Kraut

Joseph Lanchester, better known online as Kraut (formerly Kraut and Tea), is an Anglo-German YouTube commentator and documentary maker, focused primarily on history, politics, societal issues, and religion. Kraut was best known for his criticisms against SJWs, feminists, Islam, and later the alt-right. Kraut was one of the prominent figures of the so-called 'Skeptic community'. However, from mid-2019 onwards, Kraut has stopped making commentary videos and instead started focusing on animated countryball educational videos.
==History==
Joseph created his YouTube channel on December 28, 2015, but rose to prominence during 2016 after his series of videos specifically criticizing Islam. He gained a substantial amount of viewership after MrRepzion, a fellow YouTuber mirrored his video attacking Islamic YouTuber Karim Metwaly’s response on the Orlando gay nightclub bar shooting. Throughout 2016, Joseph made more videos against SJWs, Islam, and other topics. He managed to gain subscribers and viewership as time went on. Joseph began building ties with other skeptics such as Sargon of Akkad, MundaneMatt, amongst others.
In 2017, Joseph managed to gain over 100,000 subscribers. Joseph began to his attention away from those mainline topics and focus on tackling the alt-right, which only attracted more controversy. He then stepped out of YouTube for a brief period of time, returning in early 2018, and by mid-2019 had stopped making anti-alt-right and commentary videos in favor of animated educational countryball videos, with the countryball video format chosen primarily because Brain4breakfast had just died recently, and he wanted to pay his respects. He still continues making animated educational videos, and has stated on his second channel that he will not return to making political commentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS-Mxeu_570&t=246s
==Controversy==
===RageAfterStorm drama===
On 2017 June 29 Kraut made a tweet to the Twitter account that in was in RageAfterStorm's Twitter biohttps://archive.today/fywhq saying "@kippercentral you might to look into the views of one of your contributors @RageAfterStorm". 20 minutes later Kraut deleted the Tweet saying it was a stupid thing to do.
RageAfterStorm was a race-realist YouTuber who frequently made Alt-Right leaning and race realist content, and Kipper Central is a blog where unpaid contributors can write on UKIP related topics. Rage wrote for this blog as a hobby.
Shorty after the tweet was made to them they let Rage go because they didn't wanted to be associated with Rage's views. Although, they noted that others too have pointed out to them Rage's views before and they were already in the process of letting her go. It wasn't that difficult for them to find out about her views considering she had them tagged in the Twitter bio of the same Twitter where she spouted her views publicly.
Weeks later on 2017 July 20th RageAfterStorm made antisemitic tweets mocking the lead vocalist of Linkin Park, Chester Bennington, after his suicide.https://archive.today/IjPIRhttps://archive.today/Wa9Wehttps://archive.today/CwC1j As a result she got called out by a bunch of Linkin Park fans and due to this left the internet.https://archive.today/we6swhttps://archive.today/ks6gxhttps://archive.today/Y0pTXhttps://archive.today/bO46Dhttps://archive.today/NepHYhttps://archive.today/BspvZ
Shortly after a Half-Copt white nationalist YouTuber by the name of BravingRuin (aka EdgySphinx) and his friends brought up the incident of Kraut making a tweet at the Kipper Central blog in order to generate drama (which they successfully achieved), blaming Kraut for Rage leaving the internet. Some people even accused Kraut of doxing Rage, which doesn't even makes sense considering Kraut has never published Rage's real name or address. Kraut responded to the drama on 2017 July 26 with a video titled "Artificial Outrage".
===Discord doxxing server drama===
In around Mid-2017 Kraut, having reservations about an increasingly-right-accepting Skeptic community, decided to re-focus on opposing the Alt-Right. Seeking to challenge the Alt-Right's claims about breeding patterns and race realism on a more academic level, Kraut created a Discord server with the intent of connecting audience-having Skeptics with knowledgeable academics to discredit Alt-Right assertions. Quite a few moderately prominent Skeptics got involved with the server. Kraut would make several videos sourced from this server, but some were riddled with translation errors and some poorly-chosen metaphors, most infamously "Pregnant Trout".
By the end of 2017 the Alt-Right had found out about the server and managed to place a spy into it, trying to dig up dirt on Kraut. Around this same time Kraut, while researching an Alt-Right youtuber by the name of Coach Red Pill found his real name (Gonzalo Lira) as a signature at the end of his videos and subsequently discovered serious accusations of fraud made by Australian economist Steve Keen towards him.http://australianpropertyforum.com/steve-keen-39-s-debunking-economics-website-stolen-t13019.html Kraut revealed this information to his friends on the Discord server and was looking to try and bring this information to popular "point-and-laugh" YouTuber Mister "Jim" Metokur.
Coach Red Pill's eventual response to this was to try to frame Kraut for rape.https://archive.org/details/youtube-j8aMjl_hJq0
But before Kraut really had a chance to act on this information, things blew up. Several Alt-Righters (most prominently the earlier mentioned Half-Copt white nationalist EdgySphinx/Braving Ruin) accused Kraut of running a doxxing operation on the server. Several opportunistic YouTubers (Metokur, Tonkasaw, Andy Warski) jumped on this scandal as a way to promote themselves and where joined by more Alt-Right leaning "Skeptics" (most prominently Aydin Paladin - who was eventually caught flat-out making things uphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLZ_NoKELe8). Kraut alternated between denying everything and trying to blame the top mod of the server Zeph Aurelion (Who was trying to blame Kraut). The rest of the Skeptics involved with the server where reluctant to speak in Kraut's defense, still being somewhat embarrassed by the "Pregnant Trout" debacle and the simple fact that Kraut could be very hard to work with.
Eventually, by early 2018, Kraut and several of his most prominent defenders had their families doxxed and harassed and several quit the internet for a time or gave up on the Skeptic community in general. This also sparked off the brief Genre known as "Internet Blood Sports".
It should be noted that none of the accusations of Doxxing going on on the server where ever proven, and most of the accusers where either discredited (Coach Red Pill, Braving Ruin, Andy Warski) withdrew their accusations (Tokasaw, Aydin Paladin - who claimed Kraut was falsely accusing her of accusing him of doxxing her) or just flat-out admitted that they didn't particularly care what was true (Metokur).
==Return==
Kraut would eventually return to YouTube by the end of 2018, released a few videos asserting his innocence, and settled into making content about history and geopolitics (For example multi-hour multi-part documentaries on the histories of nations, such as Turkey). To date he retains a justified hatred for the Alt-Right, is still somewhat wary of leftists, and has cut ties with the shattered Skeptic community and he's yet to forgive them for failing to apply a sufficient degree of skepticism to the claims against him and sees many of them as grifters now.
==New content==
As of June 2021, Kraut drastically changed his video-style after becoming disillusioned with the Political Commentary community.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS-Mxeu_570 He now no longer makes political commentary videos, and instead makes videos discussing the histories of countries, and famously made two three-part series on Turkey and Mexico, which took him one and a half year to complete. Joseph claims that he, along with two others, are building a new community separate from the Political Commentary community, as a way to avoid the Culture War.https://twitter.com/Der_Parrot/status/1430134109649752067
==Kraut's videos addressing the drama after his return==
#Hello There: https://archive.org/details/youtube-Nu07npsiATI
#Absolutely Red Pilled: https://archive.org/details/youtube-j8aMjl_hJq0
#WE WUZ HUITEZ: https://archive.org/details/WEWUZHUITEZ
#Himitsu Secret Dog Aydin Chan Kokoko: https://archive.org/details/HimitsuSecretDogAydinChanKokoko
==References==
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:Educational YouTubers
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Category:Austrian YouTubers
Category:English YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2015