Couriway

Anthony Salzarulo (born: ), better known online as Couriway (formerly Antwn), is an American gaming YouTuber and streamer who speedruns Minecraft and does challenges relating to Minecraft speedrunning. Couriway broke the Minecraft speedrun world record for version 1.16 with a time of 14:36 on November 3, 2020. He has since been able to ride that wave of popularity to become one of the most popular Minecraft speedrunning YouTubers.
==Previous aliases==
Before going by Couriway on social media, he created and deleted multiple YouTube channels under different aliases as mentioned in his 100,000 subscriber video.Couriway's 100,000 subscriber special Since the beginning of his time on YouTube, Anthony mostly played Minecraft. He started by switching from survival mode gameplay to multiplayer servers, some of which were an SMP (survival multiplayer server) he was invited to and a survival games server known as MCSG or Minecraft Survival Games. He later made Minecraft building tutorials as well.
During this time, he was also a graphic designer for the Florida Mayhem,Twitch channel trailer for AntwnPls an Overwatch esports team owned by Misfits Gaming based in Miami and Orlando, Florida.Florida Mayhem page from Wikipedia His most well-known alias outside of Couriway is Antwn or AntwnPls, which he used for most or all of his time with the Florida Mayhem.
==Minecraft speedrunning==
Anthony began speedrunning Minecraft on the Couriway YouTube channel on August 1, 2020. Since then, his speedrunning progress was skyrocketing, including being the 5th person to get a sub-20 time in the Any% RSG 1.16+ leaderboard and having the Any% RSG 1.9-1.15 world record on 19th October 2020, despite that, he didn't get much recognition from the speedrunning community until on 3rd November 2020, he broke the Minecraft speedrun world record for Any% RSG 1.16+.Couriway's Minecraft speedrun world record At that time, he only had about 200 subscribers; however, the record pushed him to about 8,000 subscribers in a month and he has been able to continue growing his channel at an even quicker pace than before. His former world record is also the second most viewed record for Any% 1.16+, currently sits on 1.6+ million views.
== Controversies ==
=== Debunked allegations ===
In 2020, Couriway was accused of sexual misconduct by two women, one of which wanting to press charges against him. They claimed they were taken advantage of during the 2019 Overwatch League Grand Finals. He would turn the tables in an hour-long videoCouriway's response to allegations made against him that denies the allegations, as well as debunking much of the misconceptions. Since then, he has continued to upload videos and it seems that the allegations became a thing in the past.
=== Immature Bullying to Sapnap ===
On June 4, 2024 during day 3 of Twitch Rivals Event House of Nightmares. Sapnap was enjoying the time by being loud and playing music near a lot of people. This irritate Couriway, Fulham, acho, and several other players in the event. After it was decided that the last game was not going to count and be canceled with no eliminations after issues happening. Sapnap in relief spammed LETS GO many times. This pissed off Couriway so much that he told him "can you stop being the most annoying fucking person in the server please." Sapnap responded saying "who are u". later on Couriway would throw immature messages against Sapnap. https://www.reddit.com/r/DreamWasTaken2/comments/1d8b75x/couriway_having_a_meltdown_lmao/ Sapnap had enough and called him out in being jealous and debunking his lie of wanting more money.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eJi8S91eGI&t=16042s Sapnap mentions he just want to win a game he loves and he does not care about the money.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eJi8S91eGI&t=16074s This also debunks a lie by Jojosolos who think Sapnap is hungry for more money. It was clear Couriway broke many rules into not discriminate. This left Sapnap's fans angry at Couriway and Jojosolos for being immature, hateful, and bullying toward Sapnap on both days 3 and 4 respectively. https://x.com/BekVibes/status/1798736523849810009 The same day on June 4, Couriway posted a tweet hoping he can knock Sapnap out. Sapnap responded with his Squid Craft 2 win.https://x.com/sapnapalt/status/1798136763069915275 People also called out jojosolos for wanting Sapnap to be out and calling it glitched because he survived the following day, day 4. https://x.com/GalaticCosmos/status/1798466312634520018 In addition Sapnap got a lot of hate from friends of Couriway and jojosolos and tried to target him out of the event. Despite this Sapnap survived and still got friendly interactions from his friends and many of the Spanish CCs that had no problem with his loudness or music.
On June 7, 2024 Couriway posted a apology but did not mention or apologize to Sapnap.https://x.com/realcouri/status/1799071957499150730 This face heavy criticism with people saying that he did not mention Sapnap and some called out his hypocrisy for saying he'll ban anyone for harass when he started harassing Sapnap.https://x.com/199lolo_/status/1799141242254549362 
==Channel hacked==
In March 2021, Couriway's channel was hacked and the channel name was changed to Litecoin Foundation before finally being changed to Ripple Foundation. The channel privated all of Couriway's videos and the hacker(s) went live on Couriway's channel promoting a scam for the cryptocurrency Litecoin, similar to Bitcoin. Couriway stated that before he slept on March 21, 2021, he had 129,000 subscribers, and when he woke up on March 22, he had dropped to 116,000.Tweet from Couriway about his sub loss during channel hacking After relentlessly contacting YouTube about the situation for days, his channel was reinstated on March 26, 2021. When he got his channel back, he was at 102,000 subscribers and 27,000 viewers unsubscribed.Tweet from Couriway about his channel being reinstated after hacking
==Trivia==
*MrBeast has commented multiple times on Couriway's channel.
**Couriway's video speedrunning the "MrBeast" Minecraft seed was made because of MrBeast's first ever comment on his channel. He commented on that video as well.
*Couriway has held four Minecraft speedrunning world records (all are former records), including the Hardcore Any% RSG 1.16+, Icarus Any% RSG 1.16+ and Any% RSG 1.9-1.15, but his 1.16 time of 14 minutes and 36 seconds is most significant.
*Couriway is well-known for scrolling for hotbar slots and not using hotkeys in the Minecraft speedrunning community.
*Despite speedrunning Minecraft, he is also a fan of Pokémon and plays on the Poké SMP, a Pixelmon server.
**His username is the name of a town in Pokémon X and Y.
**His other Minecraft accounts are also named after Pokémon towns, with Paniola being the most well-known of his alternate accounts.
***On March 27th, Paniola was renamed to Pqniolq as a reference to Dylqn, a Minecraft speedrun twitch streamer and friend of his, as well as changing the skin to look like Dylqn's skin.
*His favorite Pokémon are Milotic, Phanpy, Phantump, and Corphish.
*He has beaten Minecraft 1000 times in a row on a random seed.
*From 30th April to 2nd May 2021, Couriway participated in the Minecraft Break the Record Live tournament hosted by the European Speedrunning Assembly along with Illumina, Reignex, TheeSizzler, ninjabrain1, Dylqn, and Feinberg.
==Subscriber milestones==
*10,000 subscribers: December 14, 2020
*50,000 subscribers: January 12, 2021
*100,000 subscribers: February 13, 2021
*200,000 subscribers: July 1, 2022
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2020