Shaun (YouTuber)

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Shaun
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The logo of Shaun's channel
Personal information
Born (1988-06-16) 16 June 1988 (age 36) [1] [2]
NationalityBritish
YouTube information
Also known asShaun and Jen
Channel
Years active2016 – present
Genre(s)Political commentary, Video essay, Cultural critique
Subscribers704 thousand [3]
Total views74.25 million [3]
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2018

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. [4] [5]

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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 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. [4] [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, [5] and response videos to a controversial BBC article on trans women. [11]

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] [12] or "LeftTube". This group also often includes Kat Blaque, ContraPoints, Hbomberguy, Lindsay Ellis, and Philosophy Tube. [13] [14] [4]

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References

  1. @shaun_vids (16 June 2023). "it is my birthday" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 13 August 2023. Retrieved 21 June 2023 via Twitter.
  2. 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.
  3. 1 2 "About Shaun". YouTube.
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  6. 1 2 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.
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  9. 1 2 Schindel, Daniel (28 December 2018). "The best video essays of 2018". Polygon. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
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  14. 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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