Oasty

Oasty is a Canadian YouTuber mainly known for her music covers made with the text-to-speech feature.
==History==
During the channel's infancy (as TheHystericalGaming), it was ran by Oasty and a couple of her friends uploading their own videos on it, with the first video being "Em and David Play TC3 Part 1 (minecraft)" on July 17, 2012.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owIQ4eJZtYc Emerson (or Em) originally created the channel, according to the description of "A-Mei-zing: Overwatch Stress Test Weekend" uploaded on November 2015.see video's description: "Remember Emerson? From three years ago? No? Well he originally made this channel and he's back with an Overwatch video. This beta was just for the weekend, so here's a few COOL clips."
She then started to upload YTPMVs of Game Grumps and JonTron onto the channel, starting with Hollow Bastion from .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOQ-tn5OmPQ Oasty then uploaded her first Moonbase Alpha-related video on August 9, 2014, a recreation of JonTron's old and iconic intro modified with references to the aforementioned game.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j023EroDYIk
On May 26, 2015, the channel's name was changed to TryHard Videos, due to the change in content.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvGxkjyWcA0 She then uploaded "AzuMadden Daeiou v0.1" on June 18, 2015.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhgFuaeyg7s This was an at-the-time unfinished animation of the Azumanga Daioh OP with the characters and vocals replaced with the ones from Moonbase Alpha. In the meantime, while working on the animation, she uploaded a Moonbase cover of Esper Battle from .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHkHtqBTgU8
Oasty would make videos on the process of making Azumadden Daeiou,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoTlR7XYgtEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n8AAbBqAW8 before finally finishing it on September 5, 2016.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdRYthkSwvI
She would later change the channel name again to Oast in 2018,https://twitter.com/OastyVids/status/1053329785357619200 though she modified it to Oasty in 2020 when she realized "oast" is a real word.https://twitter.com/OastyVids/status/1323483400532090881
Aside from Moonbase Alpha covers, she also made covers out of the Skull Trumpet meme,Some examples:
#Spooker Eurobeat - Love is In Danger
#Initial Doot - I Need Your Love
#Initial Doot: Space Boy and OneyPlays animations.Some examples:
#Oney Plays Animated - The Barry Brothers' New Invention
#Miscellaneous Clone Hypotheticals - Oney Plays Animated
#Oney Plays: Totally Tubular Collab Entry [The Outcrop]
==Trivia==
*Oasty is a trans-woman, and came out to her viewers when she uploaded a cover video of the theme on March 31, 2024 (which is the ).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCDLJSkMD-0&lc=Ugx1ebMbet2KCUI3hOZ4AaABAg
**Prior to that announcement, she said that she has been taking HRT for the past few months.https://www.patreon.com/posts/cave-story-alpha-101431717
*She has worked on the "SpongeBob Band Geeks Reanimated Collab".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HHNeXJg0Mk
*On around 2018, Oasty made a Moonbase Alpha cover of 1, 2, Oatmeal and donated it to SimpleFlips on stream.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHieIsBXiOY&t=132s She later made a visual video out of the cover in November.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFQa1Ykl0PM
*Her cover of Fallen Down (which was made in 2015), became a meme years later when That One Guy used it in his TikTok.https://www.tiktok.com/@thatoneguy.tt/video/7096551802795199790 That TikTok would be later used as part of the "My Reaction To That Information" meme trend.https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/singing-undertale-man-bababa
==References==
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:Meme YouTubers
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:Canadian YouTubers
Category:LGBT YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2012