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Sarah Davis Baker
Sarah Davis Baker is a video essayist whose YouTube channel publishes, in her own description, "slightly haunted essays about the internet, memory, and the things people leave behind." The channel began in late 2021 — her earliest uploads were about cats — and grew into one of the quieter, more atmospheric corners of the video-essay world, with some work appearing early or exclusively on Nebula. She is included in Media and Personalities as a YouTuber entry: a look at what she actually makes and why people watch, rather than an ideological audit.
What she makes
Her essays sit at the seam of philosophy, internet culture, and a gentle strain of horror — less "explainer," more mood. Recurring themes run through the catalog: decay and what outlasts us (the internet as a place of abandoned pages and left-behind selves), isolation and enclosure, the uncanny, and the strangeness of being perceived. The tone is essayistic and unhurried; the "haunted" in her own tagline is the right word for it.
Notable videos and series
A representative run of her work shows the range and the throughlines:
- The Horror of Impossible Architecture — spaces that cannot exist, and why they unsettle us.
- The Haunted Universe — cosmic-scale dread in the essay form.
- Bunkers, Vaults & Biospheres — enclosure, survival, and the human urge to seal ourselves in.
- The Robot Body and The Uncanny Horror of AI Hallucinations — the machine, the almost-human, and what goes wrong at the edges of the uncanny valley.
- The Persistence of Decay — things rotting, fading, and refusing to fully disappear.
- Why Being Seen Feels Like Hell: Sartre, Shame, and No Exit — philosophy brought down to the lived feeling of being watched.
Why she fits the Library
Her preoccupations — memory, the uncanny, the robot body, AI's hallucinations, what persists after a thing is gone — rhyme with threads the rest of this Library takes seriously: machine consciousness (The Decades Brain, Hathor), the uncanny and the sacred, and the question of what a self is when it is distributed or left behind (Egregore). We point to her as a well-made example of the essay form working that seam, not as a source of doctrine.
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Media and Personalities · Egregore · The Decades Brain · Hathor
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