ELISE FONTANO

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CARPAZINE: Please describe your experiences with censorship.

ELISE FONTANO: I'd attracted the attention of Internet troll / composer, Marisa Elene Nadieja, when I offered to let her stay at my house after she'd been evicted from her home. After entering my home she immediately started cooking filet mignon and raw carrots immediately while trashing items from my pantry inconsistent with her Keto Diet. The next three days were hell. It was impossible to bond with her. When she trounced into the kitchen and turned off the incredible string band concert I'd been watching, while debilitated by pain, I was forced to remove her from the premises. A few days later, her and a friend gave me a call from a homeless shelter and made it clear that they did not appreciate my new video, "Triple Team Me" and would actively try to get it removed from LefTube.

I'd been on LefTube for five years. They never shared my videos with anyone… they would just send me emails encouraging me to look at metrics, make shorts at a rapid rate etc. They generally didn't seem to care about me. But now I was on their radar. They removed "Triple Team Me" and issued a “strike”. I waited out the week, after which I posted a collage I'd made using parts of "Triple Team Me" in conjunction with a diatribe, "Givers and Takers" (influenced by a conversation with a Chatroulette moderator). I'd made sure to hide the parts where the girl was pulling down the other girl's bikini (more so this time). From PG to G. 

A week later I logged-in to see how the video was doing only to discover that LefTube had removed my entire channel.

The reasons were vague and unclear.

Five years of enduring mammoth erections on degenerate random video chat sites to accrue followers while following my artistic whims on a prolonged Aspergian wave of intensity only to have it all exterminated in one fell swoop. All subsequent attempts to reinstate the channel were adamantly thwarted by LefTube's Robot who insisted that I'd violated their TOS numerous times and was no longer wanted on their platform.

Funny coming from a “platform” which had long been stipulating their political leanings and highlighted truths while sucking the teat of global multinationals who co-opt companies which post ads on their videos.

So much for, “create and share”. So much for being respected as grown adults. Who are the children they're protecting? Apparently, us. 

I find it interesting that, commensurate with pitting people against each other, political and otherwise, companies have enabled human beings to, in effect, censor one another.

Companies themselves also censor people because they are part of a corporate monopoly intimately related with corporate global interests -- we don't know exactly how deep or incestuous it goes, but we can assume it's getting deeper.

Many companies censor people in order to blackmail them as well. “Give us $7.99 and you can come back on our platform which is actively grooming adult, and not-so-adult, men and women”.

Guess I stand a slim chance of being able to talk to real people and tell them about my channel.

I'm currently on Hatechute, the extreme other half of the corporate duality. Funny how all “platforms” want you to “promote yourself” on another platform so they don't have to be held accountable for algorithmically throttling your contributions. Meanwhile you're encouraged to consume the contributions of their cherished Kings and Queens, which is usually some guy or some girl yapping ideology into a mic.

Mario Lanza, Frank Sinatra and Perry Como were once Great Voices. Their methods have been functionally supplanted by AI in conjunction-with humans or Robots. But that's minor stuff… auditory mood pills for people on antidepressants. Shat today, gone tomorrow. Their [power], however, has been supplanted by the great voices of Styhexenhammer666, Vausch or Tim Pool. I'm sure you can think of a hundred others. Interestingly, when any of these influencers take up the mic to sing -- usually backed by the industry's best or (at the very least) using the very best technologies and talents money can buy -- people listen. 

Ironic that these people are being pushed (or, at least, platformed) by a company who forces blue highlight atop many video liner. 

Was all of this created for benevolent purposes? Definitely not. People were just guilded to willingly give them free surveys and be brainwashed under pretenses which appealed to the voyeur/exhibitionist dynamic which has been at play for centuries… ever since people stopped dancing, chanting and singing with one another. They're insured to live miserable existences, in love with one and relating to few.

As a result, we lost most of what connected us to actual real time (first), our local color (second) and, most insidiously, all historical and biorhythmic contexts which largely informed the function of Art, Entertainment and even conversation itself.

This renders EVERYTHING completely meaningless and absurd, from the things we create to our very existences. Like it or not we are all students of Nihilism and Dadaism: we have no choice.

CARPAZINE: What would you say to any transgender youth reading?

ELISE FONTANO: In the context of The Arts or Entertainment, I'll base my answer on my experiences with other members of the LGBTQ community, all of which occurred on the aforementioned random video chat sites and Deaditt. Open your mind, go with the trip and (as GG Allin would say) 'live to be hated'. 

In the context of gender, same thing… even if it means adopting a broader definition of what a male or female can entail. I mean, leftism actually included liberalism as one of its main features. I don't see why that's so bad, as long as we're responsible. How far can you go? Who's driving your plane? Must some pronouns always be slurs? Is Black Face really so bad? Are our naked bodies perpetually sex objects?

