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| birth_name = Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy<ref name="Starr">{{cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-796472|title=Social media streamer Sneako: 'Down with the Jews'|editor=Starr, Michael|date=11 April 2024|publisher=[[Jerusalem Post]]|accessdate=11 April 2024}}</ref>
| birth_name = Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy<ref name="Starr">{{cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-796472|title=Social media streamer Sneako: 'Down with the Jews'|editor=Starr, Michael|date=11 April 2024|website=[[Jerusalem Post]]|accessdate=11 April 2024}}</ref>
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| birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S.
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== Career ==
== Career ==


Sneako made his online debut in 2013 as a YouTuber,<ref name="“UHigh”"/> and has posted various content from gaming uploads, [[Online streamer#IRL steams|IRL streams]], and [[reaction video]]s.<ref name=“Feinstein”/> Sneako initially gained popularity for his unique style of editing and nuanced ''self-awareness'' commentaries, which spoke about life and spirituality before pivoting towards more controversial subjects that involved unfair scrutiny of women and marginalized people until his eventual ban from YouTube.<ref name="“UHigh”"/><ref name="Cole2">{{cite web|url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/733001-sneako-mike-majlak-heroin|title=Sneako Goes After Mike Majlak For Past Heroin Use|editor=Cole, Alexander|date=8 November 2023|publisher=[[HotNewHipHop]]|accessdate=24 April 2024}}</ref> In one particular video, Sneako would ask Black people if it were okay for people who weren’t black to say ''the [[Nigger|N-word]]'' and would offer White people one dollar to say it.<ref name=“Miller”/> 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".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://digital.library.txst.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/ecf2077d-c148-44c7-b339-7ce27b0142d7/content|title=Masculine And Feminine Communication: Through Tiktok: A Rhetorical Analysis|author=Adisa, Larry|year=2023|publisher=[[Texas State University]]|accessdate=24 April 2024}}</ref>
Sneako made his online debut in 2013 as a YouTuber,<ref name="“UHigh”"/> and has posted various content from gaming uploads, [[Online streamer#IRL steams|IRL streams]], and [[reaction video]]s.<ref name=“Feinstein”/> Sneako initially gained popularity for his unique style of editing and nuanced ''self-awareness'' commentaries, which spoke about life and spirituality before pivoting towards more controversial subjects that involved unfair scrutiny of women and marginalized people until his eventual ban from YouTube.<ref name="“UHigh”"/><ref name="Cole2">{{cite web|url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/733001-sneako-mike-majlak-heroin|title=Sneako Goes After Mike Majlak For Past Heroin Use|editor=Cole, Alexander|date=8 November 2023|website=[[HotNewHipHop]]|accessdate=24 April 2024}}</ref> In one particular video, Sneako would ask Black people if it were okay for people who weren’t black to say ''the [[Nigger|N-word]]'' and would offer White people one dollar to say it.<ref name=“Miller”/> 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".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://digital.library.txst.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/ecf2077d-c148-44c7-b339-7ce27b0142d7/content|title=Masculine And Feminine Communication: Through Tiktok: A Rhetorical Analysis|author=Adisa, Larry|year=2023|publisher=[[Texas State University]]|accessdate=24 April 2024}}</ref>


As of 2023, Sneako’s newer content while more successful in terms of viewership, it has become unrecognizable from his original work, which ignited his streaming career from inception.<ref name="“UHigh”"/>
As of 2023, Sneako’s newer content while more successful in terms of viewership, it has become unrecognizable from his original work, which ignited his streaming career from inception.<ref name="“UHigh”"/>
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! scope="row"|"Curry Freestyle"<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">([[Lil Pump]] featuring N3on and Sneako)<ref name=“Cole”>{{cite web|url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/728443-dj-akademiks-n3on-sneako-lil-pump-collab|title=DJ Akademiks Forced To Sit Through Sneako, N3on, & Lil Pump's Ridiculous Song|editor=Cole, Alexander|date=26 October 2023|publisher=[[HotNewHipHop]]|accessdate=11 April 2024}}</ref></span>
! scope="row"|"Curry Freestyle"<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">([[Lil Pump]] featuring N3on and Sneako)<ref name=“Cole”>{{cite web|url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/728443-dj-akademiks-n3on-sneako-lil-pump-collab|title=DJ Akademiks Forced To Sit Through Sneako, N3on, & Lil Pump's Ridiculous Song|editor=Cole, Alexander|date=26 October 2023|website=[[HotNewHipHop]]|accessdate=11 April 2024}}</ref></span>
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Revision as of 17:34, 25 April 2024


Sneako
Born
Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy[1]

(1998-09-08) September 8, 1998 (age 25)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationOnline streamer
Years active2013–present
Movement
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2013–2022[4]
Subscribers1.28 million[4][5]
Total views98.08 million[4][5]
100,000 subscribers
1,000,000 subscribers
Last updated: September 4, 2022[4]

Nicolas “Nico” Kenn De Balinthazy[6] (born 8 September 1998)[7] better known online as Sneako, is an American online streamer.

