TJ Kirk | |
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 Kirk in 2021 | |
| Born | Thomas James Kirk III (1985-02-20)February 20, 1985 (age 40) |
| Other names | Terroja Lee Kincaid |
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| YouTube information | |
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| Years active | 2006–present |
| Genres | |
| Subscribers | 946 thousand |
| Views | 445 million |
| Last updated: October 21, 2025 | |
Thomas James Kirk III (born February 20, 1985), previously known by the pseudonymTerroja Lee Kincaid, is an AmericanYouTuber and podcaster. Kirk's YouTube channel, previously known asTheAmazing Atheist, gained popularity in the 2010s for itscriticism of religion. He has since expanded his focus to other political andsocial issues.
Kirk previously had over one million subscribers on his main channel, and has over 445 million views in total. From 2014 until 2017, he was one of the hosts ofDrunken Peasants, a YouTube news podcast focused on interviews and current events and interviews.[1][2]
Thomas James Kirk III was born on February 20, 1985.[3] His father wasThomas James Kirk Jr. (July 1, 1946 – January 3, 2008), who operated several fraudulent higher education organizations and served three years in U.S.federal prison following aplea deal.[4] At the age of sixteen, Kirk dropped out of high school with aspirations of being an author.[5]
Kirk began posting videos on YouTube in November 2006.[5] In 2007, he posted a video which included a warning about the mental instability of 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen, who would later perpetrate theJokela school shooting.[6][7]
In October 2011, a video of Kirk engaging in asex act with a banana was leaked on the internetimageboard4chan. Members from the 4chan community subsequently raided his channel, posting images from the video to his channel's comment section and Facebook page. In response, Kirk released a video to his channel called "Bananagate 2011" in which he said "the things that I did, I did because I enjoy them. I wasn't ashamed of them when I was doing them in private, I see no reason to be ashamed of them now that they've been made public."[8]
In 2012, Kirk was widely criticized for incendiary comments made onReddit before he deleted his account. In an argument abouttrigger warnings, Kirk repeatedly stated that one of the participants, a self-described rape victim, should be raped again.[9] Science bloggerPZ Myers condemned these posts and went on to debate many of Kirk's past claims about feminism, writing that "this kind of thing has always been part of his YouTube schtick."[10] After the incident, Kirk apologized to the Reddit user in a private message and later made a public apology.[9] Kirk addressed the issue further in a 2014 YouTube video entitled "Rape, Feminism, and The Amazing Atheist", in which he again apologized for the incident and explained the context in which it happened: his remarks were meant to be satirical commentary on trigger warnings.[11]
In 2013, Kirk was a guest on aCNN panel, where he discussed the rise of atheism in America with Christian theologianWilliam Lane Craig.[12]
Kirk has made two appearances onThe Joe Rogan Experience, one in January 2016 and another in March 2017.[13] Kirk interviewedMilo Yiannopoulos for aDrunken Peasants podcast in 2016. In 2017Breitbart,CPAC andSimon & Schuster severed their ties with Yiannopoulos based on comments from the episode where Yiannopoulos spoke positively of sexual relationships between boys and adult men.[14][15]
In 2018, Kirk was criticized for a controversial tweet in which he claimed thatAlicia Vikander's breasts were too small for her to play the video game characterLara Croft in the 2018 filmTomb Raider, and for later posting a video to his YouTube channel on the subject called "Lara Croft's b00bz – The Issue Of The Century".[16][17][18]
