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Dewmann
Year Started: 2010
Preferred Software: Vegas, WMM, After Effects, VisualJockey, WAX
YouTube Account: dewmann
Alternate YouTube Account: MountainDewMaNN
Other Alternate YouTube Account: DietMountainDevvMan
DeviantART Account: dewmann
About
DEW MANN IS A [insert description here]]
Origins
In June of 2009, almost immediately after graduating middle school, dewmann was looking on youtube through a series of videos known widely as The Lazer Collections, of which at the time there was only 2, before coming across a number of videos that were jokingly billed as the Lazer Collection 3, or some other relevent title. Chracteristically none of these videos used any juvenile stick figure flash animation but instead opted for existing material, which was almost entirely of sources that had withstanding popularity within the world of YTP i.e. Hotel Mario, Super Mario World, Zelda CDI, and AosTH. The first of these he found was one titled simply "It's a Laser Collection" which featured all of these, and was also the first time he had ever heard WTF BOOM which he thought was incredibly hilarious. Around the same time dewmann also discovered YTPMV, primarily MrRoboto113's "Doctor Octagonapus 1", and a seperate interest toward musically oriented videos/YTPMV in general would develop along the same time as YTP itself though would fizzle out by around 2012-2013 for various reasons.
The interest in this type of videos would continue with the discovery of videos by Link123456, who technically made the first YTP proper that dewmann would see in "Mario's Silly Words", a video long since gone that dewmann still wishes to see the eventual return of some day. Others he found were Dexter661994 and his primarily Ed, Edd, and Eddy YTPs, all of which were edited in Movie Maker, as well as big name "Flash YTPers" such as ssbbmaster33, CraaaazyCat113 and a then completely unknown Geibuchan, who would be a long standing favorite and even eventually a great friend, which dewmann considers this to be a considerable highlight of his overall career. His method of finding new videos to watch at this time would be by primarily searching the front page, and through this he would find MTB710, the first really "fast paced effect heavy" YTPer he had seen by this point (though ssbbmaster33 had elements of this style in his work) and his "Braw Taunts" video would be one he would have much interest in. A major turning point came in November 2009 when he found on the front page a video by a user named DualScreen77 known as "Gaston Slays a Furry", a YTP using largely Beauty and the Beast that had garnered noticable popularity. From the related videos he discovered for the first time Stuart K. Reilly's Youtube Poop News, at the time only 5 months old and still being hosted from YTPnews1, particularly the episode that talked about not only DualScreen's video but also similar ones made by two other YTPers named BillyMorshu and JakeSteel0121, in what was the first collab that dewmann would ever see. From this point, Stuart's news episodes became his biggest source of information in terms of YTP in general. From it he learned about the fact these kind of videos were made most commonly using Sony Vegas, although other editing software such as Adobe Premiere and Windows Movie Maker were also known to be used, as well as being able to keep up on some level what seemed to be happening within the supposed nucleus of this community that dewmann had no idea was around until then. He credits Stu for basically being the reason why he is here today, as he learned the initial essentials of getting started as well as getting introduced to just about everyone he's ever known still knows to this day.
By January 2010 dewmann had a clear motivation to start making videos like this on his own, though initially it was to be in a more humor-oriented style much like that of those he originally followed. He did not, however, have a clear idea of how to obtain software in order to make these videos; he at this time was completely clueless to the concept of pirating, so he figured that the only way this was to ever happen was if he obtained the software through legal purchase, which he would spend much of this year collecting the money for through various work/chores. In the meantime, he would continue to keep an eye on YTP and watch it evolve and keep up on certain events, finding more YTPers through various collabs and at this time beginning to notice tennis for the first time. He would make the first version of his account on April 30, 2010, to save for the day when he would begin his long journey to be.
Tennis was yet another thing introduced to him through Stuart K. Reilly, as he one day happened what appeared to be a tennis match between him and PresidentofJelybeans(PoJ) that never made it past Round 3. Through simulatenously discovering PoJ at this same time, he found and watched the first ever tennis match that dewmann would see in the form of him vs. TheChairman45. The idea was immediately attractive to him, as he also proceeded to see matches that happened between them and two other Robotnik-centered YTPers, pilli10 and LieutenantGwo (also found through Stu, as they were all good friends), all four of whom played each other at least once and toward the end of the year attempted a messive Robotnik 4-Way tennis, which never made it past TheChairman's Round 6. At this particular time, dewmann had the plan to be a tenniser part-time, but in no ways planned to become as involved as he would.
