Soft White Underbelly is an American YouTube channel by Mark Laita that 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".
[5] Many interviews take place in Laita's small studio on Skid Row in Los Angeles in front of a backdrop that Paper magazine calls "yearbook photo-esque" and consist of questions about the interviewee's childhood, lifestyle, and plans for the future.
[8] Another prominent character is Rebecca, a 26-year-old homeless trans woman on Skid Row whose personality and musings on fashion and culture have attracted loyal fans and whose struggles with drug addiction are displayed in real time.
[4] 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.
"[9] The channel gained attention in 2021 after the death of one of its three-time interviewees, a 25-year-old sex worker and recovering crack cocaine addict named Amanda.