Featureman

Tom Willett (born: ), better known online as Featureman, is an American YouTube vlogger, singer, and pianist and convicted sex offender.https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-23-ca-5193-story.html Tom first rose to prominence in 2012, when u/moose_dad shared Tom's "How to eat a watermelon tutorial" video to the Videos subreddit. Tom has credited the period in which the video was reshared on Reddit to a surge of over 20,000 subscribers.
Tom was born and raised in Kentucky. He is 6'4. From 1958 to 1964, Tom served in the 63rd Infantry Division of the United States Army, stationed at Fort Ord.https://prabook.com/web/thomas_eugene.willett/380959
Before his YouTube career, Tom spent his youth exploring the entertainment industry as a musician, stand-up comedian, and radio announcer, where he met many celebrities throughout the 60s, 70s, and 80s.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932517/bio He starred on several game-shows and was an extra in countless movies and TV shows. In his old age, he retired from Hollywood after moving from California.
He now lives in Tennessee, has an open PO box, and has a large garden in which he grows all sorts of fruits, especially watermelons. His addiction to watermelons has become something of a running joke, and he even refers to his fans as "watermelon students" sometimes. He more consistently refers to them as "YouTubers and YouTuberettes" though.
==Content==
His content consists of music (sometimes covers, sometimes original songs, always done with a piano and his own vocals), PO unboxings, Q&A's, and vlogs, where he usually prepares and eats food and experiments with cheesy special effects. He's been making videos regularly since 2007.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSY4Rlqvjsw
He was a relatively unknown channel until late 2018, when the YouTube algorithm mass-recommended his now most viewed video, "Eating a Watermelon With My Clone", which has almost 3 million views. Featureman further exploded in popularity when he made a song about PewDiePie vs T-Series in March of 2019 titled "PewDiePie T-Series Blues". The entire song was featured in one of PewDiePie's videos as a thanks. 
==Controversy==
In 1977, Willett was arrested for child sexual assault for incidents that happened in 1973. He was denied bond after he was found guilty and sent to Cook County Jail and faced 3 life sentences. At his sentencing, friends of his wrote letters of support to the judge and the judge decided to give him 5 years probation and one of the years to be spent in cook county jail. The arrest didn't come to light until 2023 when someone posted a newspaper article of his arrest on Reddit. Willett made a video explaining his arrest without apologizing for his crimes, which resulted him to delete the video and for him to lose thousands of subscribers. There have been allegations that musician Greg Penny was one of his victims.https://youtu.be/lwxDrAhGvtE?t=540https://www.youtube.com/@Featureman/videos
==Trivia==
*Tom has actually been making internet comedy videos since 2004, which was before even YouTube.
*His favorite bread is Health Nut bread.
*He has starred in several movies as uncredited extras but played the character "Tom" in the 1988 TV series Dear John, Abe Lincoln on the Drew Carey Show, the Mayor in George & Leo, and many more.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1IwFI5dF80
==References==
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