From Massive To Passive - Boogie2988's Story (Steven Williams)

boogie2988 one of YouTube's eldest channels has prospered through the years as a perceived rational calm voice of YouTube starting by winning over the hearts of many with stories of hardships and Wow trait skits that out firmly establish him on the platform but more recently has been questioned on his rationality mostly due to his toxicity on livestream and alleged verbal abuse and manipulation overall massive contrast of what he used to represent with his beginnings on YouTube almost happening parallel to the popularity of the site though many find it difficult to pinpoint exactly what brought him down whether it was his separation a surgery or an inability to adapt to attempt to find out and to give a fair analysis we must start from the beginning of YouTube itself right after YouTube's inception in 2005 came away the confusion as to what purpose the platform wants to serve with it being a video hosting website while also sharing traits from the social media website myspace such as the ability to add friends share groups and send private messages to the other members some people joining to witness its new virality of videos and others to share a piece of themselves online which is where boogie2988 comes in a YouTube account created by a 31 year old Steven Jay Williams on April 5th 2006 as he explored the more social aspects of the website even linking his myspace within his page this account was primarily made with motive to keep track of a subscriptions as he did not see himself as a content creator but a mere two months after the creation of the account saw bogies first video uploaded on July 21st 2006 titled a promiscuous girl that guy coming in at length of 21 seconds was a simple video of buggy making exaggerated movements and faces while dancing to the song a promiscuous girl not only was this YouTube's first taste of boogie but also the beginning of boogies self-deprecating videos with a focal point being his weight and his acceptance of it though not all videos shared a similar theme as over the course of two years came a string of scattered improvisational videos some filmed with a PlayStation 2 I toy camera taking plays in his home where he filmed Ram grants consuming copious amounts of food but most earlier videos taking place at the gallery of Champions a collectible store located in Fayetteville Arkansas were buggying while working film skits with his coworkers and customers to then be uploaded online audience wise boogie accumulated a small following of around 150 subscribers some coming from a video titled the incredible bull where he rips his shirt off exposing his body mass it should be noted that the average common was not at one of support but rather shaming him on his physique he then had a second semi viral video where the focus similar to his previous video was on his weight wear with coworkers used the suction on a toilet plunger on his exposed stomach this video titled gut-punching was uploaded on February 8th 2008 though these gains some viewership they did not help establish him it was his upload of an optical illusion gif that he found on the internet that finally gave him some headway it should be noted that at the time viral videos only needed several thousand views to be considered as such with the more popular videos ranging in the hundreds of thousands of views bogies videos fitting into both categories following this bogey was welcomed into the newly established YouTube Partner Program which he turned down thinking it was a scam shortly after there was a transition in content where boogie created less incoherent videos to more personalized videos by addressing his audience directly and as seen on his very first update video posted on may 9th 2008 where he addressed the comments attacking his weight and how he disregarded those as he stated he was comfortable with his size and understood that his disdainful comments were usually accompanied by extremely supportive comments by viewers displeased with the abundance of harsh criticisms which regardless of the constant attacks on his weight remain optimistic something as fans became fond of tell me how disgusting yeah tell me how I should be ashamed that I should just live in my house tell me I need to get a treadmill and I should get friends as his audience cruise so did his video views totaling 514 thousand by his fifty second upload addressing the growth of his channel and in a couple of years I've received five hundred and fourteen thousand video views a growth he would see a lot more of in 2009 as not only did he reach his first thousand subscribers but also had several appearances on television not in person but rather television shows showcasing his popular clips one clip on info mania where boogie talked about world of warcraft and several on the MTV animated show DJ and the fro a show that demonstrated strong influence from the MTV original TV show beavis and butt-head as well as equals three a popular youtube series hosted by youtube sensation ray william johnson with this upswing of views also came an upgrade of gear like his new webcam and PC of much higher quality than his previous build with him now producing much less nonsensical videos and substitute with his personalized videos and commentary or rambling videos akin to the popular Call of Duty videos there were also host to similar styles of commentary with the only difference being of the lack of video game footage a common topic in these videos