Innuendo Studios

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Ian Danskin
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Website innuendostudios.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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Years active2015–present
Subscribers432,000 [1]
Total views36,700,000 [1]
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Last updated: February 24, 2023

Ian Danskin is an American YouTuber who produces the Innuendo Studios channel where he discusses politics from a left-wing perspective. [2] [3] [4] He is primarily known for "The Alt-Right Playbook" series of videos. [2] The channel has been described as part of "BreadTube", an informal group of left-wing YouTube channels. [2]

Career

The first "Alt-Right Playbook" episode was released in October 2017. Since then the series has focused on examining and dismantling the online culture of the alt-right [5] and "the rhetorical strategies [it] uses to legitimize itself and gain power." [2] [6] It uses drawings of simple figures on a grey background to illustrate its ideas. [3]

Danskin has also discussed the Gamergate harassment campaign and the techniques used by Gamergate members to recruit people into their movement. [2]

Daniel Schindel of Polygon listed Danskin's video "Lady Eboshi is Wrong" as one of the best video essays of 2018. [7] [8] Julie Muncy of Gizmodo lauded Danskin's video series about the 2015 post-apocalyptic action movie Mad Max: Fury Road . [9] His video on Phil Fish covered the celebrity status of game developers and was the reason for Markus "Notch" Persson, creator of Minecraft , to sell the game to Microsoft. [10] [11]

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  4. ↑ McCrea, Aisling (February 15, 2019). "The magical thinking of guys who love logic". The Outline . Archived from the original on June 11, 2022. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
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  6. ↑ Danskin, Ian (October 11, 2017). "The Alt-Right Playbook: Introduction". YouTube. Archived from the original on November 9, 2019. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
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  8. ↑ Note: The video is no longer available on YouTube and can be found at: Danskin, Ian (August 31, 2019). Lady Eboshi is Wrong. Vimeo. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  9. ↑ Muncy, Julie (September 30, 2018). "This Fabulous Video Series Unpacks the Gender Dynamics of Mad Max: Fury Road". Gizmodo . Archived from the original on August 21, 2022. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  10. ↑ Good, Owen S. (September 15, 2014). "Here's the video that made Notch question his connection to Minecraft's fans". Polygon . Archived from the original on June 30, 2022. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
  11. ↑ Plante, Chris (September 15, 2014). "Watch the YouTube video that helped the creator of 'Minecraft' say goodbye". The Verge . Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
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