found him in 2013 when I stumbled upon a fruit gushers review video in which he made a parody of a pre-existing video on YouTube under the name of Francis, which is his alternate character that he created for himself.

I used to be a gamer but have largely fallen off that wagon, but have followed him ever since because of his sincerity, simplicity and the discussions that he had about important topics – all underneath the umbrella of video games that brought many of us in.

Part of what drew the viewers in and brought more to find him as endearing was the fact that Boogie shared his experiences dealing with morbid obesity which later required gastric bypass surgery which took place this past summer. Boogie had a pastcarrying throughout his life and throughout his entire YouTube career, Boogie had been dealing with constant emotional distress created by his abusive mother and the strife he had grown up with.

He dealt with a mother that would beat him up daily, that had bitten him, that had beaten him close to the point of death, that would neglect him, that had burned him with cigarettes and that actually had forced him to jump out of a moving car at one point in order to save himself from whatever was going on. I also believe that his father died at a young age.

He was a college dropout, had no home, so moved to Arkansas where his brother was. After couch surfing on the streets of Fayetteville, Arkansas, Boogie finally