CoryxKenshin
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| Born | Cory DeVante Williams | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | African-American | ||||||||||||
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| Website | Official website | ||||||||||||
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| Website | Official channel | ||||||||||||
| Years active | 2009–present | ||||||||||||
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| Subscribers | 14 million | ||||||||||||
| Total views | 5.9 billion (August 2022) | ||||||||||||
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Cory DeVante Williams, known online as CoryxKenshin, is an American YouTuber. Williams joined YouTube in 2009. Known for his humor and his playthroughs of popular horror games, Williams was ranked the fourth top creator in the United States in 2021.[lower-alpha 1][1] As of August 2022[update], his channel has over fourteen million subscribers.
On August 24, 2022, Williams uploaded a video onto his channel alleging that "racism and favoritism" may influence YouTube's review process. In the video, he recounted an incident where a reviewer age-restricted his video of the horror game The Mortuary Assistant (2022), thereby lessening his visibility and monetization. As many other videos featuring the same content were not subject to the same restrictions, Williams felt unfairly targeted. Numerous other YouTubers voiced their support online, and the video reached #1 on the trending tab.
Internet career[edit]
Williams began uploading videos to YouTube in 2009.[2][3] Although he originally created comedy sketches, Williams began to play popular horror games such as Five Nights at Freddy's (2014) and Bloodbourne (2015) instead.[3] He also plays other video games and triple-A games such as Elden Ring (2022).[4][5] His video of the rhythm game Friday Night Funkin' (2020) became the fifth most-viewed video in the United States in 2021.[1] Besides his Let's Plays, Williams is known for his humor[3][6] and energetic, light-hearted personality.[7]
Williams was ranked the fourth top creator in the United States in 2021 by subscriber growth[lower-alpha 1][1] and many of his videos have stayed on the YouTube trending tab for several days.[3] He takes frequent hiatuses from his YouTube channel; at one point, he did not post any new videos for two years.[7] However, he managed to reach ten million subscribers despite being in a period of inactivity[4] and, as of August 2022[update], his channel has over fourteen million subscribers.[3]
Williams has been dubbed "THE SHOGUN HIMSELF" by his fanbase.[2][7]
YouTube: Racism and Favoritism[edit]
 YouTube: Racism and FavoritismThe video uploaded to Williams' YouTube channel on August 24, 2022. |
On August 24, 2022, Williams uploaded a video onto his channel alleging that "racism and favoritism" may influence YouTube's review process. In the video, he recounted an incident where a reviewer age-restricted his video of the horror game The Mortuary Assistant (2022), thereby lessening his visibility and monetization. As many other videos featuring the same content were not subject to the same restrictions, Williams became confused and submitted an appeal, which was rejected. He sent a clip of a more popular YouTuber, Markiplier, playing the same game to his partner program representative. Although he expected them to restrict Markiplier's video, YouTube instead unrestricted the video.
Feeling targeted that they had to use Markiplier's clip to confirm that he had not violated the content policy, Williams again contacted his representative, who inquired to the policy team. The company then restricted every video on the platform of The Mortuary Assistant. This led Williams to conclude that the company's favoritism of larger creators—or even, possibly, racism—were factors in reviewers' decisions. He also was unsure if it was an automated or human reviewer who restricted his video in the first place.
Numerous other YouTubers, including Ludwig, Phillip DeFranco and Cr1TiKaL, voiced their support online. The video later peaked at #1 on the trending tab.[2][3]
Personal life[edit]
According to Distractify, Williams resides in Farmington Hills, Michigan.[7]
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References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 See:
- Weiss, Geoff (December 1, 2021). "MrBeast Nabs 'Top Trending Video', 'Top Creator' In The U.S., Per YouTube's Year-End Lists". Tubefilter. Retrieved August 27, 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - Bisset, Jennifer (December 1, 2021). "YouTube names the top 10 most-viewed videos uploaded in 2021". CNET. Retrieved August 27, 2022. Unknown parameter
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- Weiss, Geoff (December 1, 2021). "MrBeast Nabs 'Top Trending Video', 'Top Creator' In The U.S., Per YouTube's Year-End Lists". Tubefilter. Retrieved August 27, 2022. Unknown parameter
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gutelle, Sam (August 25, 2022). "Did CoryxKenshin catch YouTube's content moderation team playing favorites?". Tubefilter. Retrieved August 27, 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Winslow, Levi (August 26, 2022). "Black Horror Game YouTuber CoryxKenshin Has Everyone Debating Platform Racism, Favoritism". Kotaku. Retrieved August 27, 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 Anderson, Zuri (February 18, 2022). "These Black YouTubers & TikTokers Are Blowing Up Right Now". Black Information Network. Retrieved August 27, 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Sayyed, Rayan (August 3, 2022). "Elden Ring Was One of YouTube's Biggest Game Launches of All Time". IGN. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
The most viewed launch videos for Elden Ring were by YouTube channels CoryxKenshin and AshesWolf, sitting at 6.2 million and 5.7 million views respectively.
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Clear, Gina (July 9, 2022). "Local boy meets favorite YouTube star through Make-A-Wish". The News-Enterprise. Retrieved August 27, 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Gatollari, Mustafa (June 26, 2021). "Did YouTuber Coryxkenshin Really Just Throw 10 Million Followers in the Trash?". Distractify. Retrieved August 27, 2022. Unknown parameter
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