Izu

Rey Martinez (born: ), better known online as by his alias Izu, and his channel name FocusedCorner, is a Hispanic-American game enthusiast, music nerd, commentator, and sketch-comedy YouTuber. He is best known for his main plot-driven commentary show 'Izu Explains', starring his OCs. Mentored by Jay Productions, he's become popular with the underground side of YouTube, and on Discord, becoming a once notable logo YouTuber in the Logo Community.
==Early Years, and attempted channels (2014-2017)==
Rey started a YouTube channel with his younger cousin back in 2014, inspired by Wasabi Productions, and Nigahiga. The first, and earliest footage of Rey was a Minecraft gameplay of Hunger Games uploaded in the same year. Since then, his cousin repetitively made other channels, as she thought that her past ones were "dead". As the years went by, they went their separate ways in terms of social media. This gave Rey an opportunity to make a channel of his own. Later on, he found a YouTuber by the name of CCG88, who influenced Rey to make a logo-based channel like CCG88, called 'The Logo MakerHD'.
==The Logo MakerHD (2017-2018) ==
The Logo MakerHD was the original name of the Rey's YouTube channel. In those days, his mic on his phone was broken, so he had to use music as his background, and his DSi to write sentences from the DSi Game "Flipnote Studio". In "2017 YouTube Trailer" which was his very first, but now unlisted YouTube video. He promised to make Tutorials, however, he never lived up to his promise, instead, Rey continued making Minecraft comedy videos until October 2017, when he decided to make full-on skits, because in that time, he got a new phone, the Samsung Galaxy J3. At this point, he made his, used to be, most popular video, a remake of the Columbia Tristar 2001 logo. This would pave the way for Rey to make logo-related content in the future.
==Logo-based content (2017-2020)==
Rey's very first logo history was Viacom (CBS) from 1971-2004. It gained noticeable popularity and made his channel known. Rey continued his logo history series, which gained him twice the amount of popularity Rey had never expected. It gained him over 200K views on his YouTube Channel. However, in 2019, Rey mysteriously decided to remove all of his logo histories from the playlist and added new, remade ones, for unknown reasons. 
==ItsLogoMaker (2018-2019)==
In 2018, The Logo MakerHD name was changed to ItsLogoMaker. This sparked a time when Rey decided to experiment with different content, more notably, The MET Network. In May of 2018, Rey collaborated with a YouTuber by the name of Jay Productions for a few weeks, until being bought by TR3X, a very known logo enthusiast. During these months, Rey made numerous logo histories, and the amount of logo histories being uploaded were high. At rare occasions, he would upload 3 logo histories in 1 day. In October of 2019, he made his own Mock-Up YT Company called "ILM Entertainment".
==JRE (2018)==
Rey and Jay Productions decided to collaborate one last time, but in a much more bigger way. Rey changed his channel as a whole to JRE. JRE would upload content from both Rey, and Jay, most notably, a pilot episode for "The Adventures of Jay and Rey" called "Stop Signs" which lives in infamy. (more details in the "in meme usage" category.) However, it disbanded by Christmas Eve of 2018.
==MTE Network (2019-2020)==
In June 2019, ItsLogoMaker was officially retired after 1 year, and the new name "MTE Network" was put into use, leaving all of the controversy behind him. During 2019, he made Creepypasta content, Top 10s, and skits. He used to make GLMM (Gacha Life Mini Movies) but it was quickly pulled off his channel. He also retired logo content, no longer making any logo-related video. He would get 1,000 subscribers by December 22nd, 2019. He also made a brand new OC as well, retiring the South Park designed OC. The name has been changed to simply MTE, and the channel was filled with experimental content, such as a hand full of Minecraft films, game commentary, and skits. 
== FocusedCorner, Izu, and transformation (2021-) ==
In May 2021, YouTube removed Rey's monetization abilities, due to "repetitive content". Rey tried disputing the claims for months but by August, he decided to abandon his channel, after being in operation for 4 years, and was replaced by a new channel called "FocusedCorner". Rey chose the name as he thought it to be "different" and "ridiculously random". He currently still makes comedy-skits, and experimental content, but also makes mature content now.
After FocusedCorner was created, Izu remastered his then-obscure channel series. 'Izu Explains'. The series' reception was high and had a major influence in Rey. He was so proud of his series that it became the face of FocusedCorner. In 2023, the show would change to be even more show / plot-driven, adding additional characters named Chase (Izu's old south park OC, tailored for the show), and Pepper (a Gacha life OC). The show is commentary-based and is mainly about a lot of interests that Izu has, explained in a rough and humorous manner, while Izu, Chase, and Pepper get occasionally put in random scenarios.
