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Cr1TiKaL
File:Cr1tikal.jpg
White posing for The Gentle Men in 2020
Personal information
Born
Charles White Jr.

(1994-08-02) August 2, 1994 (age 30)
Tampa, Florida, U.S
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
PartnerTiana Tracy (2016–present)
YouTube information
Also known asMoistCr1TiKaL, BigMoistCr1TiKaL, penguinz0, Genghis Swan
Channel
Years active2007-present
Genres
Subscribers7.42 million[1]
Total views2.9 billion[1]
Network
Associated acts
100,000 subscribers2011
1,000,000 subscribers2014
Twitch information
Channel
Years active2018–present
GenreGaming
Followers2.3 million
Associated acts
Last updated: January 21, 2021
Last updated: January 21, 2021

Charles White Jr. (born August 2, 1994), better known by his online alias Cr1TiKaL (and its variations MoistCr1TiKaL and BigMoistCr1TiKaL), is an American YouTuber, Twitch streamer, podcaster, actor, musician, and writer. White's online career began in 2007, when he created his penguinz0 YouTube channel. He became popular for his gameplay and commentary videos of various video games. In addition to his gaming content, White uploads music and podcasts onto his YouTube channel, as a member of The Gentle Men and a co-host of The Official Podcast, respectively. White has also established himself as a personality within the website's commentary community.

In 2018, White extended his online activity onto the Twitch platform, where he mainly live streams gaming content. On Twitch, White has additionally garnered popularity for his card collecting videos.

White also owns Human Media Group, a business management and ad sales company that serves YouTubers and podcasters.[2]As of January 2021, his YouTube channel has over 2.95 billion total video views and over 7.42 million subscribers whereas his Twitch channel has over 2.3 million followers and over 25 million total views.[3][4]

Early life

Charles White Jr. was born on August 2, 1994 in Tampa, Florida.[5] He used to play basketball in highschool.[6] He attended The University of Tampa and graduated with a bachelor's degree in human sciences.

Internet career

Content format and style

White's videos and content has evolved over the years. In the beginning, the channel focused primarily on performing glitches on shooter games, such as Battlefield and Call of Duty, and later gaming guides for said games.[7] However, his videos later evolved into more gameplay and commentary. Charlie's first brush with humor was touched on in his video "Battlefield BC 2 Hilarious Round Saving Rush Destruction",[8] which was about an accident in the video game, Battlefield Bad Company 2, which he considered humorous. He would later upload several videos concerning humorous moments and periods transpiring through Battlefield: Bad Company 2. White's intentional sarcasm in expressing humor over commentating developed over a string of videos he entitled the "The Fun Tactics."[9] They consisted of mainly humorous and ludicrous methods of protection and assault.

White's first video in which he focused entirely on delivering humor in the form of insults and sarcasm through commentary was a video titled "Modern Warfare 2 Ground War 1–20 Gameplay and Commentary".[10] He deliberately gave a hilariously bad performance in playing a Ground War of Ream Deathmatch in the multiplayer category of "Modern Warfare 2". In his content, he repeatedly insulted players who killed him while poking fun at himself and repetitive use of self-encouragement in which he praised himself while also using mild forms of criticism. He continued this trend with other games. White is widely known for his usage of elaborate, vulgar descriptions and creative cursing.

White started doing non-gaming related content with "The Real Series" which has him doing voice-overs on infomercials around 2014,[11] later around early 2016 he began talking about various types of topics, including internet drama, which is still a major part of the channel today.[12] Through 2016 and into 2017 he started reviewing different types of media and creating the popular series "Moist Meter" and "Liquid Ladder" for ratings and rankings.[13][14] He also does a year-end award show known as "Moisties".[15] Since 2019, White has uploaded music videos onto his channel with his band, "The Gentle Men".[16]

History

Early years (2007–2014)

White created his penguinz0 YouTube channel on May 7, 2007.[17] White cited penguins as his favorite bird species, inspiring his channel name.[18] On August 5, he uploaded his first non-deleted video on the website, featuring gameplay of Gears of War.[19] The video received little attention and he made a few other videos attributing to Halo 3, the Gears of War series, and BioShock. These videos all gained little reception and attention. White gained brief popularity on a video where he actually commentated over it, which was "Aliens vs Predator Let's Rock Achievement Guide".[20]

