User:AgeOfPlastic/Austin McConnell

Gregory Austin McConnell (born February 15, 1990) is an American filmmaker and YouTuber. After directing his first movie, Sprouting Orchids, he began creating YouTube videos, which remains as his main form of web-based entertainment.

Sprouting Orchids
In 2014, McConnell released his first ful-length film, titled Sprouting Orchids. The sci-fi movie follows the story of a young man and woman recovering from separate tragedies while "unseen forces in the universe work to bring them together for a purpose far greater than themselves," according to the film's IMDB summary. McConnell later talked about his experiences working on the film in a YouTube video, released in October of 2017.

YouTube career
His videos range from film analysis to dispensing obscure knowledge, from childhood experiences to his own film-making experiences.

In June 2016, McConnell released a video promoting the idea that the ink cartridge industry is a "scam", explaining various techniques that printer companies use in order to make profits, which recieved notable media attention. In November 2017, McConnell released a short video going over a 1940's Monopoly board made during World War II, and how its material components were impacted by the war at the time.

In January 2018, McConnell released a short video talking about how the English alphabet at one pont had 10 letters that have fallen out of use. In April of that year, he released a video advocating for diverging diamonds and asking for people to use their turn signals. In November, after reading the book Creativity Inc., McConnell released a video explaining the story about how an employee of the American movie studio Pixar accidentally deleted the digital assets of their then-upcoming movie, Toy Story 2. Later that year, he was nominated for the "Best Breakout YouTuber" category by the Shorty Awards.