Pyrocynical (YouTuber)
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Pyrocynical | ||||||||||
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.jpg) Niall on the Cold Ones podcast in 2019 | ||||||||||
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| Born | Niall Comas 14 May 1997 | |||||||||
| Nationality | English | |||||||||
| Occupation | YouTuber | |||||||||
| YouTube information | ||||||||||
| Also known as | Pyro | |||||||||
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| Location | Sheffield, England | |||||||||
| Years active | 2013–present | |||||||||
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| Subscribers | 4.49 million (main channel) | |||||||||
| Total views | 1.3 billion (main channel) | |||||||||
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| Updated 21 April 2021 | ||||||||||
Niall Comas (born May 14, 1997), better known online as Pyrocynical (or simply Pyro), is an English commentary YouTuber who was formerly recognized as one of the early adopters of well-known commentary formats, such as colored borders surrounding video clips shown during videos. He is known for his commentary and game review videos. Currently, Niall uploads various types of commentary and analysis videos, especially those featuring trend-related content, on his channel.
He is also known for his "So Guys, We Did It" meme, which gained popularity in 2018.[1] He is considered an influential creator[2] and was formerly recognized as one of the early adopters of well-known YouTube commentary formats.[citation needed]
Career[edit]
History[edit]
MLG videos and start of channel (2014–2015)[edit]
Niall created his YouTube channel in 2013, but did not upload any videos until 2014, mostly MLG montage parodies, which he later claimed to be embarrassed about. Comas started his channel by making MLG edits where he would compile many clips to make a humorous video. His first video, titled how to pizza, is the first video on his channel.[3] His most viewed video, MLG Teletubbies, currently sits at 16 million views.
Full switch to commentary videos (2015–present)[edit]
After his brief stint as an MLG montage creator, he began making commentary videos. During this time, his channel spiked in popularity, gaining him over 1 million subscribers. His channel would continue to grow during this era, especially after uploading a video involving Petscop.[4][5]
In October 2021, Comas rebranded his PyrocynicalVEVO channel to PyroLIVE, now dedicated for livestreams and shorter videos than those usually put on the regular Pyrocynical channel. Before the rebrand, it was an inactive alternate channel with only a satirical makeup tutorial titled "Crazy Lesbian Tries Low Quality Makeup". [6][citation needed] In January 2022, Comas created a PyrocynicalVODS channel to reupload the fully unedited VODs of his livestreams. In March 2022, Comas created the Pyrocynical Clips channel, dedicated to making clips and edited YouTube Shorts of his videos.
Comas was a special guest at Insomnia Gaming Fest 62, 64, 65, and 66 with stage appearances and meet & greets for all 4 days of each festival from early 2018 to late 2019.[7][8]
In 2019, Comas gained mainstream attention after drinking Belle Delphine's $30 bathwater.[9][10][11][12]
In 2022, Comas' partner and affiliate status on Twitch was revoked for an unknown reason, although meeting all of the requirements. Comas requested partner status multiple times, and all were denied except one, which was ghosted.[13] Because of this, Comas hired a management team to contact Twitch's North American partnerships team, and they managed to get his Partnership status returned to his Twitch account, however it was quickly removed and he was stripped of all of his perks and terminated from the partnership agreement. [14] Because of this, Comas made a video to slam Twitch for removing it without a clear explanation less than a week later. He moved platforms to YouTube Gaming, and two months later after the incident, he instead thanked Twitch for removing his partnership. On July 5th, 2022, he tweeted "Honestly whoever soft booted me off Twitch did me the fattest W imaginable, I've got 4x the views and revenue since streaming on YouTube". This may be due to YouTube's higher 70/30 subscriber split. [15][16]
Controversy[edit]
"Leafy clone"[edit]
Comas was often criticized as a "Leafy clone" due to the strong similarity between their content, although they both have different personalities. On 11 March 2016, Jay Hathaway of The Daily Dot wrote controversial former YouTube streamer Soph (formerly LtCorbis) as "the future of YouTube" due to her original sense of humor. In the same article, Hathaway explains that Soph called every commentary channel, including Comas's, a "Leafy clone". Comas expressed surprise and amazement at the 11-year-old streamer's ability to understand original content on YouTube.[17]
Feud with Keemstar[edit]
Both Keemstar and Niall have been in a long-lasting feud since April 2016. On April 9, 2016, Niall made a video titled, "KEEMSTAR RANT", in which he suggested that Keem should have verbally added a disclaimer to the video in which he discussed the Toby Turner rape controversy, as they were just allegations. Keem didn't like the suggestion and went to Twitter calling Niall out as well as leaking private pictures of him. There is one video, in which Keem insists that Niall himself told him he was supposedly dating a French minor girl (yet he always altered said girl's age). Keem also claimed he sucked him off and that Niall goes to furry conventions, supposedly inviting a big YouTuber there. The heated conversation went on until Keemstar decided to block Niall. On June 9, 2016, Niall uploaded a video called "My Experience With KEEMSTAR", stating all the things that Keemstar had done in the past to hurt him, for example, claiming that Niall is a pedophile. This brought much hate to DramaAlert and damaged Keem's reputation. Though there had been many Keemstar rants prior to this, Niall's was seemingly the first to conclude the Keemstar feud on YouTube. Keem had a decline in views after Niall's video was published (though he's doing fairly well now; he seems to have stayed out of drama - regarding him personally - ever since).
