Apollo Legend

Benjamin Smith † (August 15, 1994 – December 30, 2020 [aged 26]), better known online as Apollo Legend, was an American YouTuber who made commentary videos mainly revolving around speedruns. In his content, he showed various examples of fake speedruns, top 10 or giving news.
==Channel==
Apollo created his channel on June 10, 2016, and uploaded his first video on September 10, 2016 titled "When Torje Comes to Town", which got 16,030 views (as of June 2, 2021).
After the release of that video, Apollo changed his type of format, talking primarily about the various users known in the Speedrunning community being banned or top videos about speedrun moments.
His first channel spotlight in the Speedrun community happened when Apollo made two videos about Billy Mitchell & Todd Rogers, two record holders considered to hold cheated world records. 
After these two videos, Apollo started to be recognized by the community in a both positive and negative way.
==Death==
On December 30, 2020 (approximately 1AM UTC on December 31), Apollo uploaded a video (later taken down by YouTube) on his second channel. 
The short video included a download link and a very long text in the description. In this text, Apollo names DarkViperAU, EZscape, and other famous speedrunners/commentators, stating various things about the situations that let him do this hard choice. 
In the long text under the video, Apollo tries to expose the Speedrun Community calling it "a bunch of hypocrites", while also pointing out his mental health caused by childhood trauma that worsened over time. 
The 8-minute downloadable video includes much more details regarding Apollo's health, such as the many traumas he experienced as a kid, daily vomits, or the many regrets about the choices he had done to his friends and himself. 
After the video was released, several YouTubers were shocked about the announcement, one among them DramaAlert, who tried to give consolation to Apollo. Unfortunately, it was later announced that Apollo had died by suicide. 
After the announcement was made, various YouTubers (including DarkViperAU himself) gave their tribute to Apollo. 
===Aftermath===
Following Apollo's death, various Youtubers were accused of bullying, due to the text including a shade to those who had made at least one video about Apollo himself during the DarkViperAU drama. Afterwards, many had to upload a video about the problem, saying that they had been manipulated by the text and that Apollo had done so unintentionally.
Various people also debunked the long text, pointing to the hypocrisy and the errors, theorizing that Apollo had no idea what he could have written in the final message. 
Personal friend, Sallow Dawn, emerged as a YouTuber for the first time in defending him from the collective besmirching of his memory.
==Trivia==
*He was one of the few YouTubers to had contact with Todd Rogers & Billy Mitchell. 
**He claimed partial credit for driving TwinGalaxies to remove every one of Todd & Billy records, along with permanently banning them. While the exposure brought the situation to a wider audience, he was not the ultimate driving force behind these actions.
*He took part in highlighting a controversy regarding CaveiraGames, a YouTuber known for cheating a world record in Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories and harassing the real record holder.
*He repeatedly theorized where the money obtained from GDQ went, but was never corroborated.
*His trailer/announcement for Oceanside became a meme among speedrunners, who made their own version of the event as a joke.
*The video "This Speedrunner thinks i'm scum..." lasted for a short while before its initial removal. 
**It was also put back online by Apollo himself, but was later re-removed after he officially quit internet when the drama ended.
***Because of this, the hatred was eventually migrated to his "last" video "He Exposed a Cheating Speedrunner...", making it the most viewed video on the channel.
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2016
Category:Deceased YouTubers