BRRGames

Azran Farooq (born: ), better known online as BRRGames or Black Rhino Ranger, is an English-Malaysian YouTuber best known for his Skylanders animations. He also makes content about other series such as My Little Pony and Star vs. the Forces of Evil, as well as gameplay videos of Spyro and Skylanders.
He has a second channel called Azran Farooq for any videos with copyrighted music. He created the channel after copyright strikes and claims started affecting the Skylanders with different songs series.
==Series==
===Spore Wars===
Playlists: Prequel 11 and Movie playlist
Spore Wars was one of the original series uploaded on the channel in 2010. It is a series in the game Spore based on Star Wars.
===Watch BRR Draw Skylanders===
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This is a series showing the drawing process of Skylanders. Each video focuses on a specific Skylander. The first part was uploaded in 2013 and the most recent one in 2016.
===BRR's Creation Showcase===
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This is a series showing the creation of Farooq's original characters in Skylanders: Imaginators. There are also guest star episodes where he creates characters from other series.
===Skylanders with different songs===
Playlists: BRRGames and Azran Farooq
This is a series Farooq used to do frequently, featuring Skylanders with 15-second clips of songs representing them. However, due to copyright reasons, most of these videos were later deleted and reuploaded on his second channel as unlisted videos.
This series became popular among fans, and many started making their own videos with the same idea. Farooq made a playlist for these types of videos by others, which has lead to these types of videos becoming the most successful videos of others. He stopped updating the playlist when copyright claims became a bigger issue on YouTube.
===Skylander Toons (Originally Titled "Skylanders Flash Videos")===
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This is what Farooq is most famous for. The series became popular with the video Skylanders Christmas (Flash movie) made for Christmas in 2011, and ever since, these animations have been a notable part of BRR's channel. The animations are also uploaded on DeviantArt. While most animations are short, there are multiple longer series. His longest animation he has done so far is The Skyrates.
====Krack-it Kaos====
Krack-it Kaos is a series based on Wreck-It Ralph, featuring Kaos, the main villain on the Skylanders series. Unfortunately, after 3 parts, it was cancelled due to negative feedback from Parts 1 & 2, Farooq losing interest, technical difficulties during production (Took 7 Months to fix a hard drive malfunction), outdated things in some scenes, and copyright issues. Critics (Mainly on Newgrounds) criticized it for being not a parody, but a direct carbon copy of Wreck-It-Ralph, even Farooq himself admitted it.
====Skylanders University====
Skylanders University is a series based on the movie Monsters University starring Pop Fizz. The series is set between the events of Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure and Skylanders: Giants, where multiple potential Skylanders go to Skylanders University in an attempt to become part of the next team of Skylanders.
====Double Dragon Decade====
Double Dragon Decade is a three-part series made for Spyro's 20th anniversary.
====Skylanders Carols and Presents====
This is a 24-part series consisting of short animations where a Skylander knocks on a door, sings a Christmas Carol and gets a bad gift. It was made as an advent calendar in 2018.
====Specials====
Many of Farooq's animations are specials for various days of the year, including New Year's, Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, Easter, May the 4th (Star Wars Day), anniversaries of video games, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
==== Same Month, Same Day ====
Same Month, Same Day is a series consisting of short animations where the Skylanders do certain activities related to the month and the day having the same number (e.g., January 1, February 2, March 3, etc.).
==== Sky Wars - The Holiday Set Up ====
This series is a crossover between the Skylanders and the Nickelodeon animated series, "The Loud House", with elements of the famous space opera movie series, Star Wars.
==== Cynderscope ====
This series consists of short animations mainly focused on what happens to some of the Skylanders who share the same Zodiac Sign on the Cynderscope (A play on Horoscope & Cynder), written by a woman named Cyndee Louper (A play on Cyndi Lauper).
==== Skylandermon ====
This mini-series consists of the Skylanders dressed as certain Pokemon associating with a certain animal from the Chinese Zodiac for Lunar New Year. It is also in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Pokemon series.
==== Skylympics ====
To coincide with the Tokyo 2021 Summer Olympic Games, this miniseries consists of the Skylanders doing various Summer Olympic Sports.
==== Winter Skylympics ====
Much like the previous Skylympics Series, to coincide with the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, this miniseries consists of the Skylanders doing various Winter Olympic Sports.
==== May Puns ====
For the month of May in 2022, This series consists of short videos of puns with the name of the month, "May" in it.
==== (Dirt Shark Week) Terrafin's Travels ====
In honor of Shark Week 2022, this miniseries consists of the Earth Skylander, Terrafin going to many different places, whilst the other Skylanders try to stop him from causing any more harm to Skylands.