Come September 2010, dewmann had accumulated approxamitely 400 dollars, most of which would go toward a theater trip he would take to the city of Ashland, OR with a troupe of rather colorful individuals to see the prestigious Shakespeare festival, which dewmann thinks of as an absolutely magical and artistically revealing experience. He would cleverly save 100 dollars of his money for his return trip and upon returning would buy a copy of Adobe Premiere Elements 8.0; his ticket into the YTP-making scheme. He would rather devastatingly discover however that it could not work on his computer at all, and that it could only be opened in his parents computer, which was a version higher than his at this time (He started with XP, while they had already a Windows 7). Feeling once again stumped, he retreated again to find more alternatives, attempting this time to try to pirate Vegas 8, of which every time was unsuccessful. His first attempt at this would provide his first glimpse at the YouChewPoop forums as he would find the links to the software from it, though he at this time had no plans to join the forum itself.
Finally, in December 2010, Stuart K. Reilly uploaded a new Youtube Poop News episode advertising and praising a newly discovered free editing softweare known as Videopad, and providing a download link to it in the videos description. dewmann immediately jumped at this opprotunity and at long last could now start making videos. He would produce his first, "MARIO DUHR PLUMBER BECOMES A DISLICENSED ELECTRICIAN", on December 5, and throughout the month make a series of videos using the same editor. Toward the end of the month he would then become interested in joining collabs, and rather ironically join the YouChewPoop forums for the intention of being able to join HotFriedSkadoosh's Jim Henson Muppet Collab, which he was able to do in the nick of time. The account he currently uses now is actually an accidentally made alt account, created for the original purpose that he didn't like how he spelled the username of his first one.
2011
For the first month of 2011 he would experiment with editing with both a combination of VideoPad and Adobe Premiere Elements, which would very easily prove to be incredibly troublesome and the products turned out would be less than satisfactory to him. By the end of January however he would finally get his hands on Sony Vegas 5, and slowly start to make videos that were closer to his vision. His first exposure started to come from the attention that he recieved from a moderately unknown YTPer known as chemistryguy, who would subsequently explode in popularity out of nowhere and also become known as the oldest YTPer in the world at age 41.
His first foray into tennis came in February, when he accepted within the same week to play 3 different tennis matches, one with Smonge, at the time having yet to be either Moderator or Janitor, one with TheRazorEdge and djninjalovemistake, and one with CaptainStringCheese and Axe995. He would become good friends with all of these players, with some relationships lasting to the present day. He would also start posting in the Tennis Cafe around March, where he would be immediately welcomed by then-regulars NS2, superkoffee and Billion, due in part that the four of them lived in the same state. A four way match between all of them would also be attempted but would prove to overall fall flat. dewmann would subsequently come to meet superkoffee IRL as of this writing 4 times, one time each year starting in 2011(in 2012 he would also meet Billion), and still keeping in contact, while he and NS2 remain in good relations with each other despite not having talked for a considerable amount of time. Tennis matches played with Chrisgendo and AshcrementVII, both which were recieved very favorably, continued to build his early presence within the Tennis section, to the point where during the summer he became a regular part of MSN/IIRC chats involving past and present members of the Tennis Cafe Staff, including Ashcrement, trepmaws and on occasion djninjalovemistake, the first two of whom it would be decided unanimously that they would become the next additions around this time.
He developed a heavy interest in more effect heavy tennis after looking into more the videos of Gamebop, MycroProcessor, BSP666c, TheChutley, Kurkop, CorruptionSound, Chrisgendo, AshcrementVII, Metzgorrre and LeSuperKoffee, discovering many effects and editing techniques that he did not expect to see in more effect-heavy tennis, leading him to start going on a search for new effect plugins/software for experimental use. One of these known as VisualJockey he got from a link provided by CorruptionSound, and for a time was a characteristic element of his earlier tennis style. He would also at this time witness videos that would eventually manifest itself into an equal interest and love for more simpler-edited videos, primarily in the works of RAKninja, Crash2991, JazzDanceForChildren, TangerineImpz, and Emperor Ing. His first full "classic styled match" would be started with Diosbabilonia in August 2011, eventually finishing in November. He would also develop a constantly growing interest in Tennis's overall history, and to this day still watches and sometimes reviews tennis matches before his time out of complete curiosity and fascination with the sport.
