British YouTuber (born 1988)
Shaun
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Born (1988-06-16 ) 16 June 1988 (age 37) [ 1] [ 2] Nationality British Other names Shaun and Jen YouTube informationChannel Years active 2016–present Genres Political commentary Video essay Cultural critique Subscribers 741 thousand Views 80.8 million Last updated: 3 May 2025
Shaun (born 16 June 1988) is a BritishYouTuber .Video essays by Shaun have covered popular culture and politics, specifically to critiqueneoliberalism ,anti-feminism , and thealt-right .[ 3] [ 4]
Shaun began his current YouTube channel in 2016, and it is primarily funded throughPatreon supporters.[ 5] Unite the Right rally ,[ 6] [ 4] The Bell Curve ,[ 7] atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ,[ 5] [ 8] Native American history ,[ 9] feminism [ 4] white supremacy .[ 3] [ 4] How PragerU Lies to You, which criticizes and responds to videos created byAmerican conservative YouTube channelPragerU ,[ 4] a controversial BBC article on trans women .[ 10]
His video "Doom: The Fake Outrage" was named byPolygon Polygon describing him as "quite possibly the mostdroll human on the internet".[ 8]
Shaun has been included in an informal group of leftist YouTube essayists sometimes known as "BreadTube "[ 4] [ 11] Kat Blaque ,ContraPoints ,Hbomberguy ,Lindsay Ellis , andPhilosophy Tube .[ 12] [ 13] [ 3]
In 2025, Shaun raised $453,112 for thePalestine Children's Relief Fund .[ 14]
^ @shaun_vids (16 June 2023)."it is my birthday" (Tweet ). Archived fromthe original on 13 August 2023. Retrieved21 June 2023 – viaTwitter . ^ The Great Replacement Isn't Real - ft. Lauren Southern . Retrieved9 August 2023 – viaYouTube .So, in 2050, I will be, for example, 62 years old. ^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 ^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 . ^a b Burman, Nicholas (11 January 2021)."Is There a Future for Left-Wing YouTube?" .Tribune Archived from the original on 11 November 2021. Retrieved15 July 2022 . ^ Swafford, Andrew (31 December 2019)."A YouTube Doc Exposes What Went Down at the "Unite the Right" Rally" .Hyperallergic . Retrieved10 January 2021 . ^ Wilder, Darcie (10 January 2020)."I am beginning to suspect that having a massive following on YouTube does not make people happy" .The Outline . Retrieved10 January 2021 . ^a b Schindel, Daniel (28 December 2018)."The best video essays of 2018" .Polygon . Retrieved10 January 2021 . ^ Lewis, Rebecca; Marwick, Alice E.; Partin, William Clyde (3 February 2021)." American Behavioral Scientist .65 (5):735– 756.doi :10.1177/0002764221989781 .ISSN 0002-7642 .S2CID 233224280 . ^ Seddon, David (19 September 2022)."The War On A BBC Article" .The Current . Retrieved21 September 2024 . ^ Fuchs, Christian (10 March 2021). "5. II Applications - 4. 5. 7.5 Socialist Influencers".Social Media: A Critical Introduction ISBN 978-1-5297-5601-2 ^ Amin, Shaan (2 July 2019)."Can the Left Win YouTube?" .The New Republic . Retrieved10 January 2021 . ^ Moosa, Tauriq (25 January 2019)." .The Guardian . Retrieved10 January 2021 . ^ "shaun_vids on Tiltify" .Tiltify . Retrieved28 April 2025 .
