Cheyenne Lin

@cheyennelin.bsky.social

making video essays on youtube 🙂 | she/her | cover art by me

As the US turns 250 I want to say that I’m a testament to its founding principles of being a land of immigrants and refugees. As someone who was born in china, but raised from infancy in the US - it really is my only home

For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.

Rainn Wilson thinks the office couldn’t be made today bc people are “too sensitive” or because “woke” is so weird to me. Dwight is essentially a nazi and that’s a joke. That’s seen as funny and quaint and even harmless. He call pretends to call immigration on people who work on his farm

I honestly think that unscripted videos are going to be so valuable in a world of AI bullshit. Just people talking and sharing their raw thoughts. That’s not to say it’s not worth writing and putting down your own ideas, but sometimes it’s nice to not be as curated too