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Béatrice Déraciné (née Conrad Collins), known online as The Golden Witch (formerly Otaku Gonzo Journalism, DigibronyMLP, Digibro, Diginée, and Digi), is an American anime YouTube critic who is known for her analytical and detail-oriented breakdowns of anime series, movies, and also of the anime medium as a whole. Her videos generally feature only her commentary, and while having used background music on several occasions, she has stated that "one should only use music in videos if it adds something to the video", and that in her videos, she talks at such a pace that background music would only be distracting.
She has two other channels that she regularly updates Digibro After Dark and Digibro's Turntable, however, Otaku Gonzo Journalism (formerly Digibro) is her main channel. She makes money primarily from her Patreon, with some additional revenue from her videos, these combined funds, allow her to make a living off of YouTube.
In 2020, Béatrice came out as transgender; after coming out, she briefly used the alias Digi-née.
In February 2021, Béatrice announced that she would be privating her old videos from her main channels in order to fully change her identity as a creator. As of March 2, 2021, she has privatized the majority of the videos from her main channel. Multiple fan archiving efforts, such as the 21st Century Digital Archive, are currently in progress. She continues to make anime-related content with BestGuyEver at KHANTEHNT.
==Friends/YouTube Associates==
# My Japanese Animes (Endless Jess/Jesse)
# BestGuyEver (Nate)
# Gibbontake (Hippocrit)
# Munchy wtinyhats
# Subsonic Sparkle (Kamara)
# NineOuh (Jimi)
# TheDavoo
# GoatJesus (Mikel)
# Tommy Oliver (Tommy Oliver)
# Theneedledrop (Anthony Fantano)
# ThePubCrawl (Cider)
# LethalAuroraMage
# Ben Saint
==Ex-Associates==
# Mother's Basement (Geoff)
# Mumkey Jones
#Pantsu Party (May)
==Personal Life==
Béatrice claims that, during her prepubescent youth having been clinically depressed to the point of attempting suicide, her depression persisted throughout middle school, high school and college, until she dropped out due to her poor grades and started working at Target, where she acquitted sufficient funds to purchase a microphone and start her YouTube channel, digibronyMLP. Béatrice has two younger brothers, Victor, who is an aspiring filmmaker and the co-star of her gaming channel Digi Bros, and Shade, who has appeared in some Digibro episodes and other select videos with Béatrice.
She is bisexual https://www.instagram.com/p/CHyEcEfFrDS/
==History==
Béatrice is an anime YouTube critic who analyzes works of fiction, particularly anime. Going with the slogan "Otaku Gonzo Journalist" and handle Digibro, Béatrice has been known to state that she "probably enjoys analyzing stuff way too much" and that it has interfered with her enjoyment when watching anime. She has several channels to which she posts various types of videos.
Originally, Béatrice ran an anime blog before launching the MLP Analysis community, and was primarily known by the "Digibrony style" of MLP videos. She eventually lost interest in the show and retired as an MLP analyst, choosing to focus entirely on anime. Currently, Béatrice is making anime analysis videos on her main channel and "Game Grumps-style" videos on her alt account, Digibros.
She underwent a period of controversy in the Anime Youtuber community following her just shittalking other anime youtubers for like half an hour, oh god what have i done video criticizing the community.
In 2021, she underwent a return to form of sorts in continuing her original style of anime analysis essay. This was following a drastic shift in style shortly after her transition.
==Various Channels==
#Ygg Studio: (originally most known as Digibro) This is Béatrice's main channel, as well as her most subscribed channel by far, having more than 300,000 subscribers. On this channel she analyzes entire anime and singular aspects of certain anime, in addition to providing general thoughts with which she wants to influence the way anime is being talked about (he talks about it in this video). Notable anime she's analyzed in depth are Neon Genesis Evangelion, Sword Art Online, Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha, The Asterisk War and Psycho Pass/Psycho Pass 2/Psycho Pass: The Movie.
#Digi Does Anime: The now inactive Digi Does Anime channel was primarily created as a supplementary channel after a series of channel takedowns. The channel would mostly be used to either re-upload, and/or upload videos that were outside of the video length restriction which plagued her channel for a long time.
