Kevin Perjurer

The wax Brad Pitt sculpture Kevin uses as his avatar

**Kevin Perjurer** is the creator and host of Defunctland, as well as its spin-offs DefunctTV and Themed Alternative.

## Background

#### Pre-Defunctland

Kevin originally hails from Kansas City, Kansas, and mentions his deep interest in theme parks and themed entertainment gestated in him at an early age after experiencing both Disneyland and Walt Disney World on family vacations as well as the Worlds of Fun amusement park in his hometown.

Prior to Defunctland, Kevin worked on independent documentaries as a day job and began publishing original content on his personal website, ThePerj.com, sometime in 2016. Such content ranged from political satire to Hannah Montana fan theories, but the most ambitious and notable of these Perj-era projects was *Carver: An American Musical*, a full-length parody of the broadway musical *Hamilton* revolving around the life of George Washington Carver, the 19th-century African-American agricultural scientist and botanist most well known for popularizing peanut butter. *Carver* featured musical numbers such as "My Nuts" (parodying "My Shot") and "Flight of Stairs, There" (parodying "Aaron Burr, Sir" and referencing Carver's death from falling down a flight of stairs).

#### Defunctland (2017-present)

In early 2017, Kevin launched Defunctland, which was initially conceptualized as a virtual reality theme park exclusively composed of recreated defunct attractions. Accompanying this project would be a series of brief video-overviews documenting each demised ride he sought to virtually resurrect, the first of which being ExtraTERRORestrial: Alien Encounter, documented in the series' pilot episode, The History of ExtraTERRORestrial: Alien Encounter. However, Kevin found the documentary-style overviews of the extinct attractions so enthralling in and of themselves that he soon shifted his main focus to the Defunctland videos and dropped the "Perj Special Series" branding along with the entirety of his old website, which now redirects to the Defunctland Wordpress blog (which itself has since been supplanted by Defunctland.com.

The original Defunctland VR project is still ongoing, but it has now been aptly renamed to *Defunctland VR* after the YouTube channel became Kevin's main focus and a larger team of developers was brought on for the VR project.

#### Recent exploits

In 2018, Kevin and co-producer Heath Jinkins launched DefunctTV, which similarly covers defunct kids' TV shows. A special DefunctTV miniseries dedicated to the works of Jim Henson would debut the following year.

Kevin would serve as a producer for *Live from the Space Stage: A HALYX Story*, Matthew Serrano's 2020 feature documentary chronicling Disneyland's eponymous sci-fi rock band and host the film on the Defunctland channel.

In November of 2022, after over a year of work, Kevin would release possibly his most ambitious video project thus far, Disney Channel's Theme: A History Mystery, a full-length DefunctTV special featuring cinematic CGI renders and cinematography done almost entirely by him.

## Trivia

* Kevin has never publicly shown his face, and never appeared on camera at all in any of his videos until *Disney Channel's Theme: A History Mystery*. Instead, he represents himself online with a photograph of a sculpture from Madame Tussauds wax museum depicting the likeness of American actor Brad Pitt, and has worn a mask during his occasional in-person public appearances.
* Kevin currently resides in the Greater Orlando area of Florida.
* Kevin frequently consumes Wawa Mozzarella Sticks (colloquially "Mozzies") during live events, which has since evolved into a recurring joke among his audience and peers that even Kevin has referenced in the bio of his personal Twitter. This is also believed to have culminated in the 2020 Chairtyland Mozzarella Incident.
* Kevin is rumored to have artificially vat-grown Heath Jinkins using experimental induced pluripotent stem cell technology for unknown purposes.