Wayneradiotv

wayneradiotv (born: ) is an American YouTuber and Twitch streamer.  He is best known for the improv Machinima series , which he directed, as well as playing Gordon Freeman.  
The majority of his videos consist of highlights from his streams on Twitch, where he plays a variety of games with commentary from him and his friends (some of whom are also streamers).  
image_2020-10-05_113053.png|Wayne as Faladuf.
Gubgar.png|Wayne as Gub Gar.
orbulus.png|Wayne as Orbulus Raymon, Fushigi Freak.
fester.jpg|Wayne as Uncle Fester.
==History==
===Streaming Career===
Wayne fell into streaming by chance, after a clip from a Discord stream of Fallout 4 VR, recorded by one of his friends, went semi-viral.  The video accumulated many comments asking where he streamed, or where and when viewers could catch him live.  After seeing this, he began streaming semi-regulary on Twitch in 2017.
Wayne already had something of a built-in audience for his streams, based on the virality of that first Fallout 4 VR clip, as well as a modest following on Tumblr.  His streams regularly garnered 50-100 viewers in the beginning, and mostly consisted of pretty conventional VR streams, where he would play the game in a Discord call with a few friends, and all of them would give commentary and make jokes.  
===Rocknite Stream===
Wayne got his second boost in popularity around November 2018, when he did an experimental stream in which he dressed as caveman named Gub Gar, and played Rocknite, which is Fortnite for cavemen.  During this stream, he took time out of Rocknite to do a segment in which Gub Gar reacted to a JPEG of a rock, as a parody of Twitch and YouTube reaction content.  A clip of this segment again went semi-viral on Tumblr and Twitter, gaining Wayne new followers on Twitch, as well as cementing his experimental and unique style of streams going forward.
===Yu-Gi-Oh VR Video===
On February 11, 2019, Wayne uploaded a video to his YouTube channel titled "The Future of Dueling: Yu-Gi-Oh VR is HERE ", consisting of him and a few friends playing Duel Monsters VR, a fan-made project to bring the Yu-Gi-Oh card game to VR.  This video got Wayne his largest boost in popularity yet, after yet again going viral, with 1.6 million views as of October 2020.  After this stream, Wayne's twitch viewer count increased to roughly 500 viewers or so each stream.  
===HLVR:AI===
On March 5, 2020, Wayne announced on Twitter that, in preparation for the release of Half-Life Alyx later that month, he would be streaming an "experimental build" of the original Half-Life, which was in VR and featured machine learning AI for some NPCs.  In reality, the stream took place in Garry's Mod, using Catse's VRMod and with several of Wayne's friends playing the roles of the machine learning NPCs, and Wayne playing Gordon Freeman.  The whole affair being a live improv comedy machinima of sorts.  Four days later, the first highlight video was uploaded to Wayne's YouTube channel under the title Half-Life VR but the A.I. is Self-Aware (commonly abbreviated to HLVR:AI by the cast and fans.)  The highlight video quickly gained major attention, garnering hundreds of thousands of views in its first couple weeks on the site.  The second stream of the series was broadcast on March 12, to roughly 500 viewers, and the third on March 19, this time to 1000 viewers.  The YouTube highlight videos caught up to the streams in between the third and fourth streams, with the final Act 3 highlight video uploaded on April 8.  The fourth and final stream took place the next day, April 9, and was broadcast to 5,000 viewers, the most Wayne had ever gotten on a stream.  In the 6 weeks across which the HLVR:AI highlight videos were uploaded, Wayne's channel grew from 30k subscribers to over 200k.  These streams and highlight videos proved to be Wayne's "big break" and as of October 2020 his streams regularly garner 1000-2000 viewers.
===Fax Hell Stream and "There is no Fridge" Clip===
On May 8, 2020, Wayne accepted a Twitch bounty for Mtn. Dew Game Fuel, for whichthumb|right|335 px he would play Final Fantasy VII REMAKE.  In actuality, the stream consisted mostly of Wayne looking at faxes sent in by viewers via Twitch donations, and electing to shred them or pin them to a refrigerator in the background.  Very little of the stream consisted of actual gameplay of Final Fantasy VII REMAKE, and he and his friends comment on this fact many times throughout the stream and highlight video.  Towards the end of the stream, a fax came through consisting of a picture of Murdoc Byrnes from the furry visual novel "the Smoke Room" pointing a gun at the camera, with the caption "Show us what's inside the fridge, Wayne."  In response, Wayne got up and revealed the fridge to be just a cardboard cutout, announcing dramatically "THERE IS NO FRIDGE!  I LIED!"  A clip of this moment set to Giorno's Theme from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure went viral on Twitter and YouTube soon after.
=== Wayneremeberance and #whitemanlostintexas ===
On March 6th , 2021, Wayne hosted Wayneremembrance, a third anniversary event stream in which Wayne, along with friends Bauulp, Erarg, Gir, Holly, Kami, Lauren, Log, Mike, Mira, Scorpy, Trevor, Trog, and Recks, looked through fanart and watched clips from throughout Wayne's three-year streaming career in VRChat. Wayne repeatedly said in the days leading up to the stream that it would be his final stream from his home in Connecticut before moving to Dallas, Texas. 
Toward the end of the stream, Wayne cut to a video of himself in his room, giving a very heartfelt thank-you to his viewers. This thank-you was interrupted by sirens that steadily increased in volume as Wayne looked increasingly panicked, until the stream cut to video from the inside of Trog's garage in Dallas, bathed in red light and sirens still blaring, with Wayne bursting naked and covered in slime from a pod. Trog greets the disoriented Wayne, who immediately crawls away and forces the garage door open, escaping out of it and running off into the night.
An hour after this, fans got #whitemanlostintexas trending on Twitter. Many out-of-the-loop people assumed the hashtag was about another YouTuber, jschlatt, who moved to Texas around the same time.
==Style==
Wayne's streaming style is very unique, often involving many high-concept ideas, prerecorded videos, and costumes (i.e. the Rocknite, HLVR:AI. and Fax Hell streams mentioned above).  They almost always involve Wayne's friends in a call, whether they are all playing together or only Wayne is playing, with the rest watching and commentating.  Even during more typical streams, Wayne's unconventional game choices, dynamics with his many friends, sense of humor, and manic commentary style manage to set him apart.
Wayne credits his sense of humor to his many hours spent playing Garry's Mod and watching YouTube Poops with his friends when they were young, and this is clear in their surreal humor and frequent references to 2006-2012 Internet culture (YouTube Poop, Garry's Mod machinima, etc.)  Wayne has also known most of his friends for 10+ years, lending to their on-stream dynamics.
==Radio TV Solutions==
Wayne and nine of his friends comprise the Twitch team Radio TV Solutions, abbreviated to RTVS.  The 10 of them are most frequently seen together, although all of them also do solo streams, and other friends from outside the Twitch team are often featured in their streams.
The ten members of RTVS are, in descending order of follower count (Twitch usernames, followed by preferred personal names, followed by roles in HLVR:AI if applicable):
*wayneradiotv (Wayne) -- Gordon Freeman
*hollow_tones (Holly) -- Dr. Coomer
*Baaulp -- Tommy
*Logmore (Log) -- Darnold
*Tr0g (Trog)
*mirakurutaimu (Mira)
*MasterGir (Gir) -- Bubby
*socpens (Scorpy) -- Benrey, Forzen, Skeleton
*moupine (Moupi)
*ariacoolbro (Lauren) -- Sunkist
Other friends not part of the Twitch Team, but featured in streams, include:
*spaghoner (Mike) -- G-Man, Stagehand
*PolyCement (Poly)
*Kami
*Erarg
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2017