#Digibro After Dark: Digibro After Dark is mostly a channel dedicated to videos that don't fit Béatrice's main channel, be it unscripted ramblings or subjects not related to anime, such as video games, music, YouTube meta commentaries or vlogs. Most of the videos on the channel have a "spur of the moment" style to them, in particular Béatrice's drunken ramblings, where she gets drunk in front of camera while lashing out at subjects that interest her.
#Digi bros: One of Béatrice's lesser known channels, being a "couch and play" lets-play channel akin to Game Grumps which she does with her brother Victor.
#Digibro's Turntable: Béatrice's most recent channel, which she created in July of 2017, which is dedicated to music vlogs.
#The Pro Crastinators: Although not directly run by Béatrice, she does make a regular appearance on the podcast alongside mostly her friends on YouTube, with the exception of Ben Saint, who is a comics author. This podcast emerged out of a circle of friends Béatrice formed while part of the Brony analysis community.
#DJ Cider's Pub Crawl: Although not directly run by Béatrice, she does make a regular appearance on this podcast as well along with many of her YouTube friends. It's a podcast where they basically just get drunk and shoot the shit.
#Modal Hsoul Productions: Béatrice's semi-active first channel, which she created back in 2007, where she and her brother Victor uploaded video game reviews and sketch comedies.
#GamecubeChats: Béatrice's former gaming channel, which is inactive, where she, her brother Victor, and their friend Brandon Tolontino played Gamecube games.
#Black Rose: A secret channel created in 2016, which is inactive, where Béatrice plays certain games, such as .hack.
#Digi's Favorite Albums: Digi's Favorite Albums, which is inactive, was a channel where Béatrice uploaded vlogs talking about some of her favorite albums. She only uploaded three videos before she stopped uploading to it all together.
#List Bro: List Bro is a channel where Béatrice uploaded top ten lists. She only uploaded two videos to it before it went inactive.
#Conrad Collins: Conrad Collins is an inactive channel with only one video, a five second video called "Gayy."
#trialofthegoldenwitc: trialofthegoldenwitc was the official YouTube channel for Digi's music project Trial of the Golden Witch, which has been inactive for over five years.
#Dorkass Acapella Bros: This is a channel that has been terminated due to terms of service violations.
#I Am Games: I Am Games is a recent but inactive channel, created in 2018, where she does video game analysis.
#KHANTEHNT!: Anime videos, in collaboration with BestGuyEver.
==Criticism==
Digibro has over the years received a lot of criticism for having very strong and emotionally affected opinions about the subjects on her channels. She has talked in favour of moe aesthetics and for having initially creating the analysis community for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Her critics have also given her the nickname "pretty colors Digibro" because they think she constantly talks about the art and animation in anime, giving people the impression that it's all she cares about.
In particular, doing an analytical video on K-On! spanning one and a half hours, spurred a fan perceived feud between her and ThatAnimeSnob, a "feud" which was closed out with Digibro appearing on a podcast with Roricon. The pair are now fine and working things out on their own, as stated by Digibro (via a long V-log) in early May 2016.
Digi has received further criticism from her video The Most Boring Taste in Anime, resulting in the anime YouTuber Anime Everyday, along with her friend Kenji The Engi Anime Reviews, making a video response on Anime Everyday's channel, accusing Digi of generalizing, double standards, and hypocrisy in a video called The Most Boring Taste in Anime - Response. In response to this, Digi also made a response, called The Most Boring Taste in 3x3s (Is Possibly Mine), as an attempt to not only defend herself, but to also clear up what she feels people are taking the wrong way about what she said in her original video.
Other criticisms are often leveled towards her very seemingly hostile stance on anime piracy, and the manner in which Digibro tends to argue against websites like Crunchyroll. This came to a head after she was not invited to Crunchyroll Expo 2018, where she was vocal about her annoyance over not being invited due to her dissatisfaction with the website. She has also been criticized for the quality of her videos as time has gone on, with many feeling as though her overall content is very minimal in editing, and also now being focused on quantity at the cost of quality. In addition to that, Digibro has been criticized for her attitude on social media, where she tends to cause issues because of her strong opinions.