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

Sneako has since joined Rumble[10] and as of October 2023, he was the seventh most-watched channel with 1.37 million hours watched,[11] maintaining popularity among young male viewers.[10]

Early years

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

Career

Sneako made his online debut in 2013 as a YouTuber,[3] and has posted various content from gaming uploads, IRL streams, and reaction videos.[10] Sneako initially gained popularity for his unique style of editing and nuanced self-awareness commentaries, which spoke about life and spirituality before pivoting towards more controversial subjects that involved unfair scrutiny of women and marginalized people until his eventual ban from YouTube.[3][17] In one particular video, Sneako would ask Black people if it were okay for people who weren’t black to say the N-word and would offer White people one dollar to say it.[18] 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]

As of 2023, Sneako’s newer content while more successful in terms of viewership, it has become unrecognizable from his original work, which ignited his streaming career from inception.[3]

Sneako is a supporter of Andrew Tate and has been seen in videos with him as a regular.[20][18] Sneako has expressed admiration for Tate, crediting him and his brother Tristan for their assistance in his betterment.[21]

Sneako’s content has also been described as supporting far-right political views.[10] In 2022, Sneako joined Kanye West’s 2024 presidential campaign and has referred to him as his childhood hero.[6] He has also voiced support far-right commentator Nick Fuentes. Speaking at an American First rally in July 2023, Sneako said, “Nick Fuentes is going to the next president of the United States."[22]

In 2023, Sneako defended homophobic and transphobic shouting by fans, including that "all gays should die", stating "this is how I was at 12. But if it sounds egregious to you, blame the [rainbow emoji] (sic) flags in their classrooms. Blame the media for emasculating men. It's your fault for forcing an obvious agenda."[10]

In March 2024, PinkNews reported that Sneako had claimed that MrBeast (who he formerly collaborated with) was "pushing kids to transgenderism", along with the "baseless claim" that male-bodied individuals were removing their genitalia as a result of MrBeast continuing to support a trans collaborator.[23]

Discography

Singles

List of singles as featured artist, with selected chart positions
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
US
 US
R&B/HH
 AUS
 CAN
 CZH
 FRA
 NZ
Heat.
 SCO
"Curry Freestyle"
(Lil Pump featuring N3on and Sneako)[24] 		2023 - - - - - - - - Non-album single

Music videos

List of music videos as a featured artist, showing year released and director
Title Year Director(s)
"Curry Freestyle"
(Lil Pump featuring N3on and Sneako)[25] 		2023 Un­known

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2020 Unsubscribe YouTuber [26]

References

  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 d e 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 "SNEAKO's YouTube Stats (Summary Profile) - Social Blade Stats".
  5. ^ a b "About SNEAKO". YouTube.
  6. ^ a b Petrizzo, Zachary (29 November 2022). "Racist YouTuber Joins Kanye West's Campaign". Yahoo! News. 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. ^ Hodapp (2017), p. xv; Lumsden (2019), pp. 98–99; Jane (2017), p. 662; Marwick & Lewis (2017), pp. 9, 13
  9. ^ Ritchie, Vander O.B. (6 November 2023). "How Education Is Failing Young Men". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  10. ^ a b c d e f 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.
  11. ^ Iyer, Ravi (2 November 2023). "Rumble October 2023 results — platform hits new record for monthly watch time". Streams Charts. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  12. ^ a b @Sneako (30 March 2024). "SNEAKO's experience in Haiti" (Tweet). Retrieved 8 April 2024 – via Twitter.
  13. ^ "Young Alums Day". Foote Prints. The Foote School. 23 April 2015. p. 47. Retrieved 8 April 2024 – via Issuu.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ @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.
  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. ^ Cole, Alexander, ed. (8 November 2023). "Sneako Goes After Mike Majlak For Past Heroin Use". HotNewHipHop. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ Adisa, Larry (2023). "Masculine And Feminine Communication: Through Tiktok: A Rhetorical Analysis". Texas State University. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  20. ^ Mance, Henry (6 April 2023). "What does it mean to be a boy online in 2023?". Financial Times. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  21. ^ 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.
  22. ^ "White supremacist Nick Fuentes: 'We will make Jews die in the holy war'". Jerusalem Post. 18 July 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  23. ^ Billson, Chantelle (27 March 2024). "Internet star claims MrBeast 'pushing transgenderism' by supporting Ava Kris Tyson". PinkNews. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
  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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