was a growing trolling community where the more he mentioned them the more tentative they became but his indifference of them remained there's been a troll issue lately you know I made the mistake of mentioning the trolls few times of course and that just makes them like come out of the Woodworks like oh my god we've internal like I get bad enough maybe I'll get famous but he later purposely fed the trolls ignorant of his content style by failing multiple rap videos of his newly established character Francis a stereotypical nerd with a heavy Lisp short temper and love for World of Warcraft making it quite an easy character to attack my video and you guys posted it all over the place like a some sort of joke I saw it on the DND fourth edition mess board and I don't want to appreciate you guys making fun of me you know we're in it together ok though boogie had other established characters at the time not quite attracted as much tension as Francis as these videos spread like wildfire pulling those unaware of his true character all originating from this video these videos overshadowed his regular rants and had a mixture of those knowledgeable of his character and those insulting him at face value both contributing to his growth on YouTube until for a period of 18 days Bogey's channel went without an upload his next video with much visible sorrow explaining that he had lost his mother earlier that month and I don't know where to go from here I don't really know what to do so I'm just gonna fall back on the same philosophy I always fall back on make the best out of every day boogie pushed onward and created a twitch channel which he later stream regularly to and continued making videos with the ultimate culmination of his Frances skits coming in February 2010 where the character Frances gets his World of Warcraft character account hacked my Warcraft to challenge been hacked and you want to post a video about it I just wanted to because nobody embarrassed okay and I would I told no my message board on my Korey big illness board I cooked me on this video gained just enough traction to be featured in raywilliamjohnson series equals three and generated a shadow to boogie now forum the disappointing truth about Francis is that he's trolling he's a made-up character and the guy who plays him is actually brilliant so hats off to you sir but you know what else is brilliant the comment question of the day which comes from a user names so electrified with Ray Breloom Johnson having one of the biggest channels at the time this Brom watched traffic towards Bugis channel much more than any television series I had included in prayer with this viral hit YouTube for a second time offered boogie YouTube partnership which he accepted allowing him to make a bit of money from his videos he also jumped from around 5,000 subscribers to well over 20,000 and just a short period of time which his word des comes in a fan of boogie turned love interest and after several back-and-forth messages online visited boogie for a week during June 2010 this visit energized boogie into creating videos at a higher rate which again provided a substantial boost of subscribers with DES eventually moving in with boogie on October of that year and encouraged him to begin losing weight overall making 2010 a great year for boogie and ending with 40,000 subscribers and 10 million total views 2011 bringing the same results his channels viral videos mostly focused on Francis and capitalizing on the popularity of freakout videos that swept the platform during this time let me show you breath let me smell your breath easily doubling the size of his channel and allowing him to move out of his apartment into a house with his then-girlfriend Dez will later quit her job to assist boogie both with his nursing needs and channel related activities and unlike most other large content creators at the time boogie remained at tentative to his fans not just by giving advice on how they can improve their negative mentalities but also how to overcome life's other difficulties I've answered about 3,000 emails now I've gotten 10,000 more than that actually probably more like 30,000 if I think about it so I get on average about 100 pieces a day and the ones that I do try to answer and I'm sorry if I've missed yours the ones I try to answer the people who really need help now 2012 boogie was able to afford pricier items for his skits that returned an even larger profit with Frances now being the breadwinner of Belize channel as for his other videos such as this one on his personality traits receiving less viewership we came to a disagreement in that disagreement I was a complete prick and that's something I think a lot of people hear about you too don't know about me because I try to put on this air of being super nice and super kind and I try to put that on in real life too and I deal with other people I try to make them feel as comfortable and as welcoming as humanly possible if you asked most people I know that I'm reasonably well liked and I do a reasonable number of good things for good for a good number of people but the skill said that I've learned is completely fabricated I mean I built it out of a box because like many of you know I came from an abusive home and the skill set that I was originally given was poison I learned not how to negotiate but manipulate I learned how you know not to be kind but to be cruel I I learned not to forgive but the judge and and and those are the skills that I brought into my daily life and