The Theorizer

The Theorizer is a Canadian YouTuber and Analyst of Fictional Entertainment, who specializes in analyzing and theorizing on movies, television shows, and other media forms. The channel often seeks to "fill plot holes" using pre-existing canon. The Theorizer creates all of the theories himself. The channel is NOT satirical, but the delivery is often extreme.
==History==
===Early Years (2013 - 2015)===
Much of The Theorizer's early life has been kept a mystery. According to his video on Scarlett from Total Drama: Pahiktew Island, his love of applied physics stems from watching the season premiere of said season, and being inspired by Scarlett's ability to calculate the contestant's terminal velocityhttps://youtu.be/cdMFcLF7oVI. The Theorizer created his channel on July 1, 2013. Back at this time, his channel was known as "Claymationator", and he posted a miniseries chronicling the events of multiple stop motion blobs of clay, fighting on a desk. In 2014, he changed the channel name to "Shewshuck", and he posted multiple remixes of Epic Rap Battles of History episodes, videos now made private. During much of 2014, he posted Mario Kart 8 highlight reels.
Into 2015, he still occasionally posted highlight reels. In August, he began to create theories, inspired by the genre's recent influx. He started off by analyzing the physics of video games and movies. He used a robotic text-to-speech voice to voiceover some videos, and had no voice in others. During this time, he called his videos "Pop Culture Analyses", rather than "Theories". He also did some Top 10's, gaming, and other stuff. He posted randomly, without a set schedule. In December, he changed his name to "The Theorizer", and altered his video style completely, sticking to just the robot voice, and a constant background of a chalkboard. He finished off 2015, by amassing 60 subscribers in 5 months. He'd also formed a schedule, posting every three days. 
===Becoming Popular (2016 - 2017)===
By January 2016, The Theorizer still hadn't revealed much about himself. He continued to make videos with ever-increasing quality. In February, he abandoned his old schedule, and began posting every Sunday morning and Wednesday afternoon. The Theorizer bought a proper microphone in February, revealing his voice. This dramatically sped up channel growth. The first video to reach 1,000,000 views was a video on "Coraline", as it was one of his niches. Following this, he quickly reached 10,000 subscribers. By July, he reached 50,000 subscribers, and YouTube was now his full time job. He ditched his old schedule again, and after a few months of random uploads, he started July by uploading every second Friday. Many other popular films were theorized on by The Theorizer, some reaching nearly a million views as well. By the end of August, he'd reached 100,000 subscribers, and by November, 200,000. Each time he achieved another hundred thousand subscribers, he'd post a comment response special. By the end of 2016, he posted a video detailing his most hilarious and ridiculous moments.
The Theorizer had reached 300,000 subscribers by June 2017, but his channel began to slow down due to a YouTube subscriber glitch and the "adpocalypse". During this infamous advertiser boycott, The Theorizer's channel lost views, subscribers, and income significantly, which led him to creating two other series on his main channel; One where he reviewed and rated movies & games, and one where he told an eerily animated story. Both series were cancelled soon after. There were also more schedule switch-ups and he started putting his channel mark on each thumbnail. 
Upon the "adpocalypse" ending a few months after it started, his channel regained its original traction with the help of a "Moana" Theory, which then sustained views and income. In July, The Theorizer marked the 4 year anniversary of his channel, but didn't do anything special for it. In October 2017, he surpassed 400,000 subscribers. The Theorizer's uploads were sporadic at this time due to illness, and the channel began slowing again. Despite being far ahead of schedule, The Theorizer's recent videos were hard to classify, and thus often less viewed.
===Trials & Tribulations (2018 - 2019)===
In 2018, The Theorizer decided to shift more of his focus back to animated films, which balanced things out. Views were consistent, but nothing stellar, and growth had come to a standstill under 500k subs. SpongeBob theories helped out, but various troubles in YouTube's algorithm had hindered viewers from seeing the videos, further slowing his channel's growth. In May, The Theorizer posted a Total Drama theory that performed well, reaching him half a million subscribers by the end of June. The bizarre standstill persisted however, and got even worse throughout July. The Theorizer tested new methods of uploading, but barely any of his subscribers were seeing the videos. The Theorizer spent months troubleshooting this. 
