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• All of "Opulence". It is Natalie's most complex video yet, both visually as it was filmed in an art museum, it features several different looks consisting complex outfits and makeup, and a stunning lo-fi hiphop remix of Bach, as well as thematically, as it's a 50 minute long class-conscious analysis of aesthetics. Many people in the comments said they'd have paid money to see this video in theaters.
• Tabby's speech to Justine near the end of The Aesthetic. It might be slightly undercut by Justine's exasperation at Tabby's grim and needlessly confrontational outlook, but Tabby still manages to force her to listen and to take in what she has to say. And then she proceeds to earnestly defend her identity and beliefs in a really touching way:
  Tabby: It's not who I am. All your advice is just trying to turn me into you. Well, that's not what aesthetics is. Aesthetics is the expression of an inner truth. And I'll only ever be a second-rate Justine, but I can be a first-rate Tabby.
  Justine: Well, kids, today we learnt an important lesson about being yourself-
  Tabby: Shut up! Look, I know I'm not cool, okay. I know I'm not pretty. And I know you think you're too good for me because you mostly pass. And I know you and your friends laugh at me behind my back. People stare at me because I'm a transgender furry and that's weird. But I'm a fucking queer icon because I'm not like you. Because I'm not like anyone but myself. And because I'm willing to stand up to people who oppress us and I'm willing to stand up for the girls with beard shadow and deep voices, the girls even other trans women make fun of. And when, in the history of the world, has anyone ever stood up for them ? That's why everyone knows who Tabby is. When is the last time anyone talked about Justine?
• The intro to "Beauty" is stunning, with its tight strobe light effect and uncanny music.
• The ending of "Gender Critical", when she explains that the complaint that "TERF is a slur" is nonsense, and makes it absolutely clear that "gender critical feminists" are nothing but bigots.
  So, to any die-hard gender criticals still watching this:
  What else can I say, except, on behalf of all trans women, excuse my beauty.

  [Beat] TERF.
• The end of Canceling in a bittersweet way;. Natalie had eloquently explained the flaws in cancel culture and just how damaging it was for her to be slammed after putting Buck Angel's voice in a video, and how she even considered suicide over it. But she decided that no matter what, she would still keep on living out pure spite if nothing else, because she knows how many people would love to see her dead and wouldn't give them the satisfaction.
• Both her coming-out videos: With the short film "Gender Dysphoria"^note no longer available on Youtube she came out as a trans woman and explored her own pain and difficulty forming relationships, and "Shame" is a more typical storytime-form coming out video of her telling the story of how she tragically fell in love with her best friend and was rejected, as well as her only ever serious, and genuinely happy, relationship with a man that she ended upon discovering that she was a lesbian.
  • "Shame" features Debussy's Reverie in the end credits, which gave the already very emotional video an even more touching send-off.
• "Cringe" is a very bold video in which Natalie examines the concept of cringe online and how people have applied it to hatred. A long segment of her video discusses internet punching bag Christine Weston Chandler, and Natalie makes it very clear that she will respect Chandler's identity as a woman and exposes how truly monstrous Chandler's systematic targeting and abuse online really was. Natalie also examines fellow trans creators who put down others and expose trans predators, asking the questions of whether these creators have the best intentions at heart and genuinely asking them to reflect upon why they enjoy power from putting down trans people that are popular targets. The entire video basically amounts to "Natalie saying unpopular opinions and asking difficult questions", but it's warranted and she genuinely invites the people she criticizes to examine themselves and change.
• "Voting". Natalie admits that she can understand why so many young progressives are disappointed in Joe Biden being the Democratic presidential candidate. But she proceeds to make the case that they should vote for Biden anyway because for all his flaws, he's not Donald Trump, all the while calling out the self-defeating mentality that "voting accomplishes nothing" and the fact that many leftists (especially the most influential groups on social media) can criticize the system all they want but still need some kind of plan to not just bring it down but to also establish a viable replacement.
• Natalie’s incredible kindness and empathy during the video on J.K. Rowling. It would have been easy to simply trash Rowling for her prejudiced views, but Natalie took the position that harassing women is never okay, even if they’re clearly in the wrong. She also showed immense sympathy towards Rowling’s past trauma despite being one of the people who it was being taken out on. Despite this, though, she also never became a doormat about it and still beautifully explained why Rowling’s misfortune was no excuse to be transphobic and that trans people should always stand up for themselves and each other.
• In the Twilight video, Natalie rips apart the Moral Guardian arguments about works like The Twilight Saga and Fifty Shades of Grey supposedly "normalizing" abusive relationship dynamics in the minds of impressionable young women.
  Natalie: (after reading through an article from Gail Dines disparaging the "misogyny" in 50 Shades) Gail, it's Twilight fanfiction. When I watch "Fifty Shades", I don't feel like I'm watching a seasoned predator. I feel like I'm watching a woman's fantasy. Because I am. And if people like Gail Dines are too obtuse to notice the difference, that's kind of their problem. I've been holding this in for ten years, and I'm gonna say it. I am begging these people to learn to think psychologically instead of literally, so that they're not constantly baffled and traumatized upon encountering literally the most common type of sexual fantasy that people have.