==Notable works==
===Digibro / Digi Does Anime===
====The Asterisk War Sucks====
Asterisk War Sucks is the follow-up to Digibro's rather successful series on Sword Art Online and Sword Art Online II. With Asterisk War being the third series from studio A1-Pictures being heavily criticized by Digibro in a multiple long-form episodes format, and after having been quoted on several occasion for stating that she had "an hate boner for A1-Pictures" and that she "loves to hate A1-Pictures", she grew more and more notorious for being highly biased towards A1-Pictures, and many even considered her "too emotionally invested" to criticize any show done by A1-Pictures. Although not backing up on her claims, Digibro has said that it is more a case of A1-Pictures having a consistent low quality, but that there are actually a few shows from the studio that she has enjoyed. 
===Digibro===
====Major Projects====
=====Sword Art Online - An Analytical Diatribe=====
Due to the original series being copyright claimed by aniplex, Digibro re-released this eight part series as an one-off hour long video with footage taken from Tera Online, instead of the original Sword Art Online footage, as a means of avoiding the video being taken down again. Despite featuring footage not related to the video and no background music, it is still one of her most successful videos, which goes a long way to see the appeal behind most of Digibro's appeal. Long-form in-depth analysis.
=====Your Anime Sucks : Sword Art Online II=====
After the success of Sword Art Online - An Analytical Diatribe, Digibro follows up with another in depth mostly negative analytical piece. Due to copyright strike limitations, Digibro had to release the four part series between her main channel Digibro and her secondary channel, Digi Does Anime.
=====Psycho Pass vs. Psycho Pass 2 - What Happened?=====
One of her lesser known big series, but still well liked in their own right, is a five part video series where she highlights all the things she loves in the original 22 episode Psycho Pass anime series, everything she hates about it's 11 episode sequel, Psycho Pass 2, and then proceeds to compare them and to explain, from her point of view, what happened to cause the sudden drop of quality between the two series. Before this she did a Psycho Pass analysis video, but says that she prefers this one over the video she made beforehand due to how much more detail she goes into here. 
=====Studio Shaft Retrospective=====
This series started when Digibro posted a two-part analysis of Akyuki Shinbo's work in the 90's before he worked with Studio Shaft, posted on October 20, 2016, and October 26, 2016, respectively. Then, on December 15, 2016, she did an analysis about Akyuki Shinbo during the Early 2000's, which served as a prologue to her larger Studio Shaft retrospective, which she says will take a grand total of 16 additional videos. 
====Minor Projects====
=====8 Nights of Kara no Kyoukai=====
One of the more "out there" pieces made by Digibro, this eight part series is mostly an esoteric retrospective commentary, mostly featuring video of Digibro sitting on her bedside doing various mundane acts. Yet another series that does a great job at showing the appeal of Digibro's videos. 
=====Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Franchise Retrospective=====
One of her earlier long-form analysis series, after Sword Art Online, but before Sword Art Online II, Psycho Pass vs. Psycho Pass 2, and The Asterisk War, this is a three part video series of Digi going through the entire Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Franchise and analyzing it, which is one of the lesser known Magical Girl anime franchises in spite of having such a large amount of installments in it.
=====Dissecting Log Horizon: The Best Isekai Anime=====
An analysis which Digi created through the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, where she explains, in great detail, why she feels that Log Horizon is the best Isekai anime ever made.
=====General Anime Knowledge=====
A series of videos aimed at explaining anime as an art-form, done through amongst others meta-commentaries, elaborative pieces.
=====Useless Anime Knowledge=====
Useless Anime Knowledge was a series which is now inactive, where Digi rambled about a random anime series for a few minutes.
=====Top Lists=====
Although very rarely, Digi will occasionally do top lists, such as for random anime recommendations, or her top 20 anime of a certain year.
=====Interesting Anime Protagonists=====
A series inspired by her belief that most main protagonists in anime are really boring or copy-paste, Digibro started a series on her channel where she talks about specific anime protagonists that she deems to be some of the most original or interesting and what makes them so original or interesting, such as Guts from Berserk, for example. Stated in the comments that this series will probably continue less than monthly.
=====Cool Character Designs=====
A series inspired by her belief that most character designs of anime characters are copy-pasted, Digibro started a series on her channel where she talks about cool or unique character designs in certain anime characters, such as Kaijou from Shimoneta, for example.
=====The Most Interesting Thing In.....=====
A series Digi started in 2017 where she gets straight to the point and analyzes what she feels is the most interesting aspect of of a particular anime. These videos are often extremely short, because she's only discussing one part of the anime instead of many parts of it.
