Funky Black Cat

Guilherme Hoffman (born: )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgC-Bce4658, better known as Funky Black Cat (formerly: FunkyBlackCat; funkyblackcat) is a brazilian gaming YouTuber and streamer from Porto Alegre, Brazilhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgC-Bce4658. He is known as a veteran of gaming on YouTube, and for his most acclaimed series — a walkthrough of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas —, which is one of the most successful walkthrough series on YouTube; its last episode has more than 24 million views as of 2023.
==Personal Life==
Not much is known about Hoffmann's personal life. In a podcast, he revealed that his sister runs a successful brand of baby's clothing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffOkhEgoC-k and that his father worked in the IT sector of a hospital.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=337RJrA8DEo Funky also lives with his girlfriend, Gabi, for more than a decade, with her having apeared in some of his videos. He has lived in Brazil, Ireland and Canada. All of these places have been documented in his vlogs. 
==Career==
The first appearance of Funky in the internet would be in an interview from an Oasis concert.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRCdO8ZQEyU The interview became a meme because of his occupation being listed as "unemployed" right below his name. The word unemployed then started being used in reference to Guilherme, who embraced the meme himself.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul8jxMSqcF8
Apart from the growth of his channel, not much else is known about Guilherme's career on YouTube. His channel has had a slow, but steady growth since his first Grand Theft Auto series went viral. Despite not experiencing a huge spike in subscribers or views, Funky's fanbase is described by himself as being a very "loyal" one, being always present in each one of his series for many years.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNyzxTyPH54
Guilherme also mentioned in a podcast with BRKsEDU that the latter was crucial as his mentor when he first started gaming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5o1t8V7heIAccording to Guilherme himself, Edu helped him achive his partnership with the Machinima Network in its peak, and also featured his videos on his own channel to boost his subscribers. For that, they eventually became good friends and still interact to this day. 
==Content==
Hoffmann started his channel by posting videos of Call of Duty matches with live commentary, somewhere in 2011. Most of his channel's content would be comprised of videos playing CoD in this manner for some years, until he started to experiment with some other games and genres. The most notable series of his channel is by far his walkthrough of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which series finale accumulated more than 20 million views over the years. As time went on, Guilherme would start playing different games and genres, from first person shooters to Hollow Knight and the Dark Souls series. 
His vlogging videos would also be met with great success. The video "Buscando o PS4 de BIKE!" has become a classic among his viewers. Other vlogs posted occasionally have also gathered a lot of views and praise from his subscribers, mainly due to Guilherme's editing, charisma and the pleasing aesthetic of his videos. 
===FunkyStratocaster===
Guilherme created the channel "FunkyStratocaster" in 2012. The focus of this channel was posting videos playing guitar. The channel went through a brief hiatus in 2013, until Funky announced a "revival" in 2014. He then promoted the "FunkyStrat Alheio" contest for his subscribers, who would send him videos of guitar covers and compete in a vote-based contest to decide the winner. There were two editions of this contest but, unfortunately, the channel would go inactive once again, having been inactive for more than ten years since the last video.
===Streaming===
Funky would occasionally do the "FunkyStreams", which were streams of him playing various games. He started streaming consistently on Facebook in midst of 2018 and, at the time, streams even became his main source of income, with the YouTube page merely having edited stream clips. Since his departure of Facebook, he managed to keep both his YouTube channel active with dedicated pre-recorded videos, and also do streams in the same channel. Another account by the name of "Cortes do Funky [OFICIAL]" was created to post stream clips.
==Trivia==
*For several years, the YouTube search bar would show his channel as "Funkyblact".
*Hoffmann's favorite band is Red Hot Chili Peppers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6ZLUErm2FM
*Funky loves doing "sample text" edits.
*Guilherme Hoffmann looks eerily similar to Chris Bumstead (the Cbum).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2MyMwZq3OM 
*He revealed in a podcast that he takes Propecia for hair loss.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkbFhxL_BfQ
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==Gallery==
FunkyBlackCBUM.jpg|Thumbnail from a video comparing Guilherme to Cbum.
Guilhemedesempregado.jpg|Guilherme's unfortunate situation as an unemployed young man.
==References==
Category:Vlogging YouTubers
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Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:Brazilian YouTubers
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