DarkViperAU

Matthew "Matt" Judgehttps://steamcommunity.com/id/darkviperauCopyright Takedown from "Matthew Judge p/k/a DarkViperAU" (born: ), better known as DarkViperAU, is an Australian Twitch streamer and YouTuber known for his Grand Theft Auto V speedrunshttps://www.speedrun.com/user/DarkViperAU and Pacifist% series.https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAnJ4ZuTYaeG-uBQrAnS-pjzHT41G8lwt
==Personal life==
Matthew was born on March 15, 1991. In 2016, he graduated from Swinburne University of Technology with a Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology). A recording of the ceremony was found years later by his audience.https://youtube.com/watch?v=FTLnXIQcrcw?t=3519 Upon completing his bachelor's degree in 2016, he shared his current home with two roommates. However, he eventually became the sole residenthttps://youtu.be/DOmtnPs1oos?t=248 and purchased the property in 2022.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-fglacgzV0
==YouTube & Twitch==
===YouTube===
DarkViperAU started out on YouTube discussing politics, religion and philosophy.https://youtu.be/JVDslC1qhjg?t=855 He eventually started speedrunning GTA V on Twitch, uploading his failed runs and highlights to YouTube.
Nowadays, his YouTube channel mainly focuses on various GTA V challenges, his Facts & Glitches series and GTA Online. He also plays other games such as Hitman and Minecraft.
===Twitch===
Matthew discovered Twitch in 2014 through Hearthstone tournaments, which sparked his interest. Since then he has amassed over 700,000 followers and 16 million views, with a peak of 14,091 concurrent viewers.
His current streaming consists of various playthroughs of games such as Grand Theft Auto V, Noita, Slay the Spire, The Binding of Isaac and more, with a focus on GTA V challenges, which get edited and uploaded to his YouTube channel.
==Content ==
=== Grand Theft Auto V===
====Speedrunning====
Speedrunning has been at the forefront of DarkViperAU's career, and while he started his Twitch career with an interest in Super Mario speedruns, after watching fellow streamer and speedrunner witwix's GTA V gameplay, Matthew was inspired and began playing the game. Realising its potential, he took on the challenge of speedrunning GTA V.
====GTA V Without Taking Damage - No Hit Run (OHKO) ====
In January 2020, DarkViperAU set out to answer the question "Can you complete GTA V without taking any damage?", inspired by ToriksLV's attempts to complete this challenge in 2017 and using a mod created by Abyssal. The rules were simple: don't take any damage from any source, Trevor's special ability was disabled, along with other healing and protective items such as health packs and armor.
Originally following the classic% speedrun route, Matthew and others developed many strategies to increase the chances of not taking damage over the course of 18 monthshttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gEmcrSByRkBzir7IvZTE2CZOkFfMRxv20jxVZ-yClfw/edit#gid=1564797632, and managed to continually reduce the number of deaths.
For most of the attempts, the ALT-Strat, named after the character switch button, was used as a strategy to prevent asset loading and reduce game speed. This technique was most effective at high FPS settings with distance scaling at minimum, making it less useful on consoles and lower-end PCs.
On October 9, 2021 DarkViperAU completed this challenge with a time of 11:18:19, but the then-unknown speedrunner UnNameD beat him to it and completed a successful attempt on May 16, leading Matthew to pause the project for a while.
Many have helped Matthew with the development of new strategies. Arham Mahra, DarkViperAU, Mack, UnNameD and WelHeizel have created a guide to help others learn how to complete GTA V without taking damage.
==== How The Speedrun Ended (HTSE) and HTSE 2.0====
This series highlights both the successes and failures of the many speedruns and speedrun attempts that Matthew has recorded over the years. The original How The Speedrun Ended series consists of 169 episodes, including three compilations of early runs. 
In the sequel, How The Speedrun Ended 2.0, Matthew returns to speedrunning in January 2022 after taking a break to focus on his No Damage runs. This version of HTSE documents the challenges and victories as he tries to catch up with the progress made in the speedrun during his absence.
====GTA V Chaos Mod====
In November 2019, a challenge was introduced to DarkViperAU with the GTA V Chaos mod created by Pongo1231. With this mod, four random effects will appear on the viewer's screen, which they can vote for by typing the corresponding numbers in chat. Every 30 seconds, new effects appear that affect the game world. Since then, there have been several seasons of the Chaos mod, each introducing a new feature and more effects to make the challenge harder for Matthew to succeed and keep it interesting for viewers. 
