Draft:Sneako

Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy (born 8 September 1998) better known online as Sneako, is an American internet personality and online streamer.

Sneako is generally considered to be part of the "manosphere", an ideology promoting masculinity, misogyny, anti-semitism, homophobia and opposition to feminism. His commentaries have been deemed controversial and considered to be encouraging misogynistic views amongst young males. Sneako had amassed over 1.28 million subscribers on his main channel on YouTube, before being banned in October 2022.

Sneako has since joined Rumble and as of October 2023, he was the seventh most-watched channel with 1.37 million hours watched, maintaining popularity among young male viewers.

Early years
Sneako was born in New York City and grew up in an affluent and predominantly white neighborhood, graduating from the Foote School in New Haven, Connecticut in 2014. His father is from Haiti and is mixed-race, while his mother’s family is from the Philippines. Sneako has visited Haiti just about every year since he was two years old, as most of his family still lives there.

Career
Sneako made his online debut in 2013 as a YouTuber, and has posted various content from gaming uploads, IRL streams, and reaction videos. Sneako initially gained popularity for his unique style of editing and nuanced self-awareness commentaries, which spoke about life and spirituality before pivoting towards more controversial subjects that involved scrutiny of women and marginalized people until his eventual ban from YouTube. In one particular video, Sneako would ask Black people if it were okay for people who weren't black to say the N-word and would offer White people one dollar to say it. In a TikTok video from an account now banned titled, A Woman's Worth, Sneako the interviewer, uses subtle use of ad hominem remarks with a female interviewee in order to boost his masculine position while seemingly discrediting her femininity when he describes her assertions of self-worth as "delusional".

As of 2023, Sneako's newer content while more successful in terms of viewership, it has become unrecognizable from his original work, which ignited his streaming career from inception.

Sneako is an associate of Andrew Tate and has been seen in videos with him as a regular. Sneako has expressed admiration for Tate, crediting him and his brother Tristan for their assistance in his betterment. Sneako also expressed support for the controversial film Cuties and received backlash for it, which was later referenced by Cr1TiKaL when the two were having an online discourse.

Sneako’s content has also been described as supporting far-right political views. In 2022, Sneako joined Kanye West’s 2024 presidential campaign and has referred to him as his childhood hero. He has also voiced support far-right commentator Nick Fuentes. Speaking at an American First rally in July 2023, Sneako said, “Nick Fuentes is going to the next president of the United States."

In 2023, Sneako defended homophobic and transphobic shouting by fans, including that "all gays should die", stating "this is how I was at 12. But if it sounds egregious to you, blame the [rainbow emoji] (sic) flags in their classrooms. Blame the media for emasculating men. It's your fault for forcing an obvious agenda."

In March 2024, PinkNews reported that Sneako had claimed that MrBeast (who he formerly collaborated with) was "pushing kids to transgenderism", along with the "baseless claim" that male-bodied individuals were removing their genitalia as a result of MrBeast continuing to support a trans collaborator.

On June 10, 2024, Twitch re-instated Sneako from a ban that lasted a year.

Personal life
Sneako converted to Islam in mid-2023.

Singles

 * "Curry Freestyle" – Lil Pump featuring N3on and Sneako (2023)

Music videos

 * "Curry Freestyle" – Lil Pump featuring N3on and Sneako (2023)

Film

 * Unsubscribe (2020)