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Cole Ends (born Aug 20, 1995), better known by his online pseudonym ColeTrain, is an American YouTube personality. Ends specializes in Let's Play videos, commonly of RPG and indie video games.

Early Life
Born in West Virginia his is father left when he was born, leaving his mother (Carla Nethken) to and grandparents (Karen and Ralph Nethken) to care for him alone. His Mother suffers from a along list of illness, including Fibromyalgia. He explained how she is a hero in her own right by just raising him with all of the hardship she endured. Later he found comfort in physical exercise due to physical and mental abuse from stepfathers in the past. He has one younger brother and sister, Hunter Thompson and Zahra Loutfi. Ends went on to explain how much his mother inspired him to help people, and that his younger siblings inspire him to be a good example. Inspired to purse YouTube by his High School Theater teacher (Matthew Taylor), and other YouTube personalities such as Pewdiepie and Markiplier. Originally, Ends studied to become an physical therapist, but dropped out of college to pursue his own happiness.

Style
ColeTrain has been known for his sensationalized video game commentary, involving yelling, screaming, cursing, and even crying during his Let's Play videos. He does not censor the profanity in his videos, although he often subtitles his curses as "duck" for "fuck". He is known for branding his channel with a red and black train (a reference to his high school nickname) and has since dyed his hair red to match. He rarely makes vlogs to talk one-on-one with the community about various topics, many inspirational, but rarely regarding himself and his channel.

Charity
Ends often hosts charity livestreams for a variety of charities with over $50,000 Thousand Raised 2015-2017


 * AbleGamers Charity
 * Anxiety Gaming
 * Charity Gaming
 * Child's Play
 * St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
 * Starlight Foundation
 * The National Autistic Society
 * National Fibromyalgia Research Association

Associated acts

 * Time Remnant Productions
 * SledgePlays
 * LadyNoodles
 * HK Rune
 * SargentCobi
 * ShotzaPetrone
 * TheSpeculator
 * Malici0usM3gan
 * AlphaKeyBlade
 * Lord of the Skys
 * Couch Potatoes
 * ColeTrain Stuff