Cr1TiKaL

Charles White Jr. (born August 2, 1994), better known by his online alias Cr1TiKaL ( ; and its best known variation MoistCr1TiKaL), is an American YouTuber, Twitch streamer, podcaster, actor, and musician. He became popular for his gameplay and commentary videos of various video games on his penguinz0 YouTube channel, mainly due to his monotone voice and deadpan delivery of humorous commentary. In addition to his gaming content, White also uploads podcasts and music onto his YouTube channel, as a co-host of "The Official Podcast" and a member of The Gentle Men, respectively. White also uploads vlogging content, and his comedic commentary videos have established him as a well-known and well-respected personality within the website's commentary community.
In 2018, White extended his online activity onto the Twitch platform, where he mainly live streams gaming content. On Twitch, White has additionally garnered popularity for his card collecting videos. White also co-owns Human Media Group, a multi-channel network that serves online content creators and entertainers.
As of May 2021, White's YouTube channel has over 3.5 billion video views and over 8 million subscribers, whereas his Twitch channel has over 2.7 million followers and over 36 million total views.
Early life.
Charles White Jr. was born on August 2, 1994, in Tampa, Florida. He attended Carrollwood Day School and was a member of the varsity basketball team. He also lived in Orlando, Florida during some of his younger years. White had recurrent pneumothorax in his left lung and it collapsed three times when he was younger before he underwent surgery to fix it in 2011. White used to suffer from obsessive–compulsive disorder as stated in many of his videos, and he used to have a lot of "weird rituals" because of it. He has stated that he does not suffer from it anymore. He attended The University of Tampa and graduated with a bachelor's degree in human sciences.
Internet career.
Content format and style.
White's videos and content has evolved over the years. In the beginning, the channel focused primarily on performing glitches in shooter games, such as "Battlefield" and "Call of Duty", and later gaming guides for said games. However, his videos later evolved into more gameplay and commentary. White first began introducing humor into his commentary in the video "Battlefield BC 2 Hilarious Round Saving Rush Destruction", which was about an accident in the video game "", which he considered humorous. He would later upload several videos concerning humorous moments he experienced playing the game. White's intentional sarcasm in expressing humor over commentating developed over his "Fun Tactics" series. They consisted of mainly humorous and ludicrous methods of protection and assault.
White's first video in which he focused entirely on delivering humor in the form of insults and sarcasm through commentary was a video titled "Modern Warfare 2 Ground War 1–20 Gameplay and Commentary". He deliberately played poorly in the game, and repeatedly insulted players who killed him while poking fun at himself and repetitive use of self-encouragement in which he praised himself while also using mild forms of criticism. He continued this trend with other games. White is widely known for his usage of elaborate, vulgar descriptions and creative cursing.
White started doing non-gaming related content in 2012 with "The Real Series", which consists of him dubbing voice-overs over preexisting infomercials. Later, around early 2016, he began talking about various types of topics, including internet drama, which is still a major part of the channel today. Through 2016 and into 2017, he started reviewing different types of media and creating the popular web series "Moist Meter" and "Liquid Ladder" for ratings and rankings respectively. He also does a year-end award segment on "Moist Meter" known as "Moisties". Since 2019, White has uploaded music videos onto his channel with his duo, The Gentle Men. As of late April 2021, he also hosts "Deep Dive", a new video series in which he explores "wild topics" in relation to various events in previous years.
History.
Early years and rise in popularity (2006–2014).
White started making YouTube videos in 2006 about random topics and AMVs through his older channels. White created his penguinz0 YouTube channel on May 7, 2007. White cited the penguin as his favorite bird species, inspiring his channel name. On August 5, he uploaded his first non-deleted video on the website, featuring gameplay of "Gears of War". The video received little attention and he made a few other videos attributing to "Halo 3", the "Gears of War" series, and "BioShock". These videos all gained little reception and attention. White gained brief popularity on a video where he commentated for the first time, which was "Aliens vs Predator Let['s] Rock Achievement Guide". White also during this time streamed on Justin.tv from late 2009 to early 2010.
White's audience expanded at a rapid rate after he uploaded a video titled "The Most Difficult Game Ever Created Gameplay and Commentary". In the video, he commented while playing the online Flash computer game "QWOP", and associated it with the "hardest game he had ever played." The video eventually gained popularity after Ray William Johnson reviewed it on his "Equals Three" series, in which he praised White's sense of humor. The video's view count subsequently increased rapidly, and remains one of White's most viewed of all-time. In 2012, White started doing the now highly popular series "The Real Series" in which he voices over infomercials.
Prior to 2020, media outlets sparsely referenced White's gameplay videos, although his 2015 video on "" was referenced by "The Daily Star". In the 2010s, White drew attention from media outlets for his commentary videos, which were often of discourse about the YouTube platform and considerably critical of YouTube's policies. For example, in 2013, White was cited by "Tubefilter" as panning YouTube's new comment system, which required a Google+ account to leave comments on videos.