The Theorizer's views were lower than they'd ever been since the initial blow-up of his channel, caused by issues also noted by several other YouTubers. To remedy the downturning, The Theorizer opened a merchandise store as well as a Patreon, which was soon cancelled. He tried a new series, as well as trying reviews once again, both to no avail. He stopped uploading around July to focus on his illness. When he returned, he restarted everything by studying the NEW algorithm, experimenting with upload times, video titles, new topics, and more. Old videos started to go viral, and with new tactics, everything slowly returned to normal as he passed 600,000 subscribers. The Theorizer's salvation was in the form of children's animated television though, which became problematic when the upcoming YouTube "COPPA" guidelines seemed to pose a threat. 
===Insanity Era (2020 - 2021)===
After relocating his niche in 2019, The Theorizer's scarcer uploads made everything easier, but also more stable. "COPPA" ended up likely working to The Theorizer's benefit, and the COVID-19 pandemic increased views. Things sustained throughout the first quarter of 2020 when several older videos started gaining some views, collectively resulting in a massive boost in channel viewership overall. The Theorizer changed up his presentation, taking on a more wacky persona so he could attract more viewers. This meant some of the theories were delivered in a backwards format, leading to the creation of a 10 hour long "Mort Theory" that gave the channel a serious boost, and changing the landscape. The channel remained stable, uploading once-per-month, with some pretty "crazy" quality content. Subscribers still wouldn't see the videos, but new viewers could access them.
The Theorizer's physical health changed rapidly in April 2021, and he was hospitalized. Following this, a psychological brain fog began. He persisted, but theories were harder to make. Views jumped because of even more quality "crazy theories", but the brain fog soon evolved into a life-altering alternative psychosis that severely impacted The Theorizer during late 2021, ultimately "breaking" and "enlightening" him, as he put it. This compelled yet ANOTHER evolution in content though, leading to some of his best theories of all time.
=== The Hiatus (2022 - 2023) ===
The incredible content continued until February 2022, when The Theorizer posted his best theory ever, the "Baby Smitty Theory", in which (from his perspective) he nearly solved all of Pixar in one fell swoop. Following this, The Theorizer took something of a "hiatus", and began to heal from his psychosis while changing things in his life. He only uploaded a couple more times in 2022, as he'd been spending most of his time socializing and trying to improve his mental state outside of YouTube, using VR and other online means, to compensate for his continued physical inability to get outside. He also reopened his Patreon, properly this time, which helped him financially.
Over his break, The Theorizer did get much healthier, so in early 2023 he uploaded a few theory videos of new style in which he can be seen on camera with a mysterious masked outfit, hiding his identity. The Theorizer was now MUCH calmer when he needed to be, and he also fascinated his audience by revealing a few more things about himself. In late 2023, he targeted the algorithm once again, this time with full success. Rolling into 2024, his videos had returned with full form AND viewership, as he had apparently "figured it all out" just shy of a million subscribers.
==Content==
===Theories===
The Theorizer's main series is known as "Theory" (or previously "Pop Culture Analysis"), and has been running since August 2015 when he began focusing more on being a YouTuber. It was inspired by a vast array of other theory channels, as well as "The Pixar Theory", a knowledge of physics, and the video game franchise Five Nights at Freddy's. It has evolved quite substantially, and has moved through seven seasons as of March 2019, each with a different intro, outro, theme, and more improvements. He analyzes a piece of media, very in-depth. The Theorizer then edits a video with dramatic music and presentation, and shares it with the world.
====Lore Analysis====
A Lore Analysis is when The Theorizer does a detective-themed deep dive into content. It involves him discovering and presenting all the evidence, before piecing it together and solving it like a conspiracy.
====Physics Analysis====
A Physics Analysis is when The Theorizer uses physics and mathematics to prove, disprove, or analyze a situation from a piece of popular media, like the realism behind an action scene or the force behind a fictional punch. These are less popular on the channel, and thus, are posted less often, almost NEVER as of 2020.
===Other===
The Theorizer has done many other things than simply theories. A very brief series on The Theorizer's channel were Top 10s; Something he did when he very first began, but promptly ended them late 2015 for their lack of intrigue. They are exactly as they sound: Random Top 10s ranking popular media based on The Theorizer's systematized opinion.
