Drew Monson (mytoecold)

I did mention that I'd get to writing a blog entry about Drew Monson and I did!  Drew Monson is a YouTuber who is somewhat famous.  He claims he's not famous anymore.  I provide a video below where he goes on about saying he's not famous anymore.  Drew Monson and Shane Dawson have some things in common.  Not only do they have the same amount of syllables in their names and have "son" in their surnames, they are real good friends.  They have appeared in videos together.  Drew has been criticized as a Shane copycat.  He is not a copycat of Shane to me.  Watch Drew's earliest videos and watch Shane's earliest videos, they're quite different.  Their content is somewhat similar.  Now why am I writing about Drew?  He's a somewhat interesting guy to me.  It took him several years to get to over one million subscribers.  I'm wondering why he didn't have a million sooner.  Above is his latest video.

It's funny he says he's going to be famous and he already was.  This video is from four years.  Next we have a video of him where he say he's not famous anymore.  This guy is one humorous person.

This vid is from two weeks ago.  LOL!  Well to me he's still famous.  I don't think he'll ever reach the amount of fame Shane has gotten, but Drew was a bit close to reaching that fame.

One thing that baffles me a bit is that he actually managed to survive the purge of younger YouTubers (refer to my blog about hejhog for more on that) in his early days on Youtube.  Why?  Look at him, he could easily pass for 13.  Plus no one ever reported him back then.  He didn't reveal his age back then too.  That's another thing that helped him make videos.  I actually thought he was about 14 when I came across him in 2007.  Now that I'm older and my perception on peoples' ages is a lot better, he clearly looks well under 13 in the video above.

According to his page on YouTube Fandom page, he was born in 1995.  Technically, he was not allowed to have his own channel on YouTube when he signed up late in 2006.   This blog would have been titled "Whatever happened to mytoecold?" if his channel got terminated.  I'm glad his channel didn't get terminated.  Perhaps his channel was supervised by a parent or guardian.  Who knows!  I doubt it.  I guess people liked him a lot and they had the heart not to report him for being an underage YouTube user.

Well I'm happy for Drew Monson.  He is a successful personality on YouTube and he has over a million subscribers.  He still has his legacy YouTube name, which is "mytoecold" and the video is about his username.  When I came across him in 2007, I thought the name stood out.  I never understood the appeal of videos him and Shane make, but they're quite good.  I thought of making videos like them.  Then I decided not to, I could get caught up in drama and stuff like that.

There's my blog about this YouTuber!  I'm not sure if I'll be writing any more blogs about YouTubers.  They're best documented elsewhere.  I'd say the best source for that is this YouTube Fandom site.

What happened to hejhog?

This blog entry is about a somewhat known YouTuber from 2007.  His name was hejhog.  I know little about this up and coming (at the time) YouTuber, but I do remember drama surrounding him with a YouTube terms of service/community guidelines rule that never got enforced.  It was enforced some time in 2007 and who knows who reported him for being under 13.  YouTubers such as him and galipoka happened to be under 13, but they had highly entertaining videos.  There's lowlife energy forms I do not want to mention, but they are probably likely to blame why hejhog's YouTube career was cut tragically short.  These younger YouTubers did random stuff on video and they were even better than Shane Dawson.  YouTube was a much different animal in its first years.  Technically, if you were a person under the age of 13, you needed a parent or guardian to start up a channel to supervise the channel.  These days, you do have some persons under 13 who do have responsible and caring parents that run channels that feature their children.  Then you had hejhog and galipoka, their parents didn't supervise their channels.

The moral of the story is if you're under 13 and you seriously want a YouTube channel, make sure you get your parents' or guardian's permission first.  They will be more than happy to assist you with your channel (unless they object, but nowadays I don't think they will).  Do not end up like hejhog or galipoka.  A few of his videos have survived and have been reuploaded over time.  YouTube was a bit more lenient back then.  I don't know when hejhog started exactly, I came across him a bit later in 2007.  Then you got some people who were nerds who also happened to be tattletales.  These people got hejhog and galipoka in trouble.  Strangely, they never got Drew Monson (aka mytoecold) in trouble... I'll talk about him in a future blog entry.

Here's a perfect example of hejhog's creativity and zaniness at work.  This dude was brilliant and he should have been a huge YouTube star at this point in time.  However, he tried 2 more times after his original channel got suspended.  He went by "hejhog2" and that was ill-fated.  He reuploaded most if not all of his videos.  He eventually turned 13 at some point in October or November 2007.  He went with his 3rd channel, 3rd time's a charm, right?  Wrong, he decided he had enough and then moved on.

