Sign up to Milanote for free with no time-limit: https://milanote.com/emmainthemoment --- Ravelry is a website well loved by the knitting community but not without its fair share of controversial moments. This video will cover the history of Ravelry and three controversies: The Bunker, The Olympics thing, and The Trump Ban. Part 2 will cover controversies from 2019 to the present day. --- follow me on social media instagram: https://instagram.com/made.in.the.moment tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@made.in.the.moment patreon: https://www.patreon.com/madeinthemoment other links: https://madeinthemoment.univer.se for drama: emmainthemoment.channel@gmail.com business inquiries: emmaujifusa.business@gmail.com subscribe to my main channel for crochet and knitting specific content: @madeinthemoment --- some sources: https://www.youtube.com/@FruityKnitting https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/29/how-politics-tested-ravelry-and-the-crafting-community https://teapottantrums.typepad.com/index/2009/03/badge-of-honor-1.html https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/byos2l/knitting_ravelry_vs_the_olympics/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/online-knitting-community-receives-take-down-notice-for-ravelympics/258805/ https://obeldebrujah.wordpress.com/2014/01/03/not-just-no-but-hell-no-an-open-letter-to-the-organizers-of-the-ravhellenic-games-2014/is https://belonging.berkeley.edu/blog-revisiting-dog-whistle-politics https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/11/7/13549154/dog-whistles-campaign-racism https://www.ravelry.com/content/no-trump https://www.npr.org/2019/06/24/735460674/ravelry-the-knitting-website-bans-trump-talk-and-patterns https://www.vox.com/2019/6/27/18744347/ravelry-trump-ban-backlash-community-reaction https://youtu.be/8qXmRsW-gPo?si=AwjOn3pOjqRmhgBg --- 00:00 Intro 01:25 What is Ravelry 07:58 The beginning of Ravelry 27:04 Answering your burning questions about Ravelry 36:08 The Bunker (2008) 48:44 The Olympics Thing (2012) 57:29 The Trump Ban (2019) 1:23:38 The Quiz --- camera: Sony Zv-1 edited by Chad Barnard #ravelry #knittingdrama