The Toxic Life of a League of Legends Comedian
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- Sky Williams was once a beloved member of the League of Legends and Super Smash Bros communities. Known for his humourous, authentic videos and collaborating with creators such as videogamedunkey, Sky Williams went down a dark and dangerous route shortly after he stopped making his bread-and-butter League of Legends content. From allegations of financial fraud, abuse, and straight-up exploitation in his so-called "Sky House", which housed many members of the Super Smash Bros community, this video explores the manipulative and toxic life of one of League of Legends' most infamous comedians.
0:00 Intro
0:43 Troubled Childhood
2:49 Discovering Himself
4:09 Leap of Faith
5:42 Early Success
7:49 First Sky House
8:50 Peak Sky Williams
10:34 Slowing Down
12:24 Color Coded
13:22 Beginning of the End
14:58 Sky House Context
16:25 Super Smash Bros Allegations
17:14 Sky Williams Exposed
18:47 Inside the Sky House
20:00 Leaked Screenshots
20:25 Inside the Sky House (cont)
21:17 Financial Struggles
22:53 Fraud & Deception
24:42 Horrors of the Sky House
25:54 Jisu's Story
28:05 Technicals' Rebuttal
29:02 MacD, D1, & Keitaro Exposed
29:52 Sky William's Silence
30:28 Sky's Livestream Disaster
31:14 "My Statement" Video
33:26 Moving Forward
34:12 Sky's Legacy
Thank You For Watching LoLAthlete :) - Ігри
what not beating dunkey at smash does to a mf
Was looking for this lol
God I feel old. How long has it been? Lol
"If I cant beat sky in smash, I might as well beat everyone else up"
god i completely forgot this guy existed lmao
same bruh same.
When ur whole personality is being gay, people generally dont care and forget
same LMAO
And now we remember again. Thanks a lot.
Lmfao @@CopyCatPhantom
He couldn’t beat Dunkey in Smash and just went insane.
The POTENTIAL that Sky had, man, his vids were so fun
yeah i loved his videos in the early days
all he had to do was not let it go to his head and he could have matched or surpassed dunkey
@@LastTestament who
@@LastTestament That and his irresponsibility with rules for the house. Should've kept a stricter eye on how people interacted with each other and conducted themselves. If he let kids rent space in his house he should've made sure that everyone could know they were kids, and repercussions should have been enforced (in a less personal way). He did that to himself trying to take up such an arduous task.
LoLAthlete dropping 30 minute bangers now?!!
You know it brother :)
knew of his existence back then, but never really got into his content and one day he was just never mentioned again, anywhere. this was very interesting to watch. thank you for the insight Athlete
I can think of a billion league streamers I used to watch that had 5 seconds of fame and then faded into obscurity. Magikarpusedfly comes to mind
same, glad to see this again, Sky was HILARIOUS, then just vanished. I thought it was cause I stopped watching
Bruh he literally groomed kids, that’s more than enough reason to never talk about a creator again
I'll say this, as someone who lived with Sky, and was one of the "liked members"
My guy was wild, his rules were insane! BUT! He barked louder then he bite. 9 times out of 10 he didn't do none of this.
His money choices though, we tried to stop him. But, couldn't that was just unfortunate.
riiight
You can't help but to feel bad because in a way this reinforces the idea of "the road to hell is paved in kindness." You can try to be as good as you can but if you don't improve on yourself first and foremost this is usually the result.
The saying is, "The road to hell is paved in good intentions" which is also much more fitting here
@@lovereno5958 Ye, I was gonna correct it but I was like "people get what I mean" lmao
Personally, I give very little attention to accusations that aren't actually charged. An accusation means nothing, anyone can cry wolf.
Yea exactly, I don't know why the culture shifted so hard to now accusations are the truth and no one needs to prove anything anymore, it's silly
I was a Dunkey viewer and I remember watching his videos after donkey would play with him. It’s weird to have a certain view/respect for someone, not hearing from them or watching their content for almost a decade, and then seeing that nostalgic view of them get smashed. Glad I know now though.
