Spectacles

Spectacles is an American YouTube channel created by the duo Philip Brain and Harry Clennon with content presented in animated form and mainly focusing on political events in history that relate to democracy, something both Brain and Clennon share a deep passion for. Of the two, Philip Brain provides the voice-over, and presents the videos, including shorts.
== Personal Life ==
Both Philip Brain and Harry Clennon are graduates of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohiohttps://www.spectacles.news/editors/. They are co-editors-in-chief of Spectacles Media, which they founded together in 2021https://www.youtube.com/@spectacles-dm/about.
=== Philip Brain ===
Brain grew up in Kansas City, Missouri where he still resideshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-brain-7a5476203/. In-mid 2018 he had an internship as a campaign operative for independent senate candidate Craig O'Dear, and studied at Kenyon College from 2017 to 2021, graduating with a bachelor of Arts in political science; while at Kenyon he participated in an internship as a legal philosophical researcher in 2019, he co-founded the BridgeUSA, a campus political forum in August 2018, and was co-editor-in-chief of The Kenyon Observer from 2020 to 2021. He enjoys leatherworking.
=== Harry Clennon ===
Clennon grew up in Santa Monica, California where he still resideshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-clennon/. He began studying at Kenyon College in 2017, graduating in 2021, majoring in political science, and minoring in history. In 2019 he had an internship for California assemblyman Richard Bloom of the 50th state district, Bloom was also mayor of Santa Monica from 2010 to 2012https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Bloom. Clennon has been a member of various Democrat party youth organisations, such as the College Democrats of Ohio and the Kenyon College Democrats. Clennon was also co-editor-in-chief of The Kenyan Observer alongside Brain and participated in a 3-month internship at Our National Conversation (ONC) in 2021. He plays the guitar, having been a guitarist in the band Cohorthttps://www.reverbnation.com/musician/harryclennon.
== Content ==
=== Videos ===
Sudan's Story: Why Dictators Don't Give Up Anymore, uploaded on 14 August 2022 at 10 minutes and 22 seconds in duration, is the oldest video on the channel, having over 54K views, over 2.4K likes, and 114 comments as of 27 July 2024https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qwb_T8l5j4. This will change how you think about the Iraq War., uploaded on 5 November 2022 at 11 minutes and 20 seconds in length, is the most popular video on the channel as of 27 July 2024 with over 1.9 million views, over 41K likes, and 6,336 commentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cjriLK-y14. The current channel trailer as of 27 July 2024 is Japan in 1960 was insane., uploaded on 11 April 2024 at 26 minutes and 36 seconds long, it has over 1.4 million views, over 41K likes, and 2,352 commentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzRWPGSaKDk.
=== Shorts ===
Dictators don't give up anymore. we explain why., uploaded on 18 August 2022 is the oldest short on the channel, as of 27 July 2024 it has over 1.6K views, 63 likes, and 3 commentshttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/u__xthJGZuY. Why "Fat Man" & "Little Boy", uploaded on 3 August 2023 is the most popular short on the channel as of 27 July 2024 with over 17.2K views, 1.1K likes, and 22 commentshttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/7rHxUHThcOk.
== References ==
Category:Film YouTubers
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2021
Category:American YouTubers