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Think Before You Sleep
YouTuber Information
Profile	Think Before You Sleep
Style	Commentary & Reaction
Date joined	November 15, 2018
Twitter / X	@TBYSTweet
Videos	200+
Schedule	Unscheduled
Status	Active
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Personal information
Nationality	American
Location	United States
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Sean, better known online as Think Before You Sleep or TBYS, is an American right-wing political commentary YouTuber who is known for his political commentary videos on a number of topics including feminism, racism, fat acceptance and health.

History

His channel was created on November 15, 2018. He uploaded his first YouTube video on February 6, 2019 where he gave his opinion on the accusations against voice actor Vic Mignogna. He gained popularity among users with conservative and right-wing views for his negative opinions on modern sociopolitical activism.

Content

Sean's content primarily discusses political topics such as feminism, gender politics, racism, sexuality, health politics, and political correctness. While his arguments and takes are predominantly right-leaning and conservative, he has shown to favor and argue for left-leaning or centrist political views at times. His videos are usually formatted so that the arguments of the topic he's discussing are presented first and then his opinions of each of these arguments follow.

Controversies

Criticism

Sean has been accused by other YouTubers mainly Ludwig, Vaush, HasanAbi & Noah Samsen of promoting sexist and far-right content, as well as discrimination against overweight people, homophobia, and antisemitism.

Streamer iiTzTimmy stood against Sean, after Sean used Timmy's clips in a video titled "How Feminist Ideas Make Everyone Weak." Timmy said the video's message didn't reflect his views and that he believes the gaming community needs to improve its way of treating women. Youtuber Boy Boy also made a video criticizing Sean on June 28, 2024.

Feud with Illymation

In February of 2024, Sean posted a video titled "A Fat Acceptance Cartoon" against YouTuber Illymation's video titled "Perks of being The Fat Kid". Sean heavily criticized her analysis of modern dieting culture while criticizing her fashion choices and saying she needs to improve her appearance. Some viewers found his criticism harsh and extreme. The video received over 1 million views in 3 months and would prompt drama between him and Illymation not long after the video was uploaded. Illymation stated in a Tumblr post that she had been receiving harassment on YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram over her video and that she reported Sean's video for cyberbullying, asking others to flag the video if they came across it. She claimed that she didn't watch the video but got a summary of the video by her friend Dillon. This would spawn a wave of other critical videos and comments from commentary drama and reaction channels directed mostly at Illymation due to factors such as not watching the video, campaigning for mass flagging and telling her fans to report the video without watching it first in order to not give him money. On the other hand, many of Illy's fans have criticized Sean's numerous responses, mainly the response that includes the segment where Sean crticized Illy's appearance. In response, Sean released another video, accusing Illymation of instigating a targeted false-flagging campaign in an attempt to deplatform him.

A month after the drama panned out, Illymation was doxxed when her home address was leaked online by others off site, resulting in her being forced to break the terms of her lease after death threats were allegedly mailed to her apartment. Sean has commented on the doxxing in the other videos that followed and in some of his posts on Twitter/X and YouTube. He expressed grievances for Illymation and hoped she was safe. In the third video released on April 1, 2024, he addressed a friend of Illymation, Dillon who supposedly was responsible for giving the rundown that would stir the Tumblr post calling for his first video to be taken down for cyberbullying, accusing the friend of further instigating and prolonging the drama with inflammatory tweets and being distrustful. On April 28, 2024, Youtuber Noah Samsen made a response video to the drama in a video titled "Think Before You Dox", accusing Sean of encouraging doxxing and harassment amongst his fans and tampering with or editing out information to elevate his arguments, and then on May 5, 2024, Noah made another unlisted response video titled "Think Before You Lie", further criticizing Sean's videos claiming he never accused Sean directly of doxxing despite implications in his first video's title. Sean would make a final video that was 2 hours long that would "finalize" the drama and mainly criticize Noah Samson for his arguments and presentation of them but also include Illymation. In it, Sean claimed that Noah Samsen was distrustful and didn't do any research, calling him a hypocrite and supposedly revealing that Illymation and her team had also copyright claimed his first video not long after it was posted, as well as tried to file a privacy report for the same video.

Trivia

• He revealed his face for the first time on his first YouTube livestream on January 30, 2023.
• He used to date YouTuber Brittany Venti.
• He has a degree in kinesiology, and used to work in the fitness industry.