LA turns people into gta characters man, some of the stuff in there seems like Hollywood trying to write a script for a gay landlord.
I was a fan of sky too back when I first started playing league in 2014 and man that depression video hit so close to home. He truly was an inspiration for a while for me. Incredibly sad of all the BTS stuff that happened and the mental issues he prolonged and ruined all he had worked for.
In LA too many people come from hardship and adjust their spending to a level they project their income could be. The economy just gets worse when it's built on nothing, and a lot of people end up so financially strung out that they become caricatures, masques over sold souls.
You should do solwolf next! I used to watch him and his breaking the meta vids back in the day and i never really got to know why he disappeared
he just didn't want to do content anymore and just work a normal job an have a normal life
solwolf. now thats a name i havent heard in a long time. i just wish he didnt take down his content. i used to look forward to his stuff eevery week.
@@stevebuscemi8224 yeah it was a shame that he taken them down
@@portanrayken3814he put his content back up again, the channel name is kashkat if I remember correctly. Still can find the videos under the solwolf name tho
Supposedly, he also quit because of mental issues as well. I remember he said he left San Francisco and moved in with his dad or some other family member for some time because he needed some stability and support. I remember he did one break the mean with a face cam when he was out there.
@@stevebuscemi8224he put his content back up actually
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Totally forgot him. Thanks for the Video!
Fun fact about Sky and smash bros. If anyone if familiar with the Smash Bros documentary on youtube, you can find Sky in the crowd during the scene everyone is hanging out outside
I feel like the timing of this is interesting cause no one's mentioned Sky in forever, but he recently started back streaming and uploading to UA-cam.
Dude literally groomed kids, he shouldn’t have a platform
The editing & presentation is really impressive, keep it up!
At the time when shit hit the fan for him I had been subscribed for nearly 3 years.
He tried to be as transparent as he could, without involving or saying more than he needed, but it left me as a viewer perplexed and mostly in the dark about what was really going on.
Recently i remembered him, i even found him withing in my subscriptions; and because of that i wanted to revisit what even happened.
This video, among others, really hit me hard. I felt so sad for what happened to him... so much injustice for someone trying to reach out and be funny.
Thank you very much for making this video. It helps clear his name and bad reputation.
I just wish, from the bottom of my heart, that things may change for the better for him and that, wherever he is, he may find true happiness.
i met him years ago and got to spend a day with him and his friends at a convention. he really has a heart of gold. he really really cares about his friends and family.
imo it just seems like he was trying to be someone his friends could come to and count on for a roof over their head and it really just got out of control and he didn't know what to do. as a people pleaser myself, i can't help but feel for him. i'm sure if he could go back in time he'd do things differently so it didn't get so out of hand.
hoping for a Brofresco video, guy was everywhere back in 2014
What ever happened to him? I remember watching him for leaks and then he just disappeared and admittedly it took me so long to notice that I don’t know that happened 😅
@@Temari0403 I remember he got called out for faking his videos (playing custom games with people that played like bots) and after that I just don't remember seeing him
Where he his channel disappeared so poor thing. How can he make money with no UA-cam videos
@@narhwallord6985 so basically zwag, hopefully he disappears too lol. rage comments on people's vids if they call him out too
he also promoted a scam called WTFast for faster ping/internet. with this and what temari said he fell off really fast.
Man, I still love Skys videos. He's still trying to change his life for the better too.
This
you should do a video on brofresco
WOAH
I forgot he existed
Yeah what happend to him
I can add a little extra context. I was in highschool when sky got big and I watched every video of his even during the daily upload era. The reason his channel went on a sharper decline even when he started making better videos, was that he went from a daily release, to an extremely inconsistent schedule. You never knew when the next video was coming. Then he would take a long break and come back stating depression stopped him but he's back and will make them more consistently. Only to release 1 or 2 and then dip for another long period. This was right before the allegations came out.
Also tidbit missed here was his falling out with dunkey. Those two were phenomenal together and to this day hols some of my favorite league videos together. But Sky took it to far and if I'm remembering correctly, Sky wouldn't stop flirting and making advances on dunkey who had a GF (now his wife) and it lead to them no longer hanging out and being friends.
