Kyotosomo

Pierce Alexander Riola (born: ), better known online as Kyotosomo, is an American YouTuber and voice actor, primarily known for his videos in the comic dubbing genre, a genre where comic images are mixed with voice acting and various editing techniques in order to convert them into video format for increased enjoyability. Kyotosomo specializes in dubbing fan-comics based on various videogames and cartoons.
== Content ==
He first gained traction through short (usually less than two minutes in length) daily comic dubs revolving around the Undertale franchise. He then experimented with various new series before eventually moving onto Mystic Messenger where he saw a notable increase in viewership. He later added Miraculous Ladybug on top of that resulting in another increase in viewership. Upon switching to longer form comic dubs, his Channel saw a massive increase in viewership to the point where he had become the top creator in the comic dubbing genre, averaging millions of views per longform comic dub. However, his upload schedule became sporadic, eventually culminating in a four-year hiatus due to health issues and College. He eventually returned with an expanded team to help him pursue YouTube as a full-time career, with Genshin Impact being the new focus of his comic dubs. Miraculous Ladybug remains an occasional focus, and more series have been announced to be on the way. 
== Trivia ==
*He started his Channel on January 2nd, 2009, when he was just 12 years old.https://www.youtube.com/@Kyotosomo/about
*Being a child, he chose to use a pseudonym for safety. As many of his favorite games, shows, and toys were Japanese, he wanted to use a Japanese name. However, knowing nothing about the language, he accidentally chose the name of a city, Kyoto. And when adding an honorific, he mistakenly used "somo" rather than "sama", resulting in the username Kyotosomo.
*He casually experimented with various video genres for almost a decade before landing on comic dubbing.https://youtu.be/3zEq6UrAx2Q?si=6RRZRYMzKHnJINF0
*Most of these videos have since been deleted, with his oldest video now being a channel trailer.
*He suffers from an incredibly rare auto-immune disease known as Granulomatosis with polyangiitis.https://youtu.be/_CBCe-o-d90?si=8JHyBTxpcIGs4uBu
*He has worked with a fair number of YouTubers as a consultant, and has frequently provided advice on various discussion hubs, including YouTube's now defunct Creator Community Forum, where he worked with YouTube as a moderator. He has also worked with YouTube as a YouTube Hero, a Trusted Flagger, and been paid by them to test products as well as share with them his perspective on the platform as a creator that uses it.
*He claims to have possibly helped spawn the YouTube mentions feature, having pitched it as a way to help increase the amount of traffic creators are able to drive to each other's Channels during collaborations. He claims that after multiple back and forth discussions during paid opinion calls, they eventually presented him with a prototype that allegedly looked extremely similar to how the feature was eventually implemented.
*The Channel briefly went by the name "Kyo And Ruka" upon hiring his first voice actress but was changed back following her replacement.https://youtu.be/q2WsgaFRIf4?si=CrNc-sGQxQd406cjhttps://youtu.be/fz0Ug-BlPrs?si=CzS1kWdX2VMv_jvD
*As a voice actor, he has been hired to voice in other YouTubers' content on more than one thousand separate occasions. His most notable client is ArcadeCloud, for whom he has voiced in almost three hundred animations as a protagonist in each of their three flagship series ("Chick" in "Block Squad", "Tomato" in "Tomato And Burger", and "Drift" in "The Squad") as well upwards of a hundred other characters. His second most notable client is Ryguyrocky, for whom he voiced Ryan's rival "Aaron" and a supporting character "Danny" in over one hundred videos across multiple Minecraft Machinima series. Most of his other clients have also been those in the animation genre or Minecraft Machinima genre.https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6U8xuS_sjt8k5dNQuU9Qbuy7ABnYTvZZ&si=XMyx-r-lHdQXZiuBhttps://www.pierceriola.com
*He is an avid commentor, having left top comments on many thousands of videos.
== References ==
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2009