BTMC

Edward Ling (born ), better known online as BTMC (formerly BeasttrollMC, sometimes further abbreviated to BMC), is a Chinese-American Twitch streamer, YouTuber, and former osu! competitive player. Edward was lesser known back then as a prominent Minecraft player, on the major server chain known as MinecraftPVP (or more simply, MCPVP). Today, he's widely known across the rhythm gaming community as a prominent figure in the osu! scene and for his videos and livestreams on Twitch.
==History==
Edward created his first YouTube account on December 28th, 2011, and then created his first video on YouTube one year after the channel's creation (March 6th, 2012). The channel name was "42WafflesandPancakes" and was supposed to be focused primarily on Yu-Gi-Oh!.https://www.youtube.com/@42WafflesandPancakes/featured His only video on the channel is "How to repair a common Yu-Gi-Oh card", where he explains how to repair a Yu-Gi-Oh! card.https://youtu.be/4SK5RoWSW7E?si=2yawGGbr66kO38A- Afterwards, he dropped the YouTube channel and created a new one in 2013, which would become his focus channel to this day.https://www.youtube.com/@BTMCLive He had initially made videos playing on Minecraft's MCPVP server, citing three creators as his inspiration; Flippehh, Rinoranchero, and Bluedudey. His Twitch account was created at around the same time (July 27th, 2013).
At the beginning of Edward's early YouTube career, he made videos strictly on Minecraft until his first video on osu! came to be on December 4th, 2013—six months after his first video on the channel—where he recorded himself playing "Ken Ashcorp - 20 Percent Cooler (Alex S. Remix)",https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75d64sxbNaU earning an "S" rank for his efforts.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwx2Mh33R1Q This would be the first time he dabbled in variety, though it would be short lived since Edward continued to build his channel on top of Minecraft content. 
In 2014, Edward created his third channel, named "BeasttrollMC2".https://www.youtube.com/@BeasttrollMC2 This channel strictly revolved around Counter-Strike: Global Offensive content, but was apparently hacked in 2015 by an unknown person, locking Edward out of the account.
In 2015, Edward was making osu! content more often, and it would be the year where he uploaded his most viewed video to date; "And some say he never played osu! again".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKja2Ee7Pys The video itself showcases Edward playing through one of osu!'s most infamous beatmaps, titled "The Quick Brown Fox - The Big Black".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyUtGNIFx5c After getting extremely close to completing the beatmap, he fails and shouts colorful language in complete denial. The hilarity of the situation caused the video to skyrocket in views, thus garnering a bigger audience to Edward's channel. Interestingly, Edward himself posted an apology in the description of the video to viewers, apologizing for the unprofessional ending of the video and directing viewers to more recent videos on the channel.
In 2017, when his channel shifted into a primary focus on osu!, two viewers of Edward's livestream engaged in a "donation war", causing him to break his headset under pressure of being donated so much money.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O-j1mU0Q5Q He has also uploaded a video in the same year giving thanks to his community in a heartfelt message about how his streams and content have changed his life and changed his parents' outlook on him.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGDrulA46iI 
In 2018, a duck was brought into Edward's room during a stream. After spending some time with it, it defecated on his keyboard, ruining it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgoiNNprD7w
In 2020, Edward's fourth channel was created, named "BTMC Archive".https://www.youtube.com/@btmcarchive8283 It was a channel with the purpose of logging full VODs from Twitch, but has since been abandoned in 2022. The next year in 2021, "BTMC Clips" was made as Edward's fifth channel with the purpose of logging notable clips from his Twitch streams.
In 2022, "BTMC Highlights" was created as Edward's sixth channel with the purpose of logging snippets from his streams that are long enough to qualify not as clips.https://www.youtube.com/@btmchighlights9069/featured Later that year in July, "The Roundtable" channel was made as Edward's seventh channel for the sole purpose of documenting his osu! tournament series by the same name.https://www.youtube.com/@TheRoundtableLA/featured At the end of the year, Edward and his community engaged in a poll war between osu! and Beat Saber, another popular rhythm game.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZlAjuUIn64
In 2023, he was invited to a Genshin Impact competition called "Kitchen League: Double Trouble" hosted by Crown.https://youtu.be/F7lneose-nU?si=QBS4yabYB3L24M3r He won the competition, but has since thrown away the trophy earned from the event as it had broken and the object inside the resin produced a foul odor in his room.