Grooming allegations[edit]
On 29 October 2020, Twitter user Ivory Rasmus claimed grooming allegations against Comas.[18] He stated that he and Comas were engaging in sexual furry roleplay. Controversial YouTuber Turkey Tom created a Google Doc and posted a YouTube video about the allegations. The document is now deleted due to a violation of Google's Terms of Service.[19] In December 2020, Comas uploaded a response video, in which he attempts to prove that he is not a groomer, while also owning up to his irresponsibility of engaging in sexual roleplays with Rasmus without verifying his age in the first place.[20][21] Afterward, Tom's document became obsolete.
References[edit]
Text was copied from Pyrocynical at the YouTube Wiki, which is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA 3.0) license.
- ↑ Comas, Niall (21 March 2015). 250,000 subscribers (video). Pyrocynical. Retrieved 25 June 2021 – via YouTube.
- ↑ Bernstein, Joseph (2019-05-13). "YouTube's Newest Far-Right, Foul-Mouthed, Red-Pilling Star Is A 14-Year-Old Girl". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
- ↑ Comas, Niall (30 March 2014). how to pizza (video). Pyrocynical. Retrieved 25 June 2021 – via YouTube.
- ↑ Comas, Niall (5 September 2017). Petscop: The Best Game You've Never Played (video). Pyrocynical. Retrieved 25 June 2021 – via YouTube.
- ↑ Moyer, Phillip (18 March 2020). "There's Something Hiding in Petscop". EGM. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
- ↑ Comas, Niall (2017-02-07). "Crazy Lesbian Tries Low Quality Makeup". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2017-02-12. Retrieved 2022-09-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Williamson, Sarah (2019-03-23). "Guests Announced for Insomnia Gaming Fest". TenEighty. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
- ↑ Insomnia Gaming Festival [@IGFestUK] (2019-07-03). "Pyrocynical is headed to Insomnia65! All Insomnia weekend we will have meet & greets, photo ops and even stage appearances! insomniagamingfestival.com/special-guests/ #i65 #meetandgreet #talent #youtubers" (Tweet). Retrieved 2022-09-28 – via Twitter.
- ↑ Boan, Daniel (11 July 2019). "People are drinking an Instagram star's $30 bathwater and calling it 'salty' and 'candy-like'". Insider. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
- ↑ Katzowitz, Josh (9 July 2019). "YouTubers are buying Belle Delphine's bathwater—here's what they're doing with it". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
- ↑ Lee, Lam Min (11 July 2019). "Fake news: People contracting herpes from drinking Instagram star's bathwater". AsiaOne. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
- ↑ Ramble_Khron (8 July 2019). "People Are Drinking Belle Delphine's Bath Water". eBaum's World. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
- ↑ Polhamus, Blaine (2022-05-31). "ItsSliker: Twitch is 'unprofessional', staff are too busy watching xQc". Dot Esports. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
- ↑ Norton, Brad (2022-05-30). "YouTuber Pyrocynical slams Twitch for months of alleged silence amid Partnership blunder". Dexerto.
- ↑ DIVINE LINK ESTABLISHED™ [@PyroALTcynical] (2022-07-05). "Honestly whoever soft booted me off Twitch did me the fattest W imaginable, I've got 4x the views and revenue since streaming on YouTube" (Tweet). Retrieved 2022-09-28 – via Twitter.
- ↑ Horetski, Dylan (2022-07-06). "Pyrocynical explains why losing Twitch partnership was "fattest W imaginable"". Dexerto. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
- ↑ Hathaway, Jay (11 March 2016). "This sweary, savvy, 11-year-old gamer girl is the future of YouTube". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
- ↑ Shaps, Samantha (13 November 2020). "YouTuber Pyrocynical accused of 'grooming' teen". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
- ↑ "Proving Pyrocynical's Guilt - Turkey Tom". Google Docs. Archived from the original on 6 December 2020. Retrieved 14 July 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Edwards, Luke (19 December 2020). "YouTuber Pyrocynical slams 'lying' accusations over grooming scandal". Dexerto. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
- ↑ Periwal, Saahil Agnelo (19 December 2020). ""A complete lie": Pyrocynical denies grooming allegations in response video". Sportskeeda. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
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