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5 min readA trans creator crowdfunded nearly $200,000 to produce an animated series called It’s Bunlith, The Witch Upstairs, and the result includes a character who murders someone for misgendering them, hands out estrogen like candy, and claims the government is hunting trans people. The show has racked up hundreds of thousands of views, and the host of this episode, Amala Ekpunobi, walks through its two episodes to argue that it functions as a case study in what she calls leftist self-insert art — a fantasy world that reveals more about the trans community’s internal logic than its creators likely intend.
The show as a self-insert fantasy
The series was funded on Kickstarter, described as “an animated series about trans women plugging themselves into video games to try to debug the world, their community, and themselves.” The main character, Beatrix, is a transgender hacker who enters video games via a face mask; inside the game, she becomes Bunlith, a bunny furry. A new resident named V joins her, and when V enters the game, he suddenly appears in girl clothes — a setup the host reads as an attempt to expose V to the idea that he is “actually transgendered deep down.”
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:01) **Introduction and Setup** - Amala introduces "It's Bunlith, The Witch Upstairs," a crowdfunded trans-animated show that raised nearly $200,000, and summarizes its controversial content involving murder for misgendering, giving out estrogen, and government persecution claims.
- 2 (01:53) **Premise and First Episode** - Amala explains the Kickstarter description: an animated series about trans women plugging into video games to "debug the world, their community, and themselves."
- 3 (03:32) **Episode Two: The Government Oppression Narrative** - Amala highlights a scene where the character Beatrix claims the government is after her specifically because she's transgender.
- 4 (05:31) **Murder for Misgendering** - Amala shows a clip where Beatrix murders someone after being called "dude" and "man."
- 5 (07:26) **Furry Sexual Fantasy** - Immediately after the murder, the show shifts to a sexual fantasy about making out with a werewolf girl.
- 6 (08:41) **The Estrogen Scene and Grooming Allegations** - Amala plays the clip where Beatrix offers estrogen to the character V, saying "the option is there."
- 7 (10:16) **Final Analysis: The Trans Psyche Exposed** - Amala concludes that the show reveals the "trans psyche" through its themes of sexual deviancy, violence against dissenters, perpetual victimhood, and government persecution.
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Show Notes
A trans creator's crowdfunded TV show is going viral for some disturbing reasons. I watched it so you don't have to, and it's worse than I imagined. Let's talk about it.
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