Sergio Candanedo (1988, Madrid),[2][3] also known as Un Tío Blanco Hetero ("A White Straight Guy"), is a Spanish YouTuber. Active since 2018, he criticizes sociocultural concepts like feminism, gender studies and political correctness.[4][5]
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| Born | Sergio Candanedo 1988 Madrid, Spain | |||||||||
| Occupation | Video producer | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2018–present | |||||||||
| Genre | Social criticism | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 437 thousand[1] | |||||||||
| Total views | 95.3 million[1] | |||||||||
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Last updated: 2 May 2023 | ||||||||||
Biography
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Candanedo started his YouTube career in early 2018. Before that, he had worked as a bald consultant before moving to Canada, where he studied for two years before returning to Spain.[4][5][6] It was there where he got the idea to open a YouTube channel, in the style of social critics like H3h3Productions, Jordan Peterson and Some Black Guy, who inspired his own nickname.[4] In 2016, he also wrote and co-directed the short film En Tu Puta Cara for online film contest Notodofilmfest.[7]
His first video, which addressed the consequences of the Me Too movement, was uploaded to YouTube on 2 February 2018. He introduced then his characteristic visual style, in which he monologues to the camera while wearing a white lycra mask (nicknamed by himself his "human condom" and based on Batman's attire),[5] a black hoodie and plastic sunglasses.[4][6] As he explained later, he chose this appearance not only to hide his identity and stand out, but also to divest himself of his individuality and to represent ironically the "white heterosexual" collective in the gender perspective's own terms.[5][6] The mentioned video attracted a great deal of views and subscribers, which only increased with his next productions, reaching 140 000 in only seven months and allowing him to open a Patreon account.[5]
His early videos also established his channel's theme, which orbits around building criticism of modern feminism through research material,[4][6] as well as verbalizing "that which many think but don't dare to say."[4] Candanedo attributed his success to his addressing of those topics, which didn't impede him from attracting controversy from related circles, to the point of receiving death threats with some frequency.[4][5] Despite the many political affiliations media has speculated about him, he declared himself as a YouTuber for both left and right-wing politics.[5] His channel's impact also improved the presence of other Spanish video producers with the same thematic, among them the YouTuber and PhD in science Xeno Shenlong.[8]
In May 2019, UTBH became mediatic after his participation in the Free Market Road Show in Castellón was subjected to an escrache. The incident's authorship fell on feminist association Subversives, which had previously called to boycott the act on the saying it was "fascist and misogynist," and whose members had to be driven outside by the National Police Corps.[9][10] Some days later, the YouTuber uploaded a video about the incident to deflect the accusations.[11]
The same month, Candanedo released his first book, Prohibir la manzana y encontrar la serpiente, written along with fellow YouTuber Leyre Khyal.[12]
In September 2020, Candanedo started working as a weekly columnist in online newspaper Vozpópuli.[2] Candanedo started appearing on Iker Jiménez's program Horizonte in February 2021 as part of a debate about the protests against the imprisonment of Pablo Hasél.[13]
In June 2023, a Spanish court dismissed his defamation suit against a feminist activist and ordered him to pay court costs.[14]
Bibliography
edit- With Leyre Khyal, Prohibir la manzana y encontrar la serpiente, Deusto (2019)
References
edit- ^ a b "About Un Tío Blanco Hetero". YouTube.
- ^ a b "Un Tío Blanco Hetero escribirá cada lunes en 'Vozpópuli'" (in Spanish). Vozpópuli. 9 September 2020. Archived from the original on 14 November 2020. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
- ^ Maldonado, Lorena G. (31 March 2019). "Un Tío Blanco Hetero: "El feminismo fomenta la mojigatería, la represión y el discurso antisexo"" (in Spanish). El Español.
- ^ a b c d e f g Somolinos, Daniel (17 August 2018). "'Un tío blanco hetero', el verdugo del feminismo moderno, da la cara". El Mundo (in Spanish).
- ^ a b c d e f g Elío, Javier (27 September 2018). "Un Tío Blanco Hetero: hablamos con el azote youtuber del 'feminismo pop'" (in Spanish). El Español.
- ^ a b c d Berberana, Elena (24 April 2018). "'Un Tío Blanco Hetero', el nuevo azote de las feministas: "La gente ya está harta de su discurso de odio"" (in Spanish). Libremercado.com.
- ^ "En tu puta cara". El País (in Spanish). 21 April 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ "Xeno's channel". June 2018 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Escrache feminista al 'youtuber' Un tío blanco hetero en Castelló" (in Spanish). El Periódico Mediterráneo. 9 May 2019.
- ^ Ramírez, Borja (9 May 2019). "Activistas feministas reciben al 'youtuber' 'Un tío blanco hetero' al grito de "fuera machistas de Castellón"" (in Spanish). Eldiario.es.
- ^ "Mi primer escrache feminista". 10 May 2019 – via YouTube.
- ^ Parra, Sergio (7 May 2019). "Libros que nos inspiran: 'Prohibir la manzana y encontrar la serpiente', de Un Tío Blanco Hetero" (in Spanish). Xataka.
- ^ Zavala, Cristina (25 February 2021). "Iker Jiménez invita al youtuber Un Tío Blanco Hetero a 'Horizonte' para tratar el tema de Pablo Hásel" (in Spanish). Los40. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
- ^ Velasco, Marina (23 June 2023). "La Justicia desestima la demanda de 'Un Tío Blanco Hetero' contra una activista feminista por difamación" (in Spanish). El Diario. Retrieved 28 June 2023.