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Barbascura X | |||||||
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Personal information | |||||||
Born | Taranto, Italy | 2 May 1987||||||
Nationality | Italian | ||||||
Education | University of Bari | ||||||
YouTube information | |||||||
Channel | |||||||
Years active | 2014-present | ||||||
Genre(s) | Education, Comedy | ||||||
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Barbascura X (real name unknown) (born 2 May 1987) is an Italian YouTuber, Writer, Comedian, and television host. He is very reserved about his private life, so much so that his real name is not listed anywhere, to not create conflict with his research activity.[1]
Biography
Born in Taranto, he graduated in organic chemistry at the University of Bari, specialized in organic synthesis at the university of Bologna, and later obtained a doctorate abroad in green chemistry and production of materials from renewable sources.[2]
He has worked in several laboratories in Europe participating in two Erasmus (Poitiers and Dublin) and carrying out both the professional career of chemist and that of researcher: at Trinity College in Dublin, working on the synthesis of new pharmaceutical products, in Paris for the National Institute of Health and Medical Research, on new techniques for the treatment and prevention of arteriosclerosis, and in Nice and Amsterdam by winning the European call for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
YouTube Activity
He runs the YouTube channel Barbascura X, which includes the scientific dissemination format in humorous Scienza Brutta, the Riassuntazzi brutti brutti format in which he comically summarizes episodes of films and series, and Logos, travel stories in the third person. In 2022, the main channel, opened in 2014, has more than 800,000 subscribers[3] with over 150 videos published and approximately 110 million total views. He also owns and operates other YouTube channels, including Barbascura eXtra, with more than 310,000 subscribers,and Barbascura Music, which has 21,000.
Television career
At the end of 2020 he is the protagonist of the four-part docu-fiction Post Scriptum - An optimistic look from the end of the world. Since March 2021, he has hosted the two-season series Micromostri con Barbascura X on DMAX, dedicated to insects and other small creatures. In the same year, on Rai 3 he had a column in the show Il postoright called The unusual inquiries of Barbascura X. He has also taken part in several Comedy Central programs such as Stand-up comedy and South Park - Pandemic Special combining with his monologues, science popularization and comedy.
In 2022 he leads 72 animali pericolosi con Barbascura X on DMAX.[4]
Literature Works
Graphic Novel
- Frank illustrated by Boban Pesov, 2019
Awards
- YouTube Creator Awards: Silver Creator Award (2018)
Notes
References
- ^ "Barbascura X: "Non dico il mio nome per scelta, è la mia libertà"".
- ^ "Porto Torres, il convegno Flag sulla plastica nei mari". 17 September 2019.
- ^ "Quanto guadagna Barbascura X? Guadagni dal canale youtube".
- ^ "Il divulgatore scientifico e youtuber Barbascura X torna su DMAX con "72 animali pericolosi con Barbascura X", un viaggio alla scoperta delle creature più pericolose d'Australia - Discovery Italia".
External links
- (in Italian) Official website
- Barbascura X's channel on YouTube
- Media related to Barbascura X at Wikimedia Commons
- Barbascura X at Wikinews
- Quotations related to Barbascura X at Wikiquote
Category:1987 births Category:People from Taranto Category:Italian YouTubers Category:Italian writers Category:21st-century Italian essayists Category:Italian television personalities Category:Italian television writers Category:Italian comedians Category:Italian musicians Category:Italian science writers Category:Living people Category:Children's writers Category:University of Bari alumni Category:Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Category:Participants in Italian reality television series Category:YouTube channels launched in 2014 Category:Unidentified people