Andrew Rakich
@atun_shei
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Creator of Atun-Shei Films ♟️🇺🇸 Director of The Sudbury Devil 🪨💦 Animal & earth liberation activist 💚 🖤
New Orleans, LA
Joined February 2016
THE SUDBURY DEVIL is now available to stream on Tubi, Prime Video, and Apple TV!. The best way to support the filmmakers is still to buy it directly through our website at where you can also get exclusive access to over six hours of special features.
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POV: you got famous for a series about military history and then you post a video about women’s rights. I am deeply ashamed that these people are even vaguely adjacent to the Atun Shei community
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Did some harm reduction today. Feeling reasonably ok about it. Please get out and vote, y’all.
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Silly title aside, I'm genuinely disappointed in some of y'all's reactions to today's video. If the mere sight of a materialist analysis causes you to shatter into a thousand pieces, then maybe this whole history thing is not for you
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Highly relevant to our interests. (Credit u/madronnie97 on reddit)
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The final episode of Checkmate Lincolnites, titled THE CORNERSTONE OF JOHNNY REB, is in production and will probably come out sometime in May.
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I love this meme — it falls so flat, it’s almost impressive. It’s the perfect storm of unintentional compliments and complete non sequitors.
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At this point I think we can all agree that Checkmate Lincolnites is bigger than God, and that the release of the upcoming finale is a more significant historical event than the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
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Thank you all for five wonderful years of Checkmate, Lincolnites! ❤️ 🤍 💙
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Real talk: The insane vitriol in reaction to the title of today's video is another sad reminder of how military history spaces remain overwhelmingly white. Sure most (white) Union soldiers were racist. But you know who wasn't? The nearly 200k black men who fought to end slavery.
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Comments: "Having a MAGA guy as Nazi's servant is beneath you. Trump supporters aren't all racist.". Y'all tried a coup and failed in the most embarrassing way possible, so you're doomed to be bumbling henchmen in campy genre movies for eternity. Sorry but I don't make the rules.
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I'm proud to present the first trailer for my film, THE SUDBURY DEVIL, which will premiere in Salem, Massachusetts on September 9th.
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The latest video sure is bringing out the knuckledraggers, lol. Thanks for the ad revenue, dipshits! 🤣🤣🤣
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@zas11s Your video was well done and illuminating, and you deserve to profit from the fruits of your own labor. This guy is exhibiting your work in its entirety without your consent, leeching money from you in the process. It's deeply unethical. Consider issuing a copyright claim.
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Express the slightest interest in historical fiction on youtube, get recommended these three videos for the rest of your fucking life
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My woke movie will screen in select theaters this autumn, with a woke streaming release to hopefully shortly follow!
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Comments: “Alex Jones was right about the frogs, you’ve been forcefed a narrative by the media, blah blah blahdee blah”. I called him the gay frog guy because that’s funnier than calling him what he is — the dead kids guy.
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I have a lot of sympathy for right wingers. They sense that democracy is broken and that corporate elites control our lives. This is 100% true. But when we blame these palpable problems on some ethnic group, we’re just giving into fear — when we should be taking our power back.
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Liberals who turn their nose up at the "economic anxiety" argument are something else, man. While all major historical events have complex causes, the crucial connection between the 2008 financial crisis and the rise of global right-wing populism seems blindingly obvious to me.
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@Trey_Explainer Actions like this aren’t meant to change minds. The tactic is to grab headlines and be a nuisance in order to pressure the UK government to take drastic action on the climate crisis.
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‘The Cornerstone of Johnny Reb’ is airing soon. • Battle scenes took 3 nights to shoot.• Most spectacular finale to a webseries in YouTube history.• Longest #CheckmateLincolnites episode ever. Our zombie army battle scene is going to blow this lame dragon shit outta the water.
