Quite frankly though, this platform is dark. Every time I have a serious opinion, the mobs immediate reaction is to poke at my traumas.

I watched a good chunk of the lindsay ellis video and just so many people on the internet act in bad faith. The horrible antis are behind so much of this that nobody can have an actual conversation about problems.

Lindsay Ellis basically made a Snyder cut of getting cancelled

I sat down and watched the Lindsay Ellis video, as long as it really was, and I would really recommend take time to hear her out. She tackles one by one all the things she was dismissed off Twitter in the video. For those that saw it, what did you think?

Seriously why is everyone giving that Lindsay Ellis girl such a hard time when Honest Trailers did this exact thing 🤔🤔🤔🤔

I maintain my stance that Lindsay Ellis saying that an American-made media is similar to another American-made media is not racist and she did nothing wrong.

@acagoldsmith As a person with autism, I am DISGUSTED that you are using the disability that affects me and my daily life to drag Lindsay Ellis for your own entertainment. Shame on you. Autism Acceptance my ass.

Thanks for letting me rant about Lindsay I stopped watching her video cause it was making me so mad. I’m gonna delete my previous tweets about her cause:1. It seems like she enjoys the 2. I want to think more critically about if and how I respond

the most interesting thing about youtube is how contained it is to the shit you watch. i have zero idea who lindsay ellis is but she has a huge following

Lindsay Ellis making a cringe ass video whining about how she said something really fucking stupid and people called her out is fucking hilarious. An hour and 40 minutes.

Acabo de ver el video de 1 hora 40 minutos de Lindsay Ellis y la amo mucho más que antes.

this person is literally namesearching lindsay ellis to articulate why they disagree and don’t think she was racist and we’re the one “heaping on harassment and abuse”

a lindsay ellis “apology” video where she repeatedly misgenders someone feels organic

seeing the reactions to the new lindsay ellis video makes me wonder how can one even attempt to/fix their mistake if everything they do is viewed with the most negative lens right from the start?

Lindsay Ellis Twitter Deactivation

Lindsay Ellis is right. This has been blown out of proportion. But she’s wrong about who blew it up. She’s deflecting blame onto anyone who disagreed with her.

Choosing to *not* ignore the harassment Lindsay Ellis has received, does not mean you get to ignore the valid criticism she has also received

lindsay ellis saying she got canceled when she was the one who deleted her twitter because she didn’t want to accept that she did a white women victimhood unparalleled

if i was lindsay ellis and my video inspired a bunch of white people to harass random BIPOC who dare criticize me i’d maybe be rethinking if im on the right side of the argument but hey maybe thats just me

lmao lindsay ellis used one of my tweets in her white nonsense section as an example of mealy mouth smug nothing tweets from white people i guess, neato.

You think Lindsay Ellis doing an hour and forty minute video about being canceled is too much? Wait until she releases the four hour Snyder cut of it.

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Lindsay Ellis is reminding us of why being a Chad Online Coward is so important.