Skooch

Kevin Mercado (born: ) better known online as Skooch is an American YouTuber who used to upload a wide variety of gaming videos in a "Let's Play" variety. For a significant amount of time, Skooch created content for the game League of Legends up until December 2022, where he shifted into making video essays on broader gaming topics. He launched his YouTube channel on August 12, 2014, and is currently residing in Los Angeles, California. He uploads content to his channel around once or twice a week.
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==Content==
===Can We Talk About This===
"Can We Talk About This?" is the most popular series currently running on Skooch's channel. The videos themselves are formatted in a quasi-video essay style. In "CWTAT", he goes on to explain League of Legends champion abilities in detail, quickly followed by an outlandish analogy for how "overpowered" these abilities are. 
===Bronze Theory Crafting===
"Bronze Theory Crafting" is another popular series on the channel that focuses on playing League of Legends in unconventional ways and seeing if the theory holds any merit. The first half of the video usually features Skooch detailing how this new playstyle works while the second half is focused on playing the build in game. 
*Welcome to Bronze Theory Crafting, a series where we try out theories so Bronze, they just might work! (intro catchphrase for Bronze Theory Crafting)
====Bronze Theory Crafting League====
Bronze Theory Crafting League is an offshoot series of Bronze Theory Crafting, where instead of detailing a build, Skooch will select 10 random members of his Twitch chat and give them a set item build that they have to follow. Then, once the build has been revealed, players will have three minutes to decide what champion works best with the build, after which Skooch will shoutcast over their game. 
===Stream Highlights===
Most of Skooch's content nowadays is streamed live on his Twitch channel, meaning that outside of CWTAT and BTC, a lot of his content comes down to pointed discussions about specific topics or general game highlights from League of Legends games that were played that day.
=== Let's Plays ===
In the past, Skooch has also provided "Let's Play" style video content on games such as Outlast, Resident Evil, Little Nightmares, and more, though he doesn't pursue this type of content anymore. 
== Shift in Content ==
Towards the end of 2022, Skooch would frequently comment his disdain for League of Legends publicly both on Twitter and on his Twitch streams. He would continue uploading videos related to the game until December 19th, 2022, when he released a video titled "Can We Talk About This? Quitting League of Legends". In the video, Skooch states that his "heart isn't in League of Legends" anymore, criticizing the game for its shift in focus to reward a competitive environment rather than one that sought fun. This criticism was extended to include the greater YouTube content creation sphere surrounding League of Legends, where the most popular videos went from being goofy highlight videos (c. 2016) to repetitive high elo gameplay videos.
The video was well received overall by Skooch's community, although several viewers would continue to ask Skooch to come back to creating content for League of Legends in the weeks that followed. 
From here, Skooch started doubling down on making more highly-edited challenge-based content such as "I Tried Beating the 3 Most Popular Roguelikes in Under 1 Hour" and fully migrated the "Can We Talk About This" format from League of Legends to other more general interests. 
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==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2014