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Austin McConnell
Personal information
Born
Gregory Austin McConnel

(1990-02-15) February 15, 1990 (age 34)
Springfield, Missouri, U.S.[1]
NationalityAmerican
OccupationsYouTube personality, filmmaker, writer
WebsiteOfficial website
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2012–present
Subscribers1.46 million[2]
Total views191 million[2]
100,000 subscribers
1,000,000 subscribers2019

Gregory Austin McConnell (born February 15, 1990)[3] is an American filmmaker and YouTuber.[4] He started his career producing indie films but is best known for producing videos on his YouTube channel. He produces videos on various topics including popular culture, filmmaking, his personal experiences and other general interest subjects. As of April 2021, his channel has 1.28 million subscribers and 139.6 million channel views.[5] In 2018 he was nominated for a Shorty Award.[6]

Early work[edit]

His early filmmaking first gained recognition at SATO 48, where he has received over a dozen awards for his short films.[7]

In 2010, McConnell went on to become the creative lead and director of LG15: Outbreak, a web series part of the lonelygirl15 franchise. McConnell won the commission for the series after producing a series of videos criticising the show, figuring he could "do a better job".[8]

Sprouting Orchids[edit]

In 2014, McConnell released his first full-length film, titled Sprouting Orchids. The sci-fi movie follows the story of a young man and woman recovering from separate tragedies while "unseen forces in the universe work to bring them together for a purpose far greater than themselves," according to the film's IMDB summary.[9] Sprouting Orchids was screened at film festivals and briefly select cinemas in Germany.[10] McConnell later talked about his experiences working on the film in a YouTube video, released in October of 2017.[11]

YouTube career[edit]

McConnell produces videos in a wide range of genres from film analysis, educational videos, digital storytelling and video essays. In a 2019 interview, McConnell said he uses his channel to "tell stories or talk about things I find interesting" and would dislike it "being pigeon-holed into a particular genre".[12] As of December 2023, his channel's total view count of its public videos is 191 million.[5]

McConnell created his YouTube Channel in June 2007, and for the first several years he mainly uploaded his short films. McConnell says his first video to reach a widespread audience was his analysis of the book Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in 2016 and credits it to the early growth of his channel.[12]

In June 2016, McConnell released one of his most popular videos, promoting the idea that the printer ink cartridge industry is a "scam", explaining various techniques that printer companies use in order to make profits, such as false "low ink" notifications and blocking customers from refilling the cartridges himself,[13] which received widespread media attention.[14][15][16][17][18][excessive citations] In November of the following year, McConnell released a short video going over a 1940's Monopoly board made during World War II and how its material components were impacted by the war at the time.[19]

In January 2018, McConnell released a short video talking about how the English alphabet at one point had 10 letters that have fallen out of use.[20] In April of that year, he released a video advocating for diverging diamonds and asking for people to use their turn signals.[1] In November, after reading the book Creativity Inc., McConnell released a video explaining the story about how an employee of the American movie studio Pixar accidentally deleted the digital assets of their then-upcoming movie, Toy Story 2.[21] Later that year, he was nominated for the "Best Breakout YouTuber" category by the Shorty Awards.[22][6]

On his YouTube channel, McConnell has produced multiple ongoing series, including Really Weird Star Wars, where he goes over lesser-known parts of the Star Wars franchise,[23] and a series produced around every 6 months, that tries to feature interesting channels with under 1,000 subscribers.[12]

Currently, McConnell is working on a superhero franchise titled The Superzeroes, taking characters and tropes from classic superhero comic books that have fallen into the public domain due to their old age.[24] In September 2023, he produced an animated short film as the first entry in this project, The Sensational Cat-man, based off of the titular character originally created by Irwin Hasen and published by DC Comics in the 1940s, going into public domain after its copyright wasn't renewed in the 1960s.[25][26] He started a Kickstarter campaign in 2023 to try to raise funds for a full-length Cat-man film,[27] which succeeded raising the funds less than a month into 2024.

Filmography[edit]

Title Year Category Role Ref.
LG15: Outbreak 2010 Web series Creator, writer, director, executive producer, actor [28]
Sprouting Orchids 2014 Film Director, writer, producer, actor, editor, digital effects, sound editor [9]
Voicemails From Strangers 2019 Documentary Director, producer, editor, himself [29]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Fallen Angel: Book 1 - Welcome to Munich (October 2009)[30]
  • Today is Spaceship Day (May 2019)[31]
  • Neva's Story: A Coming-of-Age Romance Set In 1940s America (May 2021), with Clara Smith
  • The Spider-Queen (June 2023), with Elizabeth McIvor

