Ian Danskin is an American

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, whose YouTube channel Innuendo Studios discusses politics from a

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perspective. He is primarily known for "The Alt-Right Playbook" series of videos. The channel has been described as part of "

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", an informal group of left-wing YouTube channels.

Career

The first "Alt-Right Playbook" episode was released in October 2017. Since then, the series has focused on examining and dismantling the

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of the

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and "the rhetorical strategies tuses to legitimize itself and gain power." It uses drawings of simple figures on a grey background to illustrate its ideas. Danskin has also discussed the

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and the techniques used by Gamergate members to recruit people into their movement. Daniel Schindel of ''

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'' listed Danskin's video "Lady Eboshi is Wrong" as one of the best

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s of 2018. Julie Muncy of ''

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'' lauded Danskin's video series about the 2015 post-apocalyptic action movie '' Mad Max: Fury Road''. His video on

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covered the celebrity status of game developers and was the reason for

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, creator of ''

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'', to sell the game to

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