In May dewmann hit his first 100 subscribers, and celebrated with a video commending the achievement. Soon afterward, he then joined in a competition started and hosted by Youchew Member/YTPer JoeTheBlueDragon, designed to bring attention to "up-and-coming" YTPers within the community by using classic sources in new ways, which dewmann thought he fit the description of pretty well. The competition made it through the Rounds for I.M. Meen, Robotnik, Doctor Rabbit, and Mama Luigi, but stagnated and never completed at the Zelda CDI Round, although by the current standings of the player scores dewmann supposedly had won by an incredible landslide. He had by this point anyway started to become more heavily involved with tennis, though would still try to put out solo work as often as he could.
On September 4, 2011, dewmann's old computer suddenly experienced an electrical surge that permenantly damaged its functionality, and for most of the month he remained out of service from videos as he eventually had everything transferred over to a brand new Windows 7, which resides as the current system he uses to this day. He resumed his work in October, although at this time relations within the tennis community had begun to decline. He also began to feel early signs of alienation that wasn't helped by the fact within the skype group he was most active in, which was a group primarily organized by koffee that only on occasion ventured into semi-serious discussion, was a place he was beginning to feel very distant from, as he had all these questions about things he was at the time still curious about but no real place to ask them. He continued to retain a pretty good circle of friends throughout, though during this time it was eventually shifting in radical directions. He would sign up for his official for Tennis Tournament, the Doubles Cup II, in October, and by complete stroke of luck end up paired alongside pokruk, at the time his absolute favorite tenniser. The tournament would however, in his own words, be "him vs. everyone" for the most part in that pokruk would be questionably cooperative to the point of only making up one second of their last collab round together, which dewmann slyly did not reveal until sometime in 2013. He was nonetheless able to play all the way to the final match, in which he would face both ChrisGendo and AshcrementVII, with RobochaoXX now stepping in as his new partner, which he was able to work much better with. He played with considerable strength as he at this time wanted very much to win, but would inevitably be defeat by his opponants, who collaborated so cohesively well together that many considered their work together to be rather inspiring. dewmann would nonetheless be a good sport about it, showing much enthusiasm for the next event.
Halloween 2011 marks the day when dewmann claims that his videos finally reached a point where he could watch them and easily enjoy them much more than he had before, and the rest of his videos from then to the year's end are some of the first of his most influential work. He would enter in a collab hosted by Therazoredge known as the "buzzing/under one frame stutter collaboration", in which the goal in mind was to primarily feature that particular editing technique, which dewmann took as "make the ENTIRE VIDEO buzzing". As a result, his entry, titled "buzz" in humorous reference to it being entirely made of Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story 2, was easily the most popular entry in this collab, and some notable names such as Gamebop and Skrimpish would take positive notice of it.
The last video of the year he would make, "GoofStep 20-11X" would be particularly influential. It was entered into the sequel of a conceptual collab originally started by Smonge, "The Simplicity Collab", of which this sequel was hosted by chemistryguy. The video featured largely very simple edits using the Mickey Mouse cartoon "Moving Day", which was largely centered around Goofy, frequently venturing into segments where movement and clip sequencing was synced to a drum beat, which dewmann created by recording a drum preset in his newly acquired CASIO Keyboard (a christmas present) through a headset mic (sent to him through mail by superkoffee). The video became the instant favorite of the collab by many people, and it would come to acquire about 2,000 views in its lifetime. Kurkop would make "always beatz" as a tribute to this video, and many people consider it one of dewmann's all time best. By 2011's end dewmann had about 540 subscribers.
