Requests Channel

About

Requests Channel was a YouTube channel that created videos out of things people requested for him to say. He gained over 13,000 subscribers on his final channel before having hard drive problems and becoming unable to create videos. His final video was his 11,852nd.

Online History

requestschannel, real name Andrew, began YouTube as "screwyouchannel." He had this channel for many months before it was terminated by YouTube for allegedly violating Terms of Service on hate speech. Andrew appealed the termination but it was denied. Defeated, he moved all of his videos to requestschannel. His oldest archived video is of him saying "Fuck you, Alicia." He also began Tinychat streams at an unknown date, originally just for his Patreon supporters. However, he eventually began doing open streams for everyone to watch. His streams usually consisted of him reading the requests in the Discussions tab of his YouTube page then doing requests made in the chat once he was finished. The streams were hosted every week or so.
A signature of his videos was bizarre faces made after reading the request. He said that he did this to boost the length of the video so YouTube won't cut off the audio. He also wore a number of strange hats during his streams and while reading requests. Some of these hats include a TMNT bike helmet, a sombrero, and a witch's hat. Requestschannel also owned a cat, which he sometimes brought into the stream and requests.

Italian Viewers and Blockland

In early 2015, requestschannel was noticed by many Italian viewers from an unknown site. The Italian viewers had dozens upon dozens of Italian-language requests, which Andrew became frustrated with. Most of the Italian viewers disappeared after a while, but some stayed.
Around this same time, members of the Blockland Forum took notice of requestschannel, and submitted many requests centered around forum users and Blockland. Andrew one day jokingly went on a rant about Blockland Forums, and how their users were "lazy" and "never donated." Taking offense to this, most users left and very few remained.

Taringa!

In April – May 2015, requestschannel was discovered by Argentinian social media site Taringa! . Thousands of viewers from Taringa! subscribed to him, increasing his subscriber count from about 4,000 to 13,000 in just a few weeks. Most users were friendly and submitted normal Spanish requests, but these requests usually ended up in the wrong place like video comments and not the Discussions tab. However, a group of Taringa! users calling themselves the "Lynx Army" attacked requestschannel's videos and his streams, calling him a "racist Yankee."
Eventually it got to a point where requestschannel had to speak both English and (broken) Spanish in his public streams. He tried to make streams just for his Patreon supporters again, but Lynx Army members found the stream password and spammed the chat.
Requestschannel's final video was uploaded on May 29, 2015. In it, he talked about how he had run out of hard drive space and so he couldn't make new videos. He asked for his viewers to crowdfund 120 dollars for a new external hard drive, but this failed and he has not uploaded a video since. As of September 2015, his videos are on an indefinite hold.

Criticism

Requestschannel was frequently called an e-begger, and was known for his hostile attitude towards public stream viewers. He would frequently permaban people for minor offenses, even his own mods. However, these bans were not actually permanent as the banlist was cleared every so often. Critics of requestschannel also said he was a "pathetic e-beggar" and was "wasted potential for a good idea." Requestschannel began charging people $5 for room requests for an arbitrary number of minutes during his streams. Eventually his "rates went up," and it was around $10 for 10 minutes during his last streams. This was a heavily criticized move, and was another factor into Blockland Forums' leaving. However, he never went back to a lower price or even free room requests like in the beginning.
One good example that came out of his e-begging was when he ate a bar of soap live in March 2015. He spit the soap out, saying "it tastes like corn barf!" He takes the bite out of the soap bar at 9:01 in the video below.

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