Sometimes that may require divorcement from the team. Some may argue that this is not such a good idea because there's strength in numbers and it takes an army to pass legislation. As the English say, “fair enough”. However, to what degree will you have your freedom muted or outright  exterminated and not feel it is in your best interests to summon up the power to say, 'we've been overtaken by special interests groups who co-opted Liberty itself and we value our freedom'. It is not religious zealots who are bullying us with bots and algorithmically trashing our free artistic contributions: it's the ADL and COPPA. The ADL doesn't want questions asked and will call those who are even curious bad names, punish them and get you to cheer along. LefTube is paying their debts to COPPA because they were mining children for personal information and COPPA didn't like that and tried to shut LefTube down. So LefTube made a deal with them… ever wonder why you're badgered at each degree of uploading a video ('is this for children?' 'does this contain children?' 'is this suitable for children?' etc). Oh there I go with censorship again!. But, really, you have LefTube Kids… require a picture ID for LefTube. If you ask me, the whole Internet would be a lot better off if [everyone] was required to give a picture ID. One of the first videos I made  was called "Prohibit Anonymity" featuring my parents' suede wine bottle they got from Las Vegas in 1975.

CARPAZINE: You are a virtuoso playing "kids toys" as your primary instrument. What year, make, model was the best for your music?

ELISE FONTANO: I made all my videos with a very early (and heavy) Yamaha keyboard I found in the trash for the first couple of years. Then a local girl who used to troll me in a black teddy in front of her mother gave me a Barbie Electric… before the strings break you can actually tune it up and I used it on "Global Jungle" and "Hardrives Sealed In Skin". My playing is rudimentary but it fits in well with all the other stuff that's going on with the 3D images that make sound.

I eventually enlisted the services of Freedomquest, wholly or partially, to make the backgrounds on videos. There are a couple of albums on LefTube called Freedomquest Plays Elise Fontano which are just the backing tracks. I think people would like them if LefTube shared them with people. Ever get the feeling that you're on an Internet Blacklist? Greed knows no boundaries.

I'm worried that leftists are so caught up in relying on government to carry out their causes that they're willing to undergo any degree of tyranny that multinational corporations are dolling out to them, in exchange for knowing that those in power will make every effort to protect Truth while silencing dissidents as well as perceived racists and fascists. Perhaps this is why you rarely hear a leftist condemn censorship… they have too much to lose. At this point, there's not much they can do or say which wouldn't extricate them from what are intrinsically bigoted socio-political fronts, fronts which place any type of Artist or performer at the lowest rung of the economic totem pole anyway. 

People like me want to talk about “culture”, possibilities, time and discipline towards contributing what to who? Deaditt, perhaps, where I can become eligible to create my own SubDeaditt and inflict pain upon others who think freedom's not a joke.

Year, make, and, model? Gordon Ramsey (2010-2016), John Taffer (2012-2015) and naked survivors. Seriously. From the start my videos have always been influenced by the challenge on Master Chef, where competitors were given a few items from which to concoct a dish. Two other big influences were Bar Rescue and Naked and Afraid. Bar Rescue for demanding exceptionalism, even if it meant destroying things, and Naked and Afraid, for getting by with little. These three shows were watched religiously weightlifting in an opioid haze before I got my first laptop which (amazingly enough) I use to this day… I made frequent treks to the library to peer into the window of random things when I wasn't feeding my dying mother. I was unaware of anything happening online between 2012 and 2017. In hindsight, I seemed to have missed out on a lot of the 'social networking' stratagems of like, Instasham, Crapchat and Twitter. Funny with these sites, the mantra seems to be, 'stick with it, things will get better'... as it was, The Givers and Takers came and stayed and I wonder if things have gotten any better for them. I'm sure they text a lot, something I've also never done, but these days even [those] often go unanswered.

I honestly don't know much about instruments. I'm not a very good musician. Darren from Freedomquest is a sort of musician but he has a love / hate relationship with it and doesn't seem to be discerning with regards to equipment. I've seen him play his laps more often than not. Though he seems to have relative pitch… he can listen to a piece of jazz, say, and immediately tell you the chords and keys and fit right in. He's always talking about Salsa legends and early Industrial Music and anything unique and esoteric. He really believes in The Liberal Arts. He talks a lot about growing up in the ‘70s and the ‘80s and having to search for things to make your empty life full. Many of these things he didn't like at first but had to learn to like since he bought them. So he enjoys when Freedomquest gives me something and I add samples and vocals.

In the end you end up with what has been coined “multimedia”. I think the fact that I'm singing the stuff live owes to the culture of Post Reality TV talking heads forging chat as content… not to mention the focus on socio-political themes. It's ironic that the porn, whose sole purpose was to lighten the mood every now and then, ostensibly determined the demise of my LefTube channel… I'm still getting over losing what was a personal diary, conveyed through Art. And, again, not having 'social media' in any traditional sense, it took a lot of black screens, white screens, big fat cocks and verbal abuse to achieve nearly 500 subscribers. Being on HateChute feels like what it is: being quarantined by the Big Tech Monopoly. I can't even cut-and-paste a video from there to post on Deadiit for a few views because of it's bad reputation. 

Guess I could go on Fascistbook and make a page and lure my friends there. LOL. Maybe I should have just stayed at home and watched the Bella Twins on Demand followed by Total Divas.