==== What Scares the Giants ====
In this miniseries, the "Giant" Skylanders are in different parts of the world and are shown their greatest fears.
==== Skysoccer ====
To coincide with the 2022 FIFA World Cup, this miniseries consists of the Skylanders doing various things with a soccer ball.
==== The Seasons of Skylands ====
In this miniseries, to coincide with the Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter Solstices of 2022, the Skylanders are shown doing various activities depending on the season.
==== Crash Team Rumbling with Skylanders ====
In this miniseries, to celebrate the closed beta release of the Activision Blizzard game, Crash Team Rumble, the playable characters of said game interact with random Skylanders.
==== Skylanders with Malaysianimals ====
To celebrate Merdeka, or Malaysia's Independence Day, this miniseries consists of the Skylanders interacting with some of Malaysia's most well known animals.
==== Magical Mystery Taste ====
To celebrate Malaysia's Mid-Autumn Festival, this miniseries consists of the Tech Skylander, Trigger Happy serving mooncakes based on each of the elements of the Skylanders series to random characters of pop culture. The flavors are all unknown and it is up to the customer to taste and figure them out.
==== Skyney ====
In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Walt Disney Company, this miniseries consists of the Skylanders (plus some of the NPCs and a few guest stars from Crash Bandicoot, Sly Cooper, etc) parodying each and every movie from the Walt Disney Animated Canon lineup. The series is currently put on hiatus due to Farooq experiencing a broken laptop (first time in nearly ten years) from December 2023 to sometime in January 2024, and some late Patreon commissions due to said broken laptop and other projects & events going on in his life. It is unknown when this series will continue,
===Weird Al Polka===
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Farooq has made multiple videos using Weird Al Yankovic's Polkas, featuring multiple franchises. The most popular of these is a video called Now That's What I Call Skylanders Polka (Flash Music Video), which is currently the most viewed video on BRR's channel.
=== Black Rhino Ranger Live ===
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Farooq also does livestreams on the BRRGames channel. In his streams, he does fan art requests sent by his viewers via the chat system related to the theme of the stream. If a viewer sends him a request via the super-chat, he has to do it immediately regardless if the request is not-related to the theme of the current stream. On some of his streams, the super-chat system is disabled. The livestreams are currently on hiatus due to the recent demonetization of the BRRGames channel (See below).
== Feuds with YouTube ==
On July 2, 2018, Farooq published a video titled “Video Flagged for Burping? (Youtube's policies worry me)”, in which he discusses how he got one of his videos age-restricted all due to the fact the characters in that video were just simply burping, while also pointing out how videos with lesser kid-friendly tropes (i.e. innuendos, minor language, etc.) in most kids media are left un-age-restricted. He also expressed his concern on the future of his channel at the time.
On June 28, 2022, the BRRGames channel has been completely demonetized. Due to this, Farooq had no choice but to cancel or postpone any planned or future livestreams. He had submitted appeals to YouTube three times, but all have been rejected. However, sometime in December 2023, Farooq had unlisted all of his videos that were copyright claimed (main reason why the channel was demonetized in the first place) and surely enough, the BRRGames channel was monetized again. The copyright claimed videos can still be viewed on this playlist.
On May 19, 2023, Farooq received an email from the YouTube Team saying that his video, titled “Warner Bros. Animation Logo - Daffy, Scorpion, and Shaggy” has been labeled as “for kids” (A video that includes the game series, Mortal Kombat, but marked as for kids). The video then became unlisted for a short while. Following the email and a rejected appeal, the very next day, Farooq published a video titled “(RANT) Youtube enforced my Mortal Kombat video to be "Made for Kids"”, in which he expresses his frustration and distaste for YouTube's broken algorithm, COPPA, and the platform as a whole, while also questioning how some of his other videos with more family-friendlier content has not been labeled as “for kids”, as well as pointing out how such actions like this could potentially be borderline dangerous to young viewers and the platform altogether. He also expressed even more extreme concern on the future of the BRRGames channel as if this situation becomes too out of hand, he may have to quit YouTube altogether. Farooq then reached out to the YouTube Team on Twitter and sure enough, on May 23, 2023, the “for kids” label was removed from the MK video. However, the rant video still remains public (now it is unlisted because it is copyright claimed) on his channel to let others know that other videos still suffer the same problem.
==Trivia==
*He is a notable contributor on the Skylanders and Spyro Wikis.
*He has drawn every Skylander on DeviantArt.
*He has Asperger's Syndrome, mentioned in his "Rampaging" Livestream.
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