J.J. McCullough

John James "J. J." McCullough (born: )https://youtu.be/hxUseXDjcdw?t=135https://youtu.be/nZX7STuDXIQ?t=238 is a Canadian journalist, author, and political and social commentary YouTuber who makes videos about various topics relating to Canada, facts about history, the cultures of different countries, and sometimes Canadian politics. He lives in Vancouver.
Most of his videos are around 10-15 minutes, and most of the videos have good responses. He sometimes does travel videos and has visited several countries during the life of his channel. He claims he tries to make his videos have a "timeless" quality, but they do sometimes reference current events, such as elections.
Most of the thumbnails show his face with a reaction with large text and colorful background. His videos often feature his own drawings.
J.J. is openly gay,https://youtu.be/SiaNn5UwTY0?t=116https://youtu.be/-3OeoB_7y-0 and has mentioned his sexuality in many of his videos.
== Personal life ==
J.J. is of Dutch, Scotch-Irish, Italian, and French descent. His mother was a Dutch immigrant. His surname is of Scottish origin. J.J. has a degree in political science and worked for one year as an English teacher in Japan but did not like the experience.
J.J. was born in what he calls a “comfortable” middle class family, but says it could’ve even been "upper middle class." His mother was a high school teacher and his father was a bureaucrat for the Canadian government. They had two children, J.J. and his younger sister. In his childhood he lived in a suburban house in Vancouver with four bedrooms and three bathrooms. He has made several videos discussing the ideology of the middle class which he suggests involves various themes of materialism and anxiety.
== Political beliefs ==
Before making YouTube videos, J.J. worked as a political commentator on Canadian TV and in print. He still writes a weekly column about Canadian politics for the Washington Post.
He describes himself as broadly conservative, and prefers former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper over Justin Trudeau. He does not like Donald Trump and has said critical things about the modern Republican Party in his columns, and sometimes in his videos. Though he overall does not often talk about his political opinions in his videos, and says that his channel is "not a political channel," he does sometimes express strong opinions on specific Canada-related topics. 
He is quite opposed to any special treatment from the Canadian government towards the province of Quebec, and opposes official French-English bilingualism. He has also strongly criticized the Quebec government and was once denounced by their parliament after a column he wrote for the Post in the wake of the 2017 Quebec Mosque Shootinghttps://www.cbc.ca/radio/outintheopen/status-update-1.3997514/how-to-speak-uncomfortable-truths-to-the-canadian-status-quo-1.3997651. He has also been a critic of the status the British monarchy has in Canada and aspects of the Canadian political system. He is a strong supporter of closer US-Canada ties and sometimes jokes about wanting to merge Canada and the USA into one because he thinks they are the two best countries.
===Bill C-10 & Bill C-11 ===
He has also opposed C-10 bill in Canada due to the Canadian government being able to change the explore tabs, recommendations, etc. of videos on the site which leads to a different version of the site.https://youtu.be/My6EUC6cTrw?t=24https://youtu.be/My6EUC6cTrw?t=140 There is also a notion that Canadian YouTube users could possibly be forced to be subscribed to channels such as CBChttps://youtu.be/My6EUC6cTrw?t=183 Even though he mentions that he might benefit from the new system if passed due to making Canadian based topic videos as a Canadian,https://youtu.be/My6EUC6cTrw?t=212 he wants to speak out against this bill due to believing that the government should not tell people what to watch or determine creator's success.https://youtu.be/My6EUC6cTrw?t=229 He encouraged viewers to send messages to the Prime Minister and Heritage Ministerhttps://youtu.be/My6EUC6cTrw?t=269 along with contacting the NDP as stated in the video and description. He has also wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post about his opposition to the plan.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/29/canada-trudeau-c-10-bill-internet-jj-mccullough/
