Le Guin), she announced her retirement from YouTube and content creation, citing cancel culture and online harassment. In a 2021 Patreon blog post titled "Walking away from Omelas" (an allusion to the short story " The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. One such campaign occurred after she compared the film Raya and the Last Dragon to Avatar: The Last Airbender on Twitter, which some perceived as a racist generalization of media featuring Asian people. Throughout her career online, Ellis has been subject to multiple campaigns of online harassment. She releases content early on Patreon where she has over 9,000 patrons, making her one of the top 50 creators on the platform. 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 Misérables. She was one of the founders of the Standard creator community along with Dave Wiskus, CGP Grey, Philipp Dettmer and many other creators. 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. Įllis 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. In addition to covering film topics, she has also created videos on being a YouTube content creator. Ellis says she most enjoys thinking about "things that are deeply flawed but have this really interesting potential." Her videos are created with a small team of part-time staff. Since 2017, her focus on her channel has been on video essays about films.
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Her Loose Canon series explores derivations of literary and film characters over time. 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, and a three-part series about the production of The Hobbit trilogy and its effect on the New Zealand film industry. On her YouTube channel, Ellis frequently made videos about Walt Disney Pictures films. She went on to create over 100 videos as part of the series before leaving in 2014 to focus more on long-form video essays. Nostalgia Chick (2008–2014) įrom 2008 to 2014, while also studying for her MFA, Ellis was selected to host The Nostalgia Chick as part of the Channel Awesome production company, a web series based on the Nostalgia Critic. In 2010, she wrote and directed the documentary short film The A-Word about women's experience with abortion. 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. Ellis received her BA in Film Studies from New York University in 2007 and MFA from USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2011.
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