White's audience expanded at a rapid rate after he uploaded a video titled "The Most Difficult Game Ever Created Gameplay and Commentary." In the content, he commented overplaying the online computer game titled "QWOP", and associated it with the "hardest game he had ever played."[21] The video eventually gained popularity and Ray William Johnson took note of and reviewed it, establishing the humor and praised Charlie's sense of insults.[22] The video's view count subsequently raised at a drastic rate, and Charlie earned a considerable number of views, along with his number of subscribers increasing at an exponential rate. In 2014 White started doing the now highly popular series The Real Series in which he voiced over infomercials.[23]

Prior to 2020, media outlets sparsely referenced White's gameplay videos, although his 2015 video on Ark: Survival Evolved was referenced by The Daily Star.[24] In the 2010s, White drew attention from media outlets for his commentary videos, which were often of discourse about the YouTube platform and considerably critical of YouTube's policies.[25] For example, in 2013, White was cited by Tubefilter as panning YouTube's new comment system, which required a Google+ account to leave comments on videos.[26]

Face reveal, content change and streaming (2015–2017)

In 2015 after eight years of anonymity, in the video "Paint the Town Red Gameplay and Commentary",[27] White mentioned posting a snapchat of himself playing the recorder, then proceeded to publish his snapchat username "big_moist" in the comments and deleting it later on. Several fans claim to have been added by him after a video[28] and a photo[29] went viral. White later posted snaps with him talking proving that it was indeed him.[30] White made his first video showing his face on camera on March 5, 2017.[18]

In early 2015, White began speaking about various topics, including internet drama,[12] which has been a frequent video format on his channel since. Tiffany Kelly of The Daily Dot wrote that White is "known for his sardonic commentary."[31] In February 2016, The Guardian included his video reaction to the Fine Brothers' React World controversy in their coverage of the situation.[32] In September, White was cited among other YouTubers who criticized the platform for mass-demonetizing videos.[33] In 2017, White began his Moist Meter series, where he reviews games and movies on a scale of 0%–100%, which includes his year-end Moisties, a countdown of the top five best and worst games and movies of that year that appeared on Moist Meter.[15][14] White also made a new Tier-Chart series known as the Liquid Ladder where he ranks various items of similar use and rank which is the best and the worst.[13] White's 2017 video showcasing character customization in Mass Effect: Andromeda was referenced by Kotaku.[34] White streamed on YouTube from 2016 to the beginning of 2018 but stopped because of the lack of communication with the staff.[35]

Twitch streaming and increase in popularity (2018–present)

File:Cr1TiKaL.jpg
White during an interview in 2018

White continued to make content discussing happenings within the YouTube community. In January 2018, White addressed YouTube after the website removed his video discussing Logan Paul's suicide forest controversy.[36] In 2019, White discussed sexual assault allegations levied toward streamer OnlyUseMeBlade.[37]

By March 2018, White's YouTube channel had accumulated over 2 million subscribers.[31] In May, White's video featuring a pit of 5,400 balls he made for his husky Tetra went viral, causing the Press Association to interview him about it and various media outlets to report on it.[38][39][40]

In 2018, White began streaming on Twitch.In March 2020, due to COVID-19 lockdown measures, White co-hosted an online Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament on his Twitch channel.[41] In 2020, White's YouTube channel saw significant change and new content which made the channel gain nearly over 3 million subscribers in the same year. He also expanded on his music project, The Gentle Men, producing five songs in 2020.

During the later half of the year, White's popularity increased due to his Twitch streams centered around gameplay of chess and Among Us, a social deduction video game.[42] In June, he participated in the first PogChamps chess tournament, hosted by Chess.com.[43] White abruptly won "one of the more anticipated games" in the tournament, beating fellow Twitch streamer xQc in six moves.[44] Dot Esports noted the game as one of the five "biggest moments in streaming from 2020", with the clip of White's victory becoming one of the most-viewed in Twitch history, earning over 1.9 million views by December 24.[45] Ultimately, White was the winner of the tournament's consolation bracket.[46][47] In late October, White participated in U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Among Us streams.[48][49]

Over on his YouTube channel, White began to show highlight clips from his Twitch streams, including various amounts of open gameplay (particularly from Among Us), card openings, and YouTube nights. He has also made a new tier-list series known as Liquid Ladder,[50] where he ranks various items on which is the best and the worst.

