Best Youtuber: MOSES MCCORMICK vs NATALIE WYNN

MOSES MCCORMICK

Moses Monweal McCormick (March 12, 1981[1] – March 4, 2021), also known as Laoshu (from Chinese: 老鼠; pinyin: lǎoshǔ, transl. mouse) or Laoshu505000,...

Moses Monweal McCormick (March 12, 1981[1] – March 4, 2021), also known as Laoshu (from Chinese: 老鼠; pinyin: lǎoshǔ, transl. mouse) or Laoshu505000, was an American polyglot and YouTuber. McCormick gained popularity by speaking several languages with native speakers that he met in public places, and uploading the videos on his YouTube channel.[2][3][4] He called this activity leveling up.[5] McCormick taught language lessons remotely over the internet,[6] over time developing his own language learning method, which he called FLR (Foreign Language Roadrunning).[7][8] The foreign language in which McCormick was most fluent was Mandarin Chinese. He also spoke around twenty languages at a basic conversational level, including Japanese, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Korean, Somali, Spanish, and Swahili.[2] McCormick died on March 4, 2021, in Phoenix, Arizona, possibly due to heart complications.[7][6][8]

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NATALIE WYNN

Natalie Wynn (born October 21, 1988) is an American YouTuber and political commentator whose videos explore politics, gender, ethics, race, social cri...

Natalie Wynn (born October 21, 1988) is an American YouTuber and political commentator whose videos explore politics, gender, ethics, race, social criticism and philosophy on her channel ContraPoints. Her videos cover political and social issues, often providing counterarguments to right-wing conservative political argumentation. Many of her videos are structured as debates between various characters played by herself. Her videos have received critical acclaim. They have been praised for their intricately designed sets and costumes and their darkly humorous tone. Wynn was born on October 21, 1988, in Arlington, Virginia,[1] and raised in the same state.[2] Her parents are a psychology professor and a doctor.[3] After studying piano at Berklee College of Music,[4] she attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and studied philosophy, then enrolled at Northwestern University in Illinois to pursue a PhD in philosophy, also serving as an instructor.[2][3][5][6] She left Northwestern, Wynn started publishing YouTube videos in 2008, initially focusing on criticism of religion and her position as an atheist and skeptic. In 2016, she began the ContraPoints channel in reaction to the Gamergate controversy and the increasing prevalence of right-wing YouTubers, shifting her content to countering their arguments.[2][5][9][10] Early ContraPoints videos also covered subjects such as race, racism, and online radicalisation.[2] In her videos, she uses philosophy, sociology, and personal experience to explain left-wing ideas and to criticize common conservative, classical liberal, alt-right, and fascist talking points.[5][11][12]

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