User:Kirshar/sandbox

Kirshar Douglas (born May 17, 2000) simply known as Kirshar is a Canadian content creator and gamer. He is best known as a Twitch variety streamer, filmmaker and content creator on YouTube and photo/video editor for multiple clients.

= Early life = Kirshar was born and raised in Toronto. Canada. Almost every member in his family were born in Jamaica and other Caribbean islands.

He attended Walter Scott Public School Kindergarten through Grade 8, and graduated Markville Secondary School Grade 9 through Grade 12. Despite getting average grades and doing the bare minimum to pass, Kirshar felt like his potential and talents were not being fully utilized. He was never a fan of high school, and grateful to have finally moved on.

His entry into gaming began when he received a Playstation 2 at the age of 5. He soon moved on to PC gaming from his laptop and the Playstation 3 a year before entering high school. Inspired by seeing gaming videos and live-streams on Youtube and Twitch, he bought an Elgato Game Capture Card, built his own desktop PC and began creating his own videos and live-streams with friends.

During high school he has had many opportunities to use his photo/video-editing skills for school events, community events, and even paid independent persons.

He has always had an outgoing personality, and lives by the saying "Peace, Love & Positivity" as evident in many of his content online. He always tries to see the glass half full in many situations.

= Content creator life = In 2014, Kirshar casually started creating gaming videos on Youtube while streaming on Twitch under his old name "EversioGaming". Combined, his old channels have over 30,000 views.

Between 2015 and 2016, he dropped his name and rebranded both his Youtube and Twitch an using his name "Kirshar". Being inspired by skit channels such as RDCWorld1, he gave up creating gaming videos, and began making comedy skits with his friends. Despite having fun on Youtube, improving his film-making skills and growing incredibly faster than his old channel, Kirshar put his main focus into Twitch streaming since he was growing even faster on that platform and it felt more rewarding to him. His Youtube and Twitch platforms combined have over 90,000 views.

In 2018, popular Youtuber and content creator AfroSenju noticed Kirshar's editing skills and gave him an opportunity to be his personal editor for his Youtube and Twitch streams. Coincidently, a stream clip from Kirshar's Twitch went viral on the website Reddit, accumulating almost 95k views. It was also featured on multiple Youtube videos, along with other viral clips from him.

In 2019, a podcast called "Everyday Beam Struggle" (also known as the Squad Podcast) made it's debut. Kirshar is present in the podcast, alongside AfroSenju, LotusAsakura, Rhymestyle, Moon Monkey, Nanogenix, KaggyFilms, OmegaPro and other online personalities. The podcast currently has over 12k subscribers and over 470k views.

= Controversies = In the month of August 2018, Kirshar had his account permanently suspended on Twitch for "Attempting to Threaten and Harm".

During a stream, he was doing a giveaway. A viewer attempted to fool Kirshar by creating an account, impersonating one of the winners and sending his place of residence so that he can receive the giveaway item. Kirshar saw through this, and subsequently revealed the viewer's address on stream and debated with his chat-room whether or not he should send "glitter" or something annoyingly similar as a way to teach viewers to be honest. His account was later suspended for publicly revealing an address and threatening to send something out.

In the months to follow, Kirshar and his community fought back and appealed against the suspension, deeming it "unfair" for a first-time offense in nearly a 5-year streaming career. After being denied twice, Kirshar got pardoned on the third appeal and received his Twitch account back.