Shaun | |||||||
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Personal information | |||||||
Born | [1][2] | 16 June 1988||||||
Nationality | British | ||||||
YouTube information | |||||||
Also known as | Shaun and Jen | ||||||
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Years active | 2016 – present | ||||||
Genre(s) | Political commentary, Video essay, Cultural critique | ||||||
Subscribers | 621 thousand[3] | ||||||
Total views | 59.45 million[3] | ||||||
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Last updated: 22 Mar 2023 |
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]
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] ("Charlottesville: The true Alt-Right"), the scientific racism of the 1994 book The Bell Curve[8] ("The Bell Curve"), the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ("Dropping the Bomb: Hiroshima & 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 think tank PragerU.[5]
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.[12][13][4]