The Take

       

The Take
YouTuber Information
Profile	The Take
Style	Commentary
Date joined	April 12, 2016
Twitter / X	@ThisIsTheTake
Facebook	ThisIsTheTake
Other media	Patreon
Videos	546+
Schedule	Weekly
Status	Active
Associates	Netflix • Wisecrack • Lessons from the Screenplay
Username
Personal information
Nationality	American
Location	New York, United States
Most viewed video
American Psycho Ending Explained- What Really Happened?
First video
Shaping Up - The Message Behind the Squares and Circles in Pixar's Up

The Take (formerly known as ScreenPrism) is a liberal YouTube channel dedicated to making video essays dedicated to analyzing, understanding and deconstructing media tropes through an intersectional feminist lens. On May 1, 2020, they reached 1 million subscribers.

It is hosted by Susannah McCullough and Debra Minoff.^{[citation needed]}

Content

In general, The Take does character studies, fun facts, easter eggs and endings explained. But their other content includes:

All The Tropes

All The Tropes is dedicated to analyzing and studying character archetypes such as "Cool Girl", "Nice Guy" "Crazy woman", "The Karen", "The Woman in the Fridge", "The Simp", "The Ice Queen", "The Himbo", "The Sexy Vampire", "The Child Prodigy", "The Female Assassin" and several others. Sometimes they even analyze racist stereotypes. Sometimes they even talk about LGBT tropes.

Black Voices

Black Voices is a section of The Take dedicated to speaking about black experiences and racism as well as talking about black media such as BlackKKKlansman and Lizzo. ^{[citation needed]}

Toxic Takeaways

Toxic Takeaways is where the hosts of the Take analyze media, usually rom-coms, and analyze the toxic/unhealthy message it sends to its viewers and whether a relationship is healthy as it seems. ^{[citation needed]}

What Does It Meme?

What Does It Meme analyzes meme culture and its origins.

Endings Explained

Endings Explained explains how a film gets its message across and how it ties in to the final act of the movies.

Iconic Female Characters

Here, The Take talks about iconic female characters and how they are viewed from others, the writers and the audience.

Controversy

Harry Potter - Hero but not a role model

The Take made a video called "Harry Potter - Hero but not a role model" where they criticized Harry and called him selfish, egotistic, unkind and someone who never faced consequences for his actions. The video was mass disliked, and The Take tried to salvage the situation by changing the title but it just increased the backlash they got. Eventually the video was privated, though a number of people had already seen it and made responses.

Defending Amber Heard

On May 28, 2022, they uploaded the video The Depp-Heard Trial isw an ugly, scary trial by social media where they defended Heard and said that anyone who opposed her hated women, which led to a mass dislike rating. On July 28, 2022, they uploaded the video How the "Manipulative Victim" Trope Shaped the Depp-Heard Trial where they defended Heard once again and the video was similarly dislike bombed.

Trivia

• As well as video essays, they also write articles on their site.

Gallery

Susannah and Debra celebrating 1 million subscribers