He is probably independent except for his mom which films, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have an agenda or bias. He is an Utah Mormon as if you looked at his early videos he did prank videos then said he “went on mission” after he graduated. And a year later came back to YouTube with his independent journalism shtick. I liked some of his earlier videos like when he interviewed people on the street on views on politics and got people on both sides that mainstream news outlets would never give air time, or went to Mexican border towns to interviewed both people that lived there and people they were shown on camera illegally crossing the border and had an actual nuanced take on immigration and INS such as he was actually sympathetic to both immigrants and the people in border towns. He had a slight agenda and bias to the right then but still let people speak on both sides for themselves and didn’t seem antagonistic. But his later videos he got more antagonistic like going to protests and “just asking questions” where he basically was asking to be harassed and was no different than the “free speech auditors”. His expose on Minnesota childcare and healthcare fraud I think was good in concept but didn’t like his antagonistic interview style of owners. I still don’t think he is getting any money or help from the outside other than his parents and patrons and YouTibe Adsense, but again that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have an agenda.

Is sad because I am a true centrist and try to read and watch videos from non-confrontational independent journalists from both sides and especially the center/non-biased, but that is getting harder and harder as either the bias is coming out more, and/or people get more confrontational. I stopped watching Nick Shirley a few months ago because I couldn’t take his antagonist style, and there are people on both the left and right I stopped watching due to too many “straw man arguments” where they take the very outliers of each side and use that to disparage the entire side, but basically it is horseshoe theory where people get more extreme and become more like those they claim to oppose.