Peter Coffin

Peter Coffin is a YouTube creator who has created several documentaries. He is a supporter of Patriotic Socialism.

Coffin started his career as a Youtube comedian and was involved in multiple dramas before his involvement in politics. His first big public appearance was kicking himself in the balls on America's Got Talent. An incident that happened during his Youtube comedy career was him getting catfished into embarrassing behavior on the public internet, which escalated into him becoming a public "Lolcow" with an unreasonable amount of attention being funneled towards the drama by Redditors. Mr. Coffin has stated multiple times that this experience is what led him to developed his own ideas about "Social Capital" in the attention economy and be radicalised against a proto-wokeism he was subjected to.

His forays into developing personal politics on Youtube coincided with early phases of Breadtube in the period between Gamergate and Contrapoint's first viral video. During this time Breadtube was primarily identified as a ring of small-time leftist channels focused on video responses against Gamergaters, of which Kevin Logan was the first successful archetypical "Breadtuber". On launch of Peter Coffin's "Very Important Documentaries" videoessay series, early Breadtubers like Kevin Logan, Thought Slime, Christie Winters and others were involved in signal-boosting Peter Coffin's work to the same aesthetic focus group they were cultivating. This resulted in Coffin's work riding piggyback on the attention generated by early Breadtube and vice versa.

Breadtube's reception of Peter Coffin was always pregnant with pseudointellectual tendencies that sought to dismiss his books and more serious theoretical commitments as either too brainy or stupid by virtue of having been written by Peter Coffin.

During Coffin's involvement with early Breadtube he was friends with fellow Breadtuber "Angie Speaks", with whom he later started the podcast "Low Society". Angie Speaks was from 1st Generation Breadtube and fell out of favour over her public observation that Social Justice can serve as a game of clout-chasing. Her video on this matter was met with heavy abuse that fully alienated her out of the Breadtube scene and certainly had an influence on her colleague Coffin.

At the beginning of the rise of the Redlibs (a group of Post-Breadtubers around Paul Morrin, Hakim and Yugopnik) Coffin began closer association with Tankie influencers, reaching out to both Caleb Maupin and the Redlibs to air his grievances with Breadtube's rapid mutation into an outlet for partisan demagogy between bourgoise parties.

Infrared's entry into the discourse and introduction of Patriotic Socialism as an easily drawable line of definition between Tankies and Redlibs provided opportunity for Mr. Coffin to deepen his commitment to Marxism-Leninism, which he took. He produced several dedicated videos on theory in rebuke to the Breadtube line.

Peter Coffin has been closely associated with Caleb Maupin and the CPI during the finalisation of his split with Breadtube. During this time his appearances on the Low Society podcast stopped and Angie Speaks (without mentioning names) referred on one Episode to a "former friend who [after Breadtube] moved straight onto the next grift with not a moment of reflection".

Before the Schism between Infrared and the PatSocDems relations between the community and Peter Coffin were cordial. His leftover Breadtube aesthetic put many community members off. Coffin's opinion on Haz specifically has been consistently characterised by admiration, respect and principled defence of Haz's right to not be tone-policed according to woke standards.

Coffin's inclusion in the cover art of the polemic from the Infrared blog declaring the Schism resulted in a polite termination of communication and commitment to not trying to step on Infrared's toes. Relations from side of the Infrared community remain ambiently aggressive, though Coffin seems to be holding to his words that he does not treat Infrared as a hostile competitor.