‘The Long Night' aired 5 years ago today . • Outdoor scenes took 55 nights to shoot .• Longest battle sequence in film or TV history .• Longest #GameofThrones episode ever . What are your thoughts on the episode? 🤔
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On Christmas Eve I got a gun pulled on me while I was peacefully protesting @OmniHotels' decision to keep selling foie gras (aka diseased liver made from force-feeding ducks). How's your holiday season going? 🤣🤣🤣
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I'm just gonna quietly leave this link here, and casually, offhandedly, not-at-all-desperately mention that directing a Brendan Fraser mummy movie would be the great honor of my life
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I've come around on the idea that accuracy makes a historical film better, but we gotta remember that painstaking accuracy is a pretty newfangled thing in cinema. It's something millennial hipster auteurs are into –– the older generations of directors just don't care.
Ridley Scott reacts to those criticizing the historical inaccuracies in ‘NAPOLEON’. “Get a life.”. (Source:
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.".
Satan has no place in our society and should not be recognized as a "religion" by the federal government. I'll chip in to contribute to this veteran's legal defense fund. Good prevails over evil -- that's the American spirit.
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The biggest piece of advice I have for young people is that you should never ever ever ever EVER get a job.
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I'll always put way too much effort into my youtube videos because I genuinely want to make cool shit, but I am often unpleasantly reminded that my role in most of my viewers' lives is that I give them something to look at while on the toilet to stave off the existential dread.
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It sucks! I love it.
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Karl of @InRangeTV teaches me to shoot five iconic Union long guns of the Civil War, including three originals actually used in combat
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It kinda bothers me in conversations about climate change how people say “The earth’s survived worse, it’ll be fine.”. The difference between this mass extinction and the other ones is that someone is to blame — someone who knows better but refuses to do anything about it.
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There's a tendency among some youtube educators to cite sources as ([Author's Last Name], [Year]) in an onscreen title card with no corresponding footnote in the description. This citation is basically useless to your viewers. If they want to follow up on your source they will. .
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The "white" is silent, because most civil war buffs are white, and unfortunately many can't or won't entertain a point of view outside their own experience.
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My entire personality comes from late-90s early-aughts Stephen Sommers adventure movies, yes. What of it?.
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@selina_dedalus It’s cultural. They symbolically associate meat with power, virility, and tradition. They view cultured meat / transitioning to a plant-based food system as yet another attempt by liberal elites to control them.
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The heat this summer has made southern Louisiana borderline uninhabitable. I'm starting to get real sick of dealing with extreme and dangerous weather all the time, just so Tyson Foods and Exxon Mobil can make a buck.
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My film THE SUDBURY DEVIL is now available to stream worldwide, together with over six hours of special features, only at
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New Atun-Shei video! The Checkmate Lincolnites boys watch a disgusting sex film 🪨 💦
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Livestream with @KnowingBetterYT tonight on my channel at 7PM CT. Be there! Also here's a real picture of us hanging out
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This week has seen four of the hottest days ever recorded in human history. Paleoclimate scientists estimate that global temperatures have not been this high anytime within the past 100,000 years. Climate change caused by human industrial activity is to blame.
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I'm making another pro-cannibalism video. To celebrate, here are some examples of me DESTROYING nutritionally deficient militant non-cannibal activists in my comment section 👏🫀🫁🦴🧠
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I don't think many audience members are aware just how many online content creators are motivated purely by money.
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Embarrassing footage of two 30 year old men playing with children's toys . (this was for a camera test)
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I’ll take “shit that never happened” for $500, Alex.
"As one Black lady I spoke with today in New Orleans said: 'Trump's a gangsta'. That means he has cred among a new block of voters."
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I can't believe Indy has gone woke. C'mon, Nazis as the bad guys? Talk about on the nose! Audiences want fun, apolitical movies, not woke moralizing. #gobrokegowoke.
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Wake up doll, the trailer for Frozen '50s Man Episode 3 just dropped!!!
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The Ford F-350 King Ranch and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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New Atun-Shei video, and a collab with @InRangeTV! Karl and I traveled to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia to examine John Brown's raid from a fresh and progressive perspective.
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The Witchfinder General issues a dire warning to all those who love God concerning the recent discovery of a secret wizarding world, as revealed by one JK Rowling (a most godly man).
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Heyyooo your boy’s in this.
America was founded when a group of Protestant Christians, fleeing religious persecution in Europe, made the harrowing journey across the Atlantic. Except, no it wasn't and no they weren't. This story is a lie.
