Xanderhal

**Alexander Haley**, known online as **Xanderhal**, is an American YouTuber and Twitch streamer known for his political content supporting social democracy and other progressive views.

## History

### Early life

Xanderhal was born in Florida on July 27, 1999. He grew up with his mother, whom he had a bad relationship with. Originally a “neoliberal”, Xanderhal was later radicalized towards the right as a result of viewing anti-SJW content. He would later escape the alt-right pipeline (which he attributes to watching Destiny’s content).

Xanderhal would eventually identifies as a progressive, showed interest in anarchism then promised to read Peter Kropotkin's "Conquest of Bread" live {video, archived}. He has recently called himself a social democrat though still believes in socialism in the long run {video, archived}. He was later criticized by other social democrats and democratic socialists for not being "Bernie or Bust" {video} and advocating voting for Biden.

### Online Career

He started his YouTube channel making Minecraft and Fortnite videos. He was initially known as **PIGPUNCHER** before changing his online pseudonym to Xanderhal (a portmanteau of his name, Ale**xander** **Hal**ey).

One of his most popular videos was his "How I Fell Down the Alt Right Pipeline and Escaped" video {video, archived}. It was uploaded on December 24, 2019 and has garnered well over 730,000 views.

Since then, he has gained more and more prominence in the LeftTube space. He does a wide array of content such as debates, drama commentary and reaction videos. His debates in particular have made people brand him as a “debate bro”, a label which includes other YTers like Vaush and Destiny.

### Personality

Some of his well-known traits include vaping and saying “hypers in chat”. He has also been called “bootleg Vaush” due to a number of people perceiving his content to be similar. Xanderhal however disagrees.

## Controversies

* Xanderhal allegedly abused Spooky (Peach\_\_Cola) by pestering her for nudes and videos in the NSFW section of his Discord {video, archived}. Xanderhal supposedly exploited Spooky's poverty and impoverished living situation by offering her and other members of the channel free housing then inviting them to live with him and his girlfriend Lani Johnson {video, archived}.
	+ The accusations from Spooky (Peach\_\_Cola) later became rumors about a "sex cult" {tweet, archived} initiated by Thought Slime, a claim which Xanderhal later refuted {video, archived}. Xanderhal also dismissed Spooky's concerns about his behavior in the Discord. The "sex cult" tweet caused Thought Slime and Xanderhal to dislike each other.
	+ YouTubers and Twitch commentators dramatized Spooky's allegations against Xanderhal as "#HaremGate".
	+ VODs of Xanderhal offering free housing to his NFSW members for his so-called "harem" alongside the VOD of Spooky's testimony of Xanderhal's alleged abuses were nuked off the Internet. Spooky asked Kevin Logan {~~video~~, archived} and Thought Slime {tweet, archived} to erase any evidence and to never mention the event again.
	+ The deleted VODs about both Xanderhal's harem offers, the NSFW section of his Discord and Spooky's testimony are archived on a YouTube channel called "Critical Bread".
* Xanderhal is not seen as a trans ally because of deadnaming Blair White (tweet, archived
* Lani Johnson (pastelleftist) and Xanderhal broke up over supposed drug usage, alleged cheating and financial problems. He was accused of keeping her cat {tweet, archived} against her will {TwitLonger, archived}. Xanderhal however denies this. {tweet, archived}.
	+ Xanderhal was also accused by prison abolitionists of doxxing Lani on Twitter {tweet, archived} without redacting her personal information on her police report. He later deleted the tweet and referred to his critics as "wokescolds" {tweet, archived}, a derogatory term circulated by right-libertarians deriding socially-conscious left-liberals coined by Iraq-era blogger HTML Mencken {tweet, archived} then popularized by Jewish conservative Ben Shapiro {tweet, archived}.

## Trivia

* His sexual orientation is straight and he identifies as a cis man.
* His channel has over 17,000,000 views as of Sep 2022. {SocialBlade stats}