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**Steven Jay Willams** (born July 24, 1974), better known by his online alias **Boogie2988** or just **Boogie**, was a YouTube personality best known for his video rants about video games and nerd culture as a character named "Francis". he has appeared on multiple episodes of the H3H3 podcast.

## Biography

Williams grew up in St. Paul, Virginia. He was a coal miner as a child, and his mother was a teacher. He has two older siblings.

Williams described his adulthood as a "sad" time period in his life, due to dealing with obesity, lack of friends, and suffering verbal and physical abuse from his mother. Williams had gastric bypass surgery due to morbid obesity on August 1, 2017.

Williams dropped out from St. Paul High School in Virginia. He later moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas, where his life improved momentarily but soon worsened, and he did not leave his home for 7 years and was supported by his friend. It was then that he discovered YouTube and started to create videos, which he said gave his life a meaning.

### YouTube

The Francis character is based on stereotypes of nerdy video game players and often parodies trending video game news, reaction, and culture.

Williams based the character on his early life experiences and has said that he wants viewers to hate the character for embodying gamer stereotypes. Boogie2988 videos range from absurd rants to serious discussions on daily life, such as the ethics of paid promotion on YouTube channels, and his experiences with mental health.

He won the Trending Gamer award at The Game Awards 2016.

### Hack

In June 2016, Boogie's YouTube account was temporarily closed due to an anonymous hacker. The unidentified person got hold of his phone number via Verizon during his time at VidCon and was able to gain access to his accounts associated with it, including his YouTube channel and Imgur (which contained his nudes). His channel was restored less than a week later.

### Surgery

In April 2017, he announced his plans to undergo bariatric surgery as the final answer to his health problems. Boogie had become very obese and was also suffering from type 2 diabetes and was weighing 587 pounds at his heaviest.

Boogie’s surgery was unsuccessful and as of June 2018, he gained 365 pounds, the heaviest he has been since high school.

His diabetes advanced into type 3 as well, and things started looking worse as far as his health was concerned.

## Divorce

Boogie2988 and his ex-wife (nicknamed Dez), met each other online and were friends for several years before she packed up her bags and landed in Arkansas to be with him.

After she and Boogie started living together, she gave up her job to take care of him and help him with his health issues. Boogie has claimed that he suffered regular psychological and physical abuse at the hands of his mother while growing up.

He had been suffering from anxiety, PTSD, and mental illness due to the reported abuse. So much so that Boogie attempted suicide as a teenager and tried once again after the death of his mother in 2009.

Boogie proposed to Williams with a YouTube video on July 27, 2012, and was happy and thrilled when she said yes. The couple got married in 2013, and a positive change seemed to come over Boogie. He gave credit to Williams for his improved mental and physical health and told people that he wanted to get better for his wife’s sake as well as his.

However, things went south on the home front. Williams and Boogie decided to separate and end their marriage. Boogie announced in a tweet that he and Williams were getting divorced and later explained the situation in a YouTube video.

Boogie was a bit philosophical in the video, saying that sometimes marriages don’t work out despite the best intentions and hard work. He said that they were separating because they “fell out of love and are splitting amicably as friends.”

Boogie and Williams worked with a mediator and sorted out the financial terms of their divorce. Since they didn’t have any children, the matter wasn’t too complicated. When Boogie spoke about his divorce, He claimed he was "Left with nothing" after Williams threatened to expose Boogie's porn blogs and sexual deviation (which were later exposed anyways).

The divorce was officially finalized on February 13, 2018.

In an H3H3 podcast, Boogie spoke about how his anxiety and obesity were extremely troublesome during the last two years of his marriage and were significant factors in his divorce.

## Boogie's Porn Blogs

Boogie portrays himself as someone that thinks highly of women. In reality, he thinks of them as little more than sexual objects for his own gratification. Furthermore he is a massive sexual pervert, which can be seen from his two porn blogs which served as his main source of income prior to adopting his nice guy persona.

Boogie willingly admitted that they were his porn blogs on his official youtube channel inviting you to learn more about him through them, though the video has since been deleted in an attempt to cover up the existence of his porn blogs.

## Boogie's Sugar Babies

Boogie has ironically claimed that he attracts women with his niceness, The truth, however, is that after his divorce he has paid for the services of women to be with him. Lucy Foxx and The Grave Ghoul are his two known sugar babies.

### The Lucy Foxx Incident

Lucy Foxx was one of the sugar babies Boogie hired to be with him while he was still divorcing Dez. Lucy Foxx has stated that she was a victim of abuse from Boogie during their relationship. He didn’t allow her to use a phone or even work while they were together. She also stated that he "makes her feel guilty for not focusing on himself.", that he "didn’t care about her at all" and that "Boogie only cared about talking about his problems as a beloved youtube millionaire".

The story was covered in Drama Alert (a Youtube drama news series hosted by Keemstar), in which Boogie tries to paint Lucy Foxx as his girlfriend as well as a gold digger, but deliberately omits the fact that he had hired her.

## Death

    On March 7th 2020 Boogie appeared on a livestream hosted by Kyle Myers (FPSRussia) where they discussed Kyle's time in prison, during which Boogie unexpectedly died. His cause of death is currently unknown officially, however there are several theories surrounding his sudden death.

### Child Predator Theory

During the livestream, Kyle Myers begins talking about his time in the county jail, where he was held before being officially court marshalled and sentenced to months in prison. He mentions that during his stay in the county jail, one of the people being held in the cell with him was a pedophile, and that the other people being held there for minor offenses were planning to "do something about him". when Kyle first mentions the pedophile, Boogie goes quiet and leans in toward the camera with a dreadful look on his face, shortly thereafter Boogie begins to slide back into his chair with his head tilted over and a blank expression on face. it was later realized that Boogie had died.

the theory states that Boogie was the person in the jail cell with Kyle Myers, and that the fear of being exposed as a child predator caused boogie to go into shock and suffer heart failure. though there is little proper evidence to support this theory, aside from Boogie's past of sexual deviancy, there are more signs pointing to this theory being truthful than to it being a total fabrication.

### Other Theories

* **Natural Causes.** the 2ndmost supported theory is that Boogie suffered some sort of heart attack or stroke which lead to his death during the livestream.
* **Poisoning.** the theory with the least amount of supported evidence is that the food/drink in Boogie's house was poisoned prior to the stream. it is debated among believers of this theory about who committed the poisoning and how, with the most popular answers being his ex-wife, or one of his sugar babies.
* **Successful Suicide Attempt.** with Boogie's past of failed suicide attempts it is easy to see how someone could come to the conclusion that Boogie's death was actually suicide, however there is no evidence pointing to his death being a suicide.
* **Minor Theories.** there are many small theories only believed only by a handful of people, most of them are conspiratorial in nature and have little to no supported evidence, such as the **Hacked Mindchip**, **Lethal Fart**, and **Phil Spencer** theories.

With the most predominant theories being fairly outlandish with little supported evidence, it isn't possible to pinpoint the exact cause of Boogie's death. if an autopsy report were ever released however, it would narrow down the list of plausible theories.

## Gallery

Boogie during his video addressing his porn blogs.Boogie with his sugar babyone of the several leaked images of nude Boogie