I remember the google docs releasing about the house and going to the sky Williams reddit only to find it locked unable to post or comment to it for what seemed like a year before the doc released. Unsure what caused that to happen. But did not realize Sky responded and made more videos afterwards. Once the doc released and He made the awful stream, I stopped following anything related to him.
That's about the time his depression hit, he'd always tell us he was going to make a new video, or start back up, or have a schedule and never fell through with it
Quality video, sky was my childhood, loved him helped me out a lot, made me love league to help cope with everything else, will always be grateful for the content he put out
Dude he literally groomed kids, what.
Didn’t sky release a video like a few weeks back?
the fact that a 15 year old girl lived at one of his houses to begin with (in the same room as an adult man) is enough to condemn him in my opinion. How does one even make such an insane decision, and how are people not in jail for this
Popular in High school? Dude looked like the kid you'd catch Naruto running out the building if you upset him ☠
If you watched the video, it said he was popular then went to MS/HS. So it was elementary school
Great to see my articles still showing up, cool video!
Woah that face is a blast from the past. I enjoyed Sky’s content back in the day but he’d disappear from time to time. I heard about little about a few of the scandals a couple years ago and lost interest in hearing anymore about him.
When are you doing Dunkey? Is it in the works at all?
dunkey hasnt done anything wrong he just became a normie
This guy's originallllllll karma and morgana jungle videos made me want to play the game that long ago. He broke a lot of previous biases I felt about people with certain orientations as well. Felt very sad to hear the things that transpired when they did back then. Hope he's reconciled those things and improved his life.
Amazing video as always! Sky was one the ogs sad he was suck a dirt bag, would to hear a vid on Blakinola rise and fall
He kinda looks like twomad
this was probably your best video ever, keep at it man
Thank you brother :)
This guys channel is the best
Remember SivHD? My favorite current creators are Pianta and Rav.
great video brotha
Jesus I remember this dude
He was so funny in the beginning but eventually he became so fucking cringe. At some point, him being gay took over his whole personality and felt like that became the focal point of the content over what it originally was meant to be. I have no problem with him being gay but I also dont wanna hear it being brought up 30 times a minute.
I remember watching his videos back in the day and loving every second of it...
It's really weird to me that he even allowed women and minors to stay at the houses at all, any sane person would know that creating a living space where women and men live together is just asking for trouble and drama (real or fabricated).
To me that is dumb, but him renting a huge house from someone to a bunch of broke ass gamers as some sort of middle man and blowing the money up instead of paying rent is also incredibly dumb and irresponsible. And he kept digging the hole further deep
Especially if they couldn't have separate rooms...
some weren't staying full time the house was big , and had this whole vibe of "gamestop" so many people would go crash in for a while and leave, this whole idea was dumb and at the end of the day it's his ass people blamed for the shit other people did. He was really dumb trying to make something that big
@@dark3rthanshadows I think especially with how young he was he should've started with way less people. Like maybe having one or two people live there would be fine but 20+ people in one mansion is bound to go wrong in some way.
I don’t know or care about this guy, but I do think it sucks he can have his life ruined by nothing but allegations from some girl who has clearly benefited personally since.
As a long time, donkey, smash, and league viewer, I feel like this guy always comes back and haunts me lol. I still remember going to see him at his panel at Pax east with other up anf coming league content creators. Crazy how fast time flies.
i don't know if you have an editor or not, but the misspelled big fucking text on screen is a consistent issue you need fixed, ain't that hard to watch your own video once before uploading it no?
I think the editor is the problem. The script said live-in landlord but the text said living landlord. There's clearly a disconnect in quality of writing between two people
I still watch Sky from time to time for nastolgia. He's genuinely a nice guy put in bad situations and it he has always tried to spread positivity through the community.
It’s amazing how fast social media “stars” can rise and disappear and you don’t even know it. Yet I enjoyed many of the videos he put out.
Love the channel, keep up the good work!
Thanks Jeremy :)
I just remembered bout Sky when watching and old video. Watched him so much as a kid. This makes me sad.
