Twomad

Canadian YouTuber and Twitch streamer (2000–2024)

  • YouTuber
  • live streamer
YouTube informationChannels
  • @Threemad
  • @twomad
  • @twomadgang9324
Years active2016–2024Subscribers4.66 million[1]
Creator Awards
100,000 subscribers2017
1,000,000 subscribers2020
Last updated: March 24, 2024

Muudea Sedik (December 17, 2000 – February 9, 2024), known online as Twomad, was a Canadian YouTuber and live streamer based in Los Angeles. Creating his main YouTube channel in 2017, Sedik received attention as a gamer before becoming known as an Internet troll and prankster. Several clips of him became Internet memes, most notably a viral clip in which he croons "goodnight, girl, I’ll see you tomorrow" to the camera before abruptly falling over. In 2020, his zoombombing videos became successful and he surpassed both one and two million subscribers. With allegations of harassment and assault, Sedik remains a controversial figure after his death.

Life and internet career

Muudea Sedik was born on December 17, 2000,[2] in Canada to an Ethiopian family.[P 1]: 7:12 [P 2]: 1:22  As a teenager, Sedik started gaining followers online after posting comedic "meme edits" of gameplay footage on YouTube and Reddit, the first of which featured Overwatch (2016) gameplay of the character Lúcio. When he was 16, Sedik decided he was making enough online advertising revenue to drop out of school, and, much to his father's chagrin, become a full-time YouTuber.[2][P 1]: 15:42–17:30  While he created his first YouTube channel in April 2016,[P 3] his main channel was created in August 2017.[P 4]

In 2019, a short clip of Sedik saying "goodnight, girl, I’ll see you tomorrow" in a video message before abruptly falling over became an Internet meme. Twomad had gone viral. A video compilation the meme was in gained over 6.8 million views. It spread to other social media platforms such as Instagram and was featured in other meme edits.[2] He began live streaming on Twitch early that year, playing games such as Overwatch and Rainbow Six Siege (2015), but was banned in 2019 after a penis was seen while he was livestreaming Omegle.[3] He began streaming on YouTube. Sedik was also active on Twitter, Instagram, and Discord.[4] In early 2018, Sedik started uploading popular compilations featuring short clips of himself.[3]

In the following years, Sedik gained a reputation as an Internet troll and prankster—one whose fans eagerly consumed his "outlandish sketches and awkward online encounters". The website Passionfru.it said he was known for his cringe comedy, and many of his antics became popular Internet memes among Generation Z users.[3][5] Passionfru.it thought Sedik's content was "a fever dream. Made for teenagers, it is full of extreme and edgy editing."[3]

Sedik enjoyed further attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. In April 2020, he asked his Twitter followers to message him links to Zoom meetings so that he could join and play pranks on them, an Internet trend known as "zoombombing". To his fans' delight, he spent several weeks disrupting their unsuspecting online classes.[5] The resulting video became the most viewed on his YouTube channel, and BBC News showed clips from it in a report on zoombombing.[2][4] Passionfru.it credited him with popularizing the trend.[3] In 2020, Sedik's channel rose dramatically from 960,000 to 2.2 million subscribers.[2][6] A 2021 article stated he had over 844,000 Twitter followers.[7] His cost per mille on YouTube decreased by 8% to $3.40, a minor loss compared to other YouTubers during the pandemic.[6] Sedik was also a member of EpicSMP, a Minecraft series featuring many well known content creators.[2] In 2022, he did a suggestive cosplay photoshoot with internet personality Belle Delphine.[3][8]

Sedik's success did not come without controversy. He once tweeted a photo of Brianna Ghey, a recently murdered transgender teenager, claiming that she was his "girlfriend".[2][3] In 2019, he was criticized by K-pop fans and accused of racism after portraying BTS member Jimin in a video by wearing whiteface and a blond wig. The animosity escalated and, in 2021, Sedik attended a BTS concert wearing an Asian conical hat and holding a manipulated photograph blending the faces of BTS member V and Mao Zedong, joking that it depicted his father.[7][9] The same year, he started selling "N-word passes". In 2022, police arrested Sedik for trespassing at Six Flags Magic Mountain and attempting to steal a police officer's bicycle for a now-deleted video.[3]

An obituary in the Manila Bulletin stated multiple people have accused Sedik of harassment; osu! YouTuber Goldibell accused Sedik of repeated sexual assault and harassment and shared alleged screenshots of inappropriate messages she had received from him.[2] Goldibell also accused him of stalking her after they cut ties. Sedik vehemently denied the allegations online.[10] Sedik usually responded to queries with Internet memes and disingenuous remarks. Because of the controversies, fellow content creators began to distance themselves from Sedik. After he went on a year-long YouTube hiatus and his tweets became more disturbing and nonsensical, some raised concerns about his mental health.[2][4]

