Lee and Oli Barrett
Lee and Oli Barrett are a pair of British YouTubers based in Shenzhen, China.
Lee is the father and had lived in China for a period since before 2019. Oli, the son, formerly operated a YouTube channel related to Call of Duty and moved to China in 2019.[1] Their channel was established circa June 2019. By May 2020 the two had 100,000 subscribers.[2] By January 2021 they had 255 videos and almost 200,000 subscribers. Ben Ellery and Tom Knowles of The Sunday Times wrote that the channel, by January 2021, was "a runaway success".[1]
Content
Ethan Paul of the South China Morning Post wrote that "Defending China" was "The key to their rapid audience expansion".[2] Ellery and Knowles wrote that as the YouTubers took stances firmer in support of the Chinese government, "the number of subscribers increased exponentially".[1] The two argued against the description "pro-democracy" for the anti-Hong Kong government protesters in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, and that the Xinjiang concentration camps are positive.[1]
See also
- Afu Thomas - Germany social media figure in China
- Raz Gal-Or - Israeli social media figure in China
- David Gulasi - Australian internet celebrity active in China
- Amy Lyons - Australian internet celebrity active in China
- Winston Sterzel - South African social media figure in China
- China–United Kingdom relations
References
- Ellery, Ben; Knowles, Tom (2020-01-09). "Beijing funds British YouTubers to further its propaganda war". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
- Paul, Ethan (2020-10-29). "US-China friction turns into YouTube fame (and laughs) for online influencers". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2020-01-19. - Alternate link at Yahoo Sports