Theft king

theft king is an American gaming YouTuber and reviewer, who primarily focuses on events in the Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF) community, often including reviews and breakdowns of the various FNAF VHS web series on YouTube.
==History==
===Pre-2022===
At some point in his life, while he was a teenager, he started a heroin addiction. Prior to drugs, video games were his passion, and the first time he got "sober" was at the time Five Nights at Freddy's was released. He watched Markiplier's hilarious gameplay videos, played the game himself, read the FNaF subreddit, and dived deep into MatPat's fascinating theories. It kickstarted his excitement for gaming again. Throughout the next six years, he was completely "sober". His career was going well, he rekindled the friendships he lost due to his drug use, played every FNaF game released at this time, and remained a big fan of the series. His career was going well for the time being.
However, after the release of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator when the story he followed concluded, Markiplier had moved on, and MatPat made theories about other FNaF-related media (for example, the FNaF books). His tastes were later changing however, by the time when Ultimate Custom Night released, he started to lose interest in the series as a whole and lost interest in video games. On September 4th, 2018, he uploaded his first video; Welcome to La Mulana 2, which is gameplay of a video game under the same name.
====Use of drugs again====
His hobbies for gaming were not replaced, resulting in his dissatisfaction with life. In 2020, the pandemic first started. With nothing to do, he tried heroin again. Drugs just quickly consumed his life again and before he knew it, his addiction had been far worse than it had before. He stopped caring about video games, computers, programs, and everything. All that mattered to him was his use of drugs. 
====After the drug use ====
After his relapse, he saw the new Five Nights at Freddy's game; Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach was blowing up and set to be released on "December 16, 2021". It was set to be the best game ever of the franchise, and it made theft king think about video games again. It was the first time he could be clean again before it all crumbled. He did heroin again on January 2022, and it was his worst pain of the year. Eventually, the game's release caused him to become sober again. The game's release was heavily criticized for the glitches found in the first 12 hours of its release. Seeing this reaction, Theft King prepared to release his first essay video.
===2022===
On January 1st, 2022, theft king made his first video called What Went Wrong? (FNAF Security Breach). He was frustrated about the game, and his voiceover was hazy from his recovery from heroin. The video ended up being a success, and he has made more videos since. The other video, MatPat is Probably Right, Unfortunately (Five Nights at Freddy's Security Breach), put his channel in position as one of the most popular channels on YouTube. 
His 21st video on the channel was the first video he counts as controversial, Will Scott cancel the FNAF Fanverse?, due to many controversies surrounding the developers themselves. Later on, he reached 100,000 subscribers on April 30, 2022. 
== Controversies ==
Although successful, theft king would gather a somewhat controversial reputation amongst the FNAF community for producing almost exclusively negative videos that capitalized off his initial success with his Security Breach video.
====EnchantedMob and Mob Entertainment====
theft king had made a series of videos expressing concern over the main developers of Poppy Playtime, Mob Entertainment, whose YouTube channel EnchantedMob had a series of Minecraft animations featuring characters from franchises such as Five Nights at Freddy's. The developers had been accused of harassment, plagiarism, and exploitation. He would then conduct a video interview with the main members of the team, in which they apologized to the community. The interview had seen mixed responses, with some accepting the apology as adequate and others denouncing it as shallow. His apologetic stance on the matter further soured his reputation. Later on, after the release of the game's third chapter, Theft would make a new video focusing on the Glassdoor reviews that Mob Entertainment had received, calling them out for continuing to permeate a toxic work environment and focusing more on selling toys and doing everything else possible to conceal the darker elements of their game.
==== Kane Carter and the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative====
After Kane Carter made a post on Twitter about his annoyance towards "FNAF Youtubers" claiming bad things about the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative, a collaboration by Scott Cawthon (the creator of the FNAF franchise) to help fund big fangames. theft king took the tweet personally (though the tweet didn't mention him directly and Kane's statement was just to the trend of Youtubers talking bad about the FFI). Most of Kane's fandom presumed the tweet was towards theft king and allegedly sent theft king multiple death threats and rude direct messages. However, there is no actual proof of this. theft king tried to inform Kane about his fandom's harassment and allegedly, but Kane allegedly ignored him. theft king soon made a video titled "An Open Letter to Kane Carter; Fazbear Fanverse Developer" about believing the tweet was about him. Theft showed clips from his videos of him being supportive of the initiative. Kane would respond to the YouTube video on Twitter with a FNAF-styled Rickroll. theft king and his community took it offensively, which Kane thought was foolish and stated: "There is no way a man in his 30s was affected by a Rickroll or that my followers saw this as some kind of an announcement to go and abuse Theft."
