Shaun
The logo of Shaun's channel
Personal information
Born (1988-06-16) 16 June 1988 (age 35)[1][2]
NationalityBritish
YouTube information
Also known asShaun and Jen
Channel
Years active2016 – present
Genre(s)Political commentary, Video essay, Cultural critique
Subscribers621 thousand[3]
Total views59.45 million[3]
100,000 subscribers2018
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]

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] ("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]

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". YouTube. 9 July 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2023. So, in 2050, I will be, for example, 62 years old.
  3. ^ a b "About Shaun". YouTube.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Swafford, Andrew (31 December 2019). "A YouTube Doc Exposes What Went Down at the "Unite the Right" Rally". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ a b Schindel, Daniel (28 December 2018). "The best video essays of 2018". Polygon. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ Amin, Shaan (2 July 2019). "Can the Left Win YouTube?". The New Republic. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  13. ^ 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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