Face reveal and content change (2015–2017).
In 2015, after eight years of anonymity, White made his Snapchat username "big_moist" public, thus revealing his face. White uploaded his first video showing his face on camera on March 5, 2017.
In early 2015, White began speaking about various topics, including internet drama, which has been a frequent video format on his channel since. Tiffany Kelly of "The Daily Dot" wrote that White is known for his "sardonic commentary." In February 2016, "The Guardian" included his video reaction to the Fine Brothers' React World controversy in their coverage of the situation.
On August 16, 2016, White through his Twitter account said that his YouTube channel had gotten disabled due to him getting two strikes on two of his videos. Because of this, the day before he made a video on a second channel named Cr1TiKaL to speak about the strikes. In the video, he explains how one strike came from the video "How Budlight is Made", in which there was an animated male genitalia present, to which the video was removed, and the other strike coming from the video "Second Life Video", where White put a link to his Budlight video which he re-uploaded to Pornhub. In the response, White talks about how his videos were wrongfully struck going through YouTube's spam guidelines and showing that he broke no rules. On April 17 of the same year, White made a tweet and a video on his main channel speaking about how the strikes had been lifted and both of the videos are back up due to Ethan Klein of h3h3Productions getting in contact with his friend at YouTube. In the video, White thanks his followers and everybody who helped, and talks about how much YouTube means to him.In September, White was cited among other YouTubers who criticized the platform for mass-demonetizing videos. 
In December of the same year, White began co-hosting "The Official Podcast" with Andrew Wagenheim, Kaya Orsan, and Jackson Clarke. A new episode of the podcast is released weekly on Spotify as well as White's YouTube channel. In 2017, White began his "Moist Meter" series, where he reviews games and movies on a scale of 0%–100%, which includes his year-end "Moisties", a countdown of the top five best and worst games and movies of that year that appeared on "Moist Meter". White also made a new tier-chart series known as "Liquid Ladder", where he ranks various items of similar use and rank which is the best and the worst. White's 2017 video showcasing character customization in "" was referenced by "Kotaku". White streamed on YouTube from 2016 to the beginning of 2018, but stopped because of the lack of communication with the staff.
Twitch streaming and increase in popularity (2018–present).
White continued to make content discussing happenings within the YouTube community. In January 2018, White addressed YouTube after the website removed his video discussing Logan Paul's . By March 2018, White's YouTube channel had accumulated over 2 million subscribers. In May, White's video featuring a pit of 5,400 balls he made for his husky Tetra went viral, which had the Press Association interview him about it and various media outlets to report on it.
In 2018, White began streaming on Twitch. In March 2020, due to COVID-19 lockdown measures, White co-hosted an online "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate" tournament on his Twitch channel with fellow YouTuber Alpharad. In 2020, White's YouTube channel saw significant change and new content which made the channel gain nearly over 3 million subscribers in the same year. He also expanded on his music project, The Gentle Men, producing five songs in 2020.
On June 15, 2020, White uploaded a video titled "Something Huge For You", in which he announced a scavenger hunt for his newest music video at the time, Skynut, where the first five people to find the three hidden clues as well as the real-world destination within the scavenger hunt would be awarded one thousand US dollars each. Each clue is contained within three unlisted videos on one of White's channels named Charlie W. The third clue reveals the destination. The videos within the scavenger hunt are titled "Clue", "Clue B", and "Clue C". In the "Clue C" video, the destination was revealed as Haesindang Park, also known as Penis Park. The code words "reindeer" from "Clue", "Stitch" from "Clue B", and "Penis Park" from "Clue C" were used, considering the meaning behind "Skynut". The winners were announced in a comment on the "Clue C" video. White still regularly uses his "Charlie W" channel to watch YouTube videos during his "YouTube nights" on Twitch.
During the later half of the year, White's popularity increased due to his Twitch streams centered around gameplay of chess and "Among Us", a social deduction video game. In June, he participated in the first PogChamps chess tournament, hosted by Chess.com. White abruptly won "one of the more anticipated games" in the tournament, beating fellow Twitch streamer xQc in six moves. "Dot Esports" noted the game as one of the five "biggest moments in streaming from 2020", with the clip of White's victory becoming one of the most-viewed in Twitch history, earning over 1.9 million views by December 24, 2020. Ultimately, White was the winner of the tournament's consolation bracket. In late October, White participated in U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "Among Us" streams.
Over on his YouTube channel, White began to show highlight clips from his Twitch streams, including various amounts of gameplay from a variety of different games, card openings, and YouTube nights. He has also created a tier-list series known as "Liquid Ladder", where he ranks various items on which is the best and the worst.
