Soph

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'''Sophia''' ([[Youtube]] alias: '''Corbis''', formerly '''LtCorbis''' and '''soph''') {{lived|23 September 2004}} is a unique example of why children should not be exposed to far-right internet circles. She was an [[American]] [[YouTube]]r with 970,000 subscribers as of May 20, 2019.<ref>Youtube; Soph, May 14, 2019: [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT7BLBDnD-wEXeqZSg24aJw Soph's Youtube channel]. ([http://archive.ph/ziLRk archive snapshot])</ref> She has been criticised for videos promoting [[alt-right]] themes.<ref name="buzzfeed">Buzzfeed News; Joseph Bernstein, May 13, 2019: [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/youtubes-newest-far-right-foul-mouthed-red-pilling-star-is YouTube’s Newest Far-Right, Foul-Mouthed, Red-Pilling Star Is A 14-Year-Old Girl]. ([http://archive.ph/OdTey archive snapshot])</ref> She claims her content is [[ironic]], and meant as [[Satire|satirical commentary]].<ref name="statesman">New Statesman; Eleanor Peake, April 26, 2019: [https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2019/04/rise-YouTube-ironic-teenage-right-Soph The rise of the ironic teenage right]. ([http://archive.ph/ZNcto archive snapshot])</ref> Despite this, she has been described as a gatekeeper for the online right, and accused of creating [[Racism|anti-black]], [[Islamophobia|Islamophobic]], [[Antisemitism|anti-semitic]], and [[Sexism|sexist]] content.<ref name="buzzfeed"/><ref name="statesman"/><ref name="dailydot19">Daily Dot; Samira Sadeque, May 14, 2019: [https://www.dailydot.com/irl/youtube-soph-14/ This 14-year-old's 'edgy' YouTube channel parrots the far-right]. ([http://archive.ph/Mr063 archive snapshot])</ref>

After repeatedly violating YouTube's community guidelines for making [[Racism|racist]] and [[Homophobia|anti-LGBTQ]] videos, Soph was banned from the platform in 2019.<ref>[https://www.wetheunicorns.com/news/soph-youtube-banned-gun-tweet/ 14-year-old right-wing YouTuber Soph banned from platform for hate speech]. wetheunicorns.com, 6 August 2019.</ref><ref>Paige Leskin, [https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-bans-soph-far-right-channel-hate-speech-threatens-headquarters-2019-8 YouTube barred a 14-year-old conservative personality after she called the LGBTQ community pedophiles. The girl reportedly then posted a photo threatening YouTube HQ with something that looks like a gun.] businessinsider.com, 5 August 2019.</ref> Since her YouTube ban, she has moved to SubscribeStar,<ref>https://www.subscribestar.com/soph</ref> [[BitChute]],{{citation needed}} a [[Dennis Prager]] affiliated website (the two appear to have since had a falling out),{{citation needed}} and [[Gavin McInnes]] and [[Milo Yiannopoulos]]' pay-to-watch Censored TV website (left in 2023).{{citation needed}} As of 2023, she is still active on a way smaller scale on SubscribeStar, and has also returned to YouTube under the name Corbis, though she rarely uploads videos there.{{citation needed}} In 2026 her SubscribeStar said that she was not creating new content but might upload some unpublished videos and podcasts.