and they ruled me for the most part but in the past 10 years or so I've done what I like to think is quite an exceptional job of being a good person and I say that at one point I created that personality out of a lab but as I practiced that morality and I practiced that kindness and I practiced that niceness it's who I've become with boogies videos doing ever so well in April of 2012 the same month that he hit 100,000 subscribers boogie signed up for the bi-weekly king of the web competition but immediately received much harassment from viewers of opposing channels even with these attacks being somewhat of a setback boogie won the competition granting him upwards of 7,500 dollars in prize money with boogie donating $1,000 of the prize money to the challenge play charity with charity based activities becoming commonplace on his channel later with finding comfort in YouTube and his life in general boogie proposed to his girlfriend that he had been with for two years via a YouTube video Dez I'm asking you to to marry me which she said yes to she was also someone bujji's fanbase had become familiar with with her role as Francis's sister in the Francis rage series and with this proposal video garnering a fair amount of views but we kicked off a series of story time videos discussing different points in his life though boogie had already been thorough with discussing his history and other aspects of his personal life and as many hour-long q and A's these condensed story time videos kept audience members interested and did well to give his audience insight to his life and hardships such as has many ups and downs in life from being a successful web developer to a less successful card shop employee to being mostly unemployed which is when he came across YouTube it it should be noted that these videos did not outperform their Francis videos but did gain decent viewership in their own right with large amount of support coming from the comments also as many other channels did at the time boogy created a gaming channel where at first only consisted a Let's Plays but eventually transitioned to discussion videos typical of his main channel and review 2012 ended with will boogie claims was one of the best years of his life as he had lost 55 pounds as seen from updates from another alternate channel boogie down 550 he'd also reached 250,000 subscribers on his main channel was engaged and had several paid promotions paying for his new equipment like his brand-new computer at the start of 2013 and even though these promotions were not such a common occurrence they did stop controversy in his later videos boogie also starred in traditional TV commercials like the Volkswagen 2013 Superbowl commercial featuring other internet celebrities on the topic of internet celebrities many succumbed to the newest u2 trend known as drama life where the content creator typically equipped with a dry erase marker and a whiteboard narrated their autobiography with illustrations to accompany it boogie was one of these creators with his draw my life story towering over others detailing his accounts of many things prominently the passing of his drunkard cancer ridden coal miner father that death cost so much difficulty and sadness that he remained almost entirely isolated for seven years of his life and other accounts of his both extremely negligent and abusive mother this was told with much sincerity and ended on a positive note but one thing is for certain right here right now in this moment of time I'm happier than I've ever been and I owe all of that to you for watching my videos for sharing them for subscribing for being part of my life you've given me everything that sad little boy this video did well to win over fans and newcomers that wanted to see more of boogie rather than Francis this increase of interest in boogies saw an adverse of content popularity on Billy's channel now his opinion based videos and discussions were what people were subscribed for an additional boon of this year was another TV appearance for the show supersize vs. super-skinny where he was there to help show Joseph a man on the path becoming obese the tribulations that boogy had suffered through Joseph is about to meet bougie-ass super-sized internet blogger boogie2988 coming at you to the power of the Internet I'm 39 years old and I'm about 37 in half stop this episode was filmed two weeks before boogies wedding were later that month boogie was finally married to his wife Dez and was committing to get a bariatric surgery to help its weight loss 2013 being another successful year of boogie getting him over 1.5 million total subscribers and a sponsorship from Sony to promote their newest gaming console at the PlayStation 4 but his biggest problem remained from the time of the wedding to the start of 2014 he had gained back 52 pounds of the lost 67 pounds totalling his way to 552 pounds or 250 kilograms delaying any chance of a surgery also to the displeasure of fans boo boo was taking less of an aggressive you on topics and was accused a patterning to his audience but boogie had a reason for this the problem comes down to one small thing I'm happy for the first time in a really really long life I'm actually genuinely happy and I owe that to you so yes because I enjoy my xbox one I'm going to talk about the Xbox one in a positive way yes if I offend you of course I'm going to apologize because I don't want you to have hurt feelings I want you to be happy too and yes I'm enjoying life right now so I'm going to talk