ScrapMan

Billy (born: ), better known online as ScrapMan, is an American gaming YouTuber. He is most known for his Scrap Mechanic and Trailmakers videos.
==YouTube==
ScrapMan created his channel on April 20, 2016. His primary content focuses on gameplays of Scrap Mechanic, Trailmakers, and Main Assembly. One of the most popular series on his channel is Multiplayer Monday, where he plays Scrap Mechanic with 1-3 other YouTubers, including Camodo Gaming, kAN Gaming, Moonbo, iBallisticSquid, j0hnbane, Durf, and others and make vehicles or other machines and play games together. As of March 2021, there are more than 230 episodes of Multiplayer Monday on ScrapMan's channel. He also has almost 90 videos of Scrap Mechanic survival gameplay as of March 2021.
He regularly plays other games as well, including Instruments of Destruction (which became popular on the channel as of February 11th, 2022), Sprocket, Teardown, and others. He recently started diversifying his content with a lot of other games, some including early access and one-off games, while still keeping his regular Scrap Mechanic content. 
He does the entire video lifecycle by himself.
=== Community collaborations ===
ScrapMan often asks his YouTube audience for opinions or help on what he should do in future videos, or coordinate a community project in the Discord server.
These include the Suspended Mountain Base (ran from June 9th, 2017. To December 16th, 2017) Futuristic Military Base (ran from December 23rd, 2017. To July 14th, 2018), and Flooded World (ran from July 28th, 2018. To December 1st, 2018). The most recent community collaboration is Mars Colony Survival, which started on April 8th, 2022 and ended in August 27th in the same year.
Other series' such as You Draw, I Build (YDIB) and Best Builds are also intermittently held on the Discord server.
==== You Draw I Build ====
A series where ScrapMan opens a channel in his Discord server where members can submit their hand-drawn paintings for him to recreate in Scrap Mechanic, these creations often end up being extremely glitchy, not working as intended, or in occasions, ending up being featured on the thumbnail due to either the sheer novelty of the idea, or the fact that it pleasingly works.
==== Best Builds ====
A series where ScrapMan showcases the creations on his creation submissions channel of his Discord. The occasion happens with longer intervals than other series due to the quality of submitted content or the amount of submissions made.
=== Inside jokes and memes ===
ScrapMan and his community has created a lot of references, inside jokes, and memes regarding him and his channel.
*Wedge gang - A satirical feud between Brick gang (kAN's clan) and Wedge gang (ScrapMan's clan) to prove which shape is the better and superior one than the other, these include testing the strength of these shapes, building capabilities, aerodynamics, aesthetics, and more.
*Stabilizer mug - A mug (that usually holds coffee) that is placed on top of a "stabilizer", usually a suspension piece. This contraption claims that it can "stabilize your drink without spilling anything". Many of his viewers put some kind of reference or even flat out creating stabilizer mugs in their Scrap Mechanic or Trailmakers creations.
*Hank - An originally glitched (or put into a glitched state), "docile" Scrap Mechanic Haybot in the survival series that ScrapMan usually greets, he appears on multiple occasions on the channel, and one of his creations is named the "Hank Tank". Hank is rarely seen again on ScrapMan's newer videos but is still referenced a lot.
**The reason for Hank's disappearance is thought to be because of him "getting milk" (a common ridicule reason to explain someone's disappearance, particularly fathers) and never returning, ScrapMan has since made merch of this event and reintroduced Hank's lore arc into his Mars Colony Survival series.
== History ==
=== Before YouTube ===
Not much is known about ScrapMan's prior history before going into content creation. All that is known is his profession at the time, working as a circus artist at an unknown establishment. He intermittently mentions his job when appropriate, such as in an Instruments of Destruction video where he recalled that he cracks whips as a part of his job.
=== Early days ===
On April 22nd, 2016. ScrapMan (back when the channel name was Scrap Mechanist) uploaded his first video titled "Scrap Mechanic Creation Montage" on April 21, 2016, where he showcased his creations. Videos after that were revolving around a certain theme or a creation. He intermittently added gameplay videos from games other than Scrap Mechanic (although these videos did not receive as much attention as the Scrap Mechanic videos) such as No Man's Sky, and TerraTech.
Just right after the montage video, he uploaded "Scrap Mechanic Channel Update" on April 25th, 2016, where he detailed the roadplan and future of the channel. This is also the video where he first revealed his voice.
