- [Voiceover] - DJ Keemstar is best known
as the imitable man who runs the show, Drama Alert,
which is essentially the TMZ of Youtube,
or for our international fans,
his show reports on the latest scandals and controversies
that involve the biggest stars
on our beloved video hosting website.
Oh, and by the way, you know that song that plays
in the background of all of the Drama Alert videos?
Well, it's actually called Movement Proposition,
by Kevin MacLeod.
In fact, I think I'll play it now.
What is up top list nation?
I'm your host, KrunchyNaut.
Let's get right in to the facts.
- DJ Keemstar's real name is Daniel Keem.
He was born on the eighth of March in 1983
in Buffalo, New York.
Despite his fame and notoriety, very little
is known about his earlierr years, that is, until now.
In 2009, Keemstar had a job in an attorney's office.
After work, he'd hop on his XBOX
and play some good old fashioned Halo Three,
which was the go to XBOX game at the time.
Even then, Keemstar was a huge trash talker
and would regularly get in to verbal sparring matches
with other players.
- [Keem] Yo blue team, suck my (bleep),
you're going to lose.
- [Voiceover] These antics would later change his life.
Keemstar first caught the YouTube community's attention
when a YouTuber called Deranker recorded one
of Keem's Halo Three meltdowns without his knowledge.
The video of Keemstar quickly went viral,
and Deranker was so impressed
by Keemstar's linguistic skills that the two got together
and created a Halo Three trolling group called the FAG,
or the Federation of Asshole Gamers.
This group quickly would become the most successful
trolling channel on all of YouTube,
and pioneered the now-famous trolling genre.
The two were so successful that FAG, or Halo Aholes,
was the fifth gaming channel to ever get partnered,
which at the time, was a very exclusive thing.
These successes soon made it possible
to quit his job at an attorney's office
and strike out on his own on YouTube.
Even back in his early years, Keemstar's antics
were controversial at best.
This controversy escalated to the point
where Keemstar found himself on the receiving end
of a SWAT team.
One person decided that Keemstar deserved a taste
of his own medicine, and broke the law in the process.
Someone dialed the police claiming that a deaf person
was being held hostage in Keemstar's home.
Daniel Keem called us on Saturday, describing what happened
inside his home on North Main Street.
- [Keem] Police told me that a deaf person called
and said that they were in a hostage situation.
A lot of people know me in the gaming world
and my YouTube channel is basically us pulling, you know,
innocent pranks on online games.
- [Voiceover] Many people do not know this,
but Keemstar is actually a multi millionaire
and even became very wealthy long
before Drama Alert was even created.
A majority of Keemstar's wealth likely comes from
a now-forgotten game known as Fortress Craft,
which was released in 2012.
Keemstar approached the developer of the game
and leveraged his fame in exchange for partial ownership
of the game, well, thanks to Keemstar's promotion,
this small time Minecraft clone was wildly successful
and sold over two million copies.
The money from Fortress Craft would allow him
to purchase a house with cash, and he also was able
to buy a brand new car, hot tubs, jet skis,
and other trappings of the rich.
- What are those?
- [Voiceover] The trouble was that Microsoft
only paid developers on a quarterly basis,
so while waiting for a life changing paycheck,
Keemstar was in a tenuous position.
His FAG channel had fizzled out with his XBOXs
now being routinely banned by Microsoft,
and before his check, Keemstar had to figure out a way
to provide for his girlfriend and child.
Just before the darkest point in his life,
a seemingly amazing opportunity showed up on his doorstep.
A founder of a YouTube network offered to pay Keemstar
for every single person that signed up on their network.
So to make ends meet, Keemstar began promoting the network
in exchange for half of its revenue
and began taking $50 security deposits for every new member.
This mistake would go on to haunt him to this day.
Collecting money in any form in order
to join YouTube networks is strictly
against YouTube's terms of service,
and the next morning, his channel was terminated.
This ban never expired, and despite the ban now being
over six years old, Keemstar is still permanently banned
from YouTube, so you may be wondering,
if Keemstar is permanently banned from YouTube,
how is he able to host Drama Alert?
Well it turns out that Keemstar has very little
to do with Drama Alert, at least in an official capacity.
According to Keemstar, he doesn't even log on to
the Drama Alert YouTube channel.
How this works is that there's a loophole in YouTube's
terms of service, where as long as he is not
the direct owner of the channel,
he can still participate in the channel's videos
in the capacity of a contracted host.
So after Keemstar convinced a friend
to register Drama Alert, he quickly bought most
of the company's shares and was contracted out
as the show's host, and that is how Keemstar still
has a presence on YouTube.
This legal distinction is so important
that there's even a legal disclaimer
in the Drama Alert YouTube about section.
The disclaimer reads, "Daniel Keem, AKA Keemstar,
"did not create nor does he possess or have access to
"any part of this channel.
"He is a contracted content producer, which according to
"the YouTube terms of service and community guidelines
"is 100% okay."
Keemstar is probably most controversial
for the time he falsely accused a 62 year old streamer
of being a pedophile after one
of his writers confused him for
another recently released pedophile called John Phillips.
Once Drama Alert released the false allegations
about the RuneScape streamer known as Tony,
he was driven to tears, and I have to admit,
it's pretty hard to watch.
- I'm not calling him, I'm not telling him my phone number.
I don't want that guy to bother me no matter what.
I don't want his money, I don't want his apology,
you know, I know who and what I am,
and my real friends know who and what I am,
and they stuck by me, thank you very much for everything.
- [Voiceover] In order to set things straight,
Keemstar apologized and even offered him thousands
of dollars in compensation.
- Tell him that we want to donate to him.
- [Voiceover] He logged out, says he doesn't
want your money, he doesn't want your--
- I don't give a (bleep), he's getting my goddamn money.
- [Voiceover] Many people don't know this,
but Keemstar has actually rubbed shoulders
with billionaires in the past.
The best example of this is Keemstar's brief yet lucrative
relationship with Alki David, who is a Greek billionaire.
Keemstar joined up with David to create a show called
The Billionaire's Challenge.
- Keemstar, shut up, Keemstar, shut up.
- [Keem] Everyone knows I'm going to win this.
- Shut up.
- [Voiceover] Unfortunately, Alki David's eccentricity
likely caused the show to go under
as he insisted on showcasing an assisted suicide
in front of the show's hundreds of thousands of viewers.
Still, because of the show, Keemstar had shown
that he was a force to be reckoned with in the media.
- I suggest you contact DJ Keemstar
if you wish to join this Wednesday, we'll be having
all of the half-bathed beauties in my garage once more
and we'll be having tons of fun.
Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you for this.
- [Voiceover] As of this video's release,
Keemstar has come under fire from multiple famous
YouTubers and has stepped down
as Drama Alert's full time host.
It's possible that he will return in the near future,
but for now, things are very much up in the air
for the controversial yet undefeatable Daniel Keem.
Is Keemstar a bad person or has he just been
the victim of backstabbing?
And is he really just good guy Keem?
Let us know in the comments.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is it for the facts.
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I had to actually watch a Drama Alert video
to do that impersonation, that wasn't fun.
Never make me do that again.