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DumbassesWithACamera
DumbassesWithACamera (Often seen as "DWAC" or "D.W.A.C.) is a YouTube channel that featured a trio of middle school, teenage boys along with various other people. The channel was active most during 2018, during the school year. The channel mostly holds random videos, spontaneously uploaded and varying in length, anywhere from about 10 seconds, to a few minutes. An occasional video of the main creator would be uploaded, where he would update the state of the channel, or speak for a short time about various events that were popular on YouTube, often in a comedic fashion. An example of this would be the video about Jake Paul and KSI's boxing match or the Saturday Night Live performance of the Kanye West song "I Love It" which was edited to show specific details and shortened. It was published under the name "I'm a sick freak I need a real freak". DWAC later would become a network of channels that more represented a low quality and poorly written comedy group and short film studio than a single channel. (The name refers to the overall cast of the original channel.)

Founding of DWAC
DWAC was first founded by the main creator (Known as Adam, in the channel's content.) on December 14th, 2017. Supposedly, the channel was renamed from "What are you doing" to the current name, after the video Joe breaking the rules was published. The first video on the channel was deleted at some point, but according to viewers of it, it featured someone holding a nerf gun to their head, with their point of view being the camera. The short video had a shaking sound effect in the background, resembling a cartoon effect of the person's hand, shaking with fear of shooting the gun. At the last second, the camera turns to reveal that the sound is a plastic straw, stuck in the blades of an electric fan. According to Adam and Joe (Another person seen frequently on the channel.), the name was selected after Adam said, abruptly in their science class "I'm gonna call it what we are, Dumbasses With A Camera!".

Height of Content and Peak
DWAC's most viewed video is "I'm a real freak I need a real freak." The video is a 34-second long edit of the Saturday Night Live showing of rapper's Kanye West and Lil Pump performing their song "I Love It". This edit sits at about 13,000 views and was a top search result for the SNL show, only second to the official SNL channel's publication, itself. This is mostly because the video was posted within hours of the original episode being shown, but also because of the accumulating views and topic that was frequented at the time. The Golden Age of DWAC was a term referred to by the actor Damien in the DWAC Vlogs. He is most likely talking about the Spring and Summer of 2018 when DWAC's content was very short and had odd titles. The videos would feature loud screaming of the actors, disturbing the public peace, and throwing food and beverage at walls on the exterior of buildings. The channel would frequently showcase "fights" between the actors. These so-called fights were actually the actors grabbing hold of each other and lightly slapping each other, often in such a way that could be described as "Poor and incompetent acting for a poorly scripted short film." The channel also has several "Call-out" videos, which was usually Adam announcing that he was going to "fight" one of the other actors, usually referring to them by their online alias.

Featured Characters, Personalities, and Actors
DWAC's cast is centered on three original teenage boys (Later 4, although Tristan left at some point.) and they each have visible personalities throughout the channel. The actors often take on highly energetic and exaggerated characters, which can be seen as extensions of their sense of humor and their frequent actions. The actors frequently switch between their character' and actual personality with ease. The characters eventually were showcased so much that they essentially became mixed with the actors' actual personality on screen.

Adam Hand
Adam is the main cameraman of DWAC and often seen in front of the camera, giving a statement that sets the scene up or announcing what will happen in the video. His actual personality is essentially unknown because it is not often seen, nor is his exaggeration of it shown much. Adam is most likely acting as a standard narrator for the content, for someone that the audience instantly recognizes by voice and his occasional witty comment on the event taking place. The exception of this is his personally made videos and the videos he's featured in the act of. Adam also owns four other small channels, including Adam Hand, Mia Kahlifa Official (A false name.), Haunted Fish Films, and Variety Beats which was a simple music channel (Now named V B.)