about life in a positive way so yes you're right I have gone soft and my content reflects it if that makes me an [ __ ] I'm really happy to be that kind of [ __ ] but his someone neutral views on topics would not save him from one of the biggest controversies of 2014 gamergate when in-game journalists such as anita sarkisian criticized games for their depiction of women her deceptive clips and her logic a letís published in her videos enraged the internet some members going as far as to send her death threats this in turn created groups of people on her side and even larger groups against her commentators like bogey would weigh in on the situation where bogus opinion as seen on a tweet longer bouches for neither siding but instead against the extremities happening from this controversy such as the doc seeing and general harassment of anita sarkisian and game developers Oh Quinn as boogie had not only been Doc's prior but also received varying amounts of death threats from the internet something common for a channel of 2 million subscribers and found it easy to empathize with their situation he also talked briefly about it in one of his videos I do plan to continue to make videos about some of the very important issues that were brought up during this thing including integrity on YouTube integrity on journalistic reviews and journal a gaming journals integrity when it comes to the trust that you and I have with each other and that's always going to be very very important to me twelve days out of publishing that video boogie along with five other public figures were donks by an extremist advocating for the side of so Quinton with the reasoning behind it being quote helped encourage the idiots rest women unquote bogey quick to react acknowledged Daxing and claimed the information was false but these threats persisted over the past couple of weeks this has been really ramped up I've had my public information doxed I've had death threats I've had people threaten my wife though most comments they're responding to this video were once a support the minority of people accusing him of playing the victim in tense situations was increasing so this video isn't about me if you're the kind of detractor who wants to say oh bogeys playing the victim card again he just fat piece wants attention you know I'm used to hearing the usual on the positive side a bogey was still getting invited to many events he was able to present a category at the 2014 Game Awards he was still doing financially well as in the earlier months of 2015 earning enough to purchase a house with his wife and move in and what his financial stability could attend more conventions such as VidCon which he also attended in 2016 but while attending had run into an issue mysteriously all the videos on his channel had disappeared as fans later found out bogey had been hacked as the hacker was able to get his information from Verizon and bypass his channels Authenticator where he delved into Boogie's other utilities such as his PayPal and attended to withdraw money the situation seemed dire but in reality could not have happened at a better time as bogey was surrounded by various YouTube employees at of economy and sat down with one initiating a process that took several hours that eventually allowed him to reclaim his channels ownership had he been anywhere else YouTube slow reaction time could have saw his channel gone for hours days or even weeks until they had taken action another issue had arisen a few months following this his videos primarily the Francis ones were getting demonetized and tagged as not advertiser friendly as a cursing an aggressive tone throughout these videos triggered the youtuber viewbots starting a campaign and he monetization throughout police channel but on a lighter note Bogut was still doing well and was popular amongst the gaming community just as there are popular content creators for each of those subcategory themes on YouTube with largest content creators having desirable qualities bogey was the exception being overweight and fairly eccentric is what allowed his personality to flourish even with many aspects of his life working against him he managed to pull through which is what many of his fans adored about him as he was the unofficial calm rational voice of youtuber and his fans liked him enough to win the training gamer of the 2016 game Awards there was even more good news coming in the following months as boogy inch closer to a gastric bypass surgery a surgery that if done would reduce the size of a stomach to the size of an egg with the intent being to lowers calorie consumption and allow him to finally lose a significant amount of weight in between this announcement and the date of the surgery boogie travelled to VidCon where he found himself and yet another issue while on an anti-bullying panel with other speakers namely Anita sarkeesian boogie was very cautious with his words as he did not want to get confrontational with Anita but after a fairly cautious speech and having won the closing speaking points of the panel Anita confronted boogie annoyed that she didn't have enough time to respond to boogies closing statement in that time constraint boogie being unconfrontational tried to win over Anita which after a bit of talking ended with little progress made bogey then made a video discussing this event and was accused of pandering to her and acting in cowardice against such a disliked figure with others noting the irony of Anita bullying boogie after an anti-bullying panel