Scott the Woz
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| Born | 2 June 1997 | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2016-present | |||||||||
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| Subscribers | 1.38 million (Scott The Woz) 181,000 (Scott's Stash) | |||||||||
| Total views | 390 million (Scott The Woz) 8 million (Scott's Stash) | |||||||||
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| Updated 30 May 2021 | ||||||||||
Scott The Woz is a gaming comedy review web series created and starred in by American YouTuber Scott Wozniak. The series centers on Wozniak playing an exaggerated version of himself and comically discussing and reviewing video games, video game consoles, video game history and video game culture with many episodes featuring sketches, other characters and musical numbers. The first episode of the series was uploaded on YouTube on January 8, 2017. The series is largely credited with the revitalization of the "classic" video game review style on YouTube, originally popularized by shows like JonTron and The Angry Video Game Nerd.
As of October 2021, the Scott The Woz YouTube channel has amassed more than 1 million subscribers and more than 450 million views[1] and has collaborated with many prominent YouTube and media personalities such as James Rolfe, videogamedunkey, Vince Young and Brett Favre.[2][3] He also make a cameo on the 2021 film Hero Mode. [4]
Early Life[edit]
Wozniak has stated that he started creating videos when he was a child to show his classmates and teachers.[5] During his senior year of high school after about six months of production he created the video The Internet and You, a 30 minute comedy that was the first upload to the Scott the Woz YouTube channel. Wozniak has said that he considered the video his greatest work at the time it was made and that he developed his trademark comedic style while writing it.[5][3]
The next few videos uploaded to the channel were parodies of vlogs and together make up a playlist called Originals. These early videos are the only ones featured in the Scott The Woz Youtube channel that aren't a part of the web series except for yearly "best of" compilations and announcements of yearly charity campaigns (which are unlisted after the respective campaign ends).[5]
Career[edit]
Wozniak has said that he started working on a video in 2016 about his expectations and hopes for the then upcoming Nintendo Switch video game console, this video would end up being the first episode of Scott The Woz. He later stated "I wanted to combine the style of humor seen in my other videos with actual information and opinions while having neither one overthrow the other" as his motivation for starting the web series in an interview.[5]
After the video was uploaded Wozniak tasked himself with uploading a new episode of Scott The Woz every week, he kept making videos for around a year until fellow YouTuber RelaxAlax gave him more exposure, causing his channel to drastically increase in viewership around October 2017.[5]
Wozniak holds yearly charity events which he calls "Charity Bonanzas", where he partners with an online retailer to sell merchandise and raise money for charity. In 2020 he partnered with online marketplace Pixel Empire to sell exclusive Scott The Woz themed clothing, posters and VHS tapes of The Internet and You (with the latter being produced in extremely limited quantities) in order to raise money for the charities Children's Miracle Network and Critical Care Comics. The campaign ended up raising over $200,000 from November 2020 to January 2021, several times the initial goal of $60,000. After the campaign the proceeds were evenly split between the two charities.[6][7]
In December 29, 2020, Wozniak's Twitter account was hacked. The account's previous tweets were deleted and its Twitter handle was changed to advertise a phishing website. The hacked account made many derogatory comments, including one insulting fellow YouTuber Keemstar with a homophobic slur. The account was quickly mass reported and Wozniak got back access to it a few hours later.[8][9][10]
Additionally, Wozniak manages a second YouTube account called Scott's Stash, where he uploads bloopers, commentary tracks, and storyboards of videos from the main channel along with other miscellaneous videos outside of the context of the web series.
In November 2021, he officially revealed that G4 would be showing select episodes of his show on television beginning November 16th, the same day the channel comes back.[11] However, the air date was delayed to December 7th.
Wozniak also has had a large impact on the internet in his short time in fame. In 2018, during the hiatus fellow YouTuber Jon "JonTron"Jafari, the members of Jafari's subreddit converted everything to an official subreddit for Scott even when he had a nesh audience. Wozniak has also collaborated with many popular YouTubers appearing on such channel's like DidYouKnowGaming and Beta64. Wozniak has also boosted the popularities of many games due too him referencing them constantly. Wozniak's character in his show has the arch-nemesis games of Dick Vitale's It's Awesome Baby!: College Hoops and Chibi-Robo: Zip-Lash, the character of Jeb Jab also constantly references the 90's series of platformer games Gex. Wozniak has also made multiple sub-series of videos like his Dark Age of Nintendo where he covers three of what he calls "the worst Nintendo games ever released, which all coincidentally all released in 2015"[12].
Wozniak has also suffered from slight controversies, his largest was when he featured controversial RelaxAlax in his video Borderline Forever. Alax suffered sexual misconduct allegations in summer 2020, but in May 23, 2021 when the video premiered Alax appeared in the same scene as his ex-partner who contacted Wozniak asking for him to remove Alax from the scene. Wozniak ignored the message and left Alax in the video till sometime in the summer of 2021 which he was removed after many content creators and fans requested Wozniak to remove the problematic YouTuber from the video.
In 2021 as a part of the annual Scott the Woz charity event, Scott announced a collaboration with the popular board game Monopoly.[13] This collaboration would see the production of 5,000 Scott the Woz themed Monopoly sets, including board, pieces, and other parts of the game.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Scott The Woz's YouTube Stats (Summary Profile) - Social Blade Stats". socialblade.com. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
- ↑ ScottTheWoz (2020-12-31). "A Very 2020 Thank You (AMA)". r/scottthewoz. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 ScottTheWoz (2019-12-26). "Thank You (AMA)". r/scottthewoz. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
- ↑ https://www.bluefoxentertainment.com/films/hero-mode
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "YouTube's Scott Wozniak Discusses Creativity and Challenges on the Internet". Innovation & Tech Today. 2018-06-19. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
- ↑ "YouTube Star Scott the Woz Raises Over $100K for Critical Care Comics". CBR. 2021-02-03. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
- ↑ "YouTuber Scott the Woz Announces 2020 Charity Merch Benefiting Critical Care Comics, Children's Miracle Network". CBR. 2020-11-20. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
- ↑ "Who is Scott the Woz? Fans report his Twitter account as hacked after his tweets get replaced with racist slurs". meaww.com. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
- ↑ Bain, Ellissa (2020-12-30). "Was Scott the Woz's Twitter hacked? #FreeScott trends as fans fight to recover his account!". HITC. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
- ↑ "Hackers hijack popular YouTuber Scott the Woz's Twitter account". Dexerto. 2020-12-29. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
- ↑ @ScottTheWoz. "Here ya go! Select episodes of Scott The Woz will be broadcast on television in hour long blocks via the network @G4TV when it comes back to select carriers on November 16th! That is a sentence that never existed before today. Thank you all so much" (Tweet) – via Twitter. line feed character in
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- ↑ Corliss, Cameron (2021-11-26). "YouTuber Scott The Woz is Getting an Official Monopoly Set". GameRant. Unknown parameter
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