Brittany Sellner

Brittany Sellner
Brittany Sellner (then Pettibone) in 2018
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Born	(1992-10-07) October 7, 1992 California
Nationality	American
Occupation	YouTuber, writer
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Channel	Brittany Sellner
Years active	2016–present
Subscribers	120 thousand
Total views	7.8 million
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Last updated: May 11, 2019

Brittany Alicia Merced Sellner (née Pettibone; born October 7, 1992) is an American writer and conservative YouTube commentator from California. Her work has included interviews with notable right-wing figures, on-the-ground reporting across the United States and Europe, and commentary on political and social issues. She is the author of a self-help book for girls entitled What Makes Us Girls and the co-author with her twin sister Nicole of an award-winning science-fiction and fantasy novel, Hatred Day.

Sellner is Catholic and currently lives in Austria with her husband, Austrian identitarian activist Martin Sellner. The two were married in July 2019.

Biography

Sellner was born Brittany Pettibone on October 7, 1992 in California to parents of mostly German, Spanish and Czech ancestry. Since first becoming active on 1 October 2016, Sellner has appeared in numerous YouTube videos independently as well as with her twin sister Nicole or with fellow YouTuber and documentary filmmaker Lauren Southern. Many of her videos have dealt with issues related to immigration into Europe, and many others have dealt with issues surrounding relations between the sexes, including marriage, feminism, and femininity.

In 2017, Pettibone and Tara McCarthy started a podcast and YouTube channel called Virtue of The West, which was dedicated to "helping you reconnect with the traditional values that once made Western Civilization great, including but not limited to the glorification of the nuclear family, motherhood, masculinity, femininity, etiquette, traditional gender roles and love of one’s own culture, race and country." GoFundMe, the crowdfunding platform used to support the venture, kicked them off the site on 30 January 2017 and the series only produced six episodes.

In February 2018, Southern, along with Pettibone and Caolan Robertson, distributed flyers in the English town of Luton describing Allah as "gay," posing as if they considered Islam compatible with homosexuality.

In March 2018, Southern, Pettibone, and her then boyfriend, Martin Sellner, were all denied entry to the United Kingdom. Pettibone and Sellner were detained separately before being deported. Sellner was rejected on the grounds of his affiliation with the Austrian branch of Generation Identity, the organization he co-founded, as well as possible violence by Antifa during his planned speech at Speaker's Corner. The document informing her of her refusal of leave to enter the country noted that Pettibone had been intending to interview Tommy Robinson, an anti-Islam activist whom the UK government considered "a far right leader whose materials and speeches incite racial hatred." The document further cited the fact that she intended to film a speech by Martin Sellner and that his organization, the Austrian branch of Generation Identity, is "viewed in the UK as a right-wing organization." Finally, the note cited the fact that leaflets in Martin Sellner's possession mentioned "possible violence at his speech." The leaflets in question were not encouraging violence, but warning that counter-demonstrators might become violent. All three have vowed to take legal action against the UK over the incident.

On 18 June 2019 Pettibone reported that she is under investigation by Austrian authorities for two ostensible reasons. Firstly, "over a year and a half ago" she interviewed Blair Cottrell, an Australian nationalist activist who once received a donation from Brenton Tarrant, perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque shootings. Second, she once received an email from "a man who asked if my fiancé, @Martin_Sellner, could give advice to Blair Cottrell regarding building up the right-wing movement in Australia," although she never responded.

In July 2019 she announced that she is now legally married to Martin Sellner, having been engaged since 29 August 2018.

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Sellner has endorsed traditional gender roles and long-term relationships leading to marriage and reproduction.

She is opposed to mass migration into Western countries, as she considers it to jeopardize the security and identity of the nation, as well as making assimilation impossible, and promoted the Defend Europe mission to stop the alleged trafficking of migrants from North Africa into Europe. She does not support a complete moratorium on immigration, but rather deportation of all illegal immigrants, as well as immigrants who have committed crimes after entering the host country and any who "openly hate our country and want to subvert and destroy it."

She states that although she detests political labels, she does identify with the terms "traditional Catholic" and "American nationalist."

Deplatforming

GoFundMe, the crowdfunding platform used to support the Virtue of the West podcast, removed the campaign from the site on 30 January 2017.

On 26 June 2018 Patreon closed Pettibone's account due to her promotion and solicitation of funds for the Defend Europe mission, alleging that this constituted "involvement and affiliation with violent organizations." Defend Europe has never advocated for violence and the group's leader Martin Sellner has denounced violence repeatedly.

In October 2018 Pettibone was deplatformed from the crowdfunding platform Donorbox, ostensibly for retweeting an image depicting her as a "Border Control Barbie" who had set a boat on fire with a flare gun. The image was satire inspired by British tabloid The Sun which had characterized her as a "Barbie" and accused her and Martin Sellner of trying to murder migrants in the Mediterranean. Donorbox characterized the image as "inciting violence against a group of people" even after admitting that it was a joke.

External links

• Brittany Sellner's channel on YouTube
• Sellner's personal website