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| AwakenWithJP, JP Sears | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jonathan Sears 12 April, 1981 |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupation | Internet personality |
| Years active | 2012- |
| YouTube information | |
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| Channel | |
| Subscribers | 1.63 million |
| Total views | 187.5 million |
Last updated: January 10, 2021 | |
JP Sears (born 12 April, 1981) is an American YouTuber, comedian, businessman, and conspiracy theorist. Sears produces satirical videos about wellness and the American Left such as "How to Become Gluten Intolerant". These videos typically feature promotions for sponsored pseudoscientific items that include supplements and devices.
Career
Sears recieved notable attention in 2015 for his YouTube video titled "How to Become Gluten Intolerant" (as November of 2020 the video had received over 10 million views). In the video, Sears delivers lines such as "If you’re ready to have a ravenous appetite for impossible standards and dogmatic feelings of victimization, then let’s get started on what you need to do to become gluten intolerant". Sears delivers these lines in a deadpan and sarcastic manner typical of his YouTube content's approach to satire. Sears is the author of the satirical book How to Be Ultra Spiritual: 12-1/2 Steps to Spiritual Superiority.
Promotion of conspiracy theories
In 2020, McGill University science commmunicator Jonathan Jarry produced an analysis of Sears's channel and describes him as an example of the Conspirituality movement. Noting that Sears was "recently censored on YouTube for spreading unfounded conspiracy theories" and that "JP Sears his massive online platforms to discredit public health measures against COVID-19 and to open the door to grand conspiracy theories. Distrust is the name of the game, and he does it with comedic flair."
Notes
- ^ "About AwakenWithJP". YouTube.
- ^ Jarry 2020.
- Ham, Larissa (August 15, 2016). "YouTube comedian or real life coach: who is the real JP Sears?". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- "JP Sears - Live in Denver". Comedy Works. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
References
- Jarry, Jonathan. 2020. "The Clown Prince of Wellness". McGill University, Office for Science and Society. November 19, 2020. Online. Last accessed January 12, 2021.
Further reading
- "J.P. Sears: The Truth Behind His "How To Become Gluten Intolerant" Video". The Good Men Project. April 9, 2015.
- "Meet the "New Age" Stephen Colbert". Religion Dispatches. March 30, 2015.
- "An Interview With His Enlightenedness the Ultra Spiritual JP Sears". Yoga Journal. December 22, 2016.
- Sears, JP (March 7, 2017). How to Be Ultra Spiritual: 12 1/2 Steps to Spiritual Superiority. Sounds True. ISBN 9781622038213.
- Schawbel, Dan (December 7, 2017). "JP Sears: His Quest To Create An Emotionally Healthy World". Forbes.