Octo

Edgar, better known online as Octo, is an American gaming YouTuber known for making variety gaming videos.
==Content==
Octo's content mainly consists of varied gameplay, such as his series of unconventional Team Fortress 2 strategies "Gimmick to the limit" and demonstrations of gameplay strategies that could be considered "unviable" but usually with a flair that Octo makes a point to add, become deadly. 
He also makes videos and live streams playing Blade & Sorcery in a 3'rd person camera angle, where his body makes up the VR character he's playing as, making for an immersive viewer experience that often leads to fourth wall break esque jokes. 
In his channel's early days, he casually played games such as and Hobo: Tough Life with his friends and fellow youtubers, in a more relaxed and less heavily edited format than usual. 
==History==
Octo would start his channel on August 7, 2014. He would upload his first video on January 22, 2016 titled "Octo 101" which was an introduction to his channel, video style, and the games he'd be playing. 
Octo would upload consistently until October of 2016, when he uploaded "TF2: The Real Baguette Brother" which would be his last post until February of 2018 where he would post "TF2: Pyro Origins 2" leading to another hiatus. 
Octo's first video to hit one million views, "Classically, Team Fortress 2," was uploaded in July of 2020, after a nearly 3 year hiatus. It is a video detailing his praise for the mod Team Fortress 2 Classic which brought back many of the features cut from TF2's development. This video seemingly marked the return of Octo as a whole, and he would start uploading again somewhat consistently for the next 3 years.
On October 23, 2021 Octo would release his video on Hellsplit: Arena which is now his second most popular video, behind the subsequent video on Blade & Sorcery 6 months later. His Blade & Sorcery videos have become debatably his most popular, overtaking his series "Gimmick to the Limit" by millions of views.
After this, he returned to mostly Team Fortress 2 content, sticking to his usual formula. In July of 2023 he uploaded "It's Always The Second Spy That Gets You" which brought on the YouTuber Rawcoon to demonstrate a Spy strategy involving two spies working together. This was the last upload from Octo before returning to an unannounced hiatus. 
==Profile==
Octo's profile image is a cropped image of Brother Bear, from the book series Bearenstain Bears. This character has become his online "persona" across all platforms, and his name for this altered version of Brother Bear is "Octo Octarian" with the new last name also being his term for his fanbase and YouTube channel members. 
Said character has been interpreted by many of Octo's fans through art and memes from a burly, manlike version used as his profile picture in his discord server, to a rotund sphere shaped version dubbed "Octobod" drawn by artist punchbag.vtf. 
==Discord server==
Octo GAMING is Octo's official Discord server, announced in his video titled "TF2: Holding Out For A Gimmick" released on February 25 of 2021.
The server's chain of command consists of Gamer Gods (Administrators) and Gamer Police (Moderators), with many other roles such as Famous Artist and Giga Gamer also given special privileges such as image permissions and special links to Octo's streaming events. The Gamer Gods currently consist of Octo and his friend Megascatterbomb.
Octo GAMING has a joke capitalist economy centered around "Octobucks", a fictional currency earned by drops, lotteries, and drawing art either as requested by Octo, or something he finds funny or masterful enough to warrant giving out a small currency boost.
A now defunct event dubbed "Movie Night" used to take place occasionally, where users would join Octo and some of the mod crew to watch a (usually low rated or memed upon) movie such as Spy Kids, and take screenshots from the film to make memes. The winner of Movie Night was the one who made the funniest memes throughout, and are granted the Meme Machine role which allows the user the ability to post images wherever they see fit. 
The server has only ever faced one serious bot attack, and due to the quick action of the Gamer Police, most bots and bad actors are instantly removed from the server which keeps it one of the cleanest servers around.
==Memes and community==
From his live action parodies of popular songs becoming templates for online memes, to the previously mentioned interpretations of his persona, Octo is a memeable internet personality which he embraces in his community and wherever else he finds himself among a public that recognizes him.
He takes silly character roles in multiple videos aside from his own, notably cameoing in several videos from youtuber Rawcoon where he is often depicted in comedic roles exaggerating his personality traits such as arguing about Movie Nights with his two wives and being a bombastic professional player.
His many escapades have harbored other memes and inside jokes as well. Such as hosting a mock-marriage between himself, KitoBurrito, and Mayonade which was then made into another, separate video by Rawcoon sparking it's own memes. 
There are many different fan created interpretations of Octo & Crew's shenanigans through the memes and fanart channels of his Discord server. Included within is art of him and his friends such as Megascatterbomb and Rawcoon, jokes and memes surrounding Octo's love for Shovels shown throughout his TF2 gameplay, and many insider jokes based on the members of his community. 
Included in his community are: 
reaper 5861: A man who slept in the Octo server's voice channel "Variety Gaming" for 4 days straight, prompting a petition to ban him and accidentally propelling him to a legendary status.
punchbag.vtf: The creator of Octobod, the rotund version of Octo's persona that was eventually used for the server's official Discord bot.
Wet-Socks: Once speculated to be Octo in disguise or vice versa, Wet-Socks is now one of the server's Famous Artists, and plans his return to this day.
flurjinga (helena): The artist behind "Frocto", a femboy version of Octo's persona featured in the outro of his video "Glory Kills Galore"
==Trivia==
*Octo has over 5000 hours on .
*Octo has been on Steam since 2010.
*Octo has, at some point in college, trained in fencing.
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Comedy YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2014