Dr. Demonic

Mike (born: ), better known online as Dr. Demonic, is an American former YouTuber whose content consists of commentary and occasional gaming livestreams. He is best known for his videos on Gacha Life, as well as for his critical and opinionated personality.
Due to his videos on Gacha Life, and users of said game breaking YouTube TOS, he garnered an audience that arguably kick-started the channel.
==History==
Mike, before even being known as Dr. Demonic, had several channels prior. In a Q&A, he states that his presence on YouTube spans almost half of his life (at the time of recording said Q&A). He reveals that as a young boy, he was Inspired by SuperMarioLogan and wanted to be like him. He had made a channel and began uploading there. He eventually deleted it, and it is unknown what channel name was, or what it consisted of.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA5qkWP54qY&t=59s
The earliest known channel he uploaded on was TheLaserguy, which was created in 2014. He previously uploaded gaming videos akin to VanossGaming, who was one of his biggest inspirations. It was active through 2014 - 2017. In a Q&A, Mike reveals that he discontinued it because his most popular videos were of him trolling with his Filthy Frank voice. He felt limited to it, and decided to abandon it.
In 2017, Mike decided that he wanted to make music since playing guitar was a already a hobby of his. He went through many different aliases before choosing and sticking with the name Unity. The songs he produced were a mixture of Dance and EDM. He posted songs on both YouTube and Soundcloud, and did so until April 22nd, 2019. Assumably unmotivated, Mike eventually stopped posting music and essentially abandoned his entire music career.
=== Beginnings ===
On Jul 26, 2018, Mike would create his Dr. Demonic YouTube channel. His uploads during the beginning would again be akin to VanossGaming, but would consist of videos of the game Destiny 2. Over time, he slowly shifted into commentary, going from reviews, rants, and general YouTube drama. He ultimately stuck with the latter.
In 2019, Mike made videos talking about allegations against the YouTuber Onision, which the videos themselves did reasonably well at the time. It wasn't until his videos on JelloBug Studios, and Gacha Life as a whole, that his channel would arguably kickstart.
=== Gacha Life ===
in early to mid 2020, Though not interested in the community itself, Mike found out about the Gacha Life community through GalaxyIsOk, who'd already made dozens of videos against the community around the same time. After talking about several "GachaTubers" He and GalaxyIsOk came across JelloBug Studios, who was notorious for posting NFSW Gacha content aimed at young minors, and copyright striking anyone who criticized her. They eventually collaborated on the topic on their respective channels. After some time, JelloBug's account was terminated due to an unrelated anti-Gacha group striking and getting the channel terminated.https://youtu.be/P9jWDe1ejjU?t=43Jellobug Studios
=== PlaymateTessi ===
After a video of PlaymateTessi mocking a cancer patient went viral, Mike made a series of videos on Tessi as an individual. A handful of videos were seemingly made out of anger, due to how personal the comments were to him, especially when it came to her comments about autists. He had one of his videos taken down by YouTube, and was given a Community Guidelines strike due to his harsher than usual comments about her.
After PlaymateTessi and her father, Jim West, appeared on Dr. Phil. Mike eventually had the opportunity to interview West himself. He alleged that the people behind the production of Dr. Phil, and possibly Dr. Phil himself, were trying to create a false narrative, and made him out to be the person who was in the wrong in this situation.https://youtu.be/7h8XHuIaNyw?t=4266
7 videos, as well as an archived stream, on this situation alone are currently in a playlist called "The Book of PlaymateTessi."
=== Deactivation ===
On January 23rd, 2024, Mike unexpectedly deactivated the majority of his social media accounts with the Dr. Demonic name, with his Odysee profile being one of the only known platforms that remains up. Despite this sudden deactivation, his videos remain on Odysee. It's speculated that something in his personal life occurred, but no information has been made public.
==Personal life==
Not much is publicly known about Mike's personal life aside from what he's told on Q&As and Twitter. He currently resides in Rochester, New York. He graduated high school in 2018, then went on to college to peruse Video Production. He ultimately dropped out to focus on YouTube for the entirety of 2022.
==Trivia==
*Mike is a Dr. Pepper addict, and actually contacted Dr. Pepper to get a sponsorship. Unsurprisingly, they declined 
*Although "Dr." is in his username, Mike is not actually a doctor.
*He is of Italian descent
*The origin of his username is interesting, since he wanted to distance himself from his previous works. He went to a random username generator and got the name "Mr. Demonic." He liked the "Demonic" part of it, and replaced the Mr. with a Dr. to add some sort of alliteration to the name.
*He used to be a Twitch mod for Carllama, who was formally apart of FaZe Clan, Its subsidiary Red Reserve, and SoaR.
*Mike is open about his autism, and he often finds himself making fun of it.
*He can play the guitar.
*He is a fan of the Destiny series.
*The skeleton mascot he uses today was based off a stock image he found when he was first starting out. it was given a redesign to loosely match the image while giving himself a skeleton character to represent himself.
*All his art on Dr. Demonic was drawn by ThatTacoCristian.
==References==
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2014