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Crum, Brooke (April 6, 2018). "Springfield YouTuber advocates for diverging diamonds, turn signals in new video". Springfield News-Leader. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "About AustinMcConnell". YouTube.
  3. ^ McConnell, Austin (February 15, 2019). "365 to 30. Let's do it". Archived from the original on December 22, 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2021 – via Twitter.
  4. ^ "Gregory Austin McConnell". Ragan Training. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
  5. ^ a b "About" channel page tab of Austin McConnell's YouTube channel
  6. ^ a b Dino-Ray Ramos (January 16, 2018). "Shorty Awards Nominees: Tiffany Haddish, Lena Waithe Among Those Recognized For Social Media Excellence". Deadline Hollywood.
  7. ^ "Letters from Blocked Filmmakers: Gregory Austin McConnell". filmmakermagazine.com. Filmmaker. June 4, 2013.
  8. ^ Liz Shannon Miller (January 26, 2010). "Outbreak Adds Some Flare to the LG15 Universe". Gigaom.
  9. ^ a b McConnell, Gregory Austin (January 31, 2014), Sprouting Orchids (Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi), Kyle A. Hammonds, Jessie Bowers, Andrea Cappuzzo, Jane Frost, retrieved April 20, 2021
  10. ^ Sprouting Orchids - https://austinmcconnell.com/
  11. ^ Morris, Lee (January 10, 2018). "Thinking About Filming a Movie? Watch This First". Fstoppers. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  12. ^ a b c "YouTuber Q&A: Austin McConnell on online success, video variety, and sharing the spotlight". Vodafone UK News Centre. Vodafone. February 15, 2019.
  13. ^ Haysom, Sam (March 16, 2018). "This video claiming ink cartridges are a scam is going massively viral". Mashable. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  14. ^ Rodríguez, Eva (March 19, 2018). "Este vídeo viral demuestra la oscura verdad detrás de los caros cartuchos de tinta" [This viral video demonstrates the dark truth behind ink cartridges]. Urban Tecno (in Spanish). Retrieved April 21, 2021.
  15. ^ Pardo, Lisandra (March 16, 2018). "El fraude de los cartuchos de tinta: Una máquina de "imprimir" dinero" [The Ink Cartridge Fraud: A Money "Printing" Machine]. NeoTeo (in Spanish). Retrieved April 21, 2021.
  16. ^ "Sú atramentové tonery podvod a peňazovod pre výrobcov?" [Are Ink Cartridges a Scam and a Cash Line for Manufacturers?]. TECHBOX.sk (in Slovak). March 17, 2018. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
  17. ^ "Große Abzocke? Warum Druckerpatronen so viel kosten" [Big ripoff? Why printer cartridges cost so much]. TECHBOOK (in German). May 6, 2020. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
  18. ^ Pagno, Taísa (January 7, 2019). "O verdadeiro ouro negro: tinta de impressora é 7.800 vezes mais cara que petróleo". ZAP (in European Portuguese). Retrieved April 21, 2021.
  19. ^ Sinclair, Carla (November 2, 2017). "Take a look at a 1940s Monopoly War Time edition made at height of WWII". Boing Boing. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
  20. ^ "Watch: Did you know there were originally ten more letters in the English alphabet?". Scroll.in. January 29, 2018. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  21. ^ Andrew Paul (March 11, 2021). "Toy Story 4 Easter egg refers to typo that nearly wiped Toy Story 2 from existence". The A.V. Club.
  22. ^ "Austin McConnell - The Shorty Awards". Shorty Awards. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  23. ^ "Star Wars, un video racconta i film perduti sugli Ewok" [Star Wars, a video tells about the lost films about the Ewoks]. Wired (in Italian). July 5, 2017. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
  24. ^ "YouTuber Proposes Public Domain Superhero Cinematic Universe". January 25, 2022. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  25. ^ Burlingame, Russ (September 30, 2023). "Cat-Man Animated Series Launches on YouTube". Anime. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  26. ^ "Fan-Made Animated Pilot Episode For and Adaptation of 1940s Comic THE SENSATIONAL CAT-MAN". GeekTyrant. October 7, 2023. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  27. ^ Dominguez, Noah (December 29, 2023). "The Sensational Cat-Man Animated Movie Launches Kickstarter Campaign". Comic Book Movies and Superhero Movie News - SuperHeroHype. Retrieved January 2, 2024.
  28. ^ Vincent Terrace (November 26, 2014). Internet Drama and Mystery Television Series, 1996-2014. McFarland. p. 132. ISBN 978-1-4766-1930-9.
  29. ^ "Voicemails from Strangers – Review". film-bunker.com. FilmBunker. October 13, 2019.
  30. ^ Fallen Angels: Book 1 - Welcome to Munich - Google Books
  31. ^ Today is Spaceship Day by Gregory Austin McConnell. May 31, 2019. ISBN 978-1-7331602-0-9. Archived from the original on June 30, 2019. Retrieved April 3, 2020. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

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