Karma Charger

Kevin, better known online as Karma Charger (briefly known as Healthy Charger), is a Malaysian former YouTuber and gamer. He was well known for his Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive custom/joke weapon showcase videos.
Kevin started making Left 4 Dead videos and TF2 videos on his channel in 2012. After a while he joined the Official TF2 Wiki and made videos for said wiki. He eventually began making videos where he demonstrated items from the TF2 workshop, and garnered quite a following.
In March 2019, he privatized all his videos and uploaded one last video, a goodbye video, but returned soon after with the intent of making yoga-based videos. Kevin, however, soon abandoned this ambition and returned to TF2 content for almost 2 years.
On November 29, 2019, Kevin's YouTube channel was hacked by a Russian hacker named MrCrazy (Tamerlan Dorsaev), with the former attempting to get his channel back.
On October 15, 2021, Kevin deleted his YouTube channel, his Discord server, his Steam group and his Twitter accounts due to the stress the internet was doing to his life.
==History==
Kevin joined YouTube on April 7, 2012, where he started doing Left 4 Dead 2 videos. He eventually joined the Official TF2 Wiki channel to upload videos demonstrating weapons such as the Soda Popper and the C.A.P.P.E.R. He then started to make TF2 videos where he would demonstrate custom weapons, joke weapons and workshop weapons. Kevin would also make other random TF2 videos, including his mini-series called "31 Bots".
A reupload of a demonstration of the "18 Shot" custom weapon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NZjibqn0V8
===Workshop Items===
Kevin made his own TF2 workshop items as well. His most famous item was the Jackhammer Rodeo taunt, which has been accepted into TF2. On the day he quit, all his fans joined servers, played only as Engineers and used the taunt the entire time in dedication to his leaving.
===Retiring===
On March 17, 2019, Kevin released his at-the-time final video entitled "Thank You, Good Bye, and Good Luck". In the video, Kevin explained that years of being confined in his own house while making YouTube content had made him feel isolated, and that he'd stop playing video games and uploading videos, and that he'd also get rid of his computer soon to begin his new life. On that same day, Kevin set all of his videos to private.
===Community Page===
After two days, Kevin went on his community page to tell his remaining fans his life story. Most of the things he did he thought were just disgusting things he did in his life when in actuality they were 100% normal.
===Old Videos and Reuploads===
The only thing official of anything Kevin is Karma Charger Plays, his second account which has decent amount of views. The first reupload at the time of his departure is his Joke Weapon Demonstration: Force Thousand Nature video (one of his most popular videos before he privatized it). A channel called "Karma Charger Archive" would be created to archive videos by Karma. On April 18, 2019, Karma Charger asked the owner of the account to cease reuploading his videos, urging everyone else to never reupload the videos before the closing ever again and to move on from the departure from his video game past.
===Karma Charger Plays===
Karma Charger Plays was an abandoned second channel by Kevin in which he posted videos from 2016-2017. There were nine videos on the channel: Three Team Fortress 2 videos (with fans) and six Left 4 Dead videos. Kevin never mentioned the second channel in the goodbye video and silently deleted it in late 2019. 
===Coming Back to YouTube===
Kevin changed his channel name to Healthy Charger and briefly stated in a now-deleted video/community post(?) that he would make yoga-based content. However this plan never came into fruition. During his time as "Healthy Charger" he would occasionally make community posts about the sorrows of his life. After a few months he would change his channel name back to Karma Charger and in August 2019 would return to making Team Fortress 2 videos again for a year and a half. His first video uploaded after he returned was a stop-motion animation he created based on Team Fortress 2 featuring the Spy. Sometime later he would make a now-deleted channel dedicated to demonstrations of custom Counter-Strike: Global Offensive weapons.
===Theft and Selling of Channel and Deletion===
On November 28, 2019, Kevin's channel was hacked by a Russian hacker, MrCrazy. MrCrazy changed the channel name to "Nari San". After the confrontation that lasted, on December 15, someone created a fake Karma Charger channel(?) and tried to trick Karma Charger's fans by saying he supposedly had no option but to sell the channel to the original hacker. Kevin was extremely upset about this. He made a now-deleted Twitter post where he warned people to not trust this account. On January 1, 2020, Karma found the impersonator's Twitter account and messaged him. The owner of the fake account agreed to stop and deleted the channel. Kevin then removed the first Twitter post about the impersonator he made. His channel was later deleted on December 24, 2019, presumably due to channel infringing on numerous copyright strikes. During the debacle, Kevin reported the hacking to the YouTube team. They ensured to recover the channel after its hacking and deletion.
===Deletion in October 2021===
On October 16, 2021, Kevin deleted his channel after realizing that he would soon fall back into his unhealthy habits if he kept using YouTube, especially after the hacking incident and the COVID-19 pandemic. Kevin's friend on Reddit posted an explanation of the channel's deletion that was sent to him by Kevin on Discord. Around the time of his channel deletion, many rumors were going around, from his channel again being hacked to him having committed suicide.
===Future===
There have been little to no updates from Kevin about his life since he left the internet. However, on November 27, 2022, Reddit user u/AlbanyKnight, a friend of Kevin and a contributor to his CS:GO channel, replied to comment in the explanation post, claiming that everything had been better for him and that he's been working for "Grab Driver".
Another Karma Charger associate, u/diamondxjozu5 claimed he also had been in touch with Kevin, stating that he's financially stable and has no plans on returning to YouTube.
==Trivia==
*Kevin originally did weapon demonstration videos on the Official TF2 Wiki channel and custom weapons channel.
*According to an old deleted community post, Kevin owned a PlayStation 2 as a kid. 
*The Winglet has made SFM Artwork for Kevin on a few occasions.
*Kevin apparently sold his computer after making the goodbye video.
*Kevin was briefly known as "Healthy Charger" during the period when he considered uploading yoga content.
*When Kevin initially left YouTube, he was planning on deleting the channel. However his fans pleaded him to keep it to preserve history.
*Kevin's channel was created on April 7. April 7 was also MrCrazy's birthday as said on his channel.
*His CS:GO channel equivalent is Karma Jockey, where he similarly posted custom skins and joke weapons for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
*Kevin's channel was named after a term used in the Left 4 Dead community to describe a Charger enemy spawned by the AI director killing a survivor that is not pulling their weight for the team. Karma Chargers CS:GO channel, Karma Jockey, was named after a similar term used for the Jockey enemies.
*On October 22, 2012, Kevin received a "Community Wiki Cap" and took a screenshot of the cap and posted it in his Steam screenshots library with a caption, "If you are reading this. Wind. Thank you for your guidance in the past from TF2 Wiki. I will never forget the experience from TF2 Wiki" 
==Gallery==
File:Karma charger community hat.jpeg|The TF2 Wiki community hat given to Kevin by "Wind".
Smiley Bag. .png|The annotation photo depicting a piece of paper with a smiley face drawn on it and a piece of tape attached, a reference to the Demoman from Team Fortress 2.
MannChop.jpg|SFM Created by the Winglet for Kevin called the Mann Chop.
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