he received much criticism from both sides lean in this video as one of the most disliked videos on Billy's channel mostly due to his neutrality on the issue so much so that he had to create a second video that calmed some of the criticisms of that situation although this situation was stressful that was close to nothing compared to the hate he received from viewers we had somebody link me to the Tor network once and someone put out to $3,500 in Bitcoin to have someone assassinate us to add more to the mix his upcoming weight-loss surgery was delayed by nearly two weeks but finally on August 5th 2017 buggy returned to his channel with great news the surgery was an overall success with only a few complications and was put on liquid diet and expected many upcoming lifestyle changes but some unexpected lifestyle changes were not for the better now pogies wife felt that he was healthy enough post-surgery to live without her assistance and after a few weeks of her taking a break from the relationship they decided to get a divorce this being something typical for those that undergo weight loss surgeries and after boogie had gone public with this there was a mixture of reactions some supporting his choice and others condemning his wife this situation almost marking the point of his downfall where boogies response to this one is that he was doing well and claimed that his large support group of friends would help him get by any shortcoming us some shortcomings coming from his divorce but rather YouTube because most of his Francis videos even those with minimal cursing were massively demonetised a consequence of this was less Francis videos as YouTube were promoting them less alienating a fair portion of his subscribers and caused him to lose a revenue stream from YouTube but financially he stated that he was doing well because he diversified his revenue streams including taking on peut promotions alongside streaming on Twitch but had a word of caution for those unfamiliar with his live streams I will warn you though twitch boogie is very different from YouTube boogie YouTube boogie is kind of the person that I've always wanted to be the person I try to be every day twitch boogie is like this almost Francis esque character version of myself where I just pretend to be outlandish and I pretend to be silly and I make all kinds of silly stupid jokes and I sing songs and I'm just kind of weird and bizarre it's one of the reason ever advertised here on YouTube I wanted to separate that version of my personality from this version of my personality because they're distinctly different and not everybody that watches me here will like me on Twitch and not everybody on Twitch who watches me there's going to like me here on YouTube as is following a twitch grew his weight fell alongside it losing around 175 pounds in the first six months of the surgery which was about the average weight loss expected for someone his size and age also falling was his view count on YouTube not only was he producing less Francis videos as they were not being promoted by YouTube but also they're much more difficult to produce without the help of his now ex-wife or destructible items that were assured to be replaced and revenue from the video though his viewership was still quite significant where he used to get 300 thousand to well over a million views in a video heels now averaging around 200,000 views per video was some going below the 100,000 mark it was clear that fans interest in boogie was waning and in replacement interest from his eventual detractors was increasing a sizable controversy while on the h3h3 podcast coming in june of 2018 like I have always believed hey we should have same-sex marriage I love same-sex marriage let's do it but the problem is we try to get it done right now there's gonna be a huge backlash okay so let's let's try to do it in 20 years 10 and let's see we can avoid the backlash right let's just like slowly methodically change minds Boogie's neutrality on the situation worked against him as fans were infuriated at his foot in the door policy and felt he did not feel strongly enough on the issue more difficulty is coming the following month as he had fallen and broken his arm he had also taken another die of symbolically from his resurgence of a rather forgettable clip from the same podcast she's about 110 I think she's having like some weight issues because like she she does like camming and stuff for a living I just told is she what's the hate she will be able to legally drink soon this sent those curious about this woman into a deep search to find a connection to who we had been seeing and eventually came across this sarcastic tweet and reference to the podcast from a camp girl known as Lucy Fox using key information from the podcast yours connected the strings as she was both a cam girl and a couple months away from a 21st birthday and was a member of the sugar daddy website seeking after some more digging viewers found boobies profiled with some notable liens on his about page describing his situation such as recovering from a divorce and a gastric bypass surgery I do social media for a living and make a killing I travel see the world to hang out with famous Internet folk I love what I do and he was seeking he should be cute understanding patient kind loving caring smart funny and nerdy is a plus once fans were certain that Lucy Fox was a woman Billie spoke about she was constantly pastored by fans asking for her confirmation that she knew bookie and after