Steve Shives

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'''Steve Shives''' {{lived|1980}} is an [[Atheism|atheist]] vlogger who has produced video series including  "An Atheist Reads" and "Five Things" (previously Five Stupid Things).  His videos deal with [[debunk]]ing [[conspiracy theories]], [[pseudoscience]], and assorted [[woo]].

Shives has expressed vocal support for [[Atheism+]], and he has argued that [[feminism]] should be more widely accepted in the atheist community. This position has unsurprisingly drawn sharp criticism from [[anti-feminist]]s in the atheist [[YouTube]] community, including [[Armoured Skeptic]], [[TheAmazingAtheist]], and [[Sargon of Akkad]].

Besides his YouTube channel, Shives used to occupy the Tuesday slot on the collective-run Breakfast Club channel until it was discontinued in October 2015.

He does a very good RP accent apart from completely forgetting the yod sound /j/ before certain vowels.<ref>e.g. in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1DUrI__OZQ he says Youtube as /ju:tu:b/ rather than /j:u:tj:ub/ </ref>

==Block Bot==
Shives uses a block bot, with the goal of reducing the absurd amount of harassment in his feeds.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/stevelikestocurse/posts/10153792207438725 Such as all this.] (And that is with a block bot on)</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/i/moments/792872981475106816 Why Do I Block So Many People, Anyway?]</ref> Realistically, this results in most people who try to tweet him being blocked by him, usually without their knowledge. Many people claim to have been blocked by Shives' account before having even heard his name, only discovering it when they looked him up for the first time.<ref>https://medium.com/@SidheSaidWhat/i-was-blocked-by-a-rando-a-tale-involving-steve-shives-ad8a599e93c</ref> The unusual zeal of Shives' block-bot is a frequent source of criticism against him.

==Mainstream pickups==
Shives has been picked up by the [[Huffington Post]] a couple times for his opinions,<ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/10/feminism-not-humanism-youtube_n_6132414.html</ref><ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/outspeak/wwe-hall-of-famers-whod-_b_9577978.html</ref><ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/diversity-and-inclusion-are-not-anti-science_us_58a4e071e4b026a89a7a262c</ref> and once by Vice.<ref>https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/a-reminder-internet-atheists-fucking-suck?utm_source=vicefbuk</ref>

==Other shows==
*The Breakfast Club (Stopped in October 2015):
*Wrestling With Wrestling: With Doc, a show about professional wrestling, the entertainment kind.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-LSnSBNIncxCxg4rn2vUWI_bws4wtPa</ref>
*The Late Seating Podcast: A podcast about old movies, but occasionally has some new films as well.<ref>https://soundcloud.com/lemme-listen/sets/late-seating</ref>
*The Ensign's Log Podcast: A ''[[Star Trek]]'' themed podcast following the lives of two low ranking officers aboard a certain well-known starship. Early episodes hew closely to the plots of TOS episodes, but they later diverge.<ref>https://soundcloud.com/lemme-listen/sets/the-ensigns-log-podcast</ref>

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/user/stevelikes2curse Shives' YouTube channel]
*[https://twitter.com/steve_shives Shives' Twitter]

==References==
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