Scott The Woz

Scott The Woz is a gaming comedy review web series created and starred in by American YouTuber Scott Wozniak. The series centers on Wozniak playing an exaggerated version of himself and comically discussing and reviewing video games, video game consoles, video game history and video game culture with many episodes featuring sketches, other characters and musical numbers. The first episode of the series was uploaded on YouTube on January 8, 2017 and it currently consists of 201 episodes and 5 seasons.

As of may 2021 the Scott The Woz YouTube channel has amassed more than 1 million subscribers and almost 400 million views and has collaborated with many prominent YouTube and media personalities such as James Rolfe, videogamedunkey, Vince Young and Brett Favre. He also make a cameo on the 2021 film Hero Mode.

Additionally, Wozniak manages a second YouTube account called Scott's Stash, where he uploads bloopers, commentary tracks, and storyboards of videos from the main channel along with other miscellaneous videos outside of the context of the web series.

Early Life
Wozniak has stated that he started creating videos when he was a child to show his classmates and teachers. During his senior year of high school after about six months of production he created the video The Internet and You, a 30 minute comedy that was the first upload to the Scott the Woz YouTube channel. Wozniak has said that he considered the video his greatest work at the time it was made and that he developed his trademark comedic style while writing it.

The next few videos uploaded to the channel are parodies of vlogs and together make up a playlist called Originals. These early videos are the only ones featured in the Scott The Woz Youtube channel that aren't a part of the web series except for yearly "best of" compilations and announcements of yearly charity campaigns (which are unlisted after the respective campaign ends).

Career
Wozniak has said that he started working on a video in 2016 about his expectations and hopes for the then upcoming Nintendo Switch video game console, this video would end up being the first episode of Scott The Woz. He later stated "I wanted to combine the style of humor seen in my other videos with actual information and opinions while having neither one overthrow the other" as his motivation for starting the web series in an interview.

After the video was uploaded Wozniak tasked himself with uploading a new episode of Scott The Woz every week, he kept making videos for around a year until fellow YouTuber RelaxAlax gave him more exposure, causing his channel to drastically increase in viewership around October 2017.

Wozniak holds yearly charity events which he calls "Charity Bonanzas", where he partners with an online retailer to sell merchandise and raise money for charity. In 2020 he partnered with online marketplace Pixel Empire to sell exclusive Scott The Woz themed clothing, posters and VHS tapes of The Internet and You (with the latter being produced in extremely limited quantities) in order to raise money for the charities Children's Miracle Network and Critical Care Comics. The campaign ended up raising over $200,000 from November 2020 to January 2021, several times the initial goal of $60,000. After the campaign the proceeds were evenly split between the two charities.

In December 29, 2020, Wozniak's Twitter account was hacked. The account's previous tweets were deleted and its Twitter handle was changed to advertise a phishing website. The hacked account made many derogatory comments, including one insulting fellow YouTuber Keemstar with a homophobic slur. The account was quickly mass reported and Wozniak got back access to it a few hours later.