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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|10|21}}
| birth_place = [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington]], [[Virginia]], U.S.
| residence = [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], U.S.
| occupation = [[YouTube personality]]
| education = [[Northwestern University]]
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'''Natalie Wynn''' (born October 21, 1988)<ref name=twitter>{{cite tweet |user=ContraPoints |number=1019787666898944001 |date=July 19, 2018 |title=Alright, alright astrologers. October 21, 1988. 8:00 AM. Arlington, VA. Tell me about my soul.}}</ref> is an American [[YouTuber]] of comedic and educational videos about [[politics]], [[gender]], [[Race (human categorization)|race]], and [[philosophy]] on her channel '''ContraPoints'''. Her videos are noted for their use of luxurious sets and intricate costumes. Known for her ironic humor, Wynn has been influential in the [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] YouTube [[video essay]] sub-genre.

== Early life ==
Wynn was born on October 21, 1988 in [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington, Virginia]]<ref name=twitter/> and became a philosophy graduate student and instructor at [[Northwestern University]] in Illinois.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|url=https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/qvygkv/contrapoints-interview-2019-natalie-wynn|title=ContraPoints Is the Opposite of the Internet|last1=Hall|first1=Jake|date=April 9, 2019|work=Vice UK|accessdate=April 9, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Singal1">{{Cite news|url=http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/10/contrapoints-profile.html|title=This YouTuber Is Figuring Out How to Counter the Alt-Right's Dominance of the Site|last=Singal|first=Jesse|date=October 30, 2017|work=[[New York Magazine]]|access-date=July 17, 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Polygon1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.polygon.com/2018/12/28/18156334/best-youtube-video-essays-2018-watch|title=The best video essays of 2018|last=Schindel|first=Dan|date=December 28, 2018|work=[[Polygon (website)|Polygon]]|access-date=December 28, 2018}}</ref> Wynn began working towards a PhD, but dropped out in 2015 when the "idea of being an academic for the rest of [her] life became boring to the point of existential despair."<ref name=":0" /> She has written fiction, taught piano, and worked as a paralegal and [[copywriter]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Reeve |first1=Elle |title=Meet the YouTube star who's de-radicalizing young, right-wing men |url=https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/qvym73/meet-the-youtube-star-whos-de-radicalizing-young-right-wing-men |accessdate=March 15, 2019 |work=Vice News |date=March 14, 2019 |author-link=Elle Reeve |postscript={{bulleted list|In the video at 02:42: <br />Reeve: "Natalie quit a philosophy PhD program in 2015..."<br />Wynn: "Dropped out of grad school. 'I'm going to write fiction!' That didn't go anywhere. I wasn't driving Ubers. Just teaching piano lessons, being a paralegal, doing copywriting."}}}}</ref>

== YouTube career ==
Wynn started creating videos on YouTube in 2008, initially publishing videos about atheism. In 2016, she began the ContraPoints YouTube channel in reaction to the [[Gamergate controversy]] and the expansion in prevalence of [[right-wing politics|right-wing]] YouTubers, shifting her content to countering their arguments.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Singal1" /><ref name="Economist1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/12/21/the-transgender-populist-fighting-fascists-with-face-glitter|title=The transgender populist fighting fascists with face glitter|last=N.B.|date=December 20, 2018|work=[[The Economist]]|access-date=December 28, 2018}}</ref><ref name="NYTmag1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/for-the-new-far-right-youtube-has-become-the-new-talk-radio.html|title=For the New Far Right, YouTube Has Become the New Talk Radio|last=Herrman|first=John|date=August 3, 2017|work=[[The New York Times Magazine]]|access-date=July 17, 2018|language=en}}</ref> Early ContraPoints videos covered subjects such as race, racism, and online radicalisation.<ref name=":0" /> In her videos, Wynn uses [[philosophy]], [[sociology]], and personal experience to explain and criticize common [[alt-right]], [[fascist]], [[classical liberal]], and [[conservative]] talking points, and to explain [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] ideas.<ref name="Singal1" /><ref name="OutFront1" /><ref name="splc1" /> Wynn has also criticized what she sees as some left-leaning tendencies to present arguments that are "a logical success but a persuasive failure."<ref name="Atlantic1">{{Cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/contrapoints-political-philosophy-natalie-wynn-youtube/579532/ |title=ContraPoints Is Political Philosophy Made for YouTube |last=Mark |first=Clifton |date=January 6, 2019 |work=[[The Atlantic]] |language=en-US|access-date=January 9, 2019}}</ref> Wynn has characterised "politics as aesthetics" saying that to argue persuasively "It’s not just about calling someone out and using logic because there are emotional and psychological reasons that people hold their political convictions [...] you have to empathetically enter a person’s world".<ref name=":0" /> She often illustrates arguments with her experiences as a [[transgender]] person.<ref name="OutFront1">{{Cite news |url=https://www.outfrontmagazine.com/featured/contrapoints-on-youtube-social-justice-and-transphobic-feminists/ |title=ContraPoints on YouTube, Social Justice, and Transphobic Feminists |last=Kronfeld |first=Ezra |date=May 8, 2018 |work=[[Out Front (newspaper)|Out Front]] |access-date=July 24, 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref> Wynn has argued that a lack of attraction to transgender people is, to some extent, a product of societal prejudices and stereotypes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/neq9zx/whats-wrong-with-the-no-trans-dating-preference-debate|title=What’s Wrong With the ‘No Trans’ Dating Preference Debate|last=Curlew|first=Abigail|last2=Visser|first2=Josh|date=2018-02-23|website=Vice|language=en-CA|access-date=2019-05-30|last3=Berman|first3=Sarah}}</ref>

