SNEAKO

Caricature of Sneako from Meatcanyon's "SNEAKO MEETS CHARLIE" video.

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Overview Nicolas "Nico" Kenn De Balinthazy (born: September 8, 1998), better known online as SNEAKO, is an American internet personality. Through his main channel "SNEAKO" and second channel "SHNEAKO" on YouTube, Sneako amassed over 2,000,000 subscribers, up until his termination from the platform after repeated community guideline violations. He now posts content on the alt-tech social media platform Rumble. Career Start In 2013, Sneako started out uploading gameplay commentary videos, before switching to commentary with his popular series known as 'Internet Rant.' He eventually started making more motivational content, with many different topics relating to life. He is most famous for his video "Would You Say the N-Word for 1 Dollar" where he went around doing a street interview to random strangers and asking them if they would say the N-word if he paid them $1. He would conduct similar videos like this like "Is It Okay To Be Fat" and "Why Men and Women Aren't Equal". When sneako was 16 and still a very small channel, he would come into contact with Keemstar who would offer him an opportunity to do some voiceover work. After submitting his lines, Keemstar would reject sneako's work claiming it was sub par and privately told him he would not be hiring him. Sneako took this personally, claimed that Keem was attempting to ruin his career and released a now deleted expose video on Keem. Nearly a decade later sneako and keem would reunite on a podcast where sneako claimed he had grown a lot since then and now realised that he just wanted to be independent and didn't like the idea of working for others. During a friendship that developed over the YouTube comment section, Sneako ended up working for MrBeast. This lasted shortly however, as the two had a falling out. The only MrBeast video Sneako appeared in was "I Built a Working Car Using Only LEGOS". Sneako shortly after posted a "MrBeast Exposed" video to his channel after leaving in which he claimed that he again didn't like the idea of working for someone else, calling Mr Beast "someone who used to be a fan", and claiming that the way in which Mr Beast works with and exploits the algorithm is disingenuous. The video was deleted only minutes later but unfortunately for Sneako, MrBeast was able to see it before it got deleted. Their relationship has never been the same. Loss of Audience Favour During a podcast in 2019, Sneako admitted that he had an open relationship with his then girlfriend and attended swinger parties to take part in couple swap sessions, which traumatized him. He claimed the reason for the open relationship was because he was guilty for cheating on his girlfriend and ex girlfriend. This podcast led to him being relentlessly mocked by other YouTubers and called a "cuck" or "cuckold". He later said that he regrets going to swinger parties and urged his audience not to do so. Sneako would later release a video with his then recent ex girlfriend Lily Fofana in which it was revealed they had broken up due to Sneako cheating beacause "he couldn''t wait 3 weeks" in his own words. Many fans were appauled by this behavour as they didn't see sneako as someone who would do that. YouTuber d'angelo wallace would comment "He's for the streets" on this video which sneako reacted to with personal attacks on wallace's content, fasion style and personality. Sneako would also release "FORCING MYSELF TO WATCH DANGELOWALLACE", a satirical video where he reacted to D'Angelo's Influencer - 19 documentary, and ridiculed him for calling out celebrities who were partying during the pandemic, saying he should just move on. Around this same time, on September 15 2020, he uploaded the video "I have a confession... Cuties is my new favorite film" where he professed his support for the French film Cuties directed by Maïmouna Doucuré, which repeatedly featured young girls twerking and in sexual situations throughout the movie. He denied that the movie was sexualizing children but it was completely against it because of what social media was doing to kids. The video was widely disliked and many with some commenters on reuploads of the video claiming that this video was the video that caused them to unsubscribe. A Definitive Change In Content As times got rough and more of his original audience left, Sneako began streaming on his second channel Shneako. While doing these streams sneako would begin watching clips of controversial figure Andrew Tate more and more frequently as Andrew himself was garnering more and more fame in the early 2020s. Sneako's personal beliefs already leaned towards Tate's in the years leading up to this point, however, this marked a definitive change in Sneako's political and social views. This dive into the mgtow (Men going their own way) culture saw a drastic increase in Sneako's viewership as the movement itself gathered steam alongside Tate. Although, along with this drastic rise in viewership came large amounts of scrutiny from individuals who acused Sneako of appropriating the movement for the extra exposure as old videos contradicting his new opinions were found by members of the mgtow community as well as other youtubers trying to expose him, notably, brandon buckingham made a video showing modelling shots of sneako which leaned very homo-erotic. Andrew Tate Connection Despite the clips from his past and Tate stating on a live stream that he is not to be trusted, Sneako would still eventually find himself embedded into the Tate inner circle frequently appearing in content alongside the Tate brothers and parroting the same talking points as the Tate brothers on his live streams. By the time Andrew and Tristan were arrested for the first time on human traficing charges, Sneako's relationship with the brothers had grown to the point where Tristan had called Sneako on stream and said to him "if i disapear im passing the torch to you, keep spreading the message". Sneako would also strongly defend the brothers on his streams saying that they had done nothing wrong and that the arrest was a farse. Around this time is when KSI called out Sneako for his content and political views. Andrew Tate would come to sneako's defence on a live stream and claim that he would beat up KSI after KSI had challenged Sneako to a boxing match. This lead KSI to respond by doing an impersonation on a stream of Sneako asking for "daddy tate" to help him because people were being mean on the internet. It was also around this time when sneako claimed he was going to be converting to islam much like many other creators in the "manosphere", this was met with a lot of criticism from the muslim community die to offensive statements Sneako had made in the past and even KSI would call him out for it during their arguments on twitter: "you're truly just a man with 0 values. Fuck anyone over to be the main guy at the top of the ladder. Demeaning to women, demeaning to Islam, demeaning to people and their weight for your bubble. Your truth is a lie. You're a trend that's dying. Enjoy it for now." YE24/Nick Fuentes In November 2022, Sneako joined the Ye24 campaign with Kanye 'Ye' West as well as Nick Fuentes, a right-wing political streamer he frequently collaborated with before and after his termination. Nick Fuentes has made racist and antisemitic statements (as well as participating in the capitol riot), which resulted in him being banned from social media. Many YouTubers have called for him and Destiny (though in Destiny's case he was invited on so that he could debate him rather than to endorsement him) to be banned due to their associations with him. All of Sneako's videos with Nick were deleted and his streaming channel was banned for a week. Despite this, Sneako doubled down on his support for Nick, and said that he would vote for him if he ran for president. As of December 2023, Sneako is back on Ye's team. He announced the news on 17/12/2023. Bans On October 3, 2022, both of Sneako's channels were terminated by YouTube due to alleged "severe or repeated violations of YouTube's TOS", although his main channel did not have any strikes. Sneako later released a statement thanking all of his followers for supporting him in his nine years on YouTube, and moved his videos to Rumble. He gained 100k subscribers on Rumble the next month. His Twitter account was banned in September 2022 after challenging HasanAbi to a fight, saying that he would "break his face". His account was later reinstated in November 2022. Youtube Drama Many other youtubers have called out Sneako for his behavour including Moist critical, Hasan Abi and Meat Canyon. Youtuber Nickisnotgreen also created a video calling for viewers to mass flag Sneako's channel which is very likely what lead to Sneako's channels being removed from youtube in late 2022.