My Youtuber-sona is a 20 year old dude from LA named Zach Roman, also known as TheMainManZ (though most people call him Zach after he got popular).
He does video game LPs and also reaction videos of fail compilations. He has 12k followers, and was once mentioned in a Forbes magazine article about internet startups. He starts his videos saying “What up Z-nerds!” which is what he calls his fans.
He once did a charity stream thing and raised 20k for dog heart disease. He calls it Zach Hearts Dogs, and it’s supposed to be a live show where you get to bring your dog to watch him play PUBG. He never told the venue owner about the dog thing until the very end though, and it turns out the venue has a strict no animals policy. The fans who came there with their dogs ended up having to leave them in a makeshift doggy daycare across the street run by Zach’s parents and agent.
Two days after the event, Zach made a vlog addressing the situation, where he indirectly blamed the venue owner. This led to the fans starting a harassment campaign towards the venue owner, which included vandalism towards the venue. Zach made another vlog the week after, saying that the people who committed the harassment “are just passionate about dog health”. Although, a month later in an interview he said that they “weren’t real Z-Nerds.”
One day he said a racist thing during a stream, and when he got criticized for it, he just laughed it off as a joke. Then he lost a sponsorship deal, so he made an apology video where he points out that he’s a nice person who did a charity stream for dogs.
Then he made a video titled “A Message for Z-Nerds” where he says that Z-Nerds are family and family sticks together no matter what.
(via werewolve)