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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 Kenn De Balinthazy[6] (born 8 September 1998[7]) better known online as Sneako, is an American online streamer and right-wing provocateur.[8][6]

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

Early years

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Sneako was born in New York City and grew up in an affluent and predominantly white neighborhood,[11] graduating from the Foote School in New Haven, Connecticut in 2014.[12] His father is from Haiti and is mixed-race,[11][13] while his mother’s family is from the Philippines.[14][15] Sneako has visited Haiti regularly since he was two years old, as most of his family still lives there.[16][13]

Career

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De Balinthazy began uploading videos to YouTube as a teenager[15] in 2013.[3] His early videos were apolitical gaming and filming man-on-the-street interviews, often about dating, before briefly working for YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson.[15] His video topics began to shift into right-wing trolling, such as asking White people on the street to say nigger for one dollar.[8][17] He would also host discussions on why men and women are not equal.[8]

In 2022, De Balinthazy was banned from YouTube[8] and Twitch, the next year.[18] The ban led him to the streaming website Rumble, where he is popular with young male viewers.[8]

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]

Political positions

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De Balinthazy has espoused misogyny, praised Adolf Hitler, and made antisemitic jokes.[15] In addition, he is associated with Andrew Tate,[17] who De Balinthazy credits for bettering his life,[20] rapper Kanye West, and White nationalist Nick Fuentes.[15] De Balinthazy assisted Fuentes on West's 2024 presidential campaign[15] to help produce social media videos for the campaign,[8] and predicted Fuentes would be a future President of the United States at an America First Political Action Conference.[21]

He became disillusioned with politics after Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign failed, and began to believe voting no longer "matters anymore" by 2020.[15]

Young fans of De Balinthazy once shouted homophobic and transphobic statements at a sports game he attended. De Balinthazy defended those statements, saying "they are children and obviously joking" and blaming pride flags in classrooms.[8] De Balinthazy claimed former collaborator Jimmy Donaldson was "pushing kids into transgenderism" and removing their genitalia.[22]

Personal life

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Sneako converted to Islam in mid-2023[23] and lives in Miami, Florida.[8]

Discography

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Singles

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

Music videos

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

Filmography

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Film

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References

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  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 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 (30 December 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". Daily Beast. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  7. ^ @Sneako (6 September 2023). "Dropping 9/8, my 25th birthday, quality clothing" (Tweet). Retrieved 9 April 2024 – via Twitter.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i 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.
  9. ^ Hodapp (2017), p. xv; Lumsden (2019), pp. 98–99; Jane (2017), p. 662; Marwick & Lewis (2017), pp. 9, 13
  10. ^ Ritchie, Vander O.B. (6 November 2023). "How Education Is Failing Young Men". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  11. ^ a b @Sneako (30 March 2024). "SNEAKO's experience in Haiti" (Tweet). Retrieved 8 April 2024 – via Twitter.
  12. ^ "Young Alums Day". Foote Prints. The Foote School. 23 April 2015. p. 47. Retrieved 8 April 2024 – via Issuu.
  13. ^ a b @Sneako (27 August 2014). "@SentinelHDD Yeah my dad grew up in Haiti and the majority of my family lives there" (Tweet). Retrieved 8 April 2024 – via Twitter.
  14. ^ @Sneako (4 April 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.
  15. ^ a b c d e f g Merlan, Anna (August 14, 2024). "The heterodoxy: are 'free thinkers' like Joe Rogan driving young men to the right – or just confusing them?". The Guardian. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
  16. ^ @Sneako (16 July 2014). "I go to Haiti pretty much every year since I was 2" (Tweet). Retrieved 8 April 2024 – via Twitter.
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ Thomas, Eleni (2 July 2024). "Twitch finally reinstates Sneako following unexpected ban last year". dexerto.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ^ Adisa, Larry (2023). "Masculine And Feminine Communication: Through Tiktok: A Rhetorical Analysis". Texas State University. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  20. ^ 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.
  21. ^ "White supremacist Nick Fuentes: 'We will make Jews die in the holy war'". Jerusalem Post. 18 July 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  22. ^ Billson, Chantelle (27 March 2024). "Internet star claims MrBeast 'pushing transgenderism' by supporting Ava Kris Tyson". PinkNews. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
  23. ^ Chakraborty, Nilotpal (2024-01-09). "Sneako and JiDion Find Themselves Entangled in a Fiery Debate on Religion Even as Fans Appear Divided". The SportsRush. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
  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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