== Quotes ==
* "Introducing the COCKBLOCK!"https://youtu.be/QQOkDB2KWCE?si=PMq9fOopIdKRaUXi&t=37
* "Let's be real, alright? If you are a girl, you don't want a massive penis inside of you, alright? That shit hurts."https://youtu.be/EPPEGArtT7Q?si=0R4mz93FYKU4StIa&t=18
* "I shoved tissue paper in my maid outfit, alright? But that's different!"https://youtu.be/sx3Z_Cb79J0?si=OKyMSqJpyGJjInQx&t=52
* "Wait, that's a dude?"https://youtu.be/uK1HY6h0TpQ?si=WcNoVT2d1HqAyXY6&t=38
==Trivia==
*He is forklift certified.https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardyling/#:~:text=Linux%20OS.%0A%E2%80%A2-,Warehouse%20experience%20with%20forklifts%2C%20moving%20pallets%2C%20and%20storage.,-%E2%80%A2%20Tasked%20with%20repairing
*He actually has a deep voice as his normal voice. His stream voice is much more upbeat and high-pitched.
*He is known, along with others in his house, to be "the loud internet people" in his neighborhood due to being very loud on stream.
*Originally, Edward's IGN in Minecraft was "BeastttrollMC" since a friend lent him the account. The misspelling of the name was fixed soon after when Edward got a new account, taking out the extra "t".
*He used to work at Venue Cinemas before he became famous.https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardyling/#:~:text=Lynchburg%20City%20Schools-,Venue%20Cinemas,-Venue%20Cinemas His reason for leaving was that his manager did not give him a raise after he asked for it.
**He also used to work for Lynchburg City Schools as an Intern in their Information Technology Department.
* His signature word is "GYZE," taken from the band of the same name. He uses it as another word for "guys". 
**The reason why he likes "GYZE" so much is because of his score on "GYZE - HONESTY" in osu!.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP3Jq3bqBnwhttps://youtu.be/-IHaAjyFWeU?si=GFk1YfjIKMW19rmg
*He is a prominent player of Genshin Impact.
*He has attempted to take a picture with XQc at a TwitchCon, but accidentally locked his phone instead.https://youtu.be/qraSha_mQN8?si=SFXPpd_GSSK7HxGG&t=38
* His tablet of choice is the Wacom CTL-480, but he has dropped it in favor of the Wacom CTL-472. His reasoning was that he thought it would be fitting to retire the CTL-480 after osu! World Cup 2020, a high-stakes tournament that he and his team won.
*He used to be a Minecraft speedrunner. His personal best times are 47:55 for 1.7, 29:58 for 1.14, and 24:12 for 1.14.
* He has attempted to order osu!-themed items from fast-food restaurants.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoToGI6ry48https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7peWAnVmdUA
*On his 21st birthday, Edward visited a casino in Las Vegas and got drunk.
*He makes a brief appearance on The Verge in their video on Taeha Types.https://youtu.be/d4fQ_kdoOzs?si=oKYaxc3-z9-O9rJQ&t=248
*He makes a brief appearance in Jacksepticeye's "Perfectly Cut Streams #4" video.https://youtu.be/6hpbxklaXvA?si=NvPiCu886aTaOfnT&t=454 
*In one of his videos, Edward cosplays as Rem from Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl1_z3nP7Hw Edward's cosplay picture of this character also showed up when searching himself up on Akinator.https://www.twitch.tv/btmc/clip/BreakableCleverPidgeonMcaT
**Four years later, and the image remained the same on Akinator when he searched himself up again.https://clips.twitch.tv/RacyObedientParrotBibleThump-sNDEpPBRWz-mffXM
*During one of his subathons on Twitch, he cosplayed as Ganyu from Genshin Impact.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaWc5LgB2N0
* In his senior year of high school, Edward was asked by his AP English teacher to display his YouTube channel to the class.https://youtu.be/icZ5nBf9HQk?si=N75iEsadec1U0h7o&t=85
* His mascot on Twitch is Noel from Sora no Method. He has expressed multiple times that he wants to change her to something else.
*During the latter part of his middle school days, he attempted to plant a shoddy love letter into his crush's locker, only for her to catch him doing it. He ran away from her.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MGV45Gujms
**This story has been named "The Locker Story" by his community.
* He has played and streamed osu! at an airport once.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhr8rEg7x5A
* He is known to be extremely loud at conventions when streaming them. His friends will often point this habit out.
* During the creation of The Roundtable, Edward has stated that he was in critical debt. He owed over $15k, likely due to investing in staff, equipment, and prize pools for the tournament.https://youtu.be/WXAzWNn6cY8?si=vW3nBGxyFwlpYj4t
* He once signed a fan's forehead.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky8Im4N45Ok
* Somehow, he livestreamed his G-FUEL advertisement recordings on accident.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRyGg2rzGB0
* He has stated on multiple occasions that he will often get motion sickness from first-person games.
* Even though he is known widely as "BTMC," there are many people, organizations, and etc. that also use the abbreviation "BTMC." Such examples are "Behind the Museum Café," "BTMC.Live,"https://www.primevideo.com/detail/BTMCLive/0N3OQUV67KS7A7WA9PMZI9Y42E and "Bangladesh Textile Mills Corporation." A list of things that uses this abbreviation can be found here.
==References ==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Chinese YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2013