Wynn's videos often have a combative but humorous tone, containing dark or surreal humor, sarcasm, and sexual themes.<ref name=Singal1 /> Wynn often illustrates concepts by playing different characters in elaborate costumes, who engage in heated debate.<ref name=Robinson1>{{Cite news |url=https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/god-bless-contrapoints |title=God Bless ContraPoints |last=Robinson |first=Nathan J. |date=May 6, 2018 |work=[[Current Affairs (magazine)|Current Affairs]] |access-date=July 17, 2018}}</ref> The videos showcase Wynn's directorial choices, including "complicated lighting schemes, elaborate costumes, and genuine thought put into aesthetics you don't get in a lot of television, much less a lot of YouTube," observed Todd VanDerWerff writing for ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]''.<ref name=VanDerWerff1>{{Cite news |url=https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/tv-club-youtube-contrapoints-netflix-puppy-prep.html |title=TV Club: YouTube's ContraPoints and Hulu's Puppy Prep. |last=VanDerWerff |first=Todd |date=December 20, 2018 |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |access-date=December 20, 2018}}</ref> In a 2018 interview for ''[[The Verge]]'', Katherine Cross notes a significant difference between Wynn and her internet character, explaining that the ContraPoints character is "blithe, aloof, decadent and disdainful", while Wynn "can be earnest—and she cares deeply, almost too much."<ref name=Verge1>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theverge.com/tech/2018/8/24/17689090/contrapoints-youtube-natalie-wynn |title=The Oscar Wilde of YouTube fights the alt-right with decadence and seduction |last=Cross |first=Katherine |date=August 24, 2018 |work=[[The Verge]]|access-date=August 25, 2018}}</ref>

Wynn finances her YouTube career through the crowdfunding platform [[Patreon]] where she has found great success, standing among the top 20 creators on the site.<ref>Reeve, Elle (March 14, 2019). [https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/qvym73/meet-the-youtube-star-whos-de-radicalizing-young-right-wing-men "Meet the YouTube star who's de-radicalizing young, right-wing men"]. ''[[Vice News]].'' Retrieved March 31, 2019.</ref>

== Reception ==
Wynn's videos have been praised for their clarity, nuance, and attention-grabbing sense of humor. Jake Hall, writing for [[Vice (magazine)|''Vice'']], called Wynn "one of the most incisive and compelling video essayists on YouTube".<ref name=":0" /> In an article contrasting her personal sincerity and her ironic sense of humor, ''The Verge'' describes her as the "Oscar Wilde of YouTube."<ref name=Verge1 /> ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine states, "ContraPoints is very good. Regardless of the viewer’s interest or lack thereof in internet culture wars, YouTube Nazis, or any of the other wide-ranging subjects covered in its videos, they’re funny, bizarre, erudite, and compelling."<ref name="Singal1" />

Nathan Robinson of ''[[Current Affairs (magazine)|Current Affairs]]'' calls ContraPoints a "one-woman blitzkrieg against the YouTube right," describing her videos as "unlike anything I've ever seen ... She shows how debate should be done: not by giving an inch to poisonous ideas, but by bringing superior smarts, funnier jokes, and more elegant costumes to the fight."<ref name="Robinson1" /> Robinson also notes that because of the channel's humor and its direct attention to online culture, it seems uniquely suited to a millennial audience.<ref name="Robinson1" /> Wynn's analysis of fascists' use of memes and coded symbols has been cited by the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] in an article explaining the right-wing use of the [[OK gesture#White supremacy|OK sign]].<ref name="splc1">{{Cite news |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/18/ok-sign-white-power-symbol-or-just-right-wing-troll |title=Is that an OK sign? A white power symbol? Or just a right-wing troll? |last=Neiwert |first=David |date=September 18, 2018 |work=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] |access-date=November 13, 2018 |language=en |author-link=David Neiwert}}</ref> Journalist [[Liza Featherstone]] recommends the channel as well, saying that Wynn does a "fabulous job" acknowledging her opponents' valid points while debunking weak arguments and revealing the influence of a sometimes-unacknowledged far-right political agenda.<ref name="TheNation1">{{Cite news |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/think-friend-jordan-peterson-fan-can/ |title=I Think My Friend Is a Jordan Peterson Fan. What Should I Do? |last=Featherstone |first=Liza |date=June 7, 2018 |work=[[The Nation]] |access-date=July 17, 2018 |language=en-US|author-link=Liza Featherstone}}</ref>