Death

On February 13, 2024, the Los Angeles Police Department conducted a welfare check on Sedik after he had not been heard from in several days. Sedik was found dead at his home in Los Angeles. He was 23 years old. Drug paraphernalia was found at the scene, leading authorities to investigate Sedik's death as a possible overdose.[10][11] Fans would later notice that Sedik was detected as being continuously idle on both Discord and Overwatch 2 for several days after his death.[12][13]

Hours after TMZ broke the news, YouTuber Jameskii accused Sedik of being a rapist and pedophile who had repeatedly attempted to murder him for helping law enforcement investigate Sedik.[4] Goldibell offered her condolences to Sedik's family, but said she was neither happy nor sad that he died.[8] The Manila Bulletin obituary characterized Twomad's legacy as controversial and divided, with some mourning "the loss of a meme icon".[2] His channel had 156 videos and over 200 million views.[4]

References

  1. ^ "About @Threemad". YouTube.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Eulalia, Poch (February 20, 2024). "The tragic downfall of Twomad". Manila Bulletin. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Asarch, Steven (July 25, 2023). "New Court Documents Detail Abuse Allegations Against YouTube Prankster Twomad". Passionfru.it. Archived from the original on February 19, 2024. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Who is YouTuber Twomad, found dead in his Los Angeles home?". The Indian Express. February 17, 2024. Archived from the original on March 15, 2024. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
  5. ^ a b Friedberg, Brian (2020). "SPACE INVADERS: THE NETWORKED TERRAIN OF ZOOM BOMBING" (PDF). Technology and Social Change: 4. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 20, 2024. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  6. ^ a b Weiss, Geoff (April 16, 2020). "A Lot Of YouTube Creators Just Disclosed Their Declining AdSense Rates Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic. Most Are Down At Least 20%, With A Few Bright Spots". Tubefilter. Archived from the original on May 29, 2023. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  7. ^ a b Oh, Won-Seok (December 6, 2021). "BTS와 마오쩌둥 합성한 사진 들고 콘서트 인증한 유튜버" [Certification of BTS concert with ‘Mao Zedong BTS composite’ photo… Racism is loud]. Joongang Ilbo (in Korean). Archived from the original on February 23, 2024. Retrieved February 23, 2024.
  8. ^ a b Chung, Gabrielle (February 15, 2024). "YouTuber Twomad Dead at 23". E! Online. Archived from the original on March 18, 2024. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
  9. ^ Jeon, Hyeong-ju (December 13, 2021). "美 유명 유튜버, BTS 정국+中마오쩌둥 합성사진 들고 '내 아빠'" [Famous American YouTuber holds a composite photo of BTS's Jungkook and China's Mao Zedong and says, 'My dad']. Maeil Business Newspaper (in Korean). Archived from the original on February 23, 2024. Retrieved February 23, 2024.
  10. ^ a b Ganz, Jami (February 14, 2024). "YouTuber Twomad found dead at 23 of suspected overdose". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on February 15, 2024. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
  11. ^ "YouTuber Twomad Dead at Age 23". Inside Edition. February 16, 2024. Archived from the original on March 10, 2024. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
  12. ^ "Muere a los 23 años el 'youtuber' Twomad en extrañas circunstancias" [YouTuber Twomad dies, 23, in strange circumstances]. El Correo (in Spanish). February 15, 2024. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  13. ^ Blázquez Gil, Mario (February 15, 2024). "El youtuber Twomad muere a los 23 años" [YouTuber Twomad dies at 23]. Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved February 18, 2024.

Primary sources

  1. ^ a b Twomad Goes To Bed (Podcast). Cold Ones. November 25, 2019. Archived from the original on February 19, 2024. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  2. ^ Sedik, Muudea (January 7, 2022). Soo I googled myself… (Video). twomad. Archived from the original on February 17, 2024. Retrieved February 20, 2024.
  3. ^ "twomad 360 - YouTube". YouTube. Archived from the original on March 19, 2024. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
  4. ^ "twomad - YouTube". YouTube. Archived from the original on March 18, 2024. Retrieved March 18, 2024.

External links

  • @threemad on YouTube (main channel)
  • @twomad on YouTube (secondary channel)
  • @twomad gang on YouTube (tertiary channel)
  • Twomad entry at Know Your Meme