receiving thousands of questions she posted video to Reddit confirming that she was indeed that woman that boobie spoke about with this picture helping to further prove it some of the largest takeaways from the 13 minute rant being that she was now one of the hookers blog he jokingly made reference to as the relationship only lasted from late 2017 to the end of February 2018 and that boogy was not at all how he portrays himself online where in most of his videos viewers taken as a calm nice collected voice of reason but after her week's long exposure of him she claimed she suffered much verbal abuse from that relationship also taking a slip in her career because as she claims bogey guilted her into staying at his house to keep him company and listened to his issues instead of going back home and earning much-needed money from camming this somewhat confirming many suspicions about boogie and his hidden manipulative deceitful personality with other viewer complaints about the recent videos he was producing as his channel since the divorce was happily scattered with somewhat somber stories about his life and ongoing issues with a fair portion of these videos parroting each other and those that were subscribed to him for Francis and his gaming videos were scarcely watching so bookie lost further viewership this channel is suffered to some extent views are lower I blame myself I blame my content I blame my consistency I blame my whining nature I blame the stupid things I said on podcast and Twitter I blame that as the masked majority of it but it is hard to not see that there's something algorithmically or YouTube wide happening a month after he uploaded that video boogie came across another controversy coming from a scandal involving better helm which was one of his sponsors a website that provided online to write consumer access to behavioral health services that betrayed itself as an alternate to in-person therapy by signing the customer with a therapist online but a good portion of his counselors had little to no credentials with the website itself taking little accountability anyone caught previously sponsored by his website went through massive backlash for promoting them and boogy not being exempt from his backlash denounced the service and claimed to donate the money earned from the sponsorship to a suicide prevention fund but it got much worse from here with minor issues like getting banned from charity event for what the organizers claim to be for his controversial affiliations he also later had much larger controversies starting with his interview with kid behind a camera the channel responsible for the angry grandpa video similar to bogies Francis videos where many viewers claim that there was abuse behind the creation of some Acadian cameras videos and boogie was meant to confront him on this but instead release a subpar interview titled interview kid behind a camera exposed giving an idea that this was a confrontational interview but as many viewers later found out the title was quite misleading as fans complained that boogie failed to delve into the allegations of abuse mostly allowed a kid behind a camera to take control of the interview and had oddly plays piano music in the background well first I wasn't abused as a kid oh that's right I was yeah you're saying I was the golden child right so everything that dad did for those grandkids he wanted to give them what he couldn't give us we had nothing growing up and he wouldn't like we had nothing and when we finally were able to have something he wanted those kids to not like live without because we lived without so much right ten days later there was a similar scenario with his interview of Kati Morton another controversial figure for her lack of profession ality and misinformation and a video series analyzing Jake Paul while these didn't much - now fans boogie something most viewers could agree on was the annoyance of the constant posting of his problems and now posted more commonly his discussions of his falling viewership and D monetization of videos so let's start off with the Fran Friday with Francis experiment for Friday's in a row and the videos have done very very well I'm very surprised they've done well in terms of views when it comes to money they are making no money somehow YouTube has not given them 2d monetization signal yet they earn zero dollars I don't know if it's because I swear on the video I don't know if it's the Francis keyword I don't know what it is but let's say I've it uploaded the video that got 200,000 views that video would normally make me $200 that's just a ballpark assisity I'm just guessing here it could be more it could be less depending on the video a Friday with Francis video that is at 200,000 views might earn 20 were $40 $60 next to nothing with viewers drawing lines to infamous personas that optin discuss the same topics I stays stressed man I know if I don't make 20 subscribers on this stream I'm gonna be down to 450 I don't make 20 if I don't make 40 scrubs on the next stream it's just I'm gonna continue to go down eventually got to get a sub train goin this was about the time that boogie2988 began to bleed subscribers with his channel capping at 4.5 million subscribers by the end of 2018 with January of 2019 starting off similar to the previous years but there was something crucially different this year on 26th of January user night like a day a detractor boogie began a criticism mega thread of him criticizing him on many things such as Lucy Fox incident his