Hideaki Utsumi

Hideaki Utsumi (born: ), also known as Tono2097, is a Japanese sound designer and composer known for his works at Capcom and on the Resident Evil video game series. He is known on YouTube for his numerous videos about his pet parrots.
==Content==
Hideaki's YouTube content consists of short videos of his pet parrots. The main star, a chattering lory named Gumi, is featured in most of the videos. Gumi is known for making noises reminiscent of a car alarm, which Utsumi calls "wuewuewuewue".
==History==
Hideaki created his channel on August 24, 2013. Nothing was publicly uploaded until 2019. He did a couple livestreams in early 2019. One was of him playing Grand Theft Auto V online, and the other Resident Evil 2, which he is known for being a sound designer for.
His channel then went inactive until 2021. He uploaded his comeback video on March 13, 2021. This was the first YouTube video of his to feature the parrot that would soon get his channel popular, Gumi. He first uploaded a video of Gumi back in 2016 on Instagram, and began to quickly upload to YouTube. He continued to post parrot videos, the videos nicknaming them "Birb". Throughout spring 2021, his videos very slowly gained traction. It wasn't until late May when he would upload the famous videos.
On May 21, he uploaded "Red birb "GUMI" wuewuewuewuewue.....staring .". Not long after it was uploaded, it became extremely successful, spawning a sequel uploaded 1 week later. These videos became widely acclaimed internet memes with many people creating their own spin on the videos. Each of those videos now boast over 2 million views. Through all of this, Hideaki's channel saw incredibly fast subscriber growth, reaching 100,000 susbcribers and over 10,000,000 total video views just over a month after the "wuewuewuewue" videos were uploaded.
Hideaki continues to make videos featuring Gumi and his other parrots and they still receive hundreds of thousands of views each.
==Trivia==
*He worked at Capcom from 1995 to 2009, most notably on the Resident Evil series.
*He does not speak very good English and uses a translator to communicate with his fans.
*He currently owns 4 parrots.
==Channel milestones==
====Subscriber milestones====
* 1,000 subscribers: June 11, 2021
* 10,000 subscribers: June 22, 2021
* 100,000 subscribers: July 1, 2021
* 200,000 subscribers: August 22, 2021
* 300,000 subscribers: March 4, 2022
====Video view milestones====
* 100,000 video views: June 14, 2021
* 1 million video views: June 23, 2021
* 10 million video views: July 2, 2021
* 100 million video views: June 30, 2022
==Gallery==
===Parrots===
Hideaki gumi.png|
Hideaki kiwi.png|
Hideaki kohaku.png|
Hideaki kuromi.png|
Hideaki lemon.png|
==References==
Category:Vlogging YouTubers
Category:Japanese YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2013