Draft:Sneako

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Sneako
Born
Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy[1]

(1998-09-08) September 8, 1998 (age 25)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
Years active2013–present
Movement
YouTube information
ChannelsSneako
Years active2013–2022[4]
Subscribers1.28 million[4]
Total views98.08 million[4]
100,000 subscribers2018[4][5]
1,000,000 subscribers2022[4]
Last updated: September 4, 2022[4]

Nicolas "Nico" Kenn De Balinthazy[6] (born 8 September 1998)[7] better known online as Sneako, is an American online streamer.

Sneako is generally considered to be part of the "manosphere", an ideology promoting masculinity, misogyny, and opposition to feminism.[8][2][3] His commentaries have been deemed controversial and considered to be encouraging misogynistic views amongst young males.[9] Sneako had amassed over 1.28 million subscribers on his main channel on YouTube,[4] before being banned in October 2022.[10]

Sneako has since joined Rumble[10] and as of October 2023, he was the seventh most-watched channel with 1.37 million hours watched,[11] maintaining popularity among young male viewers.[10]

Early years[edit]

Sneako was born in New York City and grew up in an affluent and predominately white neighborhood,[12] graduating from the Foote School in New Haven, Connecticut in 2014.[13] His father is from Haiti and is mixed-race,[12][14] while his mother’s family is from the Philippines.[15] Sneako has visited Haiti just about every year since he was two years old, as most of his family still lives there.[16][14]

Career[edit]

Sneako made his online debut in 2013 as a YouTuber,[3] and has posted various content from gaming uploads, IRL streams, and reaction videos.[10] Sneako initially gained popularity for his unique style of editing and nuanced self-awareness commentaries, which spoke about life and spirituality before pivoting towards more controversial subjects that involved unfair scrutiny of women and marginalized people until his eventual ban from YouTube.[3][17] In one particular video, Sneako would ask Black people if it were okay for people who weren't black to say the N-word and would offer White people one dollar to say it.[18] In a TikTok video from an account now banned titled, A Woman's Worth, Sneako the interviewer, uses subtle use of ad hominem remarks with a female interviewee in order to boost his masculine position while seemingly discrediting her femininity when he describes her assertions of self-worth as "delusional".[19]

As of 2023, Sneako's newer content while more successful in terms of viewership, it has become unrecognizable from his original work, which ignited his streaming career from inception.[3]

Sneako is a supporter of Andrew Tate and has been seen in videos with him as a regular.[20][18] Sneako has expressed admiration for Tate, crediting him and his brother Tristan for their assistance in his betterment.[21]

Sneako’s content has also been described as supporting far-right political views.[10] In 2022, Sneako joined Kanye West’s 2024 presidential campaign and has referred to him as his childhood hero.[6] He has also voiced support far-right commentator Nick Fuentes. Speaking at an American First rally in July 2023, Sneako said, “Nick Fuentes is going to the next president of the United States."[22]

In 2023, Sneako defended homophobic and transphobic shouting by fans, including that "all gays should die", stating "this is how I was at 12. But if it sounds egregious to you, blame the [rainbow emoji] (sic) flags in their classrooms. Blame the media for emasculating men. It's your fault for forcing an obvious agenda."[10]

In March 2024, PinkNews reported that Sneako had claimed that MrBeast (who he formerly collaborated with) was "pushing kids to transgenderism", along with the "baseless claim" that male-bodied individuals were removing their genitalia as a result of MrBeast continuing to support a trans collaborator.[23]

Discography[edit]

Singles[edit]

  • "Curry Freestyle" – Lil Pump featuring N3on and Sneako (2023)[24]

Music videos[edit]