In September 2020, White's YouTube channel received a community guideline strike for uploading "graphic content with intent to shock." A "prank road rage video" caused his channel to receive the strike, which YouTube initially upheld after White submitted an appeal. Shortly thereafter, YouTube received backlash for their decision, and reversed the strike, stating it was "an over-enforcement of their policies." In the same month, White criticized YouTube's lack of action toward channels that posted videos of animal abuse.
In November, White signed a contract with BroadbandTV Corp (BBTV) to become a content partner with the company. At the time, White had accumulated over 6.5 million subscribers on YouTube. Also in November, White spoke out in a YouTube video against Twitch's increase of DMCA crackdowns. One month later, he also spoke out about the absurdity of enjailing those who violated the increase of the DMCA crackdowns after former YouTuber Charmx made him aware of how soon the increase of the crackdowns was approaching. In December, White participated in a "Pokémon Week" event on Twitch, which featured several creators hosting streams where they unboxed different Pokémon card boxes. Also in December, White announced that he engaged in a video call with Susan Wojcicki and many others at YouTube, discussing how they can fix the platform.
On January 21, 2021, White won "Best Reaction Face" and "Best YouTube/Social Media Meme" in the Grandayy's Meme Awards 2020.
On February 22, 2021, controversial YouTuber MaximilianMus deleted his YouTube channel after White labeled him as the "worst YouTuber" in one of his videos, detailing and criticizing the wrongdoings that Max has done, such as raiding Twitch channels for malicious purposes and his audience sharing child pornography on his Discord servers and subreddit. About one month later, Max undeleted his channel to accuse White of slandering him involving the controversies.
In January 2021 White hosted a premier game show with fellow streamer Ludwig Ahgren on Twitch, known as Hiveminds. In the game show, White and Ahgren ask the chat random questions through which the winner can win money if answered correctly.
On April 21, 2021, White created a video series on his channel named "Deep Dive", in which he discusses "wild topics" in relation to various topics from previous years, such as the controversy surrounding the "Hot Coffee" mod in "".
Other ventures.
Acting.
White had an uncredited role as a District 8 medic in '. White has also had several voice acting roles in video games such as Zero Mask in ' and Ceefor Bonaparte in "Lucius III". He appears as Officer Greg in the 2021 horror and slasher film, "Last of the Grads".
Writing.
In 2017, under the pseudonym Genghis Swan, White wrote and released a book titled "The Man Who Forgot How to Poop", illustrated by Chris Metzner and published by CreateSpace.
Music.
The Gentle Men.
The Gentle Men is a New Zealand American musical duo consisting of Cr1TiKaL and Troy McKubre. The duo was formed in 2019. In April of the same year, their first single, "2019 Guy", was released. The song eventually became popular amongst the YouTube community, and was featured in PewDiePie's YouTube Rewind 2019. In the year of 2020, the duo released five more singles in February, May, June, October, and December titled "Obsession", "Real to Me", "Skynut", "2004 Breakup", and "I Am Truth" respectively. They are currently working on their debut album.
Business.
Human Media Group.
Double Helix Media, LLC, officially doing business as Human Media Group, is an American multi-channel network co-founded in 2019 by Charles White and Matt Phillips. The network serves to provide brand deals to content creators. The network also serves content creators with legal teams to fight false strikes and content takedowns. In his video speaking about the network, White explains how big corporations are always being unfair to content creators and not giving them the support that they deserve. In the video, he also explains how it is extremely difficult to talk to a living human being when dealing with huge brands and companies, which is the reason why he named the network "Human Media Group". The network also organised a go-karting race for content creators residing in Tampa, Florida. As of 2020, the network has signed more than 52 different online content creators.
Philanthropy.
In 2012, White made a video titled "Charity", expressing his desire to donate all of his YouTube earnings to charity. He made a second video in the same year titled "Charity 2", saying that he had signed a partnership with Maker Studios and he had set up a Twitter account to disclose his charity donations. On September 2, 2014, he made a video expressing his gratitude toward his fandom for helping him reach the 1-million-subscriber milestone, where he reveals that he has donated over $50,000 to charity through his YouTube earnings.
In November 2020, White made a video expressing his gratitude toward his fandom again for raising $14,000 for the surgery of two dogs on his Twitch stream, with him contributing $3,000, bringing the total to $17,000.
On April 29, 2021, White hosted a charity event on his Twitch channel for Cure Rare Disease, raising over $150,000 for the organization. The founder of Cure Rare Disease, Rich Horgan, joined in on the livestream to thank the contributing audience for their immense generosity.
Personal life.
White currently resides in Tampa Bay, Florida, United States. He has been in a relationship with his girlfriend, Tiana Tracy, since 2016. They both met in college. They have two dogs together named Tetra and Cayda.
White has also stated that he is a hypochondriac, and was religious when he was a child but is not anymore.