On January 7th, 2017. He uploaded "SCRAPMAN FACE REVEAL?! New Year Channel Recap Vlog! (2016-2017)" where as the title suggests, he face revealed for the first time. In this video, he tells the story of the channel, and how it has grown over the years, leading up until that point. The location of the mountain on where this video was recorded is New Hampshire.
=== Hacking and deletion of channel ===
In September or October of 2017, ScrapMan's channel was deleted, with his subscriber count and videos gone. He had fallen victim to an email phishing scam disguised as an official YouTube email telling ScrapMan that he was eligible to receive a verification check for his channel, seeing how he had recently hit 90,000 subscribers. Thankfully, about a month later, his channel was revived, and he made a video telling his fans what had happened. He described that he had just moved into a house and that "there was a perfect storm of different things that just put [his] guard down."
He said that 99% of his income was gone with his channel being deleted, with his wife and two dogs at risk. He also mentioned that his Adsense account had not given him any money for the month of September of that year, which would have been very helpful to him and his household. 
ScrapMan described how his Patreon supports help him with donations, to which he thanked them in return. Also, game developers of Scrap Mechanic and Trailmakers, games that Scrapman plays very frequently, showed some support as well.
=== Revival of the channel ===
ScrapMan described how on November 1st of 2017, he got an email from YouTube Creator Support. The next day, his channel was up and running again.
=== Music channel and career ===
On one of his videos, ScrapMan mentioned that he wanted to start a music career from his prior learning experience. And on September 25th, 2021, he released his first eponymous EP from his long-hinted artist name, Catarinth.
He uses a 6 string Schecter Diamond Series Hellraiser Solo II and a 7 string Ibanez RG7421PB for guitar instruments.
He has intermittently made time to work on his music production in-between his video creation cycle, leading up to the creation of the Catarinth EP and subsequent works. Since then, he has created some singles such as River Fallen and Void Hollo.
==Quotes==
*"Delayed annihilation!!" - When a creation is destroyed a few seconds after an impact.
*"Push buttons and see what happens!" - When controls are complicated and ScrapMan decides to push random buttons and see what happens.
*"Holy cow!" - Used to express shock.
*"Existing is worse than not existing"
== Trivia ==
* His old outro music was Eye Of The Storm, released by himself under the alias Zetasis. Now he uses his newer Catarinth music for his outro. His intro, however, still uses the same portion of music.
** Although in recent times, he completely cut out the intro, for the sake of new viewer retention.
* On March 17th, 2022. He bought a house for the first time, and subsequently didn't post any videos that day. He thanked all of his viewers and supporters for helping him reach such an event.https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxvY22izr7Wf2ne2G5noLBnJSrW-OsCXfv
** On April Fools, 2023. He created a joke video in which he toured his "setup", revealing to be a cramped room with an ASUS laptop inside on a table and chair which barely fit. This tour showed that his house is still under renovation.
* He has an Instagram account dedicated to posting medias of his dogs managed by his wife.
*Although he has ended the Suspended Mountain Base Community Series on December 16, 2017, he has shown it in his somewhat recent video, "The SUSPENDED MOUNTAIN BASE Has Been REVIVED!".
* ScrapMan's editor is often left unmentioned to keep them anonymous, but during one of his videos, he mentioned that their name Becker/Beaker. During this the editor decided to add a picture of him and his dog.
==Subscriber milestones==
=== Main channel ===
* 500,000 subscribers: December 19, 2020https://twitter.com/ScrapManYT/status/1340424325938126848
* 700,000 subscribers: April 7th, 2022https://web.archive.org/web/20220906065153/https://twitter.com/ScrapManYT/status/1511981216836165635
* 750,000 subscribers: October 4th, 2022https://twitter.com/ScrapManYT/status/1577378942549311488
=== Catarinth ===
* 30,000 subscribers: October 4th, 2022https://twitter.com/ScrapManYT/status/1577379826188419074
==Gallery==
Scrapman animated.gif|Animated logo
Scrapman Meme cafe.png|Outside of MeMe's Cafe, where he jokingly stated that there was no memes inside it
Scrapman office.png|His office as seen in the 500k subscribers "Assumptions" video
Scrapman cass.png|Cass, one of his dogs
Scrapman ty.png|Ty, also one of his dogs
Scrapman dogs.png|The three of them
Scrapman gaming room.png|His "gaming setup" on the 2023 April Fools video
Scrapman dog astroneer.webp|One of his dogs featuring Astroneer merchandise
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2016