I knew this day would come
Dang this is throw-back. I remember Phantom Lord also
Man it hurts so much that the guy whos video on depression that made me feel okay even just for a moment got wrapped up in all this. Seperating the art from the artist can be so hard
At least he got to feature his voice in "Hunt Down The Freeman" the peak of his career.
second time i thought about Sky Williams in 2 days, oddly enough. was talking about old league content creators with someone. hadn't heard from him since right after all the drama happened, the "my statement" video. wasn't really keeping up with any of the drama before that point though. looks like he dipped out at some point. thought he might have just been staying under my radar. he wasn't one i watched regularly. as far as league related entertainment went, i was more into MagikarpUsedFly, Bricky, FrostPrime, Kiandymundy and Darkk Mane... who i think is the only one still making his usual league content. other than that, i was watching informative league content... miss those days of content... one important thing you can learn from Sky's situation though, regardless of Sky himself: very often things go weird when you start living with ppl, even friends you've known forever. and that's just a normal kind of roommate situation. gamer/content houses though? lmao. i've seen frat houses during haze week more chill than some of them.
I remember Sky saying he was going to pay everyone back and post proof weekly/monthly and he never did once. He streamed a couple times, and when asked about it he'd always say something along the lines of "I'm starting it next week!" then nothing. And this was years after saying he would do it.
what do you mean no one has seen or heard from him? he still puts out videos
When I researched and edited this script yeah he started uploading, due to the length this video took wayyy longer to make than usual
Amazing video. One of your best yet!
You should make a video on Protatomonter, I used to love their old videos and commentary on plays.
You just unlocked some old memories. I used to love those videos
Or stonewall
@@KenjiAsakura09 I did too, then they changed their announcer so I watched less. After a couple years they completely dropped the commentating part.
All I remember was that time Dunkey beat Sky in smash.
Brofresco soon?
Who??? Omg no this lizzard
jesus christ. Seeing this feels horrible. Because I use to love watching this dude and seeing a peek into the Sky House. Feels terrible. I remember his video where he was so happy about getting his name legally changed. I guess the old saying, potential is just wasted energy. Is true. This dude could have been something great. Instead minors were abused under his roof. Tragic. I hope they find peace.
I always wondered why he stopped doing stuff with dunkey
I used to watch his content waaaaaaaay back. And yeah it was funny as hell. You guys remember the good old DST? I didn't know he was part of the people who got outed from the smash community. Kinda disheartening.
And he claimed to be a hard worker when studying for classes that leads up to become a “pharmacist”.
Thank you for this video
i admit that i never really followed him or his content that much but man the person is broken
nice video mane
He was there. Will you?
There was a technicals stream last month or last year I think, sky was on it. They talk about alot that went on in the houses.
I never knew much about him but I found his channel some years ago and his LoL videos with friends were comedy gold so i rewatched them all the time. I gotta be honest, I think the dude didnt deserve all that hate. Imagine the responsibility that is being the landlord of a house full of young people who do whatever they want like theres no consequences. It cant be easy, especially if some of them are your close friends.
I never herd of this guy ive been playing since season 2
That’s crazy not even his old skits?? I’d say he was on the same level as Instalok and SivHD for a while
@@LoLAthlete seriously never he looks familiar i think i mighta seen him in an old FGC video but definitely not league
Okay but the mental image of Sky rubbing cheeto dust into electronics is hilarious
why does bro only have 21k subs
We climbing bro :)
I used to follow his content, i found him tru dunkey. I got to speak to him directly a few times. That's it.
Why are most smash players like this? 😅😅😅
really a shame what happened to him. he was just too young and naive for what he wanted to achieve. the gaming house was a great idea on paper but how many 18 year olds can you really expect to be so responsible about things that this idea wouldn't get out of hand? he had so much potential, if only he was more mature at that time, maybe he would still be around today and very successfull.
sky was someone i watched at the end of the day to get away from everyone. i miss him so much 😔
Okay, all of these are really bad "accusations", are any of the "victims" pressing legal charges in a Court of Law?
