Ian Danskin | |||||||
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Nationality | American | ||||||
Website | innuendostudios | ||||||
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Years active | 2015–present | ||||||
Subscribers | 491 thousand[1] | ||||||
Total views | 44.8 million[1] | ||||||
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Last updated: August 7, 2024 |
Ian Danskin is an American YouTuber, best known for his YouTube channel Innuendo Studios where he discusses politics from a left-wing perspective.[2][3][4] He is primarily known for "The Alt-Right Playbook" series of videos.[2] The channel has been described as part of "BreadTube", an informal group of left-wing YouTube channels.[2]
Career
The first "Alt-Right Playbook" episode was released in October 2017. Since then the series has focused on examining and dismantling the online culture of the alt-right[5] and "the rhetorical strategies [it] uses to legitimize itself and gain power."[2][6] It uses drawings of simple figures on a grey background to illustrate its ideas.[3]
Danskin has also discussed the Gamergate harassment campaign and the techniques used by Gamergate members to recruit people into their movement.[2]
Daniel Schindel of Polygon listed Danskin's video "Lady Eboshi is Wrong" as one of the best video essays of 2018.[7][8] Julie Muncy of Gizmodo lauded Danskin's video series about the 2015 post-apocalyptic action movie Mad Max: Fury Road.[9] His video on Phil Fish covered the celebrity status of game developers and was the reason for Markus "Notch" Persson, creator of Minecraft, to sell the game to Microsoft.[10][11]
References
- ^ a b "About Innuendo Studios". YouTube.
- ^ a b c d e Somos, Christy (October 25, 2019). "Dismantling the 'Alt-Right Playbook': YouTuber explains how online radicalization works". CTV News. Archived from the original on April 27, 2022. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
- ^ a b van den Berg, Pim (October 8, 2019). "Dit zijn de linkse YouTubers die tegenwicht geven aan extreem-rechts". VN (in Dutch). Archived from the original on November 4, 2021. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
- ^ McCrea, Aisling (February 15, 2019). "The magical thinking of guys who love logic". The Outline. Archived from the original on June 11, 2022. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ Rouner, Jef (January 21, 2019). "5 Myths About the Alt-Right". Houston Press. Archived from the original on March 21, 2022. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ Danskin, Ian (October 11, 2017). "The Alt-Right Playbook: Introduction". YouTube. Archived from the original on November 9, 2019. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
- ^ Schindel, Daniel (December 28, 2018). "The best video essays of 2018". Polygon. Archived from the original on April 6, 2022. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
- ^ Note: The video is no longer available on YouTube and can be found at:Danskin, Ian (August 31, 2019). Lady Eboshi is Wrong. Vimeo. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
- ^ Muncy, Julie (September 30, 2018). "This Fabulous Video Series Unpacks the Gender Dynamics of Mad Max: Fury Road". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on August 21, 2022. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
- ^ Good, Owen S. (September 15, 2014). "Here's the video that made Notch question his connection to Minecraft's fans". Polygon. Archived from the original on June 30, 2022. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
- ^ Plante, Chris (September 15, 2014). "Watch the YouTube video that helped the creator of 'Minecraft' say goodbye". The Verge. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved August 21, 2022.