====Others====
#The Pleeb & The Weeb: The Pleeb & The Weeb is a Podcast-like series that Digibro does with her friend, EndlessJess, where they watch an anime series or movie, and discuss it, often with differing opinions on it between them, and the viewers watching get to decide weather they feel which one of them is the Pleeb and which one of them is the Weeb. 
#Dark Souls vs. Bloodborne - The Player Character: One of the very few gaming videos on her main channel, as well as very few gaming analysis videos at all, and undoubtedly her most well known one, she compares Dark Souls with its spiritual successor Bloodborne, talking about all of their similarities and differences. 
#250 Anime Recommendations: 250 Anime Recommendations is a vlog on her main channel where Digi sits down for almost seven hours and recommends every anime that she's ever completed that she thinks is worth recommending, ranking them from Light Recommendation, to Medium Recommendation, to Strong Recommendation, to Must Watch Recommendation. She excluded any shows she knows would be on the list but hasn't completed, such as Gintama, and shows that she thinks has a much better manga, such as One Piece. She wrote all the shows she recommended in a google docs separated in each of the categories. She also stated that when she plans on making followup videos every time she finishes 50 more anime that she feels like recommending. 
#Let's Argue: Let's Argue is a series where Digibro makes a video on her main channel occasionally tackling controversial opinions on anime. All of the opinions she receives from a specific thread over on her twitter. 
===Digi Does Anime===
====ANIME HYPE TRAIN====
ANIME HYPE TRAIN is a series Digi used to do on her channel Digi Does Anime where she and her brothers did week by week episodic reviews of currently airing anime series of the particular anime season that it was. She seems to have stopped doing these for some reason, or perhaps just put it on hold or on an indefinite hiatus; she has made no comment as to why she no longer does them. She didn't always finish reviewing each anime weekly, in fact she finished reviewing very few of them. Most of them were by the numbers regarding episodic reviewers, except for the few times she included her brother in her reviews, as well as her reviews for the anime series Koufuku Graffiti, where she made them eat-alongs with the eating centric anime series.
===Digibro After Dark===
====Major Projects====
====K-On! - A Loving Thesis====
Digibro goes into a one and a half hour analysis on K-On!, a series considered by most to be "a silly comedy only". Although receiving praise from many for being able to put on the display the true depth and meaning behind what seemed like a rather shallow series, it received equally the amount of criticism for being "overly analytical" and "reading too far into too little".
Finish or Fail: Seasonal Anime Shows, a show where Digi goes through each anime of each season each year and attempts to watch them; some of them she finishes, and some of them she drops, or very occasionally puts on hold. What she does is puts the number of shows there are into a random number generator and whichever show comes up is the one she'll do first, typically doing around 5 per video. The show started on her blog back in 2011, but wasn't revived and put in video form until 2016, in an attempt to watch, or at least sample, every anime ever.
Other
Weekly Vlogs: For a few months, Digi did "weekly vlogs" where she'd pick a topic and make a video about it every week. They included Manga Mondays, Vinal Tuesdays, DVD Wednesdays, and Alcohol on Sundays.
#Drunken rant about how shit kanye's "the life of pablo" is: One of the videos that truly captivates the spirit of Digibro After Dark, starting off with Digibro shouting "holy fucking shit, you ever have those moments when you feel like you're the last sane person on planet earth?". Digi goes into great length to talk about her relationship to music, going back and forth to the initial subject, but constantly derailing in her drunken rage.
#Digi Bros Discuss: A Discussion series where Digi and her brother Victor talk about a specific topic, usually in vlogs, for like an hour, give or take a few minutes. They've talked about the 2016 Ghostbusters movie, the 2016 adaptation of Berserk, the Sword Art Online movie, and the anime series Yuri!! on Ice.
