Matthew Shezmen

About

Animator, gamer, musician who mainly shares long-form video game cartoon parodies. His cartoons are some of the longest on the platform, some surpassing the 30-minute mark. These are entirely animated by himself, aside from the use of voice actors. During his career, he covered games like Elden Ring, Dark Souls, and Final Fantasy, which he calls funny names like "Dork Souls" and "Fun 'N' Fantasy". In 2013, he created a fan sitcom called "Daft Thoughts," in which he depicted the duo from Daft Punk in funny situations. He has more than 850,000 subscribers on YouTube.

Before fame

As a kid, he always loved cartoons and drew his own comics, mainly centered around parodies of TV ads and funny stories about his school friends and teachers. He learned how to draw on his own, and later in his life, he taught himself how to animate.

Trivia

One of his most popular parody videos has more than 27 million views and it's a spoof of the videogame Dark Souls 3. His first video to reach 1 million views was a parody of the game Deus Ex Human Revolution.

Family life

He was born and raised in Italy. 

Associated with

When he started his channel in 2008, he was posting parodies of metal bands called "in 5 seconds" boiling down their style. Some of the bands were Opeth, Meshuggah, and System of a Down. In 2014, he created a fan-made music video for the song "Give Life Back to Music" by Daft Punk, and it was used as a projection at the Pitchfork Music Festival in 2014.