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Barbascura X

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Barbascura X
Barbascura X during a live show in Italy
Personal information
Born (1987-05-02) 2 May 1987 (age 37)
Taranto, Italy
OriginApulia
NationalityItalian
EducationUniversity of Bari
OccupationYouTuber, science communicator, writer
Websitebarbascura.com
YouTube information
Also known asBarbascura
Channel
LocationItaly
Years active2014-present
GenreEducation, Comedy

Barbascura X (real name unknown) (born 2 May 1987) is an Italian YouTuber, writer, comedian, and television host. He is very reserved about his private life, so much so that his real name is not listed anywhere, to not create conflict with his research activity..[1]

Biography[edit]

Born in Taranto, he graduated in organic chemistry at the University of Bari, specialized in organic synthesis at the university of Bologna, and later obtained a doctorate abroad in green chemistry and production of materials from renewable sources.[2]

He has worked in several laboratories in Europe participating in two Erasmus (Poitiers and Dublin) and carrying out both the professional career of chemist and that of researcher: at Trinity College in Dublin, working on the synthesis of new pharmaceutical products, in Paris for the National Institute of Health and Medical Research, on new techniques for the treatment and prevention of arteriosclerosis, and in Nice and Amsterdam by winning the European call for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.[3]

YouTube Activity[edit]

Barbascura X in 2020
Barbascura X in 2020

He runs the YouTube channel Barbascura X, which includes the scientific dissemination format in humorous Scienza Brutta, the Riassuntazzi brutti brutti format in which he comically summarizes episodes of films and series, and Logos, travel stories in the third person. In 2022, the main channel, opened in 2014, has more than 900 000 subscribers[4] with over 150 videos published and approximately 110 million total views[5].

He also owns and operates other YouTube channels: Barbascura eXtra, with more than 310,000 subscribers, Barbascura Music, Club Pirata and scienzabrutta4KIDS.

Television career[edit]

At the end of 2020 he is the protagonist of the four-part docu-fiction Post Scriptum - An optimistic look from the end of the world. Since March 2021, he has hosted the two-season series Micromostri con Barbascura X on DMAX, dedicated to insects and other small creatures. In the same year, on Rai 3 he had a column in the show Il posto giusto called The unusual inquiries of Barbascura X. He has also taken part in several Comedy Central programs such as Stand-up comedy and South Park - Pandemic Special combining with his monologues, science popularization and comedy.[6]

In June of the same year, after having participated[7] with a monologue about the birth of the universe at a TedX,[8][9] he wrote and co-hosted a documentary with Luca Perri called Infodemic: the virus is us.[10]

In 2022 he leads 72 animali pericolosi on DMAX; the program had a second season in 2024[11]

Barbascura will appear in the horror videogame Unfollow.[12][13][14]

Voice work[edit]

  • Narrator in Dinosaur Apocalypse (2022)
  • Narrator in LifeDelfi (2023)[15][16]

TV Program[edit]

  • Stand up comedy (Comedy Central, 2021-2022)[17]
  • 72 Animali Pericolosi con Barbascura X (DMAX, 2022-2024)[19]

Literature Works[edit]

  • Il satiro scientifico. Riprodursi male. Gaia. Mondadori. 2023. ISBN 978-88-0477-359-7. Search this book on
  • Il satiro scientifico. Storie di merda. Gaia. Mondadori. 2023. ISBN 978-88-0478-409-8. Search this book on
  • Il satiro scientifico. I belli hanno rotto il cazzo. Gaia. Mondadori. 2024. ISBN 9788804784104. Search this book on

Graphic Novel[edit]

Comix[edit]

Awards[edit]

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Barbascura X:"Non dico il mio nome per scelta, è la mia libertà"". 19 August 2022.
  2. ↑ "Porto Torres, il convegno Flag sulla plastica nei mari". 17 September 2019.
  3. ↑ "Who is Barbascura X, real name, life and career of the science popularizer". 9 June 2023. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  4. ↑ "Barbascura X net worth, income and estimated earnings of Youtuber channel". Retrieved 2022-01-03.
  5. ↑ "Barbascura X's YouTube Stats (Summary Profile)". Social Blade. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
  6. ↑ "Vita da influencer, Barbascura X: "Il successo grazie a un video sui cetrioli di mare. Litigai con Burioni ma ora gli scienziati mi apprezzano"". la Repubblica (in italiano). 2024-05-15. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  7. ↑ Cosimo Tarantino (ed.). "Edizione 2021 TEDxLeverano". TEDx Leverano.
  8. ↑ "Figli delle stelle". TED Talk. 29 July 2021.
  9. ↑ Bilyana Georgieva (2022-03-22). "The 50 Most Popular TEDx Talks Released In 2021 on YouTube". Medium. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  10. ↑ Marco Zanetti (2021-12-25). "Che cos'è l'infodemia: le risposte nel docu-cast anche bresciano". Giornale di brescia. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  11. ↑ "Il divulgatore scientifico e youtuber Barbascura X torna su DMAX con "72 animali pericolosi con Barbascura X", un viaggio alla scoperta delle creature più pericolose d'Australia - Discovery Italia".
  12. ↑ "Trailer Released for Social Media Horror Game: Unfollow -". mxdwn Games. 2023-02-20. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  13. ↑ Serafini Productions. "UNFOLLOW su Steam". Steam. Retrieved 2023-02-05.
  14. ↑ Serafini Productions. "Serafini Productions". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2023-02-05. we will release it on Playstation, Xbox, and Steam in 2023.
  15. ↑ Life DELFI è un progetto europeo con lo scopo di mitigare le interazioni tra delfini (della specie Tursiope) e le attività di pesca in Italia e in Croazia
  16. ↑ "Life Delfi, un conflitto da risolvere" Il Documentario on YouTube
  17. ↑ Marcello Filograsso (2021-11-05). "Comedy Central, da stasera l'ottava stagione di Stand Up Comedy". TvBlog. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  18. ↑ Gianmarco Aimi (25 January 2021). "Barbascura X: «In un universo parallelo sarei potuto diventare negazionista»". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  19. ↑ SemiColonWeb. "FormatBiz | 72 Dangerous Animals with Barbascura X on DMAX". www.formatbiz.it. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  20. ↑ Teleboy. "Jurassic Night con Barbascura X - DMAX Italia - 25. dicembre 2022, 00:30". Teleboy. Archived from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  21. ↑ Riccardo Cristilli (2023-10-15). "Il Collegio 8, le anticipazioni della terza puntata: ci sono Barbascura X e Leo Gassmann". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in italiano). Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  22. ↑ Martina Sarracino (2023-11-27). "Doc nelle tue mani 3, nuova clip spoiler: c'è anche uno youtuber famosissimo". L'architetto (in italiano). Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  23. ↑ "Sulle tracce dell'orso: la "caccia" ai giganti delle montagne diventa uno show televisivo". BresciaToday (in italiano). Retrieved 2024-03-31.

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