lackluster interview of kit behind a camera and many other previous controversies with some lesser-known ones being brought to light like this while dated distasteful comments on women alongside how he coerced his wife and his signing a nondisclosure agreement which he later denied in my mediation there's like you know na disparage clause which I asked her that she didn't ask for I asked his general toxicity that he fails to portray in his videos but is sometimes caught on stream especially are your parents cool are your parents still well okay all right so I have maybe I should take point then well if your parents aren't together and you probably come from a broken home you probably got to get real angry when you start losing so I wonder ice-skating but alright well maybe you just learned how my parents died what's up yeah pretty much Batman's on stream and amongst other things is possible manipulative tendencies it should be noted that many of these points on post are worded with Mel intent and with that wording having provided much of the context of the clips and images the criticism mega threat is visibly and heavily biased but that does not dismiss the evidence of his wrongdoings and within the first month of being up the post accumulated 3.5 thousand up votes and I've grown a sizable amount a great bit of disapproval bookie also came from his el informe rants on Twitter and his claims of disassociation were him causing an issue failing to resolve it arguing profusely then apologizing the next state became a frequent pattern on the YouTube site if he was still enabled to find a successor for his Francis videos though he was focusing more on gaming which his fans initially enjoyed but others growing increasingly frustrated at boogies fence sitting or not standing with any specific side in order to try to please everyone something that was not common on his twitch with his twitch recently becoming a big source of contention such as this clip on his weight and so if somebody says to me well boogie you're gonna die in ten years if you don't lose this last 50 hundred pounds I'm like hey that sounds great cuz I'll have a great ten years I'll eat what I want and I'll die and I'm looking forward to dying a channel by the name of every damn day fitness or a DD F for short commented on this clip and concern for boogie statement you need inpatient therapy in my opinion of course you need to be admitted because what do you think is gonna be a great ten years could probably be two ok ones and just a few more really miserable ones before you die and that would be a damn shame and that's just my opinion on the matter Boogie then wrote this Rhett opposed addressing EDD F's video where boogie claimed that EDD F was simply trying to get clicks and that if he really cared he would have reached out through email or try to contact boogie in some way but unbeknownst to boogie he did also highlighting another point of disapproval for boogie which was the way he passively weaponized his fans with the evidence being this line where bug is said he'd appreciated it if he took down the video and left him alone and whether it was his intent or otherwise his direct link to EDD s video along with extreme disapproval a lot of fans a boogie easy access to potentially harass EDD s video my question to boogie about this seeing is how I have no footprint on Reddit I have I think I've posted on there one time I've made we made one comment on reddit how he thought that that message was gonna get to me was it that he was going to try to have the people from his subreddit come to me and make me take the video down I'm wondering in what way he thought I was going to get the message that he wished I would take the video down which boogie that video was not coming down the raus of further points made in this video like how boogie has continued poor eating habits for detrimental to his health his health overall being understandably not only because of his weight but also his teeth as growing up due to the negligence of his parents or hygiene was not commonplace and boogies home I did not learn about brushing teeth until elementary school and when he attempted to brush his teeth the pain due to his multiple cavities was too excruciating so he instead opted for using mouthwash twice a day a habit carried on to adulthood worried had 14 points of infection in his mouth until in April of 2019 he had all his teeth pulled and had a fake set of teeth and gums put in with his reveal of his new teeth being the first viral video in quite some time many of his veteran viewers chiming in on his new luck reintroducing many that had lost interest in the channel because though boogie had 4.5 million subscribers at the time a number stagnant since December of last year he only got around 2% of those subscribers clicking on his videos a number then dropped further from his annex controversy and possibly the tipping point that turned many people away from boogie the purchase of a $100,000 Tesla vehicle it was not purchase of the vehicle itself that perturbed fans but boogies Twitter rant that accompanied it starting with his complaints about his drop in revenue to his fear of his large purchase that he initially claimed that he could barely afford this tweet was translated in two ways one is that he was able to purchase a new vehicle a luxury many people don't have and - he needs donations to cover the debt that he put himself in with the backlash from this buggy quickly trying to backtrack saying that he was for