Coolcatfunhouse

Darryl Ray Evans (born ), better known as Derek Savage or coolcatfunhouse, is an American film director, actor, and author best known as the creator of the character, Cool Cat. His YouTube channel is dedicated to uploading clips and meta material related to his movie Cool Cat Saves The Kids, as well as other projects.
==Content==
The earliest videos on the channel were uploaded in 2014, a year before the film Cool Cat Saves the Kids was released. The film was relatively unknown until 2015 when YourMovieSucksDOTorg made a twohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C67thOEtVNQ&ab_channel=YourMovieSucksDOTorg parthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY6H3_d61zc&ab_channel=YourMovieSucksDOTorg video reviewing it, which was followed by Alex from I Hate Everything reviewing ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZimL8vJejY&list=PLWn8bT2RfmERXgUoiI0aAlhp1KZEVo5ui&index=3&ab_channel=IHateEverything as part of his "Search for the Worst" serieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoTZZYm2HZI later that year. 
The movie was critized by the two reviewers because of its atrocious editing, horrible acting, low budget, inconsistent and hypocritical messages (Cool Cat complains about bullying, but then goes on to mock Butch the Bully for having no friends), laughable script, and several other flaws. Adam particularly criticized it for being unfriendly to children due to Cool Cat suggesting that kids should accept texts from strangers telling them they had won a lot of money, Cool Cat coming off as pedophile, and Savage's own websitehttps://www.dereksavage.com/ containing games aimed at children and his history of working as a playgirl model on the same homepage (it has been since updated). Alex was more cynical in his review, but both reviews concluded the film was so-bad-it's-good.
As of 2017 the channel has started to grow as Derek announced sequel pitches such as "Cool Cat stops a school shooting", "Cool Cat Superhero" and "Cool Cat Stops Coronavirus". Derek has also offered YourMovieSucksDOTorg and PewDiePie roles in the movie.
== Controversies==
===Abusing copyright strikes===
Derek Savage came to know about the reviews and initially praised YMS's videos. However, on November 9, 2015, the video by I Hate Everything was taken down and Alex's channel was given a strike for copyright infringement by the movie's creator Derek Savage, despite the videos correctly falling under fair use law. Alex released several videoshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0qoD3viXL0&list=PLWn8bT2RfmERXgUoiI0aAlhp1KZEVo5ui&index=4&ab_channel=IHateEverything detailinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyQjcFmc-Cs&list=PLWn8bT2RfmERXgUoiI0aAlhp1KZEVo5ui&index=5&ab_channel=IHateEverything thehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzXSQ5f08sA&list=PLWn8bT2RfmERXgUoiI0aAlhp1KZEVo5ui&index=7&ab_channel=IHateEverything events of the incident, including emails between Alex and Derek and tweets from Derek Savage's "Cool Cat" account, shown in Alex's video "With Apologies To Derek Savage"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXVkcWbvnN0&list=PLWn8bT2RfmERXgUoiI0aAlhp1KZEVo5ui&index=6&ab_channel=IHateEverything. Alex moved forward with a counter-claim with the support of YouTubers Bobsheaux and YourMovieSucks.org and his network, Creative Nation. On November 27, 2015, Alex's Cool Cat videos were once again listed on his channel and, the following day, Alex uploaded a video in which he stated that the copyright strike was removed. Alex also went into detail about an email sent to him from a law firm on November 13 regarding copyright material in his "Attack of the Jurassic Shark" videos. However, several obvious clues pointed put by YMS gave Alex reason to believe that the law firm and email was fabricated by Derek Savage, and the real creators of "Attack of the Jurassic Shark" have not made any attempt to issue copyright strikes against Alex.
YMS also made a video called "Cool Cat Learns Fair Use"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ZmVheuxpo&ab_channel=YourMovieSucksDOTorg, which went into detail debunking Savage's claims of copyright infringement. The video also noted that he could end up in jail (for up to five years) for impersonation of a law firm. Savage deleted the original video Adam responded to. This is not the only illegal thing he's done - he also managed to dox several YouTubers who made parody videos including Mr. Bump, maker of the YouTube Poop "Cool Cat Joins ISIS", whom he threatened to send the address of to the real ISIS. Later he threatened to send the same address to the FBI terror division under the false pretense that Mr. Bump was actually affiliated with ISIS.
Derek also hosted a Kickstarter for a sequel film, and instead of giving out refunds as he promised, he kept the money. Mumkey Jones (who promoted the film and would've starred in it) made his own school shooting safety film on YouTube with a $5 budget just to spite Savage. Not only did the campaign still fail, but it was also reported to IndieGoGo for possible fraud. Savage tried to cover it up by claiming that it was him being ripped off. 
=== Legal disputes over the name "Cool Cat" ===
Despite his attempts on using the legal angle for his own self gain, ironically Derek became on the receiving end of a legal dispute over the name "Cool Cat", as Cool Cat is also the name of an orange, feline character from Warner Bros Looney Tuneshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Cat_(Looney_Tunes) who first appeared in a short simply titled Cool Cat in 1967. He was voiced by Larry Storch, and the final star of the original Warner Bros. theatrical cartoons. However unlike Savage's Cool Cat, his design was based on that of a Bengal Tiger, though he had some similarities to Pink Panther. Savage denied he plagiarized the idea and that Cool Cat's character was invented when he was a kid, as an imaginary character who would comfort him whenever he was bullied - however he later admitted to collecting mugs with Looney Tunes characters on them, including the WB Cool Cat.
===Conservative views===
Savage is an extreme Trump supporter and has expressed support for InfoWars. He was once arrested for possession of an unregistered machine gunhttps://dirtycoolcatconfessions.tumblr.com/post/187177517425/lmao-reading-the-actual-case-file-this-is-legit/amp. According to April Ann Reese, the actress of Momma Cat, he had also displayed several "incel"-like behavior, as he would repeatedly harass for her dates and when she rejected his advances, he broke into her house, accusing her of having a thing with Cool Cat's actor Jason Johnson. Jason has also confirmed this is true, and it could be due to this that Momma Cat and Cool Cat were recast in future movies.
==Trivia== 
*Cool Cat was based on Savage's imaginary friend as a child.
*He owns an electric guitar signed by Van Halen, and is at least somewhat competent at playing the instrument, as shown by his music videos.https://youtu.be/C67thOEtVNQ?t=1007
*His website featured reviews from random celebrities' names tacked onto them, such as Adam West. However Internet Archive's site check proves that they are in fact fake.https://youtu.be/C67thOEtVNQ?t=47
*It is theorized he named himself "Derek Savage" to distance himself from his legal name, which has a felony conviction for illegal firearm possession which goes against the supposedly family-friendly image of the Cool Cat franchise.
*In 2021, he started selling “gay weed” NFTs on the Cool Cat Twitter account.https://opensea.io/collection/coolcatnfts
*He was a former porn star for PlayGirl magazine.https://youtu.be/C67thOEtVNQ?t=63
*Derek appeared on Fox News in which he discussed the Cool Cat books.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knENjVcYZ-U&t
==References==
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