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British YouTuber
Shaun
The logo of Shaun's channel
Born (1988-06-16 ) 16 June 1988 (age 35)
[1]
[2] Nationality British Also known as Shaun and Jen Channel Years active 2016 – present Genre(s) Political commentary, Video essay, Cultural critique Subscribers 704 thousand
[3] Total views 74.25 million
[3]
100,000 subscribers 2018
Last updated: 9 June 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 .
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[5]
Career
Shaun began his current YouTube channel in 2016, and it is primarily funded through
Patreon supporters.
[6] Shaun has made left-wing videos about the 2017
Unite the Right rally ,
[7]
[5] the
scientific racism of the 1994 book
The Bell Curve ,
[8] the
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ,
[6] politics in video games,
[9]
Native American history ,
[10]
feminism
[5] and
white supremacy .
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[5] He has also created a video series called How PragerU Lies to You, which criticizes and responds to videos created by
American conservative YouTube channel
PragerU .
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His video "Doom: The Fake Outrage" was named by
Polygon as one of 2018's best video essays, with 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]
[11] or "LeftTube". This group also often includes
Kat Blaque ,
ContraPoints ,
Hbomberguy ,
Lindsay Ellis , and
Philosophy Tube .
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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 . Shaun. 9 July 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2023 – via
YouTube . So, in 2050, I will be, for example, 62 years old.
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a
b
"About Shaun" .
YouTube .
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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 .
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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 .
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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).
" "We Dissect Stupidity and Respond to It": Response Videos and Networked Harassment on YouTube" . American Behavioral Scientist . 65 (5): 735–756.
doi :
10.1177/0002764221989781 .
ISSN
0002-7642 .
S2CID
233224280 .
^ Fuchs, Christian (10 March 2021). "5. II Applications - 4. 5. 7.5 Socialist Influencers".
Social Media: A Critical Introduction . SAGE.
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).
" 'Success would've been three grand': meet the gamer who raised $340,000 for a trans charity" . The Guardian . Retrieved 10 January 2021 .
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