The first season of Twitch Controls Chaos used majority voting, but to give more variety to the effects chosen, proportional voting has since been introduced. 
====GTA V Online====
Matthew spent a lot of time playing deathmatches and other activities with the viewers of his livestream, which attracted a lot of people who wanted to play. Starting in January 2023, he will attempt to complete every available Award, which is a set of tasks/achievements for GTA Online, covering most of the game's available content. 
Due to Rockstar Games' careless approach to player security, Matthew was rarely able to play GTA Online for any length of time without being interrupted by DOS attacks. Despite this, and thanks to new workarounds found to prevent other players from tampering with his game, he was still able to experience a significant amount of GTA Online, completing various heists, missions and other activities.
=== Pacifist%===
Pacifist challenges for video games have been around for many years, but Matthew was the first person to bring the idea to GTA V, with his own self-imposed rules to better match the game: 
*No personally ending someone unless he must.
*If he has to do so, he must do so with melee.
* If he can't melee, he must use his weakest weapon.
* No armor unless he can't progress.
* Must play on the latest patch and with no mods.
The first Episode of Pacifist% was released on May 25, 2019. Later episodes were recorded while streaming the challenge on Twitch, where his audience could watch him play the game in a non-violent manner, occasionally suggesting new strategies and ideas. He finished recording the footage in early 2020, but the editing required a significant amount of work and creative output, so the penultimate episode was released on January 1, 2023.
Unsatisfied with the results of the first iteration, Matthew decided to try and further reduce the overall number of deaths by replaying each mission with newly acquired knowledge in Pacifist% 2.0.
Results of Pacifist%
Trevor 	35 Melee	15 Shot
Michael 	27 Melee	9 Shot
Franklin	4 Melee 	6 Shot
 
===Variety Content ===
Although his main focus is Grand Theft Auto V, Matthew also likes to play other games and keep a certain level of diversity within his channel, some of these games include: Noita, Slay the Spire, Dark Souls III, Among Us, Fall Guys and others. He will also from time to time make compilations and highlights of his videos, or upload response videos, songs, stories, tutorials, rants, vlogs and more.
====Viper Rambles====
In Viper Rambles (formerly Speedrunner’s Rambles), Matthew covers a wide range of topics, from casual gaming discussion to serious political debate. He covers relevant topics of interest and welcomes suggestions from his audience, offering his unique perspective and occasionally engaging in a back and forth with viewers. The series moved to its own channel in March 2023.
====Reddit Recap ====
Viewers can submit community-created memes, artwork and more to Matthew's subreddit, where he looks at the most popular submissions around the 1st of each month. r/DarkViperAU has over 100,000 members and has popularised many memes over the years.
Due to some good submissions being missed, occasional episodes will feature handpicked submissions.
====Real life streams====
On rare occasions, Matthew has done IRL streams. These range from buying plants and cooking to multi-day trips to PAX Australia, a convention centred around gaming culture and content creators. 
====React Content Series====
In this multi-part series, Matthew shares his perspective on reaction content and its negative impact on the creators being reacted to, as well as other creators on the platform.The series began with the creation of a 14-page document, which he later followed up with a series of videos discussing the responses to the original document and furthering his stance against reactors. 
===Other channels===
On DarkViperAU Clips viewers can find short highlights, bits and moments from his streams and videos. It was created in October 2020, put on hold in September 2022 and made a comeback in January 2023.
On DarkViperAU #Shorts, viewers can find clips from his streams and videos uploaded in a vertical format on YouTube Shorts. The channel was created in October 2021 after YouTube added support for Shorts, but was shut down in September 2022, after only one year due to lack of success. All new shorts have since been uploaded to the main channel.
The DarkViperAU VODs channel features full-length replays of past livestreams with minimal editing. It was created in January 2023.
The Viper Rambles channel has taken over the videos previously published on the main channel in various rambles series. It was created in March 2023.