theft king would go on to stream for 5 hours, which would involve him complaining and explaining that Kane was ignoring him. Kane Carter (who was watching the stream then) made a post on his alt-Twitter account showing proof that theft king was lying. Kane had responded to Theft's message by instead deciding to hold the conversation on Discord, which Theft intended to paint as simply being ignored. He donated to theft king's stream to bring theft king's attention to it with the donation saying: "Hey Man, keep your chin up! You should check out the latest tweet by @LostPOPGOES - It's important!" This was much to theft king's disapproval as he stated:
Are you kidding me, dude? Are you kidding- Do you really think this is the fucking venue for this? I DM'd you. I'm begging you to fucking speak to me! I've been begging you! And you just (inaudible) ignoring me! I've been ignoring you! And now you come- in private! I'm trying to resolve this in private, and then you come in my fucking livestream and do a donatio- Are you Serious?! Are you kidding me, dude?! Do you know how unfair of a position you put me in? Are you s- Wow, dude. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow, Dude.
The tweet in question was of a screenshot of their conversation on Discord, which would expose his lie, forcing him to end the stream, not long after making another in which he complained about Kane's tweet and community, stating that if Scott Cawthon sees the video, he will be sorry. theft king stated that Kane was a "vindictive, evil person" and that Kane would be burning in hell for all of eternity; Twitter would mock him, and this would prompt theft king to make an immediate apology. 
Kane eventually released his video responding to all of this drama. In his video, he showed that Theft responded to Kane on the 25th of June on Discord. Kane asked for proof of the harassment and explained that the titles "GOODBYE FANVERSE" and "The END of the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative?" are clickbait hinting at a negative video yet actually containing fairly positive content. Theft didn't have any proof of the harassment, which follows another DM on Discord from theft king after that tweet in which he stated to Kane that he "really started to piss other content creators off by attacking anyone who dares to talk about something that could portray the Fanverse in a negative light" and "if you continue to attack content creators on Twitter where most of us don't have super-large followings, they're going to retaliate on their own platforms, and I absolutely do not want things to even get anywhere close to there." Theft demanded Kane make a public apology by threatening to ruin his reputation, then Kane showed other direct messages from the people who Theft talked to on Twitter who shared their experience with.
Kane Carter's video brought to light many of the issues that Theft had. Several of Theft's friends cut ties with Theft while sharing their own sides of the story and how the story was manipulated to display Kane Carter in a bad light, and this further damaged Theft's career. 
====Bendy and the Dark Revival Trailer review====
On November 2nd, 2022 he made a video called "Bendy and the LAZY sequel?" where he talks about the art style being precisely the same as that of Bendy and the Ink Machine, confusing the player's hand with the Piper's hand that "looks like Mario's hand from Super Mario 64" and the ignorance of how ink works. After the video's release, people were rightfully upset and made fun of him by making memes and calling him out for his poorly made statements. Theft's biggest mistake was releasing a video about a game that was not released yet. Subsequent playthroughs once the game was released would cause Theft to like the game after all, rendering the issue moot.
====LadyFiszi's termination from FNAF====
A few years ago, Scott Cawthon, the creator of the Five Nights at Freddy's series, hired LadyFiszi, an official artist for the series who does a lot of the art of the books and some of the games. But on February 23, 2023, a Twitter user named @Treblepabs wrote a massive tweet thread which contains all the inappropriate and disgusting things Fiszi did throughout her time on the Internet, and putting #FireLadyFiszi on the trending tab so that Steel Wool could step in. There was also another one on Reddit where Scott eventually found out and wrote a statement that LadyFiszi is no longer making artwork for the series, people started to be happy about this news. But for Theft, he thought it was "vindictive" and "wrong" to celebrate someone being exposed and fired for being problematic, so he wrote a tweet on why it's the case by comparing it with Scott's previous cancellation from FNAF, pushing the narrative on how it is "cancel culture" and "cult-like behavior" to celebrate the firing of anyone, regardless of whether they deserved it or not, and making a bunch of tweets saying how he still does well. Then Theft proceeded to double down by releasing a video about it only to demonize people even further and use his past to shield himself from criticism.
