Stepford Zone

Stepford Zone, commonly abbreviated as SZ by fans, is a gaming YouTuber. Initially focused on the Roblox game Stepford County Railway (SCR), the content deviated to include British Railway (BR), also in Roblox, and Train Sim World 4 (TSW4).
==Personal life==
The owner of the channel does not disclose any personal information — no pronouns, no country, no city. It is, however, publicly known that the Roblox username is SoggyMatthew20.
==History==
The channel was created on December 23, 2013; despite this, the oldest upload is dated April 10, 2023. Initially, all videos were focused on Stepford County Railway in Roblox. During July 2024, Stepford Zone started to experiment with other games, such as British Railway and Croydon: The London Transport Game in Roblox, along with Train Sim World 4. On August 8, 2024, Stepford Zone officially announced a new video schedule: one SCR video, one BR video, and two TSW4 videos per month.https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxaaOrLdwKLFiRifg_rM_qLbEs-Pn_XxrX After some more consideration, this was changed to one SCR and one TSW4 video per fortnight, with one BR video replacing one of those every 6 months - 1 year.https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxLmpUWlLFbUQQf86pC4A1SYjyaXVw3Mlx
==Channel milestones==
*5,000 subscribers: May 1, 2024
*10,000 subscribers: August 24, 2024https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP7FrE-ElJA&t=8s
== Content==
None of Stepford Zone's uploads contain the real voice. Instead, background music and on-screen text, occasionally complete with text-to-speech (TTS), are used. Moreover, Roblox videos almost always include collaborators (fans) who do the challenge together with Stepford Zone.
===Escape [station name] in [time frame]===
Videos of this type bear the title "How far can I get from [station] in [time]?". The aim of these challenges is to escape a given SCR station within a given time frame, usually 30 minutes or 1 hour. To make the challenge harder, it is not allowed to request trains nor walk between stations. Moreover, the challenge is done with a collaborator (a Stepford Zone fan), who must stay near Stepford Zone at all times.
=== Tag Across SCR ===
A runner (Stepford Zone) is being pursued by a tagger (JalenTheSCRCitizen in Round 1;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-mdSDQJk1U&t=24s Daily Dose Of SCR since Round 2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPERqI7UNJo&t=30shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X8FcHjnALc&t=33s). In order to win this challenge, the runner must ride trains, movements on which cost tokens, and complete challenges to earn new tokens. The runner may not request trains, while the tagger is allowed to do so, in order to ease the challenge.
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2023