In Mid-2017, The Theorizer briefly made a few reviews on the topics he'd theorized on, using a very elaborate system that neutralized his bias, to rate and rank popular media on a scale. The Theorizer improved the system over the span of years, and tried it again for a brief time in July 2019, before cancelling it again.
In an effort to bridge his other channels, a short series similar to his third channel, The Rockford Scheme, was a poorly animated complex story designed to be solved, but soon after launching, The Theorizer realized his main channel had a far different audience than his third channel, so he ended this series, and plans to upload it all on the 3rd channel following Conniving Puffin's conclusion.
In March 2019, The Theorizer also tried his hand at "comedy". In this series, titled "A Thick Plot", The Theorizer would call upon his fans to comment funny brief synopses of different scenes from a movie, and he'd then comedically construct them all together chronologically, to create a disjointed plot summary. He'd then read over it in a funny way. It performed surprisingly successfully, being the only new series in two years. It was delegated to the three worst months of the YouTube year: January, April, and July. He tried it again in July 2019, following this proposed pattern, but it became too much work, so it was cancelled again.
The Theorizer also does specials. Every time The Theorizer gains another one hundred thousand subscribers (at 100k, 200k, 300k, 400k, etc.) he does a special video where he reads and reacts to comments of all kinds... Hate, requests, compliments, all of them. Upon reaching a particularly crucial milestone, he'll do something even more special, such as at 250k or 500k, when he switched things up a bit. At the end of every year, The Theorizer compiles his most quirky and funnily random moments from the year's theories, and puts them into a single video for people to enjoy. The specials became infrequent in the 2020s.
The Theorizer has done many other little videos not attributed with a major series, and of course he did stop-motion animation, gaming, and rap remixes in the early days of his channel.
==Expansion==
===The Theorizer 2===
The Theorizer has also created a second and third channel. On his second channel, The Theorizer 2, he satirically plays video games, does top 10s, and reacts to funny stuff, but as of 2020, primarily posts a variety of main channel supplementary content such as music, teasers, "terror experiments", and memes. Before he features a new intro or outro in a video, he'll post multiple variations on his second channel, getting feedback from the viewers.
The series "Why I Don't Game" was extremely prominent on this second channel, and featured The Theorizer reacting in an over-the-top way to many easy video games, in an act to parody famous gamers. This series shifted over time, revealing itself to be an unravelling mystery for the viewers to solve, which involved "The Theorizer 2" actually being a separate personality from "The Theorizer", who was becoming increasingly insane, and was "taking over all three channels". It rarely receives new entries as of 2021.
===Confounding Poetry===
On his third channel (originally titled "Conniving Puffin"), he tells an elaborate and complex story, in the form of subpar animation. He also has been starting up multiple other bird-themed creepy series on this third channel, including Colluding Parrot (two seasons), Conspiring Peacock (one season), and Concocting Penguin (one season), which all connect into Conniving Puffin's story, which is set to stick out for 27 seasons. The Theorizer completed the two seasons of Colluding Parrot, but the other two bonus series will likely never be properly made. The Theorizer has suggested that he might simply read out the stories' plots in video form as opposed to making them, as he is constrained for time, and uploads here VERY scarcely nowadays.
After those series end, he plans on re-uploading The Rockford Scheme to the Confounding Poetry channel, as its viewers are more aware of the video style than those on the main channel. At this point, he'd rename Confounding Poetry to either "Scheme Chain" or "Chain of Villainy", to be fitting with the types of plots those series have.
===More===
The Theorizer claims he has a total of over TWELVE CHANNELS, but most of them are past attempts at different subjects entirely. Some were visual effects channels, tutorial channels, music-oriented channels, test channels, comedy channels, and many, many more.
==Social media==
*He first created his Twitter Account back in Summer 2016, which he is CONSTANTLY on.
*He also created a Facebook Page shortly after, which he never uses.
*Next was an Instagram Account several months after that, but he only uploads thumbnails, infrequently.
*The Theorizer made Merchandise in early 2019, which of course is seen on a merchandise website.
*With the Merchandise, he also made a Patreon, which was cancelled but reopened in 2022.
==References==
Category:Users who joined in 2013
Category:Canadian YouTubers
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:Review YouTubers