====Under_Score, SleepLIVE, Relolyn and Daboss_42====
The YouTubers Relolyn and SleepLIVE created a Discord group chat with theft king's ex-moderators where they discussed their experiences with theft king to hopefully expose him in a YouTube video SleepLIVE would make. Unfortunately, this was ended prematurely with this controversy. Under_Score uploaded unedited footage of one of theft king's Security Breach streams which theft king copyright struck, tricking Theft into handing Under_Score his private email. Around a month earlier Daboss_42 sent a troll email to theft king's public email from the "CIA" that theft acknowledged and posted on his Twitter making light of this scenario. Daboss_42, when sent theft king's private email by Under_Score, sent the same message entirely unchanged to said private email, which theft now refers to as doxxing. theft king played the 'guilty by association' card which directly accused all members in the group chat equally in a YouTube video however only Under_Score and Daboss_42 were directly involved in the incident, and were even told off by one of the others in the chat, forcing the two to stand down. SleepLIVE made a video explaining that he did nothing wrong and theft king was producing blatant slander and libel which turned out to be correct, lying directly to his audience on multiple occasions. The situation was largely blown out of proportion as what Daboss_42 and Under_Score did isn't even considered doxxing and since they didn't publicly release his email no harm was caused. 
====JonnyBlox====
When a FNAF Fangame leak group called "The Pear" was exposed, theft king made a comment saying "@LiamCrush1 Hello there", making a joke about him soon making a video about the drama leak when JonnyBlox disapproved of Theft's actions in a snarky comment. He would make a stream saying rude things about JonnyBlox's content and calling him an "asshole".
====Phisnom====
He blocked theft king on twitter while watching Theft's unhinged live stream and with theft tempted to say that "I think he really got that position because Scott fucking felt bad for him", referring to Scott taking down Phisnom's previous fangame before letting him make Five Nights at Freddy's Plus. Phisnom later made a meme about Theft and sided with Kane. Ironically, Phisnom would later be cancelled himself, even using the same Rickroll that previously offended Theft, but by then he stopped reviewing controversies and had settled into his VHS reviews.
====JeliLiam ====
When the situation of theft king with Kane Carter started, JeliLiam, the developer of Aftonbuilt, showed the courage to make a tweet exposing theft, labeling him as manipulative, guilt-tripping everyone, and even bribery for making the Aftonbuilt controversy.
==== Th3Badd3st====
After the end of Theft's 5-hour live stream, Isaac cut ties with him, stating on his Twitter that people should no longer support Theft due to how he acted on stream, and Isaac showed images in their Discord DMs on what happened before the live stream, where Theft was gaslighting Isaac into thinking that Kane deserved the "harassment".
====Uhyeah====
One of Theft King's former friends who cut ties with him because he manipulated JustCosti into making a video about his server supposedly having a channel dedicated to bashing him, only to tarnish his reputation, and then he responded to it on his second channel about it since he did not want to make it public.
====MyseTheMan====
A Muslim that was mocked by Theft as he insulted his own religion and stated that religion should be illegal, given his atheist views.
====GhostlyBanes====
One of Theft King's ex-moderators who left the server because of how toxic he was as a person. Then he was accused by Theft of creating an "anti-theft king" server on Discord and then wrote an tweet thread about his experience with him.
====King_Coda/Queen_Coda====
Theft King's former editor and a 17-year-old trans girl fired by Theft King over an interview she did with Vexitis. According to DMs leaked by Coda on a now private live stream, Theft admitted to never watching his video and only fired her over the thumbnail, which was slightly misleading. Coda would later take to Twitter, posting screenshots of DMs Theft sent to one of his friends where he called her an "opportunistic whore". Since privatizing her Twitter, Coda has not tweeted or interacted on the platform and continues making videos on her YouTube channel.
====JustCosti====
JustCosti is a small FNAF content creator manipulated by Theft King to make a hate video on Uhyeah. Theft made fake promises to Costi for promotions and shoutouts to have him make that video and defend him. Costi eventually realized what had happened to him and made a public statement.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGN23UPmJ18 Since posting this video, many have come out on Twitter and other platforms, exposing Theft for the wrongs he has done to them.
====Relolyn====
A commentator Youtuber who mostly talks about the controversy surrounding those who did wrong as he did three videos on him, the first one calling him out for the Kane Carter drama, the second one for his response to LadyFiszi's firing and everyone celebrating it and the 3rd one responding about the recent video where he accused all the people in the server where Relolyn was it for doxxing him.