I was part of the Smash community with this guy in the late 2000's and he embezzled me for a few thousand dollars. No one believed me he could be a person who could do that. Sucks man.
Money and fame really ruins a lot of people
Bringing back old news. Fanning a dead flame.
I completely forgot about sky! I used to love his videos back when I first started playing league over 10 years ago.
He's like Megumi in jjk. Potential Man
as you mentioned, sky has always had issues with his mental health. why he meant well most of the time, he definitely shouldn't have been in charge. his traumatic experiences beyond his horrible family that he has talked about over the years (a rabbit hole in itself) made that line about "being addicted to being the best" the most understated line of the video. unfortunately as mentioned, his views and issues around 2016 hurt that one-track-minded fixation and he struggled heavily with alcohol and eventually he could not handle trying to measure up to the success he had before. he always said how big of an issue he had with looking analytics after a video launched, so I guess he just stopped because of that pressure. I always waited
I'll admit to being a big sky fan. I think he is hilarious and ha(s/d) huge potential, but losing sight and struggling to cope with that lose of steam he had, on top of the allegations, has basically killed him. I really hope he can find himself again one day
It's also a cautionary tale about not letting your brands of dark humour and politically-incorrect comedy bleed into places where they don't belong. Comedians try to run from it, but the truth is you can't apply offensive comedy to everyone and not expect people to feel uncomfortable and closely attribute it to your character. A lot of Sky's misogynist jokes in vids could be hilarious, but they needed to stay relegated to the videos and not transcend into irl such that tenants actually define his behaviour as being "misogynist". His race jokes during league games could be funny, but that stuff had no business irl where you refer to people as "slaves" for legit business.
And it's an extra slippery slope, cause if all your jokes feature dark serious topics, any culture you foster could use humour as a mask for covertly committing dark serious acts and playing them off as jokes.
i loved this guy, that humor wouldnt have lived great nowadays but it was so good back then
20:58 "not even the snack food was safe"
hm hm... How do I say this... The snack food was never safe
31:45 Legalty 101: Never admit to anything that you can be sued over.
geez all i know about was how he apparently owed people alot of money didn't expect him to turn into a pimp king
Bro was making 30K a month and managed to fuck that up. That's 360 thousand dollars a year.
Meanwhile, Dunkey has an indie publishing company, a great marriage, and just published an awesome game from a talented solo developer. Glad to see that some people don't take their UA-cam money and become irredeemable monsters.
sky is posting videos still.
2:32 shofu doing everything else besides releasing the cypher, bruh
That is a name I have not heard in a while, I do remember watching those first videos from sky.
Back when I played that disgusting community game.
I feel like this was all better explained on technicals channel
This remind me of that time Sky Iost to dunkey in smash
Now its easy to be LoL comedian, be an lcs "pro"
He's from Gilroy, CA and I grew up there, he's a few years older than me but a friend of mine knew his best friend's sister, so I played smash with him once in middle school. Didn't get a meaningful read on him, except he clowned everyone at smash and talk an appropriate amount of shit lol
Land of Garlic :) Loved driving through there with the windows down haha
@@LoLAthlete it’s amazing, every time I go back and get that first big deep breath it’s magic
lol i played this game for 9 years and never heard of him
I played since season 1 & watched him regularly, while a friend of mine that also played from season 1 never did. Have met people that don't even play league but heard of him. Just because he was big doesn't mean you're special for not knowing or caring. I couldn't name a single football/soccer (depend on region what you call it) team, but it's actively the most viewed sport in world. Who cares
Yap yap
@gmyrek31 you wanna yap for nothing & then mock someone bringing a good point? Good use of your life there kid 👍 real constructive
iirc, didnt the whole zero situation get debunked.
Holy what a case. Great video lol athlete! Ordered food before watching this one
Damn, literally just yesterday i saw some people arguing in the street and in my head i was like "maaaaad or naaaawwww". Then it was "hmmm, i wonder what happened to that guy. What was his name again?" Then this pops up on my front page. Yeesh.
I feel like this video paints Sky in a bad light and he just really wasnt mentally there