#just shittalking other anime YouTubers for like half an hour, oh god what have i done: Probably her most controversial video, on March 14, 2017, Digi uploaded a video called "just shittalking other anime YouTubers for like half an hour, oh god what have i done" where she gets drunk and proceeds to openly voice her complaints with the anime community and other anime YouTubers. YouTubers she voiced complaints about included Gigguk, The Canipa Effect, Mother's Basement, RCAnime, and AniMatt, YouTubers she expressed indifferent viewpoints for included Under the Scope Reviews, and YouTubers she praised included Super Eyepatch Wolf, NineOuh, The Pedantic Romantic, BestGuyEver, Endless Jess, and Mumkey Jones. Many agreed with her views, and many got angry. Several people, such as RCAnime, Gigguk, Subsonic Sparkle, and The Pedantic Romantic made response videos too it (the former 2 disagreeing with her, the third one doing a comedic video, and the latter one agreeing with her), and it ultimately resulted in a 4 hour long podcast on Mother's Basement's channel with Digi, Mother's Basement, NineOuh, Gigguk, Subsonic Sparkle, and The Pedantic Romantic. Digi has stated that while she does agree with many of what she said in the video, she regrets doing it drunk because her points were less cohesive and concise than normal, and she did make a couple of poor word choices throughout it.
====Series On Hiatus====
Spin the Crunchyroulette was a show where Digi goes to Crunchyroll and hits the random button, which would take her to the first episode of a random anime; then, if she hasn't seen the show, she'll try watching it. She's done several alone, but has also had several guests, including Endless Jess and BestGuyEver. She put the show on hiatus, and hasn't said if she'll ever revive it. It also had a spinoff called Spin the Sakugaboorou, where she went to the website Sakugaboorou and clicked random to find random gif images of impressive animation in anime, or Sakuga, and if she hasn't seen the show she'd go to watch it. So far it's only had one episode, where the Davoo, her editor, guest starred.
Second Chances Board: Over the years, Digi has dropped hundreds of anime. As a response to her fans constantly complaining about her dropping certain shows, she started the Second Chances Board. On the introduction video, people have to post a comment explaining in detail why she should give a certain anime a second chance. She'll then put it on a board she put together which hangs on the wall and throws a dart at it; whichever one the dart gets closest to will be the one she gives a second chance. She put the show on hiatus, and hasn't said if she'll ever revive it.
===Digibros===
====Let's Plays====
The primary series on Digibros, where Béatrice and her brother, Victor, play through games and commentate over them in the style of Game Grumps. Their most notable Let's Plays are Dark Souls, Ratchet & Clank (which they dropped), The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, among many others. 
====Other====
Ocarina of Time - N64 vs. 3DS: Although more in the style of Digibro's main channel's videos, rather than Digi Bros, Digi goes into great length to explain how although Ocarina of Time on N64 is one of her favorite games of all time, 3DS was a massive disappointment.
===Digibro's Turntable===
====Worst to Best====
Inspired by a show of the same name by Anthany Fantano of TheNeedleDrop, this is a series of vlogs where Digi picks a band or artist who is important to her or who was important to her at some point and ranks all of their albums, from the worst album to the best album.
====Lyrical Investigation====
A show where Digi analyzes the lyrics of complexly written songs.
===Corrupting Your Kids===
Corrupting Your Kids is a new channel that Digibro created in 2018 where she and her fiancée, May, do podcasts where they watch seasonal anime live and give their initial impressions of what they're watching. Since they don't show the anime on screen for copyright reasons, it's probably advised that, if you care about spoilers, you either watch the anime they're talking about before you watch the podcast, or you watch it along with them.
==Patreon==
Digibro is on Patreon. When she first started it in 2014 she had a per video Patreon, but in 2017 she changed it to a per month Patreon.
==Podcasts==
===MangaPod===
===Weebcast===
The Weebcast was Digibro's seasonal podcast, which has since been handed off to Mother's Basement, where her and her friends talk about the new season of anime after a few episodes of each show have been released each season.
===The Pro Crastinators Podcast===
====Pro Crastinator Interviews====
===Pub Crawl/DJ Cider's Pub Crawl===
===Old-Ass Anime Cast===
A podcast where Digi talks about anime that she has a long history with and/or has a lot of errant thoughts about that would be difficult/impossible to structure into a normal video.
===Seasonal Anime Series Every Week===
#Eromanga-Sensei every Week (Spring 2017 Anime)
#Fate/Apocrypha Every Week (Summer 2017 Anime)
#Made in Abyss Every Week (Summer 2017 Anime)
#The Rising of the Shield Hero (Winter 2019 Anime)
===Other Miscellanous/One-Shot Podcasts===
==External Links==
#Patreon
#Reddit
#Figure Collection
#Bandcamp
#Soundcloud 1
#Soundcloud 2
#Purevolume
#Letterboxd
#GoodReads
#GameFAQs
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