- [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.
If you enjoyed this video,
don't forget to leave
a like, let's shoot
for three likes,
Top List nation now over
433,000 subscribers.
I had to actually watch
a Drama Alert video
to do that impersonation,
that wasn't fun.
Never make me do that again.
