Submission 7,314

AlphaOmegaSin

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About

AlphaOmegaSin^[1] is a nickname of Bill Arensberg who is a YouTuber, video blogger, and ranter. He creates videos of himself ranting about the latest discussions on video games, social media, and controversies including GamerGate news. He currently has over 470K subscribers on YouTube.

Origin

The YouTube channel of AlphaOmegaSin was created on February 28, 2007. On August 6th, 2011, he hits over 5K subscribers. There his subscribers begins to grow. He hits over 10K subscribers on November 25, 2011, over 50K on December 1, 2012, and over 100K on June 8, 2013.

Popularity

AlphaOmegaSin made appearances as guests on other YouTube channels, mostly Cinemassacre with James Rolfe and Mike Matei. His early guest appearance (along with Spoony, The Game Chasers, Shane Luis, Ryan Schott, 8-Bit Eric, Grimsie42 and Bad Luck Bootsy) was on Cinemassacre's James & Mike Mondays^[10] on July 21st, 2014, where James and Mike celebrate The Angry Video Game Nerd 10th Anniversary by playing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the Nintendo NES. He also made appearances on Cinemassacre's James & Mike Mondays to review 2016 DC Comics film^[11] Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and survival horror video game Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles for the Nintendo Wii^[12].

Controversy

Anita Sarkeesian

On January 25th, 2015, media critic Anita Sarkeesian from Feminist Frequency posted a tweet on Twitter about 'angry YouTubers' that strawmans & slanders her, using a photo of AlphaOmegaSin ranting about disagreeing with her as one of the examples. AlphaOmegaSin made another rant video^[8] of Anita Sarkeesian calling her out from her Twitter account.

NeoGAF

Internet discussion and video game forum NeoGAF are unhappy that AlphaOmegaSin, a good friend of James Rolfe and Mike Matei was in Cinemassacre's James & Mike Mondays video because of his support for GamerGate. A thread on Reddit's KotakuInAction^[9] was submitted about NeoGAF trying to get James' attention to demand him to blacklist AlphaOmegaSin for being a 'Gamergater'.