He later did another video that was a explanation video directed at a video by "Friends of Canadian Broadcasting" regarding Bill C-10.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceq4KMP-Teg Almost a year later, he also opposed the C-11 bill in Canada similar to Bill C-10, and he spoke at the Canadian Parliament as the witness called by the Conservative Party of Canada.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4fuMKeGRMghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN5kZPs1XSw He also explained the various interest groups that showed up at the meeting.https://youtu.be/ZN5kZPs1XSw?t=256 He was asked questions at the meeting from members of parliament who support and oppose the bill.https://youtu.be/ZN5kZPs1XSw?t=950 He also mentioned that CBC being supported by the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting as an "anti-American faction".https://youtu.be/ZN5kZPs1XSw?t=882 The video also mentioned the groups in the videos with their names.https://youtu.be/ZN5kZPs1XSw?t=266
He has commented on other YouTube videos that revolve around the bill such as videos by Greg Doucette,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49H9IEmSHW0 More Plates More Dates,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5dRzliYhJM, SomeOrdinaryGamers,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtwCR59_gj8 etc. He also made a video that combined the various videos from various YouTubers about the bill.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xjv-_bzr1xE
He also made an updated video about ways people can help defeat the bill despite passing the House of Commons while explaining some of the parliamentary process,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGKunT1S32o and he recognizes himself as people seeing him as the leader of the movement to stop Bill C-11 from passing.https://youtu.be/xGKunT1S32o?t=14
He also sat down with "This is Vancolour" with Mo Amir to discuss about the effects of the bill which was uploaded to the channelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g33dxgLEA4 along with other podcast websites.https://www.thisisvancolour.com/blog/2022/6/20/161-jj-mccullough
He also did a quick text on screen with scrolling content about encouraging people to stop Bill C-11 on an unrelated video.https://youtu.be/uO_wbQzIm_c?t=1208
He made a public appearance in Toronto where he spoke out against the bill.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRne-pLvY6M
He went to the Canadian Senate to speak out against the bill,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qy2a8F2p1o and he described the various compromises that he is willing to make revolving the bill.
He also went to Pierre Poilievre's office, and one of the questions asked was about Bill C-11. Pierre mentioned that he was against the bill.https://youtu.be/FAGfc_FutWg?t=937
J.J. McCullough spoke with the CRTC after the Bill C-11 passed.https://youtu.be/zY_jjgWXz34?t=787 He has posted a video regarding Bill C-11 that shows that the bill is still in the bureaucratic stages and might not be implemented.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GYXuYvfa0&t=532https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GYXuYvfa0&t=614
==Relations With Other YouTubers==
J.J. has done a response video towards Quebec YouTuber Thomas Gauthier since he did a response video about the importance of French in Canada. Thomas Gauthier has done a response video back at J.J., and Thomas Gauthier has made videos about the Canadian political parties from his point of view which is seen on J.J.'s video. J.J. has placed other sources and other forms of footage to counter his argument. There is once in a while a video about his dislike of Thomas, who he calls his "arch-nemesis" and the over importance of French in general.
However, it seems that their rivalry is friendly. J.J. has done a video with Thomas on the reasoning for voting in Canada which is a collaboration video, and there is a debate with Thomas on political parties in Canada.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n2PT36k09U There was a comment asking about ranking the top Quebecers of all time in a ranked list, and J.J. puts Thomas Gauthier as number one.https://archive.today/NksJs#selection-24567.7-24707.1
J.J. went to VidCon in 2019 and hung out with educational YouTubers such as the Casual Historian. In the video, there is a mention of demonetization in the vlog video about VidCon. In a video unboxing video, he received a UV flashlight from another YouTuber called simontv17, and he wished him good luck for his YouTube career.
A YouTuber with the first name of Adam showed up for his special Canadian video for his 100 thousand subscriber video. Some YouTubers are mentioned as props for certain viewpoints such as the idea of the Canadian Red Ensign was used a historical and far-right political point of view such as by Faith J Goldy using the Red Ensign in her profile page.
Another example was the mention of Diamond and Silk - The Viewers View showing up to Trump's social media summit in 2019 instead of Vidcon despite running an active YouTube channel, and in that same video about Vidcon, there was a brief overview of Live Action and other conservative YouTubers.
He has also made a commentary rebuttal of Grunge which about a video that is more about Canadian culture. 