==History==
Sophia started on YouTube in 2015 when she was 11 years old. She cites [[PewDiePie]] as an influence for why she started making Youtube videos. When starting out, she made ''{{wpl|Call of Duty}}'' and ''{{wpl|Counter-Strike}}'' gameplay commentary videos narrated in an expletive-heavy style.<ref name="dailydot16">Daily Dot; Jay Hathaway, March 11, 2016: [https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/call-of-duty-streaming-girl-calls-out-buzzfeed/ This sweary, savvy, 11-year-old gamer girl is the future of YouTube]. ([http://archive.ph/LMRkW archive snapshot])</ref> In her early content she aims abuse at the U.S. school system and "the cult of mums".<ref>Youtube; Soph, March 16, 2017: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEOMPS6FAhs THE CULT OF MOMS]. ([http://archive.ph/HRz7x archive snapshot])</ref> In 2017 her channel had 750,000 subscribers.<ref name="dailymail">Daily Mail; Tanith Caray, November 28, 2017: [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5126833/Terrifying-truth-child-watches-YouTube.html From clips glamorising eating disorders to sinister videos masquerading as cartoons... Terrifying truth about what your child watches on YouTube]. ([http://archive.ph/Hqnfy archive snapshot])</ref>

In May 2019, Soph published a video "Be Not Afraid";<ref group=note>This video was deleted from YouTube.</ref> following this, Joseph Bernstein of {{wpl|BuzzFeed News}} wrote an article on Soph titled "YouTube’s Newest Far-Right, Foul-Mouthed, Red-Pilling Star Is A 14-Year-Old Girl".<ref name="buzzfeed"/> Reaction to this was mixed, with [[conservative]] commentators claiming it was a hit piece,<ref name="pptweet">Twitter; Paul Joseph Watson, May 14, 2019: [https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1128275225479663616 BuzzFeed has published a lengthy hit piece on a 14-year-old girl in an attempt to get her deplatformed. Yes, really.] ([http://archive.ph/jLy1s archive snapshot])</ref> and others such as the [[Washington Examiner]] writing that it was right to highlight the radicalization of child [[Youtube]]rs.<ref name="washingtonexaminer">Washington Examiner; Tiana Lowe, May 16, 2019 : [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/buzzfeed-was-right-to-point-out-the-radicalization-of-child-youtubers BuzzFeed was right to point out the radicalization of child YouTubers]. ([http://archive.ph/gAcqh archive snapshot])</ref>

YouTube removed several of Soph's videos and temporarily restricted her channel from uploading.<ref name="boundintocom">Bounding into Comics; Spencer Baculi, May 16, 2019: [https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/05/16/14-year-old-youtuber-soph-comes-under-fire-for-videos-criticizing-social-justice-and-woke-culture/ 14-Year Old YouTuber Soph Comes Under Fire for Videos Criticizing Social Justice and Woke Culture] ([http://archive.ph/EeT4W archive snapshot])</ref> Despite this, her channel gained over 100,000 subscribers in 2 weeks as she gained popularity with the right wing fringe and appeared as a guest on [[Infowars]].<ref name="boundintocom"/><ref name="infowars">Infowars; The Alex Jones Show, May 15, 2019 : [https://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-interviews-14-year-old-thought-criminal-soph/ ALEX JONES INTERVIEWS 14-YEAR-OLD THOUGHT CRIMINAL SOPH]. ([http://archive.ph/7V1Th archive snapshot])</ref><ref>Human Events; Sofia Carbone, May 19, 2019: [https://humanevents.com/2019/05/19/while-celebrating-kids-in-drag-buzzfeed-hounds-youtube-to-ban-a-14-year-old-trump-supporter/ Buzzfeed Bashes 14-Yr-Old Trump Fan, Celebrates Kids in Drag]. ([http://archive.ph/RZDYU archive snapshot])</ref>

On August 1, 2019, YouTube terminated her account, citing violations of its hate speech policy.<ref>Twitter; soph, August 1, 2019: [https://twitter.com/sewernugget/status/1156978201257660416 PRESS F TO PAY RESPECTS]</ref>

