Shaun (YouTuber)

{{Infobox YouTube personality

| name = Shaun

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|df=yes|6|16}}{{Cite tweet|title=it is my birthday|user=shaun_vids|number=1669702589707845633|access-date=2023-06-21|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230813144407/https://twitter.com/shaun_vids/status/1669702589707845633|archive-date=2023-08-13}}{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUbxVfSqtt8&t=1291s |title=The Great Replacement Isn't Real - ft. Lauren Southern |quote=So, in 2050, I will be, for example, 62 years old. |date=9 July 2017 |publisher=Shaun |via=YouTube |access-date=2023-08-09}}

| logo = Shaun skull logo.jpg

| logo_caption = The logo of Shaun's channel

| nationality = British

| occupation =

| pseudonym = Shaun and Jen

| channel_id = UCJ6o36XL0CpYb6U5dNBiXHQ

| channel_display_name = Shaun

| years_active = 2016–present

| genre = Political commentary, Video essay, Cultural critique

| subscribers = 733 thousand

| views = 78.61 million

| silver_button = yes

| silver_year = 2018

| stats_update = {{date|2024-12-16}}

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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.{{cite book |last1=Mirrlees |first1=Tanner |editor1-last=Panitch |editor1-first=Leo |editor2-last=Albo |editor2-first=Greg |title=Beyond digital capitalism : new ways of living |location=New York |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=9781583678831 |page=123 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y9faDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA123 |chapter=Socialists on Social Media Platforms|date=29 December 2020 }}{{Cite journal|last1=Kuznetsov|first1=Dmitry|last2=Ismangil|first2=Milan|date=2020-01-13|title=YouTube as Praxis? On BreadTube and the Digital Propagation of Socialist Thought|url=https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1128|journal=TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique|language=en-US|volume=18|issue=1|pages=204–218|doi=10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1128|issn=1726-670X|doi-access=free}}

Career

Shaun began his current YouTube channel in 2016, and it is primarily funded through Patreon supporters.{{Cite web |title=Is There a Future for Left-Wing YouTube? |url=https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/11/the-art-of-left-wing-youtube |access-date=2022-07-15 |website=Tribune |language=en-GB |last=Burman |first=Nicholas |date=2021-01-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111171126/https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/11/the-art-of-left-wing-youtube/ |archive-date=2021-11-11 |url-status=live}} Shaun has made left-wing videos about the 2017 Unite the Right rally,{{cite news |last1=Swafford |first1=Andrew |title=A YouTube Doc Exposes What Went Down at the "Unite the Right" Rally |url=https://hyperallergic.com/533546/charlottesville-the-true-alt-right-shaun-youtube/ |access-date=10 January 2021 |work=Hyperallergic |date=31 December 2019}} the 1994 book The Bell Curve,{{cite news |last1=Wilder |first1=Darcie |date=10 January 2020 |title=I am beginning to suspect that having a massive following on YouTube does not make people happy |url=https://theoutline.com/post/8522/i-am-beginning-to-suspect-that-having-a-massive-following-on-youtube-does-not-make-people-happy?zd=1&zi=s364wxzg |access-date=10 January 2021 |work=The Outline |language=en}} the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, politics in video games, Native American history,{{Cite journal|last1=Lewis|first1=Rebecca|last2=Marwick|first2=Alice E.|last3=Partin|first3=William Clyde|date=2021-02-03|title="We Dissect Stupidity and Respond to It": Response Videos and Networked Harassment on YouTube|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764221989781|journal=American Behavioral Scientist|volume=65|issue=5|language=en|pages=735–756|doi=10.1177/0002764221989781|s2cid=233224280|issn=0002-7642}} feminism and white supremacy. 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, and response videos to a controversial BBC article on trans women.{{Cite web |title=The War On A BBC Article |url=https://thecurrentmsu.com/2022/09/19/war-on-a-bbc-article/ |access-date=2024-09-21 |website=The Current |language=en |last=Seddon |first=David |date=2022-09-19 }}

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".{{cite news |last1=Schindel |first1=Daniel |title=The best video essays of 2018 |url=https://www.polygon.com/2018/12/28/18156334/best-youtube-video-essays-2018-watch |access-date=10 January 2021 |work=Polygon |date=28 December 2018 |language=en}}

Shaun has been included in an informal group of leftist YouTube essayists sometimes known as "BreadTube"{{Cite book|last=Fuchs|first=Christian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d_YgEAAAQBAJ|title=Social Media: A Critical Introduction|date=2021-03-10|publisher=SAGE|isbn=978-1-5297-5601-2|language=en|chapter=5. II Applications - 4. 5. 7.5 Socialist Influencers}} or "LeftTube". This group also often includes Kat Blaque, ContraPoints, Hbomberguy, Lindsay Ellis, and Philosophy Tube.{{cite magazine |last1=Amin |first1=Shaan |title=Can the Left Win YouTube? |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/154399/can-left-win-youtube |access-date=10 January 2021 |magazine=The New Republic |date=2 July 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Moosa |first1=Tauriq |title='Success would've been three grand': meet the gamer who raised $340,000 for a trans charity |url=https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/jan/25/success-for-me-wouldve-been-three-grand-the-gamer-who-raised-340000-for-a-trans-charity-hbomberguy |access-date=10 January 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=25 January 2019 |language=en}}

Shaun (YouTuber)

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