  • "Curry Freestyle" – Lil Pump featuring N3on and Sneako (2023)[25]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Starr, Michael, ed. (11 April 2024). "Social media streamer Sneako: 'Down with the Jews'". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Whalen, Eamon (9 August 2023). "Boy Problems". Mother Jones. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e Tan, William; O'Connor, Clare; Cox, Peter; McRoberts, Clare (22 February 2023). "Falling into the manosphere pipeline". U-High Midway. University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "SNEAKO's YouTube Stats (Summary Profile) - Social Blade Stats".
  5. ^ @Sneako (December 31, 2018). "30k to 100k in two days. I've been doing Youtube for six years. You can literally do ANYTHING if you work hard" (Tweet). Retrieved 25 April 2024 – via Twitter.
  6. ^ a b Petrizzo, Zachary (29 November 2022). "Racist YouTuber Joins Kanye West's Campaign". Yahoo! News. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  7. ^ @Sneako (September 6, 2023). "Dropping 9/8, my 25th birthday, quality clothing" (Tweet). Retrieved 9 April 2024 – via Twitter.
  8. ^ Hodapp (2017), p. xv; Lumsden (2019), pp. 98–99; Jane (2017), p. 662; Marwick & Lewis (2017), pp. 9, 13
  9. ^ Ritchie, Vander O.B. (6 November 2023). "How Education Is Failing Young Men". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  10. ^ a b c d e f Feinstein, Naomi (18 September 2023). "Kid Yells "All Gays Should Die" During Encounter With Far-Right Streamer at Marlins Game". Miami New Times. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  11. ^ Iyer, Ravi (2 November 2023). "Rumble October 2023 results — platform hits new record for monthly watch time". Streams Charts. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  12. ^ a b @Sneako (March 30, 2024). "SNEAKO's experience in Haiti" (Tweet). Retrieved 8 April 2024 – via Twitter.
  13. ^ "Young Alums Day". Foote Prints. The Foote School. 23 April 2015. p. 47. Retrieved 8 April 2024 – via Issuu.
  14. ^ a b @Sneako (August 27, 2014). "@SentinelHDD Yeah my dad grew up in Haiti and the majority of my family lives there" (Tweet). Retrieved 8 April 2024 – via Twitter.
  15. ^ @Sneako (April 4, 2015). "Thinking about making a video about how my grandparents from Haiti and the Philippines were both involved in WW2 but from across the world" (Tweet). Retrieved 8 April 2024 – via Twitter.
  16. ^ @Sneako (July 17, 2014). "I go to Haiti pretty much every year since I was 2" (Tweet). Retrieved 8 April 2024 – via Twitter.
  17. ^ Cole, Alexander, ed. (8 November 2023). "Sneako Goes After Mike Majlak For Past Heroin Use". HotNewHipHop. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  18. ^ a b Miller, Lisa (14 March 2023). "Tate-Pilled - What a generation of boys have found in Andrew Tate's extreme male gospel". New York. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  19. ^ Adisa, Larry (2023). "Masculine And Feminine Communication: Through Tiktok: A Rhetorical Analysis". Texas State University. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  20. ^ Mance, Henry (6 April 2023). "What does it mean to be a boy online in 2023?". Financial Times. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  21. ^ Dahir, Ikran (30 December 2022). "Andrew Tate's Hustlers University 2.0 Has Made At Least $11 Million In Just One Month". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  22. ^ "White supremacist Nick Fuentes: 'We will make Jews die in the holy war'". Jerusalem Post. 18 July 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  23. ^ Billson, Chantelle (27 March 2024). "Internet star claims MrBeast 'pushing transgenderism' by supporting Ava Kris Tyson". PinkNews. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
  24. ^ "N3on - Curry Freestyle - Reviews - Album of The Year".
  25. ^ Cole, Alexander, ed. (26 October 2023). "DJ Akademiks Forced To Sit Through Sneako, N3on, & Lil Pump's Ridiculous Song". HotNewHipHop. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
  26. ^ Millican, Josh (23 June 2020). "Trailer: Unsubscribe (Horror Film That Used Loophole to Become #1 in America) Now Streaming". Dread Central. Retrieved 10 April 2024.

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