==Achievements==
===Speedrun Accomplishments===
Game 	Category 	Time 	Rank	Date Submitted
Grand Theft Auto Online	Cayo Perico Heist 	19m 34s 	5th 	December 12, 2022https://www.speedrun.com/users/DarkViperAU
Grand Theft Auto V 	Segments Trevor% 	59m 36s 	42nd	September 17, 2022
Grand Theft Auto V 	Any% Taxis 	5h 56m 09s 	8th 	November 30, 2019
Grand Theft Auto V 	100% Taxis 	9h 59m 04s	7th 	September 1, 2019
Grand Theft Auto V 	Any% Classic 	6h 20m 47s 	29th	April 16, 2019
Grand Theft Auto V 	Any% Unrestricted 	3h 36m 40s	10th	January 29, 2019
Hades (Early Access) 	Any Heat First Patch	11m 54s 	3rd 	January 5, 2019
Dark Souls III 	Any% No TearDrop 	56m 20s 	84th	July 29, 2017
==Controversy==
===Reaction content criticism/Drama with Penguinz0===
In February 2022, DarkViperAU published a 14-page document titled "How The React Grift Works"https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRid-d3hQpDnTpAlIBWICuZO4J_C2j0FX-PqT2HPEGLDpTy_jhebAiXbBtn-6OwdPvY_mj0VYDfkHPj/pub, criticizing reactors for exploiting the less fortunate. Penguinz0 responded with a video disagreeing with the essay.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAPDd-cB8Do DarkViperAU called out Charlie for misrepresenting his work, accusing him of deliberately distorting it.https://youtu.be/cqWNmXYC76A
The catalyst for Charlie's response may have been a Twitter conversation in which DarkViperAU mentioned that people who exploit others for money and power are the kind of people who would sexually abuse someone. Charlie concluded that he was equating reactors with rapists, but later apologized and retracted his misinterpretation.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3raLgXC0czs
DarkViperAU clarified that his essay was about reactors doing bad things, not about them being bad people. Charlie and DarkViperAU played a game together and tried to reconcile. DarkViperAU completed a series of videos responding to comments made by various creators about the drama and clarifying his position on reaction content.https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAnJ4ZuTYaeGv4WIexP9C5LAuMEnMkG-Q
===Reactions from others===
In response to DarkViperAUs efforts against reaction content Hasanabi critiqued him, commenting on his appearance, basement-like setting and calling him “DarkSydeViper”, in reference to DarkSydePhil.https://youtu.be/va1zPshj5f0?si=lGcBmtOGA_SV0OPX&t=251https://youtu.be/va1zPshj5f0?si=34C5ujD-pA8rUDhQ&t=529 He also expressed disdain for DarkViperAU's content, claiming he lacks the ability to create engaging material. DarkViperAU responded with a video (How A Socialist Made Capitalism Worse) highlighting "The insanity of Hasan's streams” and criticizing Hasanabi for exploiting countless content creators by profiting off their work.
H3h3Productions also criticised DarkViperAUs videos for being boring and lengthy, skipping over most of the explanations. He spoke of the essay, saying that it was too long and nobody wanted to read it. DarkViperAU responded to H3h3Productions in a similar manner to his response to Hasanabi.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQLgRr6H2qM
DarkViperAU frequently critiques content creators like Asmongold TV and XQc. In one of his videos, he mocked Asmongold's appearance with a skeleton version thumbnailhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irk8h0ax5aY and criticized his lack of engagement during reactions. He also accused Asmongold of lacking knowledge about Dark Souls and being insincere in his reactions to a speedrun of Dark Souls. Similarly, DarkViperAU made a video about XQc commenting on his speech patterns and summarising: "It's impossible for someone to be this dumb", when referring to XQc.https://youtu.be/V42n5PLmvKk?si=uJKZ5MN-axxc1q6z
==Quotes== 
*"I hate you Rockstar, with every fiber of my being..."
*"Were Fortnite characters always that thick."
*"Being a gamer isn't something to be proud of, is not something that should bring forth awards. Being a gamer is basically a crime, a sin against man. The idea that in modern society that there can be an entire show dedicated to rewarding and exulting in the existence of gamers is disgusting."
*"I want you right now to believe that you can fly. Have you done it? Great, jump out your window."
*"Salmon, the chicken of the sea."
*"You disingenuous, dense motherfucker! Obviously, you have to know something about something or you couldn't tie your shoes!