Bryton Cherrier made a video about J.J. where he claimed that he is well informed and unbiased mostly, but that the articles he writes are biased. J.J. commented on the video that Bryton had "totally [taken the] clip out of context".https://web.archive.org/web/20200109005959if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K0eyu2g36Q The video was later made private.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K0eyu2g36Q
He was featured in a voice over in a video by Knowing Better about obeying authority for reading a paragraph featured in an ad in the video.https://youtu.be/LMbuUUlSQ5w?t=519 Knowing Better mentioned J.J.'s video about the inefficiencies of recycling in a video about the history of oil.https://youtu.be/7kLYqyThX_4?t=1248 He also mentioned him as a "from by good pal Knowing Better".https://youtu.be/jsPOHWSZuHg?t=59 Another example of a Knowing Better of a voice over of a news article about the Canadian legion.https://youtu.be/zhDopGZnLvQ?t=549
In a video about controversial Canadian holidays, Steve Ramsey was mentioned in the video description as doing a voice over line.Steve Ramsey
KhAnubis did a video on Washington D.C. statehood where J.J. read a line from the US. Constitution.https://youtu.be/iyG8Wql-eOI?t=130
Mr. Beat was the driver behind J.J.'s trips to Iowa for the 2020 Democratic primaries, and he explained his opinion on matters relating to elections.https://youtu.be/W-yWA0SAeWg?t=750 Mr. Beat also had J.J. as a guest for his livestream where there was a 10 questions asked for one another.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F-SE43X5QY
J.J. references Danny Gonzalez in a video about asking the definition of American culture in a part of releasing a Christmas song,https://youtu.be/HfZmC-jLTIg?t=797 and he is a big fan of the channel due to his personality and being a comedy musician.
J.J. did a collaboration video with Half-Asleep Chris about guessing each coin in Australia's coin series which is based on each letter of the alphabet. J.J. did the second part of the 2 part series which are based on the last 13 letters of the alphabet.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqCU31q_7Qg
J.J. met Laowhy86 at Vidcon 2019 as indicated in a hearted commented on the video about Vidcon.https://archive.today/nm3kC#selection-15833.0-15909.47
J.J. references various YouTubers in a video about Falun Gong such as China Uncensored, etc. which can be seen as a negative light.https://youtu.be/1JaPzJKycxc?t=325 This would lead to China Uncensored having a video about the funding of the various shows which shows that there was no funding by the Falun Gong, but J.J.'s name was not mentioned in the video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYBUPOw9Sdw
J.J. also did a review and commentary video that was made by Canada Explore which was about the video aimed at getting more tourist to Canada where he explained the inaccuracies in the videos.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev-ml0iUN6w
J.J. commented on a video by TLDR News since the TLDR News channel was inspired by J.J.'s video on fringe Canadian political parties to do a version for the UK's political parties. There was also a link in the description for his channel and the source material that inspired the video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKb1trPHja4 J.J. also had Jack who is the host of TLDR News try to explain the 2021 Canadian federal election as part of the begining level.https://youtu.be/c4qu_FRmRBM?t=30
J.J. participated in a country quiz on Spaghetti Road's channel with KhAnubis as his teammate and Mr. Beat and Drew Durnil as his opponent.
J.J. has debated UsefulCharts on the case of monarchism, and J.J. takes the side of anti-monarchy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aers_XT417M However, UsefulCharts take the side of pro-monarchy in a rebuttal video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgABWs0SHcE
JrEg collaborated with J.J. a few times on jres channelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLtPUkZWqcM including being shoved away by JrEg in a video on radical centrism.https://youtu.be/58IOy41snKU?t=94
He also made a video about the end of Canada where he mentions Whatifalthist that mentions the fall of Canada.https://youtu.be/uO_wbQzIm_c?t=8 where he was contacted about.
Ibxtoycat's video was mentioned in a screenshot in a video about quadrants being used by humans to sort various things.https://youtu.be/QNWiJeeMiLM?t=681 In this segment a clip from "The Political Compass Minecraft Server: Which Ideology Is The Best?" was shown,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1C1zu_9nss and ibxtoycat posted a comment on J.J's videohttps://archive.ph/68nTT Later, there was reply asking about ibxtoycat's generation along with a favorite comment.https://archive.ph/2PYS1#selection-8846.1-9591.151
===Video on Simon Whistler===
J.J. makes an entire video about Simon Whistler and his various channel such as VisualPolitik EN which he describes Whistler's simplified viewpoint on Canada and Canadian politics. J.J. describes his viewpoints as, "Simon is a clear political leftist who clearly decided a long time ago that Canada was simplified going to be his 'good example' country."https://youtu.be/pWivGcHdla0?t=183 J.J. mentions counter-arguments to Simon's viewpoints and evidence. Simon stopped hosting the channel after this.
