Soft White Underbelly (YouTube channel)

Soft White Underbelly is an American YouTube channel by Mark Laita, a former commercial photographer, who interviews "people who are frequently invisible in society—the unhoused, the sex worker, the chronic drug user, the runaway, the gang member, the poor and the sick".[2][3] Laita created the channel in April 2016. It emphasizes interviews with people from Skid Row, Los Angeles.[4]

Soft White Underbelly
YouTube information
Channel
Created byMark Laita
LocationLos Angeles, California
Years active2016–present
Genre(s)Biography, documentary
Subscribers5.01 million[1]
Total views988 million[1]
Last updated: October 8, 2023

Lateshia Beachum wrote in the Washington Post that "Laita's warmly lit videos are portraits of addicts who recount childhood sexual abuse with detachment, sex workers who shed tears while telling of betrayal that led them to be trafficked as children, and gang members who talk about missing out on having their parents' affection."[5] Breanna Robinson wrote in Indy100 that "Soft White Underbelly is captivating because of the way it humanizes those who have society's stamp of condemnation on them."[6]

The channel gained attention in 2021 with the death of a previous interviewee, Amanda.[7][8][9]

References
  1. "About Soft White Underbelly". YouTube.
  2. "'Soft White Underbelly' interview series shines a light on difficult realities of the human condition". Texas Public Radio. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  3. Boyer, Nicholas (20 January 2021). "Soft White Underbelly: Your New YouTube Channel". MUD Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  4. Anders Anglesey (16 May 2021). "Amanda, 'Soft White Underbelly' subject, dead at 25". Newsweek. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  5. "A woman's hard-luck story on YouTube led to thousands in donations. Some smelled a scam". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  6. "What we can all learn about life from YouTube's 'Soft White Underbelly'". Indy100. 25 August 2021. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  7. "Amanda, beloved subject of popular YouTube series 'Soft White Underbelly', dies at 25". Today. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  8. "Amanda, Who Appeared On Soft White Underbelly , Passes Away at Age 25". Yahoo. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  9. McBride, Jessica (16 May 2021). "Amanda Passed Away: Soft White Underbelly Subject Dead at 25". Heavy. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
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