2012
Video-wise dewmann would make his most experimental videos both in tennis and in solo work, experimenting with musically driven editing and atmospheric soundcscaping, and ascend to a high point in terms of activity throughout this year but he has become very dismissive as to how he was as a person; He had not the best experience in online friendships/socialization and he often was known to act and think in juvenile/embarrassing/questionable ways that he retrospectively looks back upon as a time in which he was "really fucked up", in addition to his depression and anxiety continuing to worsen throughout this time. This would also mark the main time period in which dewmann would enter in a state of flux in terms of what group he thought he belonged in best, thinking at this time it might be ideal to find something seemingly more welcome than the Tennis Cafe had become. He would as a result meet probably the biggest variety of people in his entire career throughout the course of this year, making many short-term but some long-term friends. He would become a part of a skype group situated within YouChew made up mostly of regulars of the anime/game threads, of which DualScreen was a part of, which subsequently resulted in dewmann becoming friends with him for a time, which he feels was a great privilege. He would also become closer to a finnish YTPer named Bloodis around this time, who would share with him a rekindled love for vocaloid that dewmann had had as early as 2008, and a user named TargetDog12, with whom he shared a great love in the Toy Story films. His most constant friend during this year was CaptainStringCheese, although dewmann today is greatly quizzical about his relationship with Captain, as he considers that both of them may have really not been all there and basically treated each other terribly without ever fully realizing/admitting to it. One positive thing he definitely takes away from the things the two of them did together however is very much the prank pulled on a younger YTPer known as guitarrocker100, who to this day still believes that dewmann is an 11 year old girl. Following an event in which Geibuchan organized a skype group of all of his friends in celebration of his birthday, resulting in dewmann meeting certain individuals like Stuart K. Reilly, Combuskenisawesome and LieutenantGwo for the first time, he would also in time become a part of Stuart K. Reilly's main chat, which featured them and many more individuals like YamiMario, Fiddlesticks411, pilli10 and milessaway, forming many friendships, a few that still continue to persist. He would acquire Fruity Loops Studio from miles, which would replace his CASIO drums officially in the video "flip out the back door", and also serve as a dominant program he currently uses for musical projects. This particular group would also inspire him to experiment with the phenomenon known as "megapoops", or often lengthy videos that dedicated a certain amount of time to editing a certain source, doing this for several sources, sometimes conceptually linking them all to each other. He would also released a "buzz 2" and a Goofstep sequel using his new drum sounds.
dewmann would create a seminal YTP inspired by a will.i.am music video a school friend showed him called "EHT", which would use said music video throughout. This would inspire a collaboration between himself, and two people he would in time become great friends with in trepmaws and CreepahWeegie, which would be greatly recieved by the newly formed Tennis Cafe chat, created by TheRazorEdge. His activity in this would throughout this time fluctuate, as he was split between other groups including a new incarnation of koffee's chat which now had the presence of new people within it, however ultamitely being individuals that would contribute to its downfall towards the end of the year/beginning of next. Tennis-wise though he would still remain very active within the game, but his relations with the Cafe regulars within the forum had by the end of the year reached an all time low. He attributes this mostly to his unstable state of mind; he was in no mood to be able to take a joke, and at one point considered a chain of posts talking of a "super-soaking" fiasco upon dewmann and also treating him reather questionably to be something of a hidden attack on him, when it was in actuality mostly just regulars attempting to have some silly fun. On the surface dewmann just played along but it was something that he expressed as unsettling, though he chose to just try and not say anything else about it. Bloodis and Mashu by misunderstanding however reacted defensively which quickly turned the mood of the Cafe incredibly sour, which was not something he intended to happen. Tensions further escalated in an event known as the Tennis Mini-Competition, which was hosted by Gamebop and judged by him along with dewmann, AshcrementVII, and trepmaws, one of whom would serve while the others would volley every response that the judge's previous round got. dewmann under this was given Round 5, and when he released it, recieved starkingly negative feedback from CaptainStringCheese, who called it essentially one of the worst tennis rounds he had ever seen. This caused the comments of this video to explode in a heated arguement between him and Mashu with various interjections from other tennisers/staff members, which eventually carried over into the Cafe. dewmann remained mostly silent through all of this until his presence and opinion on the matter was almost demanded, in which he echoed the statement that he simply wished to not talk about it.
