Rocky Rakoon

Vương Bình Minh (born: ), known online as Rocky Rakoon (formerly Sunrise Animations), is a Vietnamese YouTuber who mostly makes animation memes. They are best known for their animations using characters from Helluva Boss, FNAF: Security Breach, Poppy Playtime, and other trending properties.
==Content==
In the past (around 2020), Rocky's animations often used characters from popular media and online culture such as Poppy Playtime, Squid Game, Ankha Zone, etc. Combined with trending topics and memes, they are either looped or synced to existing audio. Rocky sometimes showed their making-of process, and combined several of their existing videos into compilations. Now, they are more focused on making animations featuring their original characters, but they still include trending topics and memes in them.
==History==
Rocky joined YouTube on the 7th of November 2015, but posted their first video titled "Sunrise Animations channel intro" two years later on the 10th of September 2017. On the 9th of May 2022, they posted a video titled "Neoni - DARKSIDE // Animation Meme". The video has since became their most popular video with over 12M views and 433K likes. 
The most popular short on the channel is "Roxxane Wolf, Loona, Daddy Long Legs & Mommy Long Legs edit #Shorts #helluvaboss #fnaf #poppyplaytime" with a questionable like-to-dislike ratio (670k likes and 799k dislikes). Many of their old fans claim their new videos are cringey and think their older animation videos better reflected their talent. The fans also think it is a shame that they use their talent to make cringey, almost like "YouTube Kids" type of content, instead of normal content. 
==Personal life==
Vuong was born on July 23, 2000 in Hanoi, Vietnam. He was a college student who majored in Graphics Design at FPT University from 2018-2022. He was a graphics designer for a studio Momento Mori in 2019, a 2D animator for SCONNECT company from 2020-2021, and a freelance animator and rigging artist for a studio called Pickled Frames in 2021.https://www.behance.net/sunriseking1
==Controversies==
===Jack-O pose challenge===
When Squid Game was popular, they uploaded a video featured Young-Hee (the doll from the show), Carol (a character from the "Friday Night Funkin' VS Carol" mod), Girlfriend and Boyfriend (from the game "Friday Night Funkin'") in the Jack-O pose. The video has since been deleted, because many thought this video was sexualizing minors due to the fact that Young-Hee is a doll which is based on a child character with the same name. Rocky Rakoon supposedly addressed this in a community post 2-3 years ago, but it is difficult to find due to the frequency of his posts in the Community Tab. However, he addressed this in a video (which was saved as a screenshot), saying the sexualization was done for boosting views and that it was "satire".https://youtu.be/vb5ZZx8KwiU?si=6bULbbgDcAoMxqAk
==="Deathrow" Animation Meme (Dream's version)=== 
On October 19, 2022, Rocky posted a video of the "Deathrow" Animation Meme. Some people found this animation by them questionable and disrespectful to the victims of some of the creators, because Rocky put Flicker, Meowbahh, Foxi Boxi, and Dream in the meme, which are creators that became controversial because of their actions (mostly due to NSFW content and alleged inappropriate interactions with minors which was disproven by one creator in the animation, Dream).https://youtube.com/watch?v=18jB0zQysgg
===Promoting NSFW Patreon to kids===
There were several instances when Rocky Rakoon posted animations of his original characters (in some videos they were dressed inappropriately and did things which minors should not be exposed to) which were censored with the Patreon logo as a way to advertise his Patreon (the "Golden Rakoon" tier specifically, since it has 18+ content and also exclusive Discord server for adults). There were issues with this due to the videos having imagery like content for children and also some of Rocky's videos on his channel being "13+". Rocky Rakoon mentioned in a (now deleted, but reposted) livestream that his content is not for minors and it was not his intention to advertise his Patreon to minors, despite his style of content suggesting otherwise. https://youtube.com/watch?v=jwCJ_50nWxo
===Exclusive 18+ Discord Server=== 
On his Patreon, there is the "Golden Rakoon" tier which has 18+ content and also exclusive Discord server only for his patrons. There were instances when several members in the server posted NSFW artwork of underage characters such as Gumball from "The Amazing World of Gumball" and Max from "A Goofy Movie". While the moderators of the server suggested to delete the material and ban the members of the server who posted, Rocky decided to defend the members and thought they deserved a second chance. They also defended the artwork and made questionable remarks towards the character Max, saying that the furry community is attracted to the character and that his adult version is a "taller version of his teenself".https://youtube.com/watch?v=vb5ZZx8KwiU
==Trivia==
*They used to make fan-made Winx Club transformations.
*They make AMVs (Animated Music Videos) at times by adding songs to their animations.
*In mid-2022, Rocky applied to a CloudKid contest, winning 2nd place behind contest winner Galaxy Mew.
*They had alternative aliases where they uploaded NSFW Content known as "raymondfoxxx" and then later "yoshinaround".
*They tried to hire a writer on Twitter for their animations, but got refused due to their style of content being similar to content farms. 
*They had a Makeship Plush campaign of their fursona, but it did not gain enough funds.
==References==
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:Meme YouTubers
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:Vietnamese YouTubers
Category:LGBT YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2015
Category:One million subscribers