Brian Ceja[1], known as KonekoKittenWasTaken and on YouTube as KonekoKitten is a Mexican-American[2][3] Roblox YouTuber with over 1,000,000 subscribers. He primarily uploads Roblox commentary and gameplay videos.
Personal life
Koneko resides in the United States in the state of Florida at the age of 21. He has described his life as "boring, and uneventful" in one of his videos going over his daily life. He is known for being a huge fan of rhythm games and commonly talking about them on his secondary channel. He also has a cat named Zoey, and is an active day trader and investor outside of ROBLOX.
Sexuality
On October 21, 2019, he came out as transgender on his Twitter account.[4] On December 17, 2019, he retracted this statement through a Twitter post.[5]He has since referred to himself with male pronouns, with (he/him) being present in his twitter information on any affiliated account.
Roblox
His Roblox account has over 334,000 followers. He owns a group named the KonekoKitten's Official Fan Club, with over 190,000 members. His username was censored on the Roblox website[6] until he requested it to be unfiltered.
Brick Hill
On June 19, 2019, he uploaded a Brick Hill gameplay video after discovering it through Google, referring to the game as a Roblox clone and joking about uploading Brick Hill content instead of Roblox content. Soon after the video was published, a co-founder of Brick Hill claimed that the internet traffic had crashed the game’s servers. As an acknowledgment, Brick Hill created the Flower Hat, which was based on his Roblox avatar’s Happy Time Magic Flower Hat. Soon after, he uploaded another video playing Brick Hill and discussed the creation of the Flower Hat. His Brick Hill gameplay videos ultimately resulted in an increase of 20,000 Brick Hill players by three days after the videos’ uploads, and the game reached the milestone of 100,000 accounts soon after.
YouTube
He stopped using profane language and inappropriate references in 2018 to widen his fan base to younger children (no longer because of COPPA) He formerly used to upload Minecraft videos on his main channel. His channel mascot is Ball Cat, which is a round, white stuffed cat dressed in a green-and-white striped t-shirt.
He has a second YouTube channel named Koneko in which he primarily uploads Hypixel Skyblock and Pokemon gameplay videos. The channel has over 95,000 subscribers as of August 4, 2020.
Controversy
Special usernames
On October 29, 2018, he received some backlash from uploading a video about specific special usernames, causing Roblox to delete users such as Мастер and maël4000. Due to this, he responded with another video stating that it was a coincidence that the special usernames were reset at the time of his video.
It is speculated that one user reported the special usernames to Roblox Support in order to reset the accounts. Another possibility is that a Roblox staff member had seen the video and reset the accounts themselves.
MrBobBilly
On May 25, 2019, he uploaded a video claiming YouTuber MrBobBilly was toxic and racist.[citation needed] Three weeks later, MrBobBilly uploaded a video responding to his claims.[citation needed] Soon after, he uploaded a video replying to MrBobBilly's response.[citation needed]
WhoToTrus & UGC
After defending WhoToTrus in controversies surrounding UGC, WhoToTrus created the Cotton Candy Bowtie as an acknowledgement.
Lisa Gaming
On April 27, 2020, he discovered a screenshot of lisagaming_yt's video named I GOT BANNED ON BLOXBURG... 😢💔 through various Twitter messages. This prompted him to upload a reaction video to her ban from Welcome to Bloxburg on April 28, 2020.
On April 29, 2020, lisagaming_YT responded to him with a video named RESPONSE TO KONEKOKITTEN😒 (SHADE) in which she threatened to sue him for being rude. One day later, she uploaded another video named IM SUING KONEKOKITTEN! in which she roleplays the process of filing a lawsuit.
On May 1, 2020, KonekoKitten uploaded a video of him reacting to her lawsuit, commenting that he were a fan of her channel regardless of her threats. He compared her malicious intentions to Julius Cole's earlier videos.
Incidents
On an unknown date, his group and followers were botted. It is speculated that a user had attempted to frame him for using bots.
On another unknown date, a user botted his audios in an attempt to ban his account due to uploading a controversial video which unintentionally ended up in the deletion of accounts with rare usernames.
On March 26, 2019 at 6:31 AM EST, an anonymous user hacked into his Roblox account and disabled two-step verification. He quickly regained access to his account and uploaded a video explaining the details of the incident.
Trivia
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- He has a brother called SeeyaGGs who has a YouTube channel called Seeya.
- He and his brother have played Roblox since 2008, sharing an account named bigboyz567.
- It is likely that the account was password guessed in 2017, as the account created a forum post mocking the death of Erik Cassel[7], deceased Roblox CEO.
- It is possible that he still has access to this account, as it was last online in 2019.
- He owned the account whatsup567 which was terminated and subsequently IP banned due to his friends creating inappropriate forum posts[8] (and status[9]) under his account, including a bomb threat to the Roblox Headquarters.[10]
- He owned the account XXwhatsXX, but forgot its password, and got back into the account with help from Cringtasic in a video uploaded on February 28, 2020. The account was terminated after the video was uploaded leading Koneko to create a video in response, and another after his unban appeal was denied.
- He discovered Roblox by misspelling "robots" on Google.
- He used to own a Red Grind Skateboard. He claimed that his brother intentionally broke rules, therefore terminating it, because "he had a personal vendetta against Roblox."
- He has used the Roblox Wikia as a source in his videos on multiple occasions.
- He is one of the only people to purchase the real life $60 Pet Simulator plushie.
Gallery
References
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZF6xwzTflQ?t=35
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4qrrMR2it4
- ↑ https://twitter.com/KonekoKittenYT/status/1266561085643120640
- ↑ https://twitter.com/KonekoKittenYT/status/1186730084251635714
- ↑ https://twitter.com/KonekoKittenYT/status/1206700193346928640
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqO4809u0vg
- ↑ Warning: May be found as sensitive – https://archive.froast.io/forum/226871005
- ↑ Warning: Contains inappropriate websites – https://archive.froast.io/users/1928708/asc?first=34877280
- ↑ Warning: Contains profanity – https://rblx.trade/p/whatsup567
- ↑ https://archive.froast.io/forum/34876204