Many of his friends at this time would leave due to him simply being too sad all the time, something that would carry in over into the next year as his depression by 2013 would be hitting an all time high. He would continue meeting new people, but any relations would not last long.
2013
The minute this year began dewmann hit 1,000 subscribers on his original account. From this point onward, it seemed almost like a "now what?" kind of moment to him; he had met almost all of his heroes, become a well-known name in YTP and despite the negativity was still being regarded by some positively by some in the tennis section, while also quickly becoming of the most active tennisers period. He made the decision however in the beginning of 2013 that he very much needed a hiatus from tennis in general, as he felt very disillusioned with it all at this time.
The hiatus however was quickly broken when the Triples Tournament was announced, and Bloodis approached him with the proposition that they finally be able to form the team Triple Baka, under the concept that dewmann play under the concept of Hatsune Miku while Bloodis play under Kasane Teto, with a soon-to-be-found third player (eventually Rillion) playing Akita Neru. Though they only ever played one match together which they lost, it did very much help to keep dewmann active within the game, as he continued to play although at a slightly slower pace than before.
His solo videos at this time experienced a transformation into a style that deliberately borrowed from a simpler and sillier style that quickly became one of dewmann's favorite ways to edit videos and it soon characterized his overall style, almost completely displacing his earlier more heavier one. He would regard most of his solo videos in this year as some of his greatest work, particularly a chain of videos that he started in December 2013 using entirely Jim Careey's Grinch, intended to be an advent calander sort of series where he would upload one video a day to Christmas, but only got to about 14 before he forced himself to stop and catch his breath. He would also come to finish a "buzz 3", made for a sequel to Therazoredge's buzzing collab, which would be his most elaborate in the trilogy, in addition to another experimental "megapoop" video called THE PEANUT BUTTER CONSPIRACY", which initially started as a regular video but then gradually descend into psychedelic madness, signifying his changing taste in music around this time.
In September 2013, he would finally start his own Tennis Tournament in the form of the Multi-Way Tennis Tournament, the immediate day after the Triples Tournament had ended, thought not before a dispute regarding its use as an actual Tournament took place first, which to dewmann made him believe that something for him was still amiss within tennis. In addition to this he seemed to be treated rather critically and/or disregarded overall as a regular of the section, which furthered weighed on his depression as by habit he would excessively worry about many things to the point of paranoia. Despite this he would work to the best of his ability to host and manage the tournament for it's first number of months, collaborating frequently with Gamebop in the voting process which he remembers greatly enjoying. At this time also it seemed like things we finally starting to turn around for him. he had been selected by JacobketronCT, who had just retired his position as Janitor, as the new Janitor of the poop talk section, which was a decision supposed greatly by his long time friend Smonge, now a moderator of the site, in addition to technical admin tabull. dewmann very enthusiastically accepted, and he was set to become the new Janitor by the new years beginning. On December 31st however, something unusual happened, in which it was announced that a YTPer known as Deutchebagge had suddenly died, making it the first official death the YTP community had experienced. The people most associated with him though were people that had either been banned from the forums or looked upon them with much distaste and hostility, and while people payed their respects, those who didn't do so directly were viciously attacked. dewmann ended up as probably the most viciously attacked for accidentally saying something he knew he shouldn't have said, but despite him quickly acknowledging his mistake and apoligizing he continued to be attacked and verbally trampled upon while almost no one on the forum bothered to step in and defend him. Rather infamously this prompted Radock to make a reappearance on the forum in which by surprise he was not immediately rebanned after the said event had blown over. It was at this moment though that dewmann came to the supposed realization that this was how he was generally thought of on the forums in general; disliked, underappreciated, and mostly a punching bag waiting to be used. He felt in a way his career had come full circle and that it could only get worse from there unless he made a signifigant change in his overall outlook and personality, which for the longest time had been resoundingly negative, and by this point was severely impacting his mental health. He made the decision at this point that he just needed to not exist within the YTP world for some time, although this instance of it was not a fully committed one. He would however delete his original YTP channel, taking offline some 500 or so videos. He had reached 1,474 subscribers by year's end.