====SleepLIVE====
A commentator YouTuber who made five videos on him, the first one was about the problems in the FNAF community which were about him, the second one was a response on theft king and the controversy with Kane Carter, the third one was about not only a recap but also the LadyFiszi controversy, and the fourth one was about the allegation he threw at them and clearing up misinformation. Despite Sleep not being involved in the private email incident, Theft put his icon at the front in the thumbnail of the video discussing the incident, right in front of Under_Score to try to make him look bad. Sleep had archived the livestream where Theft melted down and said the infamous statement to Kane, and Theft tried to copyright strike and take the video down falsely to cover it up. Then he decided to sue him after Sleep messaged him about falsely striking his video, only for Theft to release an out-of-context screenshot to make him look bad. After that, SleepLIVE's copyright strike was removed, and the video was brought back, then he made another video called "The King Of Slander" which proves that Theft slandered Sleep.
====Andy Field ====
On May 30, 2023, FNAF voice actor Andy Field posted a tweet addressing the unauthorized use of his voice by certain individuals. Subsequently, Theft retweeted the post, expressing apologies to Andy and humorously suggesting that Andy should record a customized version for him, while requesting a discounted rate as a dedicated FNAF fan. Theft then shared a video in which they utilized an AI version of Andy's voice for the AI HandUnit, featured in Five Night at Freddy's: Sister Location, Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted, and the upcoming Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2. Theft had previously used similar AI voices of Markiplier, MatPat, Dawko, and Penguinz0 in his earlier videos on the channel, before he moved into his current format as a VHS reviewer. Andy promptly responded, clarifying that he did not grant permission for such usage and requesting them to delete the video, they talked privately and theft deleted the tweet.
==== Clickbait thumbnails and cuteness for audience manipulation ====
Some observed that Theft's videos used clickbait thumbnails to get more views, often exaggerating negative aspects to get people to watch a positive video, such as a thumbnail where a render of MatPat had the mouth and eyes of Huggy Wuggy and devil horns photoshopped onto it to caricature perceived hatred of MatPat. People stated that this tactic was terrible. After the Kane Carter incident, he proceeded to make more thumbnails with Kane in them, such as one where a YouTuber named Stealth King plagiarized one of Theft's videos, but the thumbnail featured a silhouette of Kane's character Popgoes the Weasel with a bag to perceive him as the thief, to show he still viewed him with anger for being humiliated in the earlier stream. He would later use Popgoes in his video about the FNAF movie to stand in for the man who attacked Mike's younger brother as well. During videos, he would often show short clips of cute animals such as puppies, kittens, and chicks and talk in a cute voice to tell his audience to subscribe to see more of them, likely intending to get children who like these things to subscribe to his channel.
====Indigo Park Horrible Review====
On May 19th 2024, theft king made a video titled "A Rambley Review of Indigo Park" where he was reviewing a mascot horror game called "Indigo Park" made by UniqueGeese, he called it a "Garten of Banban" cash in, and also compared it to the third chapter of Poppy Playtime when it was still in development, further antagonizing all the work of UniqueGeese and his team who worked hard on it, he called it a cash in earlier while the first chapter of the game and future chapters would be completely free. He got more and more hostile and was talking negatively, trashing the game pretending to like it, and called himself "The King Of Five Nights At Freddy's" while missing a FNAF fangame reference which was "Dayshift At Freddy's" and angered all the Indigo Park fans from the Indigo Park Community. But then he said that he wanted to retract his opinion of the game by saying its the best because he didn't want another backlash like it did, but it was already too late and the damage in the community was already done.
==Subscriber milestones==
*10,000 subscribers: January 19, 2022
*20,000 subscribers: February 3, 2022
*30,000 subscribers: March 10, 2022
*40,000 subscribers: March 24, 2022
*50,000 subscribers: April 5, 2022
*60,000 subscribers: April 15, 2022
*70,000 subscribers: April 19, 2022
*80,000 subscribers: April 21, 2022
*90,000 subscribers: April 24, 2022
*100,000 subscribers: April 30, 2022
*180,000 subscribers
*340,000 subscribers
===Decline===
*170,000 subscribers
==Trivia== 
*Before he was a content creator, he was a software developer.https://youtu.be/OapzRGJRi-M
==References==
Category:Review YouTubers
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2014