==="Genocide the Muslims"===
On April 2nd, 2019, another YouTuber called NFKRZ leaked the private logs of a Discord channel Soph was active in and posted screenshots of her directly making horrific mass murder and genocidal speeches against all Muslims (NFKRZ also released a video on his YouTube channel analysing the leaks and providing further context<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCtL28-LvnI&ab_channel=NFKRZ</ref>).<ref name="NFKRZ 🇷🇺‏ @roman_nfkrz (April 2nd, 2019).">NFKRZ 🇷🇺‏ @roman_nfkrz (April 2nd, 2019). ''[https://twitter.com/roman_nfkrz/status/1113050131031625728 Remember LtCorbis? The edgy 12 year old commentator from back in the day? This is her now. Yikes.]''. Twitter. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190402160110if_/https://twitter.com/roman_nfkrz/status/1113050131031625728 WayBackMachine Link]''. ''[https://archive.ph/L4s7C#selection-3313.0-3335.11 Archive.ph Link]''. Retrieved December 11th, 2020.</ref><ref name="eyerys">''[https://www.eyerys.com/articles/timeline/soph-and-end-her-youtube-hate-rage-saga?page=13#event-a-href-articles-timeline-icannicann-a Soph, And The End Of Her YouTube Hate Rage Saga]''. 01/08/2019. Eyerys. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20201211153538/https://www.eyerys.com/articles/timeline/soph-and-end-her-youtube-hate-rage-saga?page=13#event-a-href-articles-timeline-icannicann-a WayBackMachine Link]''. ''[https://archive.ph/LsbkI Archive.ph Link]''. Retrieved December 11th, 2020.</ref> These screenshots were posted onto Twitter where they went viral.<ref name="NFKRZ 🇷🇺‏ @roman_nfkrz (April 2nd, 2019)."/> Her exact words were (in ''all'' caps of all things):

::''"Fuck Muslims[,] [f]uck them all[,] I wish an atomic bomb would drop on the Middle East already[,] I fucking hate those sandniggers with all my might[,]...I wish there would be a [[Hitler]] for Muslims[,] [g]as them all"''.<ref name="NFKRZ 🇷🇺‏ @roman_nfkrz (April 2nd, 2019)."/> Archived versions of this quote can be seen here on the ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20201211153413/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6f6loRXsAUnHe7?format=jpg&name=small WayBackMachine]'' and on ''[https://archive.ph/alzNJ Archive.ph]'' (as well as in the reference cited).

The reference to Hitler is particularly ironic, given that over 5 million Muslim volunteers fought with the Allies against the Nazis during [[WWII]], with about 1.5 million killed in action.<ref name="hitlermuslims">''[http://materiaislamica.com/index.php/Muslim_Soldiers_During_World_War_II]''. Materia Islamica. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20201211161037/http://materiaislamica.com/index.php/Muslim_Soldiers_During_World_War_II WayBackMachine Link]''. ''[https://archive.ph/2fl2y Archive.ph Link]''. Retrieved December 11th, 2020.</ref>

She was confronted by Twitch streamer and YouTuber, [[Destiny (person)|Destiny]], on April 7<sup>th</sup>, 2019 about her comments (which were again read out to her verbatim which she didn't deny saying) to which she claimed her speeches were only ''"hyperbolic"'': Destiny then asked her ''"[s]o you aren't defending what you're saying?"'' to which Soph clarified that ''"I am defending what I'm saying"''; spotting the contradiction Destiny again asks ''"[s]o you do agree with the things you said"'', to which Soph deliberately obfuscates and says ''"...no"''.<ref name="destinysophgenocidestream">The conversation between Soph and Destiny starts 573 seconds (9 minutes, 33 seconds) into the stream. ''[https://youtu.be/PULTP-m9nYw?t=573 Destiny revisits the Killstream ft. Nicholas Fuentes, Soph & Brittany Venti]''. YouTube. Retrieved December 11th, 2020.</ref>

==External links==
*[https://twitter.com/sewernugget sewernugget] Twitter profile
*[https://www.youtube.com/c/ltcorbis soph] YouTube profile (Taken down)
*[https://www.bitchute.com/channel/soph/ soph] BitChute profile
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20191105223950/https://freespeech.tv/watch/show/soph Soph] Freespeech profile (archived from November 5, 2019)

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