TheProfessional

Patrick (born: ), better known online as TheProfessional (also known as polish-mercenary or simply Pro), is a Polish-American YouTuber known for his gaming videos, predominantly Grand Theft Auto.
==Beginning==
TheProfessional created his account on November 28, 2015, under the name TheGamingEmperor and 2 days later uploaded his first video which was 5 minutes long titled: Boba Fett Ownage Gameplay. He recently stated that his initial plan was to start a Star Wars channel until he decided that he wanted to create videos on other games (particularly Grand Theft Auto Online.) He made two Assassins Creed Syndicate videos (one of which was a live stream) and one Star Wars Battlefront video along with several Just Cause 3 live stream, it wasn't until he started making news videos, reactions, gaming live streams and especially his money guides for Grand Theft Auto Online that his channel gained a lot of attention, his views and subscribers began swiftly multiplying. After seeing his channel performing to a considerably higher standard, he decided it was time to focus on making YouTube content, meaning that he would produce videos more frequently, as well as drop the TheGamingEmperor persona and change his channel name to TheProfessional as it is known today. He states the reason he changed his name to TheProfessional was because he thought TheGamingEmporer was getting cheesy, he decided on the new name because he said that he likes professional armed transport robbery films such as Heat and that Kane and Lynch, Grand Theft Auto and Payday are some of his favorite games.
==Now==
Today TheProfessional produces a varying range of content from gaming, discussing current events, doing game story lore videos and explaining parts of history that games are significantly influenced/based on. He regularly does video game walkthroughs where he tries his best to dress up as the characters, calling them cosplay playthroughs.
TheProfessional is one of the most well-known members of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Online 'money grinding' community and he had made money guides for both Grand Theft Auto Online and Red Dead Online the money guides are still relevant for the most part, each guide is designed to suit different play styles. He had taken a break from making Grand Theft Auto Online videos, but he is now back to making videos and streaming GTA Online on his PS5.
He is famous for amassing over GTA$1,000,000,000 in GTA Online as well as over $100,000 in Red Dead Online legitimately. He is against in-game 'griefers' (players who destroy your cargo without reason) and he occasionally makes videos where he fights them off in-game. These videos are very popular. He presents an update and supporter shout out video at the end of every month discussing future plans and ideas. His channel additionally maintains a streaming schedule; Fridays and Sundays usually starting around 3-5 PM EST US Time. (As well as a monthly exclusive stream for his channel members and Patreon supporters.) He recently expanded his content to grow a wider audience because he doesn't want his channel to be seen as just a Grand Theft Auto based channel; He is doing this by uploading walkthroughs where he cosplays the characters he's playing as and 'crazy current event' news videos more often than he previously did.
On November 11, 2021, TheProfessional reached one million subscribers. Around the same time, he moved from New York to somewhere upper Midwest as he had mentioned in several videos.
==Channel Icon==
TheProfessional designed his channel logo himself using a custom South Park character style. It is designed in a South Park character style with as Jason Voorhees style mask. TheProfessional's Grand Theft Auto Online character heavily resembles his icon, but with a different mask and different eyes.
==Channel and Patreon Membership==
Channel Membership: TheProfessional channel membership perks: The Professional's channel member ship costs £5 per month. Access to monthly members only stream and monthly shout out. 2 custom emojis to use in live chat. Loyalty badge next to your name in comments and live chat that changes color depending on how long you have been a member.
Less than 1 month: Green.
1 Month: Turquoise.
2 Months: Yellow.
6 Months: Orange.
1 Year: Pink.
2 Years: Red.
Patreon Supporters
$1 Per month Regular Donor: Support TheProfessional
$5 Per month Sponsor: Access to monthly members only stream and monthly shout out.
$10 Per month Ultra Sponsor: Same as $5 sponsor, but TheProfessional will add you on Skype to communicate.
==DDoSed and Threatened==
On July 5, 2017, Professional uploaded a video on how a player DDoSed him in GTA Online, the person who DDoSed him was named Ascended-Big.
The reason why the person DDoSed him was because in GTA Online, Ascended and his friends were near their Cocaine Factory, which Pro thought they could have been doing cargo, he was on his Oppressor MK.1 and landed almost close to them so he can go to his Cocaine Factory, Ascended and his friends all got scared thinking that Pro was going destroy their cargo, but Pro never griefs in GTA. So then Ascended and his friends started to kill him multiple times, despite trying to send them messages, and telling them he was friendly and just wants to go to his factory, they did not listen and still kept killing him. When Pro finally got inside his lab, Ascended-Big sent him a message and said, "Then do it in passive" (which makes the player unable to use their weapons, but they won't get hurt or killed by other plays)
Then Pro sent a message to him and tells him "If you want a war, you'll get a war" so then he calls some of his friends and fights Ascended and his friends, and this triggered Ascended off and then he starts to threatened him, he manages to find his location and starts to DDoS him and sent him a final message which said "Have fun with no internet", which he ends up shutting his internet off for 2 hours, After his internet was off, he did say he was going to file a support ticket with Sony and report the guy.
==Trivia==
*Patrick has a bachelor's degree in law enforcement technology.
*Patrick is about 6 ft. tall (182.88 cm).https://youtu.be/bovE0RTpUVs?t=101
*Patrick's favorite color is orange.
*Patrick's favorite food is sushi.
*Patrick's favorite drink is Nesquik Strawberry milkshake.
*Patrick's favorite film is Scarface (1983).
*Patrick's favorite season is winter.
*Patrick has a half-brother who lives in Poland.
*Patrick is a dual citizen; he has a citizenship in the USA and Poland at the same time.https://youtu.be/watch?v=Cs0Gc0fdnuo&t=4726
*Patrick is originally from Brooklyn, NY, but spent most of his time growing up in neighboring NY borough Queens.
*Before YouTube became Patrick's job, he worked in retail for many years which he didn't enjoy.
*Patrick is an agnostic.
*Patrick discussed Gypsy's video on the GTA Online Gunrunning DLC; Pro said he believed it will ruin the free roam.
*Patrick's former intro and outro featured the NYC Empire State Building along with the Megaman Legends Bonne Family theme song. He said he changed this because he wanted to get straight to the point in his videos.
*Patrick's favorite PS2 game is Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction. That is where he got his PSN name; polish-mercenary.
*Patrick's all-time favorite game is Saints Row 2.
*Patrick was DDoSed 2 times.
*Patrick loves to do the NYC accent
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Polish YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2015
Category:One million subscribers
==Extra==
=== TheProfessional YouTube Videos Archive ===
On the Internet Archive there is a page for TheProfessional's YouTube videos. Click here for the page. This is good so that if the videos ever disappeared from YouTube at least some of them would stay on the Internet Archive. There is already over 500 GB worth of content uploaded and it is over 1,000 videos, with more to be archived over time.