Shaun (YouTuber)
British YouTuber (born 1988)
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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.[3][4]
YouTube career
Shaun began his current YouTube channel in 2016, and it is primarily funded through Patreon supporters.[5] Shaun has made left-wing videos about the 2017 Unite the Right rally,[6][4] the 1994 book The Bell Curve,[7] the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,[5] politics in video games,[8] Native American history,[9] feminism[4] and white supremacy.[3][4] 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,[4] and response videos to a controversial BBC article on trans women.[10]
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".[8]
Shaun has been included in an informal group of leftist YouTube essayists sometimes known as "BreadTube"[4][11] or "LeftTube". This group also often includes Kat Blaque, ContraPoints, Hbomberguy, Lindsay Ellis, and Philosophy Tube.[12][13][3]
In 2025, Shaun raised $453,112 for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.[14]