Lauren Chen

Lauren Elise Donovan born: )https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1143001089429647361, (born Lauren Yu Sum Tamhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Chen) and known professionally as Lauren Chen, and formerly known as Roaming Millennial, was a Canadian-born political commentator on YouTube and Evie Magazine contributorhttps://www.eviemagazine.com/author/lauren-chen. She also hosted the show Psuedo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen on BlazeTV. She covered political topics from a Christian Conservative perspective.
== Personal Life==
Lauren was born in Canada, raised in Hong Kong, and has also lived in Shanghai, Singapore and London, attending American International Schools the entire time. She's went to college in California and Utah, before returning to Canada for some time. Now, she resides in Nashville, Tennessee, which she alongside her husband Liam Donovan made a permanent move in part to escape from Justin Trudeau's government. Lauren has a dog named Jellybean, and a daughter born in 2022, named Riley.
==YouTube Career==
Chen's first videos were cartoon based with South Park looking characters, covering cultural and politicalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRuunubpx3o issues. She then featured many interviews of figures ranging from Jordan Peterson, Senator Marsha Blackburn, Michael Shermer, founder of The Skeptics Society, and YouTuber Milo Stewart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxSGXkWrPfU From 2019 to 2020, she produced a commentary show for BlazeTV titled Pseudointellectualhttps://www.blazetv.com/category/pseudo-intellectual-with-lauren-chen. She returned to BlazeTV in 2022, and contributes up to four videos a week. As of 2021, she produces commentary videos independently on her channel and hosts the podcast No Malarkey with Marie Oakes.
==Mediaholic==
Mediaholic was Lauren's pop culture oriented YouTube channel. She often does commentary on various pop culture subjects in the realm of movies, TV shows and video games, like Star Wars or the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Mediaholic often covers "woke" controversies, and lampoons woke products that she states are also bad such as Velma, Elemental, The Witcher: Blood Origin, Strange World, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and more.
Notably, many videos featured a guest appearance from Lauren's father at the end (often referred to as "Papa Chen"), who delivered his own thoughts on the subject.
==Religious views==
Chen identifies as a Christian nationalisthttps://archive.today/iBcz9, and claims that "Christianity is the only path away from degeneracy."[https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1067642493192364032 Twitter She has also collaborated with the controversial Christian duo Girl Defined. Chen claims the duo "do an amazing job" and are "a great resource."https://youtu.be/Iu0VUhWMV78?t=56
She claims that separation of church and state, equality of races and sexes (politically for the sexes), are biblical. She also believes there is a breakdown of the family and that there is a rise of narcissistic hedonism and that it is degenerate. https://archive.today/9ehru
Lastly, she claims that Christians are happier than atheists. https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1074329812846694400
==Views on Feminism==
Chen is against modern feminism. She purports herself to be a traditional woman, writing articles for Evie Magazine https://www.eviemagazine.com/author/lauren-chen/ against hookup culture and modern dating culture and making a video for PragerU about how women should date with a purpose: to get married. https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1227979743363915776 She is against casual sex. She’s claimed that masculinity is under attack by feminists, that “men are more effeminate now than they used to be”, and that masculinity isn’t appreciated as much anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A1HlBhoVUY&feature=emb_title
==Controversies==
Chen has claimed The Bell Curve is factual, https://archive.today/QxFEi a book that addresses a difference in IQ between ethnic groups and how intelligence affects their ability to rise out of poverty. White nationalists have used this as an argument for white racial supremacy. She claims the author of this book Charles Murray is not racist. She herself believes that IQ is mostly genetic. https://archive.today/ody4Q
===Richard Spencer Interview===
In May 2017, Chen hosted a three-part interview with Alt-Right leader Richard Spencer, asking questions regarding what the Alt Right is about.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlOv3BXSyJM Chen received criticism for her approach to this interview, most notably from the YouTuber ContraPoints. In response, Chen defended Spencer by claiming "No one (Richard Spencer included) is advocating people be killed"Twitter and asking, "Has it occurred to you that maybe he isn't exactly what the media has been trying to push?" https://youtu.be/Aail_076c_c?t=1615 In November 2019, Milo Yiannopoulos leaked an audio of Richard Spencer going on a racist, anti-Semitic tirade during the deadly Unite the Right rally.https://youtu.be/4cCS1cP69Wo?t=86
===Nick Fuentes===
Chen defended right-wing podcaster and provocateur Nick Fuentes on at least three occasions. The first was when he called on his followers (known as Groypers) to hijack multiple TPUSA speaking event at Ohio State University, after Kirk, along with Ben Shapiro repeatedly avoided debates with him. During the event's Q&A section, the Groypers asked questions as, "How does anal sex help us win the culture war?" referring to Turning Point USA's Rob Smith, a homosexual. Another Groyper told the crowd to Google "dancing Israelis", which is in reference to a conspiracy theory alleging that Israel was responsible for 9/11.https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/1/1896408/-Alt-right-trolls-make-life-miserable-for-Charlie-Kirk-and-his-Turning-Point-USA-Culture-War-tour Following the event, Twitter user Will Chamberlain uploaded a clip of Fuentes going on a rant against Turning Point USA's support of Israel.Twitter Chen replied in a now deleted tweet by stating, "I don't know about the rest of Fuentes' views, but there's nothing antisemitic in this clip. Is it really that outrageous to ask why TPUSA focuses so much on Israel?"Twitter When Fuentes confronted Chen about deleting the tweet, she clarified, "I deleted the tweet because I was told those guys were from Politicon, not TPUSA. That aside though, I do stand by what I said."Twitter
The second time was after MTV released a documentary titled "White Supremacy Destroyed My Life",http://www.mtv.com/episodes/cf3hzt/mtv-news-specials-mtv-news-presents-white-supremacy-destroyed-my-life-season-1-ep-1 which focused in part on Fuentes's alleged hateful rhetoric. Chen released her own video titled "MTV SCAMS Nick Fuentes."https://youtu.be/ft2OLOS196M
In 2021, Lauren defended Nick after he was put on a no-fly-list.
