| “ | Hello, everyone! My name is Shawn and welcome to my channel where I talk about languages and the people who speak them. | ” |
―Shawn's intro | ||
Shawn, known on YouTube as imshawn getoffmylawn, is a YouTuber who talks about minority and endangered languages, their history, and their speakers.
Shawn has a fascination with small languages because of his strong personal philosophy of saving endangered languages.[1]
Content[]
Shawn's main form of content is overviews of obscure or endangered languages, how they have evolved, the people who speak them, and how they can be applied to the modern world, but he has also made videos involving accent/language skill showcases and short language-related stories or shenanigans.
History[]
On February 27, 2020, imshawn getoffmylawn created his channel. The first video was uploaded on March 15, 2020, titled "SpeechLeech 'A' - Albanian, Aymara, Adyghe, Abenaki".
On June 27, 2020, exactly 4 months after its creation, imshawn getoffmylawn's YouTube channel had been firstly archived on the Wayback Machine. At the time, it had 287 subscribers, and the username used to be imshawngetoffmylawn.[2]
Trivia[]
- The channel's best month in growth is October 2023.[3]
- The current channel's profile picture has been used since as far back as June 27, 2020.[2]
Channel Milestones[]
Subscriber Milestones[]
- 1,000 subscribers: March 2021
- 2,000 subscribers: March 22, 2022
- 5,000 subscribers: October 11, 2022
- 10,000 subscribers: September 2, 2023