Think Before You Sleep

Sean, better known online as Think Before You Sleep or TBYS, is an American political commentary YouTuber who is known for his political commentary videos on a number of topics including feminism, racism, fat acceptance and health.
==History==
The account was created on November 15, 2018. He uploaded his first YouTube video on February 6, 2019 where he gave his opinion on the accusations against voice actor Vic Mignogna.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SicGyU8HgOU He gained popularity among users with conservative and right-wing views for his negative opinions on modern sociopolitical activism, also considered woke capitalism. 
== Content ==
Sean's content primarily discusses political topics such as feminism, gender politics, racism, sexuality, health politics, and political correctness. While his arguments and takes are predominantly right-leaning and conservative, he has shown to favor and argue for left-leaning or centrist political views at times. His videos are usually formatted so that the arguments of the topic he's discussing are presented first and then his opinions of each of these arguments presented.
== Controversy ==
Sean has been accused by other YouTubers - including Ludwig, Vaush, HasanAbi & Noah Samsen - of promoting sexist and far-right content, as well as discrimination against overweight people, homophobia, and antisemitism.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7tmOAZ0vEAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFOqj0UCQyAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX6OQpeCeMA
Popular streamer iiTzTimmy stood against Sean, after he used iiTzTimmy's clips in a video titled "How Feminist Ideas Make Everyone Weak." Timmy said the video's message didn't reflect his views and that he believes the gaming community needs to improve its way of treating women.https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/twitch-streamer-iitztimmy-calls-sexist-content-creator-including-video
===Feud with Noah Samsen===
Amongst the YouTubers that have criticized him, one YouTuber, Noah Samsen, has consistently criticized Sean's videos, which Sean has criticized for the arguments and how they're presented. Sean, and many other YouTubers targeted by him, like Vaush, Turkey Tom, and Destiny, have accused Noah Samsen of misinformation, using hateful and unconstructive language, associating with and supporting extremists, double standards, not doing research, and manipulating his audience when talking about other YouTubers that he doesn't agree with. Noah Samsen openly shows a heavy disliking towards Sean's content and frequently gets into disgareements with Sean and his associates. Noah Samsen would involve himself in a major drama that's mentioned in the next section.
===Illymation Situation===
In February of 2024, Sean posted a response video to a video by YouTuber Illymation titled "Perks of being The Fat Kid" in which he heavily criticized her analysis of modern dieting culture while criticizing her fashion choices and giving her recommendations on how to improve her appearance, although to many fans his critisism was too harsh and was unnecasary, on the other hand some fans have claimed that this was only for him to give advice.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry9kmwoa1OA&feature=youtu.be The video received over 1,000,000 views in three months and would prompt drama between him and Illymation not long after the response video was uploaded. Illymation stated in a Tumblr post that she had been receiving harassment on YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram over it and that she reported the video for cyberbullying, asking others to flag the video as well if they came across it, she claimed that she is not watching the original video but got a run down of the video by her friend. This would spawn a wave of other critical videos and comments from commentary and reaction channels directed mostly at Illymation due to factors such as not watching the video, mass flagging and telling her fans to report the video without watching it first in order to not give him money, on the other hand many of Illy's fans have criticized Sean for many different things, but mostly on the part where Sean talked about Illy's appearance. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fa4de030k7yrc1.png%3Fwidth%3D296%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D45af19ef01d097f7f8b4acc1afc4c1fc723c011f 
In response, Sean released another video, accusing Illymation of instigating a targeted false-flagging campaign in an attempt to deplatform him, showing a post from her that stated for users to make community reports against him en masse to get the video taken down. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fa4de030k7yrc1.png%3Fwidth%3D296%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D45af19ef01d097f7f8b4acc1afc4c1fc723c011fhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoNbOrCLvz0
A bit after the drama panned out Illymation was doxxed against Sean's wishes or approval. When her home address was leaked online by others off site, resulting in her being forced to break the terms of her lease after death threats were allegedly mailed to her apartment. Sean has commented on the doxxing in the other response videos that followed and in some of his posts on Twitter/X and YouTube, he has claimed that he had nothing to do with the doxxing and does not support it and said he hoped that Illy was safe. In the third response video, he addressed the friend of Illymation, who, supposedly, was responsible for giving the rundown that would stir the Tumblr post calling for his first response video to be taken down for cyberbullying, accusing the friend of further instigating and prolonging the drama with inflammatory tweets and being distrustful. 27 days after the third response video, Noah Samsen would involve himself in the drama by making a video titled "Think Before You Dox", accusing Sean of encouraging doxxing and harassment amongst his fans and tampering with or editing out information to elevate his arguments, and then 8 days later make another response video titled "Think Before You Lie", further defending Illymation and criticizing Sean's responses while claiming he never accused Sean directly of doxxing despite implications in his first video's name.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOXQQmDvc0ISean would make a fourth and final response video that was 2 hours long that would "finalize" the drama and mainly criticize Noah Samson for his arguments and presentation of them but also include Illymation as she's relevant to the drama. Sean, in that final response video, would label Noah Samsen as a distrustful person who has done no research, pointing him as a hypocrite who goes against his morals and own beliefs throughout the video and supposedly revealing that Illymation and her team had also copyrighted his first response video not long after it was posted as well as try to file a privacy report for the same video. Due to the extended period of uploading about Illymation, some have argued that Sean's responses are inciting further inflammatory and violent behavior from his "alt-right subscriber base." However, the actions of other people are not Sean's responsibility.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOXQQmDvc0IThe drama fueled back and forth attacks, threats, and harassment towards both Illymation and Sean from noticeably and mainly far-left and alt-right fans of the respective YouTubers.
==Trivia==
*He revealed his face for the first time on his first YouTube livestream on January 30, 2023.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhEdtiKCGto
* He used to date YouTuber Brittany Venti.Think Before You Sleep: Dating in 2023, February 25 2023 49:07
*He has a degree in kinesiology, and used to work in the fitness industry.www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmZiht3BMME
==References==
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:Reaction YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2018