2014
dewmann did in fact begrudgingly return for a brief amount of time after about 3 weeks in late January 2014 after becoming aware of the sudden out-pour of surprise by people who all claimed to be inspired/influenced by his videos and were devestated by their disappearance in addition to the concern of a number of people about his well-being, which he thought no one ever cared about in the slightest. He felt in this a bit of emotional redemption, and upon returning reuploaded a majority of his videos (the 'good' ones) onto a new account, while attempting to compile his old tennis matches into single videos on his still existing tennis alt, which he now dominantly used for tennis. He also continued to manage his tournament for another couple of months, continuing to play in it for at least one more match and also making a few new solo videos, but by March it became clear that this wasn't working out for him. He then committed himself that he would basically put himself under the illusion that he would have never been a YTPer in order to rid himself of years of built-up stress, and focusing more on other hobbies and dedicating time to exploring himself more as a person. In order to accomplish this illusion extreme measures had to be taken; leaving all of his skype groups, deletion of both channels(though keeping one alt), deletion of his chewiki page, and the deletion of all the video files he had created and the software he had used, as well as his vast amount of source collections. He would however keep his skype contacts intact as well as all of his project files, and as of April 1st would not be heard or seen anywhere except for other sites where people had seen him already.
For the rest of Spring dewmann lived in a state of pseudo retirement, redirecting his focus to his art and songwriting. He would frequently see more friends and reconnect old relationships during this time, helping himself overall feel in a much happier state of mind, although getting there was quite difficult. He would eventually meet someone through another art friend of his that would greatly give him an emotional boost that he needed, as well as greatly inspiring him to become a much better/happier person than he had been, as well as training himself to not be as socially dependant as he had been in the past which had been a factor that had greatly strained a number of his past relationships. At one point he would eventually lose contact with most of the people due to now entering into college for the first time and thus becoming very busy, but it would be at this point that dewmann feels he would finally become the person he had always been trying to become. He had returned to the forum completely unannounced in June 2014, which thankfully for him everyone continued on as usual, though he was still very much in low spirits, soured more by the notion that he believed he was being looked at with pity, and he very much regrets how he acted during this period. As time went on he greatly mellowed out though, and by September was saying that he "felt like a new dew mann" in recognition of having almost constant good feelings now and completely free of stress and worry as compared to the past. He also eventually came to full time resume making solo videos and tennising just as active as he had done in the past, becoming reacquainted with the tennis community, which was now much different, and becoming closer that he had been to them in a very long time. As of today while he makes solo videos less regularly than before, he has fully dedicated himself to the game of tennis and community, doing as much as he can to contribute to the section in addition to currently working on a large project in the Tennis part of the Chewiki, writing lengthy articles documenting the history of every Tennis Tournament to date that has happened in addition to tennis himself. He has also become a definitive part of Tennis/Tournament discussion, and is closer to the active Cafe Staff and regulars now than he has ever been.
Style
I tend to work universally in just about any style I want to. I generally like them all.
Preferred Sources
- Disney Movies
- VGM Footage/Music
- Music by bands I like
- The Thief and the Cobbler
Preferred Methods
Preferred Software
- Sony Vegas 5 and 8 with WAX
Likes
- A Lot of things
Dislikes
- People who openly dislike things
- especially things I like
- which is a lot
- Not liberal points of view on things
Reception
Criticism
Achievements
Friends In Real Life
Online
- TheChutley
- MycroProcessor
- trepmaws
- Gamebop
- theFXexpert
- Sid1325
- LaVie CestLol
- GabrielCol595
- valkiriforce
- therazoredge
- CreepahWeegie
- a bunch of others fghfghdgh
Influences
- A LOT OF PEOPLE ILL EDIT THIS LATER
Fans
- Sid hi -w-
- LaVie CestLol i liek him
- add yourslef her
Trivia
- is a RAGING PAN SEXUAL :O
- not really raging
- is a Flareon which he originally became because tennis had no flareons but he is pretty convinced now that he's actually a flareon
- LEVEL 42
- once helped TheChutley revive his account when a vagina vomited on it
- used to be Miku, speculated now to also be Batman
- as well as The Juhoker
- will probably love you as long as you are nice -w-