*"THERE AREN'T COUGARS IN MISSIONS! I HEARD IT BUT THERE AREN'T COUGARS IN MI- ...THIS IS MILLIONS TO ONE! THIS IS ACTUALLY MILLIO- I HAVE BEEN PLAYING THIS GAME FOR 8000 HOURS, I HAVE NEVER SEEN... AN ANIMAL KILL SOMEONE IN A MISSION BEFORE!"
==Trivia== 
*Matthew has a sister.https://youtu.be/ejJz5jfVkZ0?t=319
*He is based in Sydney, Australia, and lives alone.https://twitter.com/DarkViperAU/
*Despite his love of cats and dogs, Matthew does not own any pets. He cites lack of time to care for them and his allergic reactionhttps://youtu.be/9vXGIQwdKPk?t=886 to fur as reasons for this decision.
*Matthew has Hashimoto's disease which struggles with low energy levels for an extended period.https://youtu.be/-hcbjcUCwng?t=4325 
** Additionally he experiences sleep problems that are worsened by tinnitushttps://youtu.be/mq9YYD6UGeY?t=1264, which lead to an irregular sleep schedule that negatively impacts his ability to stream consistently.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_BQ8uZH8NQ&t=227shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6ZVH6JSLuA&t=1198s
*On January 5, 2020, Matthew held a charity stream to collect donations for the New South Wales Fire Service, which raised a total of $13,000 USD.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIjPuY4d1K4&t=1317shttps://twitter.com/DarkViperAU/status/1213411088399646726https://twitter.com/DarkViperAU/status/1214085122321874944
*With over 10,000 hours of play time on GTA V, Matthew has become very familiar with the story of Micheal, Franklin and Trevor. It is a common misconception that the game's main protagonist, Michael, went into witness protection and made a deal with the FIB to turn in his accomplices.https://youtube.com/watch?v=5iWRwzuirYY
*During one of his No Damage runs, he was the victim of a cougar attack.https://youtube.com/watch?v=pTNu0A-EhPs?t=2555 In shock, he exclaims, "There aren't cougars in missions!"
*Matthew became a Twitch affiliate at the beginning of 2017, and gained partnership status later that year.
*In February 2020, Pongo1231 added a new feature to the mod, allowing Twitch viewers to control the effects by typing in chat.
*In October 2021, Matthew tried the new Rainbomizer mod by Parik27, which randomises various aspects of the game, from vehicles and sounds to missions and weapons. After completing the game using only the Rainbomizer mod, a season of Chaos with Rainbomizer began in January 2022.
* In January 2023, a new season of Chaos added a mirror effect, where the entire game is permanently flipped vertically. Like the previous season, it also featured random effects chosen by viewers and the Rainbomizer, although fewer aspects of the game were randomised.
*In pursuit of more money in GTA Online, and due to its solo playability, Matthew became interested in speedrunning the Cayo Perico Heist in GTA Online, and began learning the run in November 2022, with the first video released in early December. His current personal best for this speedrun is 19 minutes 34 seconds.https://www.speedrun.com/gtao/run/yol26v0y
*In "Did I Take It Too Far This Time? - Best Clips 11Best clips 11 - TF2: https://youtu.be/uB7ep10zs3Y?si=9v_x2pNr91b1_YlF&t=259" the boom gate clip uses a unique background song, that being "Intruder Alert" from the Team Fortress 2 Soundtrack. 
== Subscribers milestone==
https://youtu.be/uDFy1XEtM5g?t=374
== Gallery==
File:DarkViperAU1Mill.png|DarkViperAU with his Golden Play Button he earned after hitting 1 million subscribers.
File:DarkViperAUPlushie.png|DarkViperAU holding a Woofle plushie.
File:DarkViperAUGlasses.png|DarkViperAU wearing glasses.
File:DarkViperAUPose.png|DarkViperAU at Fortress Melbourne.
File:DarkViperAUSuit.png|Young DarkViperAU wearing a suit.
File:DarkViperAUArt1.png|Artwork of DarkViperAU holding a doggo.
File:DarkViperAUTorso.png|DarkViperAU after forgetting to put sunscreen on.
File:DarkViperAU Beardless.jpg|DarkViperAU with a shaven beard.
File:DarkViperAUPS5.jpg|DarkViperAU holding a PlayStation 5.
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