Joe
Joe is the first actor actually seen in the entire history of the DWAC channel network. His first appearance is in "Joe breaking the rules" in which he climbs the exterior of a staircase and walks along the outside of a raised walkway while presenting his middle finger and yelling insulting words at passerby. Joe is often shown being rude and irritating to people but playing the victim when he is hurt or his self-esteem is attacked. He often serves as the group's "punching bag" or target since he is weak in strength and is bad at quickly insulting people with come-back comments or witty one-liners. He is likely the most seen character and has comments left on the videos by his personal channel, where he insults the content and other's performance. He is the only person who's age is definitely known. He is 13 in the first video, during 2018 but is shown after his 14th birthday (During Spring and Summer of 2019.) which was mentioned to be on October 17th in some of the videos. Joe has a featured personal channel that is currently under the name "I Wish to Explode". The channel now sits dormant because of Joe's apparent lack of motivation. However, his personality differs greatly, indicating a change in how he now acts. The I Wish to Explode channel was last updated on October 17th, 2019 after Joe had turned 15.

Damien
Damien was prominent but not as loudly voiced as other actors. He often has the highest quality jokes and comedy on the channel although still lacks creativity, as does every other actor for the channel. Damien usually performed publicly outrageous acts in the content, and even more so according to the other members, such as presenting his middle finger to passerby while standing on a picnic table. His personal channel, "I regret everything" contains only several videos, which show Joe in some of them. The outliers are the 3 DWAC Vlog videos, which were taken over a span of two days and are longer than most of the actual DWAC videos. They show abrupt chaos occurring and loud yelling but the actors tend to be more honest spoken and act like actual people. DWAC vlog 2 is split between two parts, taken after Joe wrestles the camera away from Damien and shuts off the video. In #2.5 they are seen arguing over whether it should be titled DWAC vlog #2.5 or DWAC vlog #3. Damien's exaggerated character does have an actual name, unlike the others, the name being "Young Potato" (Stylized as "Yung Potate" to mimic a U.S. rapper name.) For no apparent reason, he's also called Gerard on occasion.

Tristan
Tristan is easily the most expanded actor, as he has two personal channels which now have mostly privatized videos but some that are still available. His main channel was previously known as "Normie Normative" to be a play on how Tristan acted but was later called "Crazy Southern Lobster" to be a staple point on Tristan's favorite crustacean and the place in the U.S. he was born (Although, it has been argued by Joe that the state he is from was not in the South and actually on the East side of the country above the Mason Dixon Line, but this is debatable.) Tristan's other channel was dedicated to reviews of the Gundam model figure line but was never expanded upon after a single video. The channel has had multiple names but was most often referred to as "Cosmic Lobster".

Cale
Not much is known about Cale in the DWAC series but he has been found on a personal YouTube channel that is apparently based around video game playthroughs, known as "Play3rNERD". He also has an Instagram account which he frequents as of 2019. Cale is shown as being resistant to homosexual activity and has a feminine scream when he is in character.

Conclusion of DWAC
DWAC has yet to officially end but has not received any pressure to continue and has in fact been told by some to stop production. Regardless, the lastest video was posted on November 28th, 2019. It was titled "Papa John's Day of Reckoning Leaked Footage" and features an interview with the owner of Papa John's pizza and ends with a bass boosted version of the song Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People. The closing clip is footage of a street bombing but it's never cited where this footage comes from. DWAC supposedly has unseen footage, and some of it has been legally released to the public under the title "DWAC unreleased footage (cringe)".

Filming of DWAC
DWAC's filming process is notoriously simple and fast, with a second take almost never happening. DWAC doesn't ever give a definite location of where the videos are filmed but the general consensus is that it is somewhere in Eastern Washington state, at a public middle school. DWAC frequently shows a specific corner of a courtyard which the members frequent throughout the episodes. In videos of them throwing food, they will use the corner section as a blast zone and will also graffiti it with pencils and markers. At some point, the school staff attempted to clean the corner but ultimately failed because of how high the food had splattered. The members refer to this space, simply as "the Corner" and are protective of it, but show it a lack of maintenance since they smash the drain grates in the episodes "Lukas breaks school property" and "Lukas breaks more school property".

DWAC Soundtrack
DWAC has no official soundtrack but does feature unlicensed music. The members show a fascination with The Entertainer by Scott Joplin, to the point where they use it frequently.