StevenCrowder

Steven Blake Crowder (born: ) is an American-Canadian political YouTuber who discusses conservative and right-wing politics. Steven started his channel on June 3, 2006, but his earliest video dates back to January 5, 2009. He incorporates right-wing politics into his content with skits. He is also a comedian, and hosts the late-night-style talk show 'Louder with Crowder'. He was previously the biggest conservative commentator on YouTube until 2023, being overtaken by Ben Shapiro.
He previously worked for BlazeTV, and previously worked with Mark Levin's CRTV before the merge.
==History==
Steven Crowder was born in Detroit, Michigan, to an American father and a French-Canadian mother. He moved to Montreal when he was 3 up until 18, when he moved back to the United States where he would major in Creative Arts at the Champlain College in Vermont.
===Before YouTube===
Crowder started his career in the year 2000 when he was 13, voicing the character Alan "Brain" Powers from the children's animated television series Arthur, it wasn't until 2002 where he'd get his first film role, acting in the film Two Summers, he would appear in more film, those being The Covenant [2006], Arthur's Missing Pal [2006], and To Save a Life [2009]. In 2004, he would delve into stand-up comedy and then worked at Fox News from 2009 to 2012. He was fired in 2013. He headlined CPAC in 2013.
===Channel growth===
Steven's channel grew with his comedic political videos, debates & most notably the Change My Mind series, where he states his view on a topic that is seen as controversial & tries, facetiously, to have peaceful discussions with the people who disagree with him. Although not all of these discussions go as planned, sometimes the person speaking with Crowder can become very hostile and angry, one example is when a girl got very angry and emotional when Steven was discussing rape culture at her college campus. He has the biggest independent political channel on Youtube. Comedian Owen Benjamin worked on the show until he was fired in 2018. Owen and Steven would both make conflicting statements as to why they split. 
He interviews numerous political commentators and members of Congress on his channel, such as Donald Trump Jr., Senator Ted Cruz and Rep. Dan Crenshaw. WWE wrestler AJ Styles made an appearance on his show in 2020. Ralph Macchio, who plays Daniel LaRusso in The Karate Kid movies as well as Cobra Kai, also made an appearance on his show in 2018. 
In June 2019, his channel was threatened by corporate media figures such as Carlos Maza of Vox, after Crowder made multiple videos refuting Maza's arguments and insulting him multiple times, calling him a 'lispy sprite' and 'Gaywonk', which was Maza's twitter handle. He claimed to have been doxxed and called for Steven's channel to be deleted.
YouTube stated that his channel did not violate community guidelines, but after Maza pointed out his 'Socialism is for f*gs' T-shirt (was not related to Maza in any way) and told his followers to contact YouTube advertisers, his channel was demonetized for 1 year. This action was praised by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but Senator Ted Cruz and Fox News host Tucker Carlson defended him. 
In 2021, his channel was reported and banned multiple times after pushing election fraud conspiracy theories, as well as his Twitter account. He was demonetized again and banned from live streaming for a week from all of his channels.
After returning, he posted a string of controversial comedy skits and challenges, regarding black farmers and mocking their accent, a Sesame Street BLM parody, and a George Floyd reenactment, having someone dressed as an officer putting a knee on his neck for 8 minutes. It should be noted that said friend was not placing his whole weight on Crowder's neck, unlike Derek Chauvin did to Floyd. It caused massive outrage on social media, and more calls for him to be banned. 
==Controversy==
===Ethan Klein controversy===
In June 2021, Steven and Joe Rogan got into a public feud with Ethan Klein over the CDC coronavirus guidelines and the vaccine. Ethan then responded by saying, "You don't have to think about it dude. Trust the scientists." Ethan then challenged him to a debate, to which Steven agreed. On June 22, immediately after the debate began, Ethan snuck Majority Report host Sam Seder on the call.
Steven then got off the call to which Sam called him "Cold Feet Crowder" which began trending on Twitter. Sam repeatedly claimed that Steven ran away from a debate with him at Politicon in 2019. Steven denied this, and stated that he never attended any political conference since 2013. Right-wing commentators such as Styxhexenhammer666https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCt6R-ULH_8 and Lauren Chenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuDzCGPCD8c came to his defense. He uploaded an unedited video to which he predicted that Ethan would pull something to avoid the debate.
===Divorce and domestic abuse allegations===
On the April 25, 2023, Steven Crowder revealed he was divorced, and had been going through a divorce since 2021. On the April 28, a video was leaked showing Steven yelling at and berating his wife, at their house. The video dates back to June 26, 2021. In this video, Hilary, who was 8 months pregnant with twins, did not want to handle potentially toxic medication for his dogs, as to which Steven began yelling at her, saying that he does not love her, and refused to allow her to leave the house. After being called abusive by Hilary, Steven tells her "watch it, fucking watch it", and after he shouts to her that he will "fuck her up".https://yashar.substack.com/p/exclusive-video-reveals-steven-crowder
Afterwards, Hilary gave birth to twins in August 2021, via C-section. Steven was not present while the children were being born, as he was recovering from surgery to fix a collapsed lung, which occurred after surgery to correct pectus excavatum, a sunken chest. Previously he had stated that this was to fix a fault with his heart.
Steven released his response to the domestic abuse allegations on April 29, 2023. In this response, he stated that he would release a rebuttal in the near future. The response was very poorly received across the political spectrum.https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1652042182172221446 Jared Monroe, who previously worked on Louder With Crouder under the name NotGayJared, supported her after the divorce details went public.
==Political views ==
Steven is a Christian conservative with nearly far-right views. He has gotten in many controversies with left-wing commentators and activist groups criticizing him for being racist, sexist and homophobic in his comedy. He supported Ted Cruz in the 2016 Presidential Election. 
==Personal life==
He lives in Texas with his dog Hopper. His ex-wife suffered a miscarriage in the past, but she gave birth to twins in August 2021 via C-section. 
He was allegedly diagnosed with a heart infection and damaged his knee during a comedy skit in January 2021. He underwent surgery in July. He also reported that he was close to death due to the heart surgeries. His wife, however, claimed that it was just a cosmetic surgery to fix his chest. 
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