This later caused a video by a YouTuber called danframpt0n where is clarified J.J.'s point of view and making the argument even more stronger. J.J. mentioned in the comments section that he appreciated the shoutout.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGBQM_52lV0
==Trivia==
*J.J. watched a Name Explain video and commented,https://archive.today/7xd6u and he mentioned Name Explain in another video.https://youtu.be/u47j6fAIz9Q?t=198
*He has spoken with former Prime Minster Stephen Harper before.https://youtu.be/Ip334gxp_sg?t=142
*In some of his older videos, you can see a picture of the Queen Elizabeth II on the wallhttps://youtu.be/pfm4u2UaH4k?t=1despite J.J's comments on the idea of the monarchy in Canada.https://youtu.be/cs5ugzP4Rt4?t=88
*J.J. made a reference to NFKRZ in one of his videos titled The impossible challenge of human NAMES.https://youtu.be/Bx7cIb1IRLc?t=897 NFKRZ, in return, copied J.J's thumbnail from his video Why Russia's flag is BANNED from sports and used it on his video Why is Russia banned from the Olympics?.J.J.'s original thumbnailNFKRZ' thumbnail
**Some other references include using NFKRZ as a paid political party member.https://youtu.be/Q9LrjU5n63g?t=1735https://youtu.be/Q9LrjU5n63g?t=1976
*J.J is the creator of a popular cartoon image of a generic villain resembling Snidely Whiplash. As of September 2022, it is used on the Wikipedia page for .https://twitter.com/JJ_McCullough/status/1210625226184089600 
*From 2003 to 2011, J.J. was a Wikipedia editor. He made over 11,000 edits to the sitehttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Vzbs34&target=Vzbs34&offset=&limit=500 and started hundreds of articles including those on Ann Coulter, Bowflex, and Chicken McNuggets.https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/Vzbs34 He now hates Wikipedia and suggests that people get their information from books or the History Channel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vmSFO1Zfo8
**However, his Wikipedia contains a few factual inaccuracies, such as claims that Wikipedia does not encourage further reading (despite there commonly being a "Further Reading" section in articles containing links),For instance the article on Joe Biden contains a "Works Cited" section which lists various titles published by reputable publishers. Britannica being a better source than Wikipedia (despite a 2005 Nature study finding that Wikipedia "comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries",https://www.nature.com/articles/438900a and the claim that Steven Pruitt had written a third of all the articles on the site (The CBC article he received this from actually states that Pruitt edited a third of all the articles on the site.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meet-the-man-behind-a-third-of-whats-on-wikipedia/ This includes regular maintenance edits).https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&end=&namespace=all&newOnly=1&start=&tagfilter=&target=Ser+Amantio+di+Nicolao&offset=20230115171128
**Among other various subjects, he also wrote an article about himself. However, a 2008 deletion discussion found him to be unnotable.Reasons for deleting the article included him not having any independent and significant coverage in reliable sources and the article being too self-promotional. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/J.J._McCullough
***He also wrote an article for Filibuster Cartoons, a website which he ran. The article was also deleted following a deletion discussion.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Filibuster_Cartoons
***His article was recreated by fans multiple times, which resulted in four subsuquent deletion discussions, all of which ended in the articles being deleted, and a SALTing of the titles "J. J. McCullough" and "J.J. McCollough".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/J.J._McCullough_(3rd_nomination) Due to frequent deletions, an article named "J.J. McCullough" has been banned from being created by non-admins.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=111233539
*J.J. drives a Tesla.https://youtu.be/ZN5kZPs1XSw?t=6
*In a video about the 1990s, J.J. States his favorite author is Chuck Klosterman.
*J.J. received an award for "Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence" on October 9, 2022,https://youtu.be/3IrdYYmYEvU?t=712 and Michael Barrett commented on the video as well.https://archive.ph/UnAMt#selection-5350.1-5447.50
*J.J. does not eat meat.https://youtu.be/BLE9bb3iHGA?t=195
*J.J. claims his income is six-figures from YouTube which is similar to other similar sized YouTubers.https://youtu.be/zY_jjgWXz34?t=873
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