NFKRZ
NFKRZ
Career
He is popular for his commentary videos, Montage Parodies and reaction videos.
Over the past few years, NFKRZ has had major issues with another YouTube Star, Keemstar and has posted rant videos too.
NFKRZ posts videos that are quite similar to the videos posted by other YouTube stars like LeafyIsHere and Pyrocynical. Criticized on several occasions for his Russian accent, the YouTube star is also referred to as ‘The Fat Russian’. Initially named as ‘MultiNfz’, his YouTube channel has now gained 797,000 subscribers. NFKRZ is also very much active in Steam Community, a platform for gamers.
Youtube
NFKRZ joined YouTube on August 31, 2010.
He initially named his channel ‘MultiNfz’, but later changed it to NFKRZ.
Initially, he gained prominence for his gaming videos.
He used to post videos pertaining to games like ‘Grand Theft Auto’, ‘Call of Duty’ and ‘Counter-Strike’, for which he also voiced the commentary.
NFKRZ later expanded his genre and started posting different kinds of videos.[8]
Among his popular videos are the Montage Parodies.
Montage Parodies is a subgenre under gaming videos, and NFKRZ, along with a few other YouTube stars, is credited for popularizing it.
It is basically a video series of parodies on gaming content.
NFKRZ extensively used dubstep and squeakers in these videos which his fans found exciting.
However, these videos were quite similar to the ones posted by LeafyIsHere and Pyrocynical.
His most viewed Montage Parody video to date is a parody of WWE wrestling.
The video was viewed by more than 2 million viewers.
Apart from gaming and spoof videos, NFKRZ has posted a few political videos as well.
In these videos, NFKRZ has spoken about political geography of Russia.
These videos were posted under the name, ‘Russian Recap’.
In the videos, he has also shared his experience from his visits to an Anti-Putin demonstration.
He has over 797,000 subscribers and over 147 million views across all videos.
Criticism
NFKRZ has faced many haters too.
He has been slammed on several occasions for his Russian accent.
People have also said that his English is difficult to understand.
He is often referred to as Russian Pig and Fat Russian.
He is sometimes addressed as Russian Ablo for his Montage Parodies.
NFKRZ is also a member of the gaming and software community, ‘Steam.’
NFKRZ was accused by the YouTube Star, Pyrocynical, saying that many of his videos have been copied by NFKRZ. Pyrocynical posted a video titled ‘YouTube Drama’, expressing his disappointment. He also claimed that the introductory song used in NFKRZ videos belongs to another artist and that the artist in question should claim a patent. The video got 25,000 likes and half a million views.[5]
Personal
He was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia. He is studying Linguistics and translation at Chelyabinsk State University. He chose to learn these subjects as he wanted to improve his language skills. The criticisms that he faced over his accent also played a key role in him choosing to learn Linguistics and translation.