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| ContraPoints | |
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| Personal information | |
| Born | (1988-10-21) October 21, 1988 (age 36) Arlington, Virginia, U.S. |
| Occupation | YouTube personality |
| YouTube information | |
| Channel | |
| Years active | 2016–present |
| Subscribers | 158,000 |
| Total views | 8.0 million |
Last updated: August 10, 2018 | |
Natalie Wynn (born October 21, 1988), known online as ContraPoints, is an American YouTube personality who specializes in comedic and educational videos about gender, race, politics, and social justice.
Content
ContraPoints started her channel in 2008 making videos about atheism, but later shifted her content to responding to arguments of right-wing Youtubers, a user community that has greatly expanded in the late 2010s. Formerly a philosophy graduate student and instructor, she uses philosophy, sociology, and personal experience in her videos to explain, and often counter, common alt-right, classical liberal, and conservative talking points. Additionally, other videos on the channel relate to her experience as a trans person. ContraPoints videos often have a combative and humorous tone, containing dark or surreal humor, sarcasm, and sexuality. She often illustrates concepts by playing different characters, complete with elaborate costumes, who engage in heated debate.
Reception
ContraPoints' videos have been praised for their clarity, their nuance, and their attention-grabbing sense of humor. Nathan Robinson of Current Affairs calls ContraPoints a "one-woman blitzkrieg against the YouTube right," describing her videos as "unlike anything I've ever seen ... She shows how debate should be done: not by giving an inch to poisonous ideas, but by bringing superior smarts, funnier jokes, and more elegant costumes to the fight." New York magazine states, "The YouTube channel ContraPoints is very good. Regardless of the viewer’s interest or lack thereof in internet culture wars, YouTube Nazis, or any of the other wide-ranging subjects covered in its videos, they’re funny, bizarre, erudite, and compelling." Journalist Liza Featherstone recommends the channel as well, saying that ContraPoints does a "fabulous job" acknowledging her opponents' valid points while debunking weak arguments and revealing the influence of a sometimes-unacknowledged far-right political agenda.
Personal life
In a video published on her YouTube channel in March 2017, Wynn identified as genderqueer. Since then, she identifies as a transgender woman and began transitioning in July 2017.
References
- ^ "About ContraPoints". YouTube.
- @ContraPoints (July 19, 2018). "Alright, alright astrologers. October 21, 1988. 8:00 AM. Arlington, VA. Tell me about my soul" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Singal, Jesse (October 30, 2017). "This YouTuber Is Figuring Out How to Counter the Alt-Right’s Dominance of the Site." New York (NYMag.com). Retrieved 2018-07-17.
- Herrman, John (August 3, 2017). For the New Far Right, YouTube Has Become the New Talk Radio." The New York Times Magazine (NYTimes.com). Retrieved 2018-07-17.
- Kronfeld, Ezra (May 8, 2018). "ContraPoints on YouTube, Social Justice, and Transphobic Feminists." Out Front. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
- ^ Robinson, Nathan (May 6, 2018). "God Bless ContraPoints." CurrentAffairs.org. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
- Featherstone, Liza (June 7, 2018). "I Think My Friend Is a Jordan Peterson Fan. What Should I Do?" The Nation. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
External links
- ContraPoints's channel on YouTube
- ContraPointsLive's channel on YouTube, a secondary channel for livestreams, debates, and other content
- Natalie Wynn at IMDb