DarkViperAU

## About

### YouTube

**DarkViperAU** is a channel that Matthew created since **November 1, 2012**. This channel formerly focuses on politics, religion and philosophy (Until he unlisted or private his older videos). He eventually started speedrunning **GTA V** on Twitch. And until to this day, he still mainly focuses do Speedrunning, Challenges, Facts & Glitches and Reddit Recap.

### Twitch

He discovered and joined Twitch since 2014 through Hearthstone Tournaments, which sparked his interest. Since then he has amassed over 700,000 followers and 16 million views, with a peak of 14,091 concurrent viewers.

His current streaming consists of various playthroughs of games such as Grand Theft Auto V, Noita, Slay the Spire, The Binding of Isaac and more, with a focus on **GTA V** challenges, which get edited and uploaded to his YouTube channel.

### Variety Content

Although his main focus is Grand Theft Auto V, Matthew also likes to play other games and keep a certain level of diversity within his channel, some of these games include: Noita, Slay the Spire, Dark Souls III, Among Us, Fall Guys and others. He will also from time to time make compilations and highlights of his videos, or upload response videos, songs, stories, tutorials, rants, vlogs and more.

#### Viper Rambles

In Viper Rambles (formerly Speedrunner’s Rambles), Matthew covers a wide range of topics, from casual gaming discussion to serious political debate. He covers relevant topics of interest and welcomes suggestions from his audience, offering his unique perspective and occasionally engaging in a back and forth with viewers. The series moved to its own channel in March 2023.

#### Reddit Recap

Viewers can submit community-created memes, artwork and more to Matthew's subreddit, where he looks at the most popular submissions around the 1st of each month. r/DarkViperAU has over 100,000 members and has popularised many memes over the years.

Due to some good submissions being missed, occasional episodes will feature handpicked submissions.

#### Real life streams

On rare occasions, Matthew has done IRL streams. These range from buying plants and cooking to multi-day trips to PAX Australia, a convention centred around gaming culture and content creators.

#### React Content Series

In this multi-part series, Matthew shares his perspective on reaction content and its negative impact on the creators being reacted to, as well as other creators on the platform.The series began with the creation of a 14-page document, which he later followed up with a series of videos discussing the responses to the original document and furthering his stance against reactors.

## Updates

* **Outro Removal** - This segment removed in unconfirmed reason whether if the viewers are uninterested to watch till the end of the video.

## Controversy

### Reaction content criticism/Drama with Penguinz0

In February 2022, DarkViperAU published a 14-page document titled "How The React Grift Works", criticising reactors for exploiting the less fortunate. Penguinz0 responded with a video disagreeing with the essay. DarkViperAU called out Charlie for misrepresenting his work, accusing him of deliberately distorting it.

The catalyst for Charlie's response may have been a Twitter conversation in which DarkViperAU mentioned that people who exploit others for money and power are the kind of people who would sexually abuse someone. Charlie concluded that he was equating reactors with rapists, but later apologised and retracted his misinterpretation.

DarkViperAU clarified that his essay was about reactors doing bad things, not about them being bad people. Charlie and DarkViperAU played a game together and tried to reconcile. DarkViperAU completed a series of videos responding to comments made by various creators about the drama and clarifying his position on reaction content.

### Rejecting KDence's edit

TBA

1. ↑ https://youtu.be/JVDslC1qhjg?t=855
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7HmhESsK24
3. ↑ https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRid-d3hQpDnTpAlIBWICuZO4J\_C2j0FX-PqT2HPEGLDpTy\_jhebAiXbBtn-6OwdPvY\_mj0VYDfkHPj/pub
4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAPDd-cB8Do
5. ↑ https://youtu.be/cqWNmXYC76A
6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3raLgXC0czs
7. ↑ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAnJ4ZuTYaeGv4WIexP9C5LAuMEnMkG-Q

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