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Hello @YouTubeCreators, could you explain how my video "Were the Confederate Monuments of New Orleans Racist?" violates community guidelines? Frankly I'm at a loss. Thanks
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Wait –– are you telling me that ALL of the lore of Checkmate Lincolnites can now be found in ONE PLACE?!?!?!?!? Why yes, yes I am.
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A kindly stranger has alerted me to an error in CML #7. I confused Confederate casualty statistics at the Siege of Vicksburg with those of the entire campaign. The graphic below should've incorporated the ~2200 Union soldiers killed/wounded at the Battle of Champion Hill as well.
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Every time they cut to an exterior scene in The Office it is so painfully obvious they’re shooting in LA and not in Pennsylvania and it always breaks my immersion. I just needed to get that off my chest.
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I see a lot of people who are clearly very gifted writers tweeting 5-10 times a day. Y’all could be writing a novel, but you’re using your time and talent coming up with puns about something called a Soy Jack for a shot of dopamine. Log off. This app is turning you into a loser.
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For those who don't know, Benjamin Lay was an early 18th century Quaker hermit who lived most of his life in colonial Pennsylvania. He was the first revolutionary abolitionist, as well as the first animal rights advocate, in American history.
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@AaronRegunberg There’s a reason that “Black Excellence” and “LGBT Voices” movie collections on Prime Video was the Floyd uprising’s greatest legacy — because identity politics doesn’t actually threaten the ruling class. It’s a shallow concession they make to give the *appearance* of progress.
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I support small government — small enough to fit inside your bedroom and tell you what to do with your genitals.
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I don’t do sponsorships anymore. Stop sending me fucking emails.
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@ContraPoints I'm sorry Natalie, but try as you might, your return cannot compete with the release of Frozen '50s Man Episode 3.
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"Best folk horror flick I’ve seen since A Field in England," writes @Giallo_Julian for @DreadCentral. "Beautifully shot, well-performed, suitably eerie, and appropriately grotesque, any other indie flick will be hard-pressed to surpass The Sudbury Devil."
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This person sent me some real high-ABV, foaming-at-the-mouth hate mail at 11:19 PM EST on Christmas. Something tells me they did not have a joyous holiday surrounded by friends and family.
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Well, most of my videos are about minor 17th century Indian wars no one’s ever heard of and im slowly turning my most popular series into The Mummy Returns, so….
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Right-wing losers are always screeching on and on about cuckoldry. I wonder why.
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Peter Dinklage would absolutely KILL IT in a Benjamin Lay biopic.
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I'm of two minds about today. On one hand this country does not deserve our celebration, especially with drunken, explosive, obscene nationalistic peacocking. On the other the idea that we should just cede the legacy of the American Revolution to the far right is insane. (1/5)
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Praise God!.
On this day in 1659, the Massachusetts Bay Colony legislature officially bans Christmas
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Hi @TeamYouTube, a brief Joe Rogan clip from my video on Atun-Shei Films was copyright claimed by a company called SuperBam Inc. My use of the clip clearly falls under fair use. The claim is frivolous and may be fraudulent. (1/2)
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Young people need to learn how to introduce themselves. It used to be considered rude not to introduce yourself or others in a situation where people were meeting for the first time. Bring that shit back.
What’s the most boomer complaint you have?.
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Take a moment to think about how ghoulish and evil Chick-fil-a's advertising is.
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There was a time when I would barely get views on anything that wasn't a review, a response, or a debunk. Now my first film review in two years is having an "average to meh" performance. Interesting! Have tastes changed over the years? Or maybe my audience has?
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After the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, the "Boston Anti-Man Hunting League" plotted to systematically kidnap slavecatchers who came north pursuing freedom seekers. Members trained in firearms, communicated in code & established safehouses across Massachusetts.
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I'm watching that new Life on our Planet doc and it's really bugging me how the writers frame nature as a "battle" between evolutionary "dynasties" –– the narration tells of species that "conquer the land" and "dominate" others. dinosaurs "lost their crown" to mammals, etc. .
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Chick-fil-a is what people who don't live on the Gulf Coast think good cooking is.
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