Soon and bankrupt

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Soon and bankrupt
YouTube channel ( tourism )
language English , Russian and Hindi
founding June 12, 2018
channels Soon and bankrupt
Subscribers over 1,900,000
Calls over 250,100,000 million
Videos over 200
(updated July 10, 2020)

Bald and Bankrupt is the pseudonym of the British vloger and author Benjamin Rich-Swift (born July 1, 1974 in Brighton , England ) and at the same time the title of his channel operated via the video platform YouTube . Since June 2018, he has been publishing videos on his travels through the post-Soviet states and India .

Life

Benjamin Rich-Swift spent his school days at a boarding school and from 1993 moved as a backpacker through Russia , Belarus and Kyrgyzstan . During the unsuccessful August coup and the subsequent constitutional crisis , he stayed in Moscow . After an unplanned stop in Delhi , he decided to stay in India and ran his own hostel in Amritsar until 1997 .

On his return to England he opened in Worthing initially self-reported by a bookstore , but had in January 2017 personal bankruptcy login.

In April 2018 he published the book The Burning Edge: Travels Through Irradiated Belarus under the pseudonym Arthur Chichester about his travels through the areas of Belarus radioactively contaminated as a result of the Chernobyl disaster ; the book was reprinted in March 2020.

Since June 2018 he has been running the channel Bald and Bankrupt on YouTube , on which he publishes video contributions of varying lengths on India, the post-Soviet states and other countries with little tourism. The peculiarity of the video contributions lies in the unadorned presentation of the regions he has traveled to and his interest in the everyday life of the simple rural population. Recorded with a simple action camcorder from Sony and hardly edited, he also often has longer conversations with locals with the help of his knowledge of Hindi and Russian , which has contributed significantly to the success of the channel. Video reports on a refugee camp in Delhi, the highly controversial settlement of Luník IX , which is inhabited by Slovak Roma, and the drug cartel-controlled village of Patamanta in the highlands of Bolivia caused a sensation and controversy .

In January 2020 he started his own blog Lost Gopnik , which he updates weekly. He unexpectedly suspended his channel on YouTube in May 2020 after falling seriously ill with COVID-19 during a stay in Belgrade . This was followed by sporadic reports on Instagram , but since August 2020 he has been publishing video posts on YouTube again after a successful recovery; most recently from Prague , from where he has traveled through Eastern Europe and South Asia so far .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This mystery YouTuber will teach you more about the Soviet Union than your professors. In: FEE. August 24, 2020, accessed July 10, 2020 .
  2. ^ Authors of Desolation Travel. In: Desolation Travel. August 19, 2021, accessed July 10, 2020 .
  3. ^ Why I returned to India after twenty years. In: YouTube.com. July 15, 2018, accessed August 29, 2020 .
  4. ^ Bankruptcy Orders. In: The Gazette. January 24, 2017, accessed August 29, 2020 .
  5. ^ The Burning Edge: Travels Through Irradiated Belarus , ADP 2018, ISBN 978-1-9807-8751-8 , OCLC 1107791946
  6. ↑ Cuando one excursion a la montaña en Bolivia da más miedo que adentrarse en Chernóbil. In: Gizmodo. October 22, 2019, accessed August 29, 2020 .
  7. ↑ When an outsider sees more than an insider. In: The New Leam. January 19, 2019, accessed August 29, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Pozrite sa, ako známy britský YouTuber predstavil svetu košický Luník IX. In: HN Online. July 22, 2019, accessed August 29, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Conspiracy theorists attack YouTubers after a video about severe corona disease. In: The Standard. July 13, 2020, accessed August 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bankrupt, soon and
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rich-Swift, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British travel vlogger and YouTuber
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Brighton