I study in a field of social science that is very divorced and poorly tied to any theory, tends to do microlevel analysis in the postmodern and post-structural sense and I am spesifically looking for a method that could tie society wide processes to individual experiences. To explain individual or lived experience through Marxism in a way that would pass the benchmarks of bourgeoisie academia. In my field Marx has been announced to not provide any usable methods whatsoever and the field is self-proclaimed to suffer from a crisis of identity and validity, due to the lack of theory.
I'm curious, why are you studying this small field of social science in the first place? If this is all just to get a good grade on a uni assignment I feel you, but why go through the effort of writing a thesis for an academic field that doesn't take theory seriously? If you are trying to carve out a niche for yourself in grad school and eventually the wider academic market, I wish you the best of luck. It seems self-defeating to invest so much time into shoehorning Marxism into some academic discipline that is actively opposed to it.
I always thought the causality was reversed. That people are more likely to click on a thumbnail with a person's face and so YouTube's algo pushes them to increase engagement.
I used to enjoy reading RAW back in the day but he's not exactly somebody I'd give a shoutout to lol
Edit: Sorry I confused RAW with Hakim Bey lol. I'm still sus'd out by those 1960s people.