now financially stable and could easily afford the car with the tractor is calling manipulation and fans confused with his actions bogie discussed it further on livestream which only made things worse I tweeted out that I was not gonna be able to afford this car Reddit and Twitter lost their minds are you trying to manipulate people into giving you money the answer is yes give me some money to add further commentary on the issue in July boogy uploaded this video where he test drives a friend's Tesla and claims he only made a downpayment of $2,500 and hasn't purchased the vehicle but wants you in the future in order to promote his new vlogging / Travel Channel making this the most disliked video on his channel and recent time with the videos following this also being systematically disliked with him losing upwards of 400 subscribers a day another money related controversy coming this month as well starting from tweets saying that he would match donations dollar for dollar for a suicide prevention fund charity but then lowered it to ten thousand dollars which fans complained that was only 2% of Boogie's overall income when asked why he went back on doing all his money he claims he was saving it to live off of until it kills himself this shocked fans but was also viewed as a ploy for manipulation boogy aura successfully creating a string of hate towards him with these controversies picking up just as Warren died off fans urge him to cease any radical opinions or comments that kept bringing this unwanted attention but he did not because one month later he had this to say of his extreme detractors and harasser Jean stream they take something someone tweeted something someone said tries to make it look worse than it really is for the purposes of just destroying somebody's life if you are this person and you know who you are it might be difficult to reconcile that you are that person but if you are that person I ask you a favor please keep doing it to me don't do it to other people let me be a martyr here martyr me I'm gonna stay online and I'm gonna stay alive as long as I can I'm gonna waste as much of your time as you can I'm gonna say as much do as much as I can to keep your attention so you don't do it to somebody else I'm here for you to torture me and only me I'm gonna make a living letting you torture me I'm gonna be the next darkside Phil I'm gonna be the next wings are Redemption I'm gonna spend every day online to keep you busy so you don't do it to somebody else so bring it but I want you to know I think you are the lowest of the low I think you are the worst of the worst I think that they are rapists and Nazis out there who even though they are rapists and Nazis they are more redeemable than you because at least they're doing something they believe in he later doubled down on this comment this once again and bringing attention back to boogie even keemstar who last year was in support of boogie was also against him boogie we have spent our time and energy for months and months and months to help you because you were going through a hard time we've went out of our way to help you privately and you keep saying dumb you keep saying or doing dumb [ __ ] that will cause people to call you out make a reddit post make an angry tweet from your channel after all of this bogey took back his comments and was scarce with his presence on social media were in a video posted in September claimed that the reasoning behind his actions was his mental space in years prior a video like this one might not received much support but instead was scattered with comments exhausted with his excuses repeat behavior and self-proclaimed artificial YouTube personality being that his main channel was under attack bogie is now spending a fair amount of his time on his new alternate channel boogie travels where he mainly visits roadside attractions and theme parks asked for his main channel the fall of it can be placed on several things it could have been his poor management of his conflicting YouTube and twitch ideologies were on YouTube he claims to do so to give everyone a fair view and portrays rational calm their mediator but on Twitch he is more wild and has toxic commentary which makes him seem less trustworthy with his viewers because of the contradictions of his two phases to some as they claim it's manipulative as he's been hiding behind this fake persona to hide his less favorable personality traits but to others his split personality is irrelevant it's his own behavior within the past months with his small deplorable actions culminating in a massive expose and his repeated failed attempts to calm masses being another contributor to his fall as challenging as it may be bogie could always recover with a different soft content with clear intentions or fall back into a pattern of mistakes rendering a comeback nearly impossible though one thing is certain we have yet fully seen what fate holds in store for boogie2988 you

Channel: Joon The King

Views: 1,580,061

Rating: 4.8126826 out of 5

Keywords: Boogie2988, Documentary, Entertainment, Education, Rise and Fall, Where is, Biography, Steven Williams, Boogie, Streaming, Twitch, YouTube, YouTube Rewind, Profile Peice, Narration, Analysis, Video essay, Lofi Hip Hop, 2019, Timeline, From massive to passive, Drama

Id: VRZEFxVsmDU

Length: 45min 40sec (2740 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 17 2019

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[u/ArmenV]

No one stays massive forever, literally no one.