J.J. McCullough

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## Most Viewed Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xgd79wuriQ

## First Video

**John James McCullough** (born: July 17, 1984 [Age: 39]) is a Canadian political and social commentary YouTuber who mentions various topics relating to Canada, facts about history, various cultures, etc. J.J writes articles for various newspapers in Canada and the United States, and he used to work at Sun News before starting the channel due to having more free time.

Most of the videos are around 10-15 minute videos, and most of the videos have good responses.

There are travel vlogs which are shown for his travels such as places in Canada and overseas which can be related to current events such as a Canadian election or a protest movement.

J.J. is of Dutch, English, French, and various other European descent.

J.J. studied at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, and he was an English teacher in Japan despite not liking the experience.

The most popular videos are about French in Canada where he argues that French is given too much power in Canadian society. Most of the thumbnails show his face with a reaction with large text and colorful background.

He often does cartoon sketches in the media and in the videos with various drawings of political leaders.

Most of the videos have a timeless element according to him. He has recently reached 100 thousand subscribers and lives in the Vancouver area as indicated by his comments. He has taught Canadian citizenship exams to new immigrants to Canada in a library for about an hour which revealed his approximate location.

## Viewpoints

He is broadly conservative and is critical of Justin Trudeau's liberal government, the MAID (medical assistance in dying) program, permissive approaches to foreign interference, preferential treatment of Quebec, maintenance of the monarchy, decriminalization of drugs in British Columbia, and Bill C-11.

## Relations With Other YouTubers

J.J. has responded to and collaborated with Thomas Gauthier. However, J.J. has done a video with Thomas on the reasoning for voting in Canada, a collaboration video, and there is a debate with Thomas on political parties in Canada. A comment asked about ranking the top Qubeckers of all time in a ranked list, and J.J. puts Thomas Gauthier as number one.

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.

He has also done a video About good educational YouTubers and has linked these channels on the channel's sidebar. In the unboxing video uploaded on August 15, 2019, there was a comment by a well-known YouTube impersonator called Kim Jong-un That said, "I can send you a nuke if you want."

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 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 is more about Canadian culture.

Bryton Cherrier made a video about J.J. where he claimed that he is well-informed and primarily unbiased, but he claims that the articles he writes are biased. However, the video that Bryton is controversial since the dislike ratio is very high, and even J.J. watched the video along with making a comment that Bryton replied to.

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. Knowing Better mentioned J.J.'s video about the inefficiencies of recycling in a video about the history of oil. He also mentioned him as a "from by good pal Knowing Better".

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.

J.J. references Danny Gonzalez in a video about asking the definition of American culture in a part of releasing a Christmas song, 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 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 based on the last 13 letters of the alphabet.

J.J. references various YouTubers in a video about Falun Gong, such as China Uncensored, etc. which can be seen as a negative light. 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.

### 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." J.J. mentions counter-arguments to Simon's viewpoints and evidence.

This later caused a video by a YouTuber called The Dean Project 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.

## Trivia

* J.J. watched a Name Explain video and commented, and he mentioned Name Explain in another video.
* He has spoken with former Prime Minister Stephen Harper before.
* In some of his older videos, you can see a picture of the Queen Elizabeth II on the wall despite J.J's comments on the idea of the monarchy in Canada.
* he dislikes Wikipedia and suggests that people get their information from books or peer reviewed sources.

## References

1. ↑ https://youtu.be/RIUg9Ojczww?t=15
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n2PT36k09U
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19. ↑ https://youtu.be/cs5ugzP4Rt4?t=88
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