Zaptie

Not to be confused with Turkey Tom, who goes by "Zaptie" on Twitter.
Edwin Berg (born: ), better known online as Zaptie, is a Canadian former commentary YouTuber.
==Content==
Zaptie started out as a channel named Not A Hipster, where he would post movie reviews. Sometimes he would talk about social subjects, but took a broad approach to them and covered them in depth. Eventually he would change his visuals from gameplay to character stills of his profile picture, a teddy bear. Eventually his change in content garnered a huge audience. He was inspired by creators like Colossal Is Crazy and I Hate Everything, and his popularity would explode when he and several others appeared in Pyrocynical's SO BAD ITS GOOD video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FyTFNdjQ74&ab_channel=Pyrocynical Pyro also constantly promoted him and told his fans to check him out. He gained more than 50,000 subscribers in a month. 
He also hosted a podcast, Hot Wet Soup, that had guests like soph, Chris Ray Gun, Bunty King and Keemstar. 
He would keep his face secret until his bear head accidentally fell off during a BionicPIG livestream. 
==Personal Life ==
He was born in Canada. He went to law school, but dropped out to pursue his YouTube career.
==Controversy==
===Accusations of sociopathy===
On February 26, 2017, the last episode of Hot Wet Soup, Hot Wet Controversy, was uploaded.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3t7RRESaBM&ab_channel=ZaptieArchive The character art and twitter links were missing, and in Zaptie's spot was ImAllexx, someone who claimed to be his best friend. In this hour long podcast, accusations were made of Ed being a sociopath. All 3 explained that they felt like Ed manipulated them, was using them for views, had cheated on his wife with his fans and was sleeping with them. They didn't want to make the video, they claimed, but they said they had to to stop Ed from hurting others. Alex also claimed Ed told him that he was diagnosed as a sociopath. 
Zaptie reacted by tweeting "make of it what you will" and followed up this tweet by a Twitlonger where he felt like his friends weren't wrong about posting the episode but they should listen to the whole thing.http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1spjcp8 The general opinion was that it was poorly handled, especially as Alex said Ed was a sociopath with no proof and also, he released that information without asking Ed first. 
===Grooming allegations===
On February 4, two days after the podcast episode, someone named Cephyrs/Heather, posted a Twitlonger claiming that he and her engaged in sexual conversations when she was 16 and he was 20.https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1spjh6s Accusations of grooming began to fly, and Ed's reputation soured to the point he was known as "the sociopathic pedo". Creators like Deodor Anthony and ImAllexx were in full support of her. On February 13th, Ed posted a Twitlonger saying he was never really diagnosed as a sociopath, and he never presented any proof of that.https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1spkatt However, he had been presented with major depressive disorder. He admitted to being manipulative but he wanted to a better person. He wasn't heard from until June of that year, where he posted a Reddit post apologizing.https://www.reddit.com/r/Zaptie/comments/6kalxm/enough/ He said that he was still getting harassment from people, and that the girl who was thirteen lied about her age. In November 3rd 2018 he made one final return, with a video reviewing the movie Halloween H40, completely ignoring the controversial situation.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMbS4HOhGk4&ab_channel=ZaptieArchive His fans seemed happy that he had returned, but their happiness was short lived, as his channel was then deleted a month later. Cephyrs made one last Twitlonger.http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1spjk2n
On October 9, 2019, Nicholas DeOrio would unexpectedly reopen the Zaptie case and disprove several key allegations levied against him.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoYlvg8-DsI&t=21s This video notably featured a text interview with both Cephyrs and BionicPIG and was the first major positively received video since the initial allegations were made in 2017. Turkey Tom was also skeptical of most of these claims and his friend ran the Zaptie archive channel. Tom released his own video some time later, signal boosting the corrected information,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LV6zb7LXls&t=1971s&ab_channel=TurkeyTom He was not alone - even Danarchy (formerly VWQ) made a video saying that he didn't agree that Zaptie was a sociopath.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgd5CROStlI&ab_channel=Danarchy 
The truth was that Ed lied to Alex saying he had ASPD as an excuse for his self destructive behaviour, and Alex twisted it to "Ed's a sociopath". Alex's claim that Ed was using him for views was also suspicious, as when Tommy C's SFTP and I Hate Everything asked him about it, he never gave any specific examples and said that he couldn't remember. 
Tom analyzed Heather's Twitlonger and realized how they contradicted each other - she claimed to be 17 but was actually 13. She was also from a state where 16 was the age of consent (Washington). So she actually lied to Ed and he was under the idea that she was older. Tom said that while a 16 year old and a 20 year old e-dating was disgusting and reprehensible Zaptie deserved to be called out for it, but didn't deserve to have his life ruined by it, especially as he had been lied to and had been expressing suicidal thoughts.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LV6zb7LXls
On December 14, 2020, Nicholas DeOrio released the third installment of his Zaptie series which featured full interview with Zaptie.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Axn7g6yqY&t=602s&ab_channel=NicholasDeOrio The reception was overwhelmingly positive, earning the praises of several people including Ricky Berwick, Wavywebsurf, Tipster and Edwin's Generation. A lot of people called Alex a snake, and this offended the YouTuber Snake.
==Trivia==
*He is well aware of Tom's using his name as a Twitter handle, and says he should keep it.
*He was beginning to rebrand himself as Good Airline Food, it was going to be a channel based off movies but then he got doxxed again.https://youtu.be/mg7eYhkL6i0?t=557
==References==
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:Film YouTubers
Category:Canadian YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2016