British YouTuber (born 1988)
Shaun The logo of Shaun's channel
Born (1988-06-16 ) 16 June 1988 (age 36) [ 1] [ 2] Nationality British Also known as Shaun and Jen Channel Years active 2016 – present Genre(s) Political commentary, Video essay, Cultural critique Subscribers 733 thousand[ 3] Total views 78.61 million[ 3]
100,000 subscribers 2018
Last updated: 16 December 2024
Shaun (born 16 June 1988) is a British YouTuber . Video essays by Shaun have covered popular culture and politics, specifically to critique neoliberalism , anti-feminism , and the alt-right .[ 4] [ 5]
Career
Shaun began his current YouTube channel in 2016, and it is primarily funded through Patreon supporters.[ 6] Unite the Right rally ,[ 7] [ 5] The Bell Curve ,[ 8] atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ,[ 6] [ 9] Native American history ,[ 10] feminism [ 5] white supremacy .[ 4] [ 5] How PragerU Lies to You, which criticizes and responds to videos created by American conservative YouTube channel PragerU ,[ 5] a controversial BBC article on trans women .[ 11]
His video "Doom: The Fake Outrage" was named by Polygon Polygon describing him as "quite possibly the most droll human on the internet".[ 9]
Shaun has been included in an informal group of leftist YouTube essayists sometimes known as "BreadTube "[ 5] [ 12] Kat Blaque , ContraPoints , Hbomberguy , Lindsay Ellis , and Philosophy Tube .[ 13] [ 14] [ 4]
References
^ @shaun_vids (16 June 2023). "it is my birthday" (Tweet ). Archived from the original on 13 August 2023. Retrieved 21 June 2023 – via Twitter . ^ The Great Replacement Isn't Real - ft. Lauren Southern . Retrieved 9 August 2023 – via YouTube . So, in 2050, I will be, for example, 62 years old. ^ a b "About Shaun" . YouTube .^ a b c Mirrlees, Tanner (29 December 2020). "Socialists on Social Media Platforms" . In Panitch, Leo; Albo, Greg (eds.). Beyond digital capitalism : new ways of living . New York: NYU Press . p. 123. ISBN 9781583678831 ^ a b c d e f Kuznetsov, Dmitry; Ismangil, Milan (13 January 2020). "YouTube as Praxis? On BreadTube and the Digital Propagation of Socialist Thought" . TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique . 18 (1): 204– 218. doi :10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1128 ISSN 1726-670X . ^ a b Burman, Nicholas (11 January 2021). "Is There a Future for Left-Wing YouTube?" . Tribune Archived from the original on 11 November 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2022 . ^ Swafford, Andrew (31 December 2019). "A YouTube Doc Exposes What Went Down at the "Unite the Right" Rally" . Hyperallergic . Retrieved 10 January 2021 . ^ Wilder, Darcie (10 January 2020). "I am beginning to suspect that having a massive following on YouTube does not make people happy" . The Outline . Retrieved 10 January 2021 . ^ a b Schindel, Daniel (28 December 2018). "The best video essays of 2018" . Polygon . Retrieved 10 January 2021 . ^ Lewis, Rebecca; Marwick, Alice E.; Partin, William Clyde (3 February 2021). " . American Behavioral Scientist . 65 (5): 735– 756. doi :10.1177/0002764221989781 . ISSN 0002-7642 . S2CID 233224280 . ^ Seddon, David (19 September 2022). "The War On A BBC Article" . The Current . Retrieved 21 September 2024 . ^ Fuchs, Christian (10 March 2021). "5. II Applications - 4. 5. 7.5 Socialist Influencers". Social Media: A Critical Introduction ISBN 978-1-5297-5601-2 ^ Amin, Shaan (2 July 2019). "Can the Left Win YouTube?" . The New Republic . Retrieved 10 January 2021 . ^ Moosa, Tauriq (25 January 2019). " . The Guardian . Retrieved 10 January 2021 .
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