===Lauren Southern===
Chen has defended Lauren Southern, Brittany Sellner, and Martin Sellner, after they were detained and banned from the UK, https://archive.today/q9xm6 attributing it to a lack of freedom of speech in Europe. Their motives for coming to the UK were to interview Tommy Robinson, while Martin was planned to host an event.
=== Department of Justice Investigation ===
In September of 2024, the US Department of Justice released an indictment about a secret Russian influence operation to manipulate US politics. Two Russian state actors, operating under pseudonyms, had been in steady contact with Tenet Media, a company founded and run by Lauren Chen and her husband. Tenet Media is a social media influencer management company for political ccommentary.
While Tenet Media wasn't explicitly named as being the company in question, news outlets were able to confirm the identityhttps://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/politics/doj-alleges-russia-funded-company-linked-social-media-stars/index.html. The indictment alleges that Tenet Media knew they were interacting with Russians. It also alleges Tenet Media communicated fake ownership data to its influencers under management, namely a non-existent European investor. Tenet Media also allegedly complied with producing propaganda material about the Islamic State terror attack on a Moscow theatre, being told by the Russian state operatives to frame it as a US-Ukraine attack. The indictment quotes Tenet Media as having responded "happy to cover it". The DOJ indictment furthermore includes the following assessmenthttps://www.npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-s1-5100829/russia-election-influencers-youtube:While the views expressed in the videos [produced under Lauren Chen's Tenet Media] are not uniform, the subject matter and content of the videos are often consistent with the Government of Russia's interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions in order to weaken U.S. opposition to core Government of Russia interests, such as its ongoing war in Ukraine
While neither Lauren nor her husband have faced any charges, she has since been fired from BlazeTV over these allegationshttps://www.thedailybeast.com/lauren-chen-fired-blaze-media-axes-creator-caught-up-in-russian-influence-scandal, and her main channel as well as Mediaholic and Tenet Media have been terminated by YouTube.
==Views on immigration==
Chen is opposed to open borders and globalism. She believes that limiting the amount of immigration will lower the chances of "cultural ghettos" from forming, and increase chances of them assimilating into American culture. 
===The Great Replacement===
On several occasions, Chen has made comments hinting at belief in the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.
==Views on abortion==
Chen is against abortion. She claimed on Twitter that “science is on the pro-life side”. https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1166375853149884417 In her video called “The TRUTH About Abortion & Sex” https://youtu.be/zkNkfpuXOVU she is very critical of pro-abortion activism.
==Allegations of Racism==
In a video entitled “People of Color: You Are Not Oppressed”, Chen claims that people of color are not oppressed because on paper they have equal rights and because those students in particular study liberal arts in university, ignoring history and how it has lasting effects. Her video contained numerous logical fallacies which were noticed by many of her critics. In that video she ignores the effects of The War on Drugs, a policy that started in the Nixon administration and was used to target minorities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbtYCq9kymA
She has claimed that “black people are more likely to commit crimes than other races”, citing Fox News and website Downtrend.
==Views on LGBTQ+==
Chen approaches trans issues from the viewpoint of transmedicalism, believes human brains are inherently gendered, and that there are only two genders. https://archive.today/jGE1w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69QBODgzJI8 She cited the work of highly controversial psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa, whose work has been heavily criticized and accused of being pseudoscientific. She does not believe in non-binary gender identities and has mocked non-binary singer Sam Smith’s gender identity. https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1252321433629462530 She has even called non-binary people 'transtrenders'.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf1NT_brKd0
She has claimed that more people identify as LGBT now than ever before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROzQcXiqA1k and that there are environmental and genetic effects. She also believes that LGBT acceptance has gone down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypDPr1cBTJ4
== Trivia ==
* She was an intern for Paul Ryan in 2013.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NaIbC4sgrY
* She is half white Canadian and half Hongkonger.
*Her dad has appeared on her show.
* She has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a Minor in Middle East Studies and Arabic.
* She has one younger brother.
* In addition to her Canadian citizenship, she possesses a Hong Kong national passport and a British National Overseas (BNO) visa.
* Despite being an Anglo-Canadian, Lauren has only ever lived in the Francophone-based Quebec whenever she lived in Canada.https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1625624844782927874
* Lauren doesn't comment on matters pertaining specifically to the CCP, especially related to the protests in Hong Kong. She's confirmed on her Twitter that she cannot comment on such topics, out of fear of never being able to return to Hong Kong again.https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1287555361780580361
* Lauren's daughter Riley was born in 2022. Notably, she was born after Lauren and her husband Liam had already moved to Nashville, Tennessee, thus making her a US citizen.
==Gallery==
Laurenchen13.jpg|Lauren in a qipao, a traditional Chinese dress
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Laurenchenbaby.jpg|Lauren as a child with her father and brother
Laurenchenliamdonovanpicture.jpg|Lauren and her husband, Liam Donovan
Luarenchenshapiro.jpg|Lauren and Ben Shapiro
LaurenChenPaulRyan.jpg|Lauren as a congressional intern with Paul Ryan in 2013
==References==
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