The show, being inspired by Scott the Woz, iRate Gamer, Plainrock124, and Eddsworld, has since still maintained its high reception and is often considered to be Rey's greatest show, and helped him gain a new creative peak alongside the new channel.
==Meme Usage==
The first major meme Rey had sprung upon was the Stop Sign. In a JRE Video outro, Rey stated, as a joke, that "When you see a stop sign, you stop" This was a very notorious moment in which loads of memes of that quote was made. The meme would grow even more with a entire video dedicated to said stop sign, in which Rey would scream to Jay that "When you see a stop sign, you stop" Plus a poorly drawn stop sign as well in the video.
==Personality, and Personal life==
Rey is mainly known on discord nowadays, instead of YouTube, due to him being online on that platform more than creating content. He's often seen as a passive-aggressive user, but also well respected. By May 2019, he came out as gay. In 2021, he would change his label to Pansexual, and has revealed it on YouTube in June 2021, but once again, reverted back to being Gay in October 2023. 
Rey was born on December 21st, 2004, and was the 4th and youngest child in the family. Rey has talked about living in poverty. Throughout school, Rey was constantly bullied for being overweight, and being "weird". As a kid, Rey was diagnosed with ADHD, though Rey said being AUDHD might be more accurate, as he has also shown symptoms of Autism.
In 2023, Rey was in a relationship with MarioPlushKid. Rey has since seemingly announced their break up in an Izu Explains interlude, and confirmed it on his discord server, blaming it on conflicting behaviors, and differences. They did not break up in an appropriate manner.  
== Influences ==
Rey has cited Scott the Woz, Plainrock124, penguinz0, iRate Gamer, AVGN, Jontron, Eddsworld, Jay Productions, Daniel Howell, TheNeedleDrop, Gorillaz, onlysmallbites, Puz, RDCWorld1, The Act Man, Filthy Frank, and Smosh as influences.
Rey's main content has drastically changed in the course of 6 years. From 2017-2020, he was generally making logo content with occasional comedy-sketches and memes. From 2020-present he is generally considered to be a commentator and a comedy-sketch influenced YouTuber
== Trivia ==
* His favorite YouTuber is the group RDCWorld1
* His best friend is currently Jay Productions / ValanceXIII
* Most of the artwork has been drawn in contribution by twitter artist Puz.
* He admitted to being genderfluid. He has since not brought it up again.
* He labeled himself as being a 'Casual-Furry'. 
* His favorite movie is Spider-Man 3.
* His favorite music artist used to be Lil Nas X, but has since changed it to being Michael Jackson.
* He is a vinyl-collector, and a retro game collector.
* His favorite game is Minecraft. However, he has shown his distaste for modern Minecraft YouTubers, specifically Dream.
* He was once a Billie Eilish stan, but has since shown his distaste for her in 2023.
* He has numerously said that his dream is to get a Nintendo GameCube again for his collection, as his original was thrown away by his aunt.
* He collaborated with YouTuber Alden Moeller Inc. for one episode of Alden's series, but dropped out shortly after for unknown reasons.
* Because of paranoia, he has often isolated himself on discord, only talking to a select few.
* He has ADHD.
* He has acrophobia, scotophobia, and trypophobia.
* He was a member of the SGEG Entertainment Group but has been permanently banned.
* He has said once he dislikes anime.
* He used to be religious, but has come out as an Agnostic
* He has once said that he preferred Boomerang over Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. It is no longer the case since the network rebranded.
* He dislikes Animal Crossing, but paid roughly $70 for a Tom Nook plush from Build-A-Bear.
* He used to be a Xbox fanboy for years, but switched up to PlayStation for a while. As of now, he now prefers all consoles, with a Nintendo lean.
* He is a fan of Five Nights at Freddy's, but revealed he is appalled with Security Breach.
* His favorite console is the Nintendo GameCube.
* He used to be a Call of Duty fanboy, but has since announced he doesn't like the newer games.
* He used to be healthy in 2017, but as of 2024, he weighs over 220lb, his reasoning for being overweight is because of quarantining and that he eats when he's bored, or upset.
* His favorite food is Pepperoni Pizza from Dominos, and Chicken Tenders from Popeyes.
* He owns 3 Nintendo Switches, and a Switch OLED. His reason is because each switch has a technical problem.
* He wants to be a photographer, and has shown to be a big camera-geek.
* He has said that Plainrock124 greatly impacted his life and was a big contribution for him finding personality. He has since stated that he hates Plainrock now.
* He owns 4 cats, despite saying that he hates cats, and prefers dogs. He wants to get a Doberman.
* He has a TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter account.
==Gallery==
Oc.png|thumb|358px|MTE Networks's OC, which is now retired.
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