Here is the last known video of hejhog.  This is off his last known channel, which did not get deleted since he made it at the minimum age for creating a channel by himself without parental supervision.  He went by the username oybutoy.  He has not logged in for several years.  The last thing he did was favorite a video.  He hasn't been seen or heard from again on YouTube.  Perhaps, he goes by another name that I'm not aware of.  Today, that TOS/community guidelines rule is barely enforced, unless there's an obvious child who started up their own channel without the supervision of a parent or guardian uploads their videos.  I don't think you have tattletales anymore who report unsupervised child channels anymore.  Who knows, I have no idea.  The politics of YouTube is way too weird, especially since Google bought it.

So what happened to hejhog?  Does anyone know?  I used to be friends with him on YouTube.  Back then, you were able to add friends.  YouTube did away with the friend feature.  It was when I had my original username mickbynes.  I'm curious to know.  Every now and then when I meditate, I think of hejhog.  I miss this dude.  He's 24 going on 25 today, I'd honestly like to know how he is doing.  What became of him and I hope he's safe & well.  I do remember messaging him twice on YouTube, but he never messaged me back.  I know he probably couldn't respond due to the fact that he got a high volume of messages.  If you're reading this hejhog, please comment.   I'm not the only one here in Internetland who misses you.  We'd love to hear from you again!   If anyone else here knows about his whereabouts... please leave a comment.  Thank you!

Two entries in one day? Wowie zowie! I'm listening to Fugazi, FYI.

That's right, I have decided to go for another blog entry for today.  Look, I know that this blog will not be read.  Maybe if you're a fudd, you may be reading this?  Anyway... I'm listening to Fugazi's Instrument Soundtrack album at the moment.  I decided to check out Fugazi after reading that 311 played their first show with Fugazi.  I read about this during my early days as a 311 fan (circa 1998).  I got their Repeater + 3 Songs album first.  It was the only album I had for years.  As time went by, I got the rest of Fugazi's discography and I've been doing a discography run of Fugazi.  This discography run started on 4/24/17 according to my iTunes library.  Fugazi is a great band, but not one of my favorites.  I have listened to more of their material and I gotta say that Repeater + 3 Songs is probably their best.  Many Fugazi fans will most likely agree with me on this as well.  Yeah... well enough on Fugazi.  What else do I have on my mind?

Rick and Morty.  My friend Kevin Monahan says that season 4 is a hoax (I think in his own words, he calls it a "troll").  Now is it?  I dunno.  I look forward to a season 4 of Rick and Morty.  Interestingly, I knew about Rick and Morty since it was a new animated show.  However, I didn't start watching it in 2017.  In 2017, I fell in love with the animated show.  Heck, I will even say that it's better than South Park!!! South Park has dwindled in the past few years, IMO.  Ever since they introduced PC Principal, it went totally downhill.  I have watched all of the episodes from season one to season twenty.  However, I have only watched three episodes from season 21.  I dunno... I think it's not as good as it was anymore.  I had the most fun watching it any time between 2007-2010.  Maybe, maybe to 2011... I wish South Park was awesome again.  Maybe I'll have to watch episodes 4-10 in season 21 and all of season 22.  I have the DVD's and when I feel like it... I'll watch them!

Hehe, as I'm writing this... I'm still listening to Fugazi and I thought I was listening to the Red Hot Chili Peppers.  Dude, the song Cashout by Fugazi sounds like a Red Hot Chili Peppers song!!!  Cray cray, right?  Woah!!!!!!  Now that blows my fuckin' mind, man.  Yeah Fugazi rocks!

I'm having fun with these blogs entries.  I know I'm not gonna be this overnight sensation with my blogs.  I don't intend that to happen.  If you are reading this, I highly recommend you getting in contact with me and talk about it with me.  I have my contact info in my previous blog.  One day, I might consider doing vlogs.  Actually... I might have done that already.  Take a gander at my YouTube page. Geez, what was I thinking with that legacy username?  I'm one of the lucky YouTubers that registered at a point in time where you had the ability to have your own username instead of some random weird bollocks that YT sets up for you.  I know if you got some creator privileges or whatever, you may set up a unique YT URL and it has "/c/" instead of "/user/" if I'm not mistaken.

Am I going for an epic blog entry?  Maybe... I dunno!  Do I have any deep, insightful, witty, etc. things to tell you all?  Hmm... no, but one of the best pieces of advice I learned from 311 is "stay positive and love your life" from Jupiter off Transistor.   That's a real game changer if you seriously follow that and you take that seriously.  You got the world in your hands and you're gonna do exuberantly well.  I'll most likely never understand why people have so much low vibration and negative energy.  I would love to eradicate all of the low vibration and negative energy that is plaguing the world.  Seriously!  Who is with me on this?!  We need to get more high vibration and positive energy!  We can do it!  I take action every single day with my life to improve myself and I'm full of high vibes & positive energy.  I truly mean it.  I'm in this incredible journey we call life.  I may not have all of the answers for you and I may not be the best person in the whole entire world.  I will tell you to stay positive and love your life!  That's my best piece of sound advice for anyone who reads this blog.

That's it.  I got nothing else to write.  So much for an epic blog entry?  Maybe next time...