Colin Robertson (YouTuber)

Millennial Woes
Millennial Woes in Stockholm
Personal information
Born	Colin Robertson 1983 (age 40–41)
Nationality	Scottish
Occupation	YouTube personality
Website	millennialwoes.com
YouTube information
Channels	Millennial Woes Martin Sellner Streams Martin Sellner GI
Years active	2013-present
Subscribers	50 thousand (Millennial Woes) 7 thousand (MW Live) 4 thousand (The Woesary)
Total views	6 million (Millennial Woes) 100,000 (MW Live) 20,000 (The Woesary)
Last updated: May 11, 2019

Colin Robertson (born 1983), known as Millennial Woes or simply Woes, is a Scottish YouTube personality, formerly an ethnonationalist activist. He has produced videos critical of multiculturalism, liberalism and other aspects of mainstream culture and politics.

Background

Robertson is of entirely Western European ancestry according to genetic testing, with the two largest categories being "British & Irish" and Dutch.

When he was a teenager he saw it as his "mission to be as liberal as possible and to approve of as much as possible" and admits to having "very black-and-white thinking" at the age of 18, including thinking that there should be no laws. He describes his parents as "liberal, middle of the road, but with socialist leanings" as well as middle class but neither upper- nor lower-middle class.

He attributes his first movement to the right to his move to London at the age of 19, where he was first exposed to a multicultural and multiracial environment.

He studied art at two colleges, one of which he described as mediocre and the second as very prestigious and located in London. He advises others to not repeat his mistake, explaining that he learned very little and acquired no practical skills, and that only a handful of people can benefit from art college. As he put it, during this time he was absorbed in Terrence McKenna's theories about psychedelics and believed that in the future "computers would look after everything and we could just live in a techno-utopia."

Robertson became interested in libertarianism after graduating college, moving back to Scotland and being faced with the smoking ban, which libertarians were opposed to. He later became a paleoconservative, but was uncomfortable with this as he found it too focused on "craving the past."

He credits YouTuber Davis M. J. Aurini's video The Villainy of Bane in The Dark Knight Rises as sparking his first interest in the reactosphere in early 2013.

Career

He launched his YouTube channel at the end of 2013, after a period of clinical depression and underemployment.

On 19 December 2015, he began an annual interview series named Millenniyule, inviting various internet personalities, including many nationalist commentators.

On 20 March 2016 Robertson engaged in a debate with YouTuber Sargon of Akkad entitled The Case for White Nationalism. Robertson argued for the importance of race in determining culture while Sargon argued for the importance of environmental factors.

Robertson delivered a speech at the National Policy Institute conference in November 2016, in Washington DC on the subject of nihilism and how to defeat it.

In January 2017, Robertson began receiving coverage from BBC News and national newspapers, after Scottish tabloid the Daily Record claimed to have doxxed Millennial Woes, "expos[ing]" his birth name, family's home address and sending reporters and photographers to intimidate him. Media outlets used terms such as "vile," "racist" and "hate-filled" to characterize him and his content. Robertson disavowed hatred towards any person or group and reported that he had fled Britain in a video on his YouTube channel entitled "Fugitive Woes". BNP-affiliated group Civil Liberty publicly defended him, claiming his outing by media was a "hate campaign fomented by [The] Daily Mirror", while men's issues blog Return of Kings claimed British "media outlets" were "attempting to incite a mob against him". Fellow Scottish YouTuber Count Dankula also condemned the doxxing and the "Daily Record's attempts at directing mob violence towards him and his family."

On 25 February 2017, Robertson gave a speech in Stockholm organised by Motpol, which had been promoted as "the most important alt-right conference in Europe". According to IBTimes, the event took place in a "secret location" in Södermalm.

On 27 May 2017, Robertson gave a speech entitled "Withnail and I Viewed From the Right" at the London Forum in Kensington, analyzing a 1987 British film.

On 1 July 2017, he appeared at the Scandza Forum in Oslo, speaking on the topic of "globalism/globalization versus ethnonationalism."

In August 2017, Salon claimed that Millennial Woes was one of only a few alt-right platforms to rapidly grow, alongside Red Ice, VDARE and The Rebel Media.

On 7 April 2018 Robertson spoke again at the Scandza Forum, this time in Stockholm, on the subject of infighting within the movement he called the alt-right.

On 28 September 2018, Robertson's Twitter account was suspended. No specific reason was given, and multiple attempts at appealing the decision were unsuccessful.

On 3 November 2018 Robertson gave two speeches in Utrecht to Erkenbrand, a group of self-described Dutch nationalists. Machinery of Silence dealt with suppression of dissident views online by major corporations, including his own experience being deplatformed from Twitter. Do Centrists Dream of Electric Principles? dealt with the nature of power in connection with Jordan Peterson's tweet about the Brett Kavanaugh controversy.

On 30 March 2019 Robertson again addressed the Scandza Forum in Stockholm on the subject of Hope Not Hate, a UK "anti-racist" group which he argues promotes hatred towards dissidents, attempts to ruin them personally, and supports Antifa violence against them.

Leaving Politics

On 28 April 2020 Robertson released a statement on his Telegram channel stating that he would be "taking a break" from the nationalist movement in order to focus on self-improvement. He cited his own "character flaws," problems with "stress and addiction," and the belief that his life was "not as under control as it should be."

On 30 April 2020 nationalist commentator Jason Köhne, known as No White Guilt, released a video on YouTube discussing unspecified improper behavior between Robertson and an unnamed young woman. He announced that the evidence was considered to warrant expelling Robertson from the group, although no criminal activity was involved, and that Robertson would no longer be welcome either as a speaker or a guest. Köhne also commented below the video rejecting allegations "that the behavior in question was unsolicited pics, lewd language, a pickup gone wrong, or a breakup gone wrong."

YouTube Ban

On 22 February 2021 Robertson reported that his three channels had been removed by YouTube. He received one email noting that one channel had received a strike against it and another immediately afterwards stating that his main channel had been terminated. The other channels were terminated without notification, and there was no opportunity for appeal.

Views

Robertson has described himself as right-wing, a supporter of the welfare state in some form, and an opponent of feminism, multiculturalism and mass immigration.

He has advocated for a formal hierarchical class system as a means of encouraging upward mobility and responsible behavior.

Robertson has advocated for tolerance of sexual deviance and drug use within the context of an "underworld," but argues that it is inappropriate to ask the majority of people to approve of it or even to make them aware of it.

He argues that social media companies should not have the power to ban people indefinitely without recourse, but that there should be independent bodies with the capacity to hear appeals and review their decisions. In his view "all punishments should be limited, not lifelong."

External links

• Official website