In September 2020, White's YouTube channel received a community guideline strike for uploading "graphic content with intent to shock."[2] A "prank road rage video" caused his channel to receive the strike, which YouTube initially upheld after White submitted an appeal.[2] Shortly thereafter, YouTube received backlash for their decision, and reversed the strike, stating it was "an over-enforcement of their policies."[2] In the same month, White criticized YouTube's lack of action toward channels that posted videos of animal abuse.[51]

In November, White signed a contract with BroadbandTV Corp (BBTV) to become a content partner with the company.[52][53] At the time, White had accumulated over 6.5 million subscribers on YouTube.[52] Also in November, White spoke out in a YouTube video against Twitch's increase of DMCA crackdowns.[54]

In December, White participated in a "Pokémon Week" event on Twitch, which featured several creators hosting streams where they unboxed different Pokémon card boxes.[55] Also in December, White announced that he engaged in a video call with Susan Wojcicki and many others at YouTube, discussing how they can fix YouTube.[56]


Philanthropy

In 2012, White made a video titled "Charity"[57] expressing his desire to donate all of his YouTube earnings to charity because he didn't require the money at the time as he was living with his parents. He made a second video in the same year titled "Charity 2",[58] saying he had signed a partnership with Maker Studios and that he had set up a Twitter account to disclose his charity donations. On September 2, 2014, he made a video thanking his fans for getting him to 1 million subscribers where he reveals that he has donated over $50,000[59] to charity through his YouTube earnings.[60]

In November 2020, White made a video thanking his fans for raising $14,000 for the surgery of two dogs on his Twitch stream with him contributing $3,000 bringing the total to $17,000.[61]

Personal life

White has been in a relationship with his girlfriend, Tiana Tracy, since 2016.[62] They both met in college. White has two dogs named Tetra and Cayda with his girlfriend.[63]

White used to suffer from obsessive–compulsive disorder as stated in many of his videos and he used to have a lot of "weird rituals" because of it.[64] He has stated that he does not suffer from it anymore. White has also stated that he is a hypochondriac.[65]

White says he used to be religious when he was a child, but is not anymore.[66]

Filmography

Film roles

Year Title Role Notes
2014 Vanished DMCC Radio Host
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 District 8 medic Uncredited
2016 Uncle Gareth The Cop Short film
BUTTER LOVER Cashier, Customer Voice, web short
2020 Skynut Himself Singer, music video
TBA The Sinnermen Samael
Last of the Grads Officer Greg

Television roles

Year Title Role Notes
2013 LORE in a Minute! Narrator Web series, episode: "Batman Arkham Origins Lore in a Minute!"
2016–2017 FTL Kestrel Adventures Dag Key, Nils Key Web series, 6 episodes
2017 Team 6 Mail Man Web series, episode: "Team 6"
2018 Hellsing Ultimate Abridged Soul Web series, episode: "The Party's Over"
2020 Killer Bean Kessler Web series, episode 1

Podcast roles

Year Title Role
2016–present The Official Podcast Himself (co-host)[67]

Gameography

Year Title Role Notes
2014 Tropico 5 American tourist voice
2015 Lucius II: The Prophecy Job Gilman
VoidExpanse Onboard robot
2016 Move or Die Himself
Anima: Gate of Memories Zero Mask
2018 Anima: Gate of Memories – The Nameless Chronicles Zero Mask
Star Control: Origins Charlox aliens
Lucius III Ceefor Bonaparte
2020 Popup Dungeon Himself

Discography

Singles

Title Year Peak chart MV
Gen
"2019 Guy"[68]
(with The Gentle Men) 		2019 — [16]
"Obsession"[69]
(with The Gentle Men) 		2020 — [70]
"Real To Me"[71]
(with The Gentle Men) 		— [72]
"Skynut"[73]
(with The Gentle Men) 		8 [74]
"2004 Breakup"[75]
(with The Gentle Men) 		— [76]
"I Am Truth"[77]
(with The Gentle Men) 		— [78]

Bibliography

  • Swan, Genghis (2017). The Man Who Forgot How to Poop. Chris Metzner. CreateSpace. ISBN 978-1977639738.

See also

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