Internet Anarchist

Kirk (Born: 2002-2003 [Age 21-22]) better known online as Internet Anarchist, (or simply IA, formerly WAMO or Woo) is an Australian YouTuber who is known for creating video essay / documentary style content covering controversies or downfalls of online creators. He used to be known for creating educational videos in the multiplayer game Team Fortress 2. 
==History and content==
===WAMO (2015–2022)===
Internet Anachist's videos are generally educational or discussion videos relating to the video game Team Fortress 2 and the community surrounding it. His content began six years with Team Fortress 2 and Realm of the Mad God gameplay videos. After a few years, Internet Anachist's content moved on to Source Filmmaker animations, generally consisting of short memes replications popular trends at the time of publication. In 2020 he began posting more often due to the COVID pandemic, his uploads slowly introduced commentary videos and community discussion videos.
Around June of 2020, Internet Anachist's content began covering the problematic bots invading Team Fortress 2. It is also around this time that he began getting impersonated by bots in Team Fortress 2, these bots would enter games stealing WAMO's identity and posting racist and anti-semetic messages. On the 16th of June 2020, he released the video titled "The Pedophiles of Scrap.tf" which covered an investigation of child abuse and sex trafficking in the popular TF2 trading site Scrap.TF, since his video local police got a search warrant on the accused, the owner and several staff left the site and Jesse Cardone (Co-Owner of Scrap.tf) is currently being investigated by the NY police. Internet Anachist continued daily uploads throughout most of 2020, in September, starting his class stereotypes series.
He made his last video on the WAMO channel called, "Is the TF2 Major Update News Fake? (Yes, it is)", on April 14, 2022. He had enough of Team Fortress 2 content and forced moving to new channel, Internet Anarchist (the channel was already created in 2021).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeLv52amwHM 
===Internet Anarchist (2021–present)===
Internet Anarchist started his journey on YouTube on January 30, 2022, with his inaugural upload being an iceberg explainer video about Joji.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcstJt9iiEs Initially, his content consisted mainly of four iceberg explainer videos. 
The channel's focus shifted with the release of "The Dark Rise of Tuv: The Loneliest YouTuber",https://youtu.be/Xgh7_VYHS8A?si=D26b51yfcLUol9V4 a video essay that marked a significant change in direction. This video, considered Internet Anarchist's first major success, amassed 951,000 views. The success of this video essay marked a new era for the channel, as Internet Anarchist began to explore the trajectories of various content creators more deeply.
In July 2022, Internet Anarchist expanded his scope to include more contentious subjects. This shift was epitomized by the video "How TheTekkitRealm Fakes Videos (and gets away with it)",https://youtu.be/2bTJN_XIo8A?si=FL6uLV7dxXllgs6- which attracted over 760,000 views. This video signified a new phase in his content creation, focusing more on controversy and the darker aspects of the YouTube community.
Presently, Internet Anarchist is known for producing video essays ranging from 15 to 40 minutes, delving into the stories of YouTubers who have either experienced a downfall or been involved in controversial situations. His content style, reminiscent of SunnyV2's work from 2021-2022, has contributed to the rapid growth of his channel.
==Controversies==
===Feud with TheTekkitRealm===
On 16 July 2022, Kirk published his first video in a trilogy about YouTuber TheTekkitRealm, titled "How TheTekkitRealm Fakes Videos (and gets away with it)]".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bTJN_XIo8A The video was met with very positive feedback, which eventually led to Dallas responding to the original video in the comments section.
Kirk then made a follow up video, published a week later on 23 July 2022, titled "TheTekkitRealm Can't Stop Lying... (his response)",https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZA_P0LgeQk in which he covers Dallas's response to his original video.
On 4 January 2023, Kirk uploaded his third and final publicly available video on the situtation, titled "How YouTube's Biggest Fraud Got Exposed".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUijhDedRhY The video served as an update video, updating the viewers on what has happened since Kirk originally called out Dallas.
On 23 January 2023, Dallas responded to Kirk by uploading a 36-minute long video titled "TheTekkitRealm Exposed..." (originally Finally Responding).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-SAy1pT37s The video went in-depth on some of Kirk's claims, with him disputing some of them. The video also had an unlisted part 2, which was linked in the description. The part 2 covered all of Kirk's claims, with Dallas confirming some and denying some others. The video was met with mixed feedback overall, with most of Dallas's subscribers receiving it positively, whilst Kirk's subscribers generally had a neutral opinion on the video.
Despite the feud between Dallas and Kirk coming to an apparent close, Dallas's community largely hates Kirk because he "milked" Dallas's subscribers to the point where Dallas often only gets 10 to 50 thousand views on his new videos despite having 1.7+ million still-registered subscribers.
===False copyright strike by Adin Ross===
On April 23rd 2023, Kirk announced that he had lost $8,000https://twitter.com/internetanarch/status/1649974304334032896 by a false copyright claim on his video "Sneako's Horrible Response To Penguinz0" by Thumb Mediahttps://twitter.com/internetanarch/status/1653971543226212352 on behalf of Adin Ross. After lashing his frustration out on Twitter, Adin had reacted to his tweet on stream and accused Kirk of being Hasan's head moderator, which Kirk denied.https://twitter.com/internetanarch/status/1652705474356314113
The strike was eventually resolved by YouTube after Adin Ross "folded".https://twitter.com/internetanarch/status/1653209183599333377
== Subscriber milestones ==
* 1,000,000 subscribers: July 1, 2024
==Trivia==
*Internet Anarchist created the TF2 discord "TF2 Chill Zone" which amassed 11,500+ members.https://steamcommunity.com/groups/TF2ChillZone
*Internet Anarchist is from Australia.https://www.youtube.com/@InternetAnarchist/about
*Internet Anarchist mains pyro.
==References==
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:Educational YouTubers
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:News YouTubers
Category:Australian YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2015