Best Youtuber: SCOTT MANLEY vs SHAUN

SCOTT MANLEY

Scott Manley (born 31 December 1972) is a Scottish-American YouTube personality, gamer, programmer, astrophysicist and DJ. On his YouTube channel, he...

Scott Manley (born 31 December 1972) is a Scottish-American YouTube personality, gamer, programmer, astrophysicist and DJ. On his YouTube channel, he plays space-themed video games, usually Kerbal Space Program, while he explains much of the science involved. He also makes videos discussing other science-related topics and news, mainly concerning up-to-date rocket science developments. He uses his scientific background to help teach science while playing games. He is known among his followers as the "astronogamer", as he is one of the few YouTubers blending both video games and science, and he is popular in the niche community of space enthusiasts and gamers, especially the Kerbal Space Program community. While studying at the University of Glasgow, Manley received a BSc (1990–1994) in physics and astronomy, and an MSc (1994–1995) in computational physics a year later. In 2002, he worked as an engineer for Napster. Later, from 2002 up until 2004, he worked as a research engineer for Qualys. From 2004 to 2009, he worked as a security architect in imeem, where he developed and maintained an audio and video upload, transcoding, fingerprinting system among other things. Manley's current employment is at Apple Inc. He joined Topsy Labs in 2009 and in 2013 Topsy was acquired by Apple.

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SHAUN

Shaun is a British YouTuber. Video essays by Shaun have covered popular culture and politics, specifically to critique the alt-right and neoliberalism...

Shaun is a British YouTuber. Video essays by Shaun have covered popular culture and politics, specifically to critique the alt-right and neoliberalism. He has 410,000 subscribers as of April 03, 2021. Shaun has made left-wing videos about the 2017 Unite the Right rally, the scientific racism of The Bell Curve, politics in video games, Native American history, feminism, and white supremacy. He has also created a video series called How PragerU Lies to You, which criticizes and responds to videos created by American conservative think tank PragerU. 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". Shaun has been included in an informal group of leftist YouTube essayists sometimes known as "BreadTube" or "LeftTube". This group also often includes Kat Blaque, ContraPoints, Hbomberguy, Lindsay Ellis, and Philosophy Tube.

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