In November 2018, after a ContraPoints video about [[incel]]s reached over one million views, ''[[The New Yorker]]'' released a profile of the channel, describing Wynn as "one of the few Internet demi-celebrities who is as clever as she thinks she is, and one of the few leftists anywhere who can be nuanced without being boring."<ref name="NewYorker1">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-stylish-socialist-who-is-trying-to-save-youtube-from-alt-right-domination |title=The Stylish Socialist Who Is Trying to Save YouTube from Alt-Right Domination |last=Marantz |first=Andrew |date=November 19, 2018 |work=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=November 19, 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref> VanDerWerff praised Wynn's videos as "frequently, beautiful" and suggested that Wynn was uniquely suited to YouTube as a content platform.<ref name="VanDerWerff1" /> ''[[The Atlantic]]'' praised Wynn's use of "lush sets, moody lighting, and original music by the composer Zoë Blade" and opined of her videos that "The most spectacular attraction [...] is Wynn herself."<ref name="Atlantic1" /> ''[[Polygon (website)|Polygon]]'' named her video on incels one of the ten best video essays of the year 2018.<ref name="Polygon1" /> In May 2019, she topped the ''[[Dazed]] 100'' list, which ranks people who "dared to give culture a shot in the arm."<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501122146/https://www.dazeddigital.com/projects/article/44177/1/contrapoints-youtuber-biography-dazed-100-2019-profile|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/projects/article/44177/1/contrapoints-youtuber-biography-dazed-100-2019-profile|title=ContraPoints|work=[[Dazed]]|last=Blunt|first=Selim|archivedate=May 1, 2019|year=2019|accessdate=May 2, 2019}}</ref>

The ''[[Washington Examiner]]'' has asserted that Wynn has "thinly veiled authoritarian tendencies," citing her views on free speech and use of [[Preferred gender pronoun|preferred gender pronouns]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/vices-weird-deference-to-contrapoints-authoritarianism|title=Vice's weird deference to ContraPoints' authoritarianism|date=2019-03-15|website=Washington Examiner|language=en|access-date=2019-05-30}}</ref> Kelsie Jones, a contributor to ''[[HuffPost]]'', has criticized Wynn's use of Nazi and alt-right imagery, saying that even as parody the acts normalize the images. Jones also criticizes Wynn's engagement with alt-right arguments.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dealing with Anti-Trans Hate - Debate is Contraindicated |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dealing-with-anti-trans-hate-debate-is-contraindicated_b_5a1d8a58e4b09413e786af51 |last=Jones|first=Kelsie |publisher=[[HuffPost]] |date=28 November 2017|accessdate=5 June 2019}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Wynn is a [[Trans woman|transgender woman]], a matter that features heavily in her videos, and began [[Transitioning (transgender)|gender transitioning]] in 2017.<ref name="Singal1" /> She considers herself a [[socialist]] and [[feminist]].<ref name="Robinson1" /><ref name="NewYorker1" /><ref name="Verge1" /> {{As of|2017}}, she resides in [[Baltimore|Baltimore, Maryland]].<ref name=Singal1 />

== See also ==
* [[Hbomberguy]]

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
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* {{cite magazine |last=d'Almeida |first=Pierre |date=January 24, 2019 |issue=242 |department=Cover story |title=You Wynn |url=https://mozzoviewer.publishingcenter.net/dist/3c105d93b37ac925293b736f4880cecb/64891.web/?appId=com.forecomm.stylist&contentId=64891&timestamp=1549213908&token=03d65339ff8176d38a9485de4212ddbf55a13151&sign=9ff1c79db05bee1e41d41372da069ce50bf5228855c0252b367605f505bcceef#page/30 |magazine=Stylist.fr |location= |publisher=|access-date=February 3, 2019 |pages=30–33 |language=fr}}
* {{cite news |last1=Placido |first1=Dani Di |title=5 Fantastic YouTubers Fighting The Spread Of Alt-Right Propaganda |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2019/03/24/5-fantastic-youtubers-fighting-the-spread-of-alt-right-propaganda/ |work=Forbes |date=March 24, 2019 }}
{{refend}}

== External links ==
{{Wikiquote|Natalie Wynn}}
*{{YouTube|user=ContraPoints}}
*{{IMDb name|9268416|Natalie Wynn}}

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