#I was half good and then just decided to randomly add subtitles for it

[missdarhk]

I will never forgive YouTube for taking out the feauture that allowed you to make subtitles for other people's vídeos 😭😭

I want to show epic to SO MANY FRIENDS who can't speak english and I would kill to be able to add subtitles to everyone's animatics. Bc yeah I could technically just show lyric videos but ITS NOT THE SAME

[vaccinator-medic]

@saw-7-birds I saw your thing about the TF2 folks having YouTube channels and wrote for it. I got carried away so instead of clogging up your post, I decided to @ you. I hope that's okay!

I guess it's technically a modern day AU as well?

Scout:

His channel name is just VeryFastGuy because he couldn't think of anything else. He posts fitness videos that are wildly inaccurate. Most of the videos are just reasons to talk a lot about baseball and to show off how fast he can run. Baseball fans would love him, and he's fun to listen to, so that's good. Sometimes he uploads footage of various baseball games and provides commentary by yelling over the announcers. Records himself watching every World Series baseball game and yells at the TV. Uses various YouTube channels to troll the other mercenaries.

Soldier:

His channel name is JaneAmerica for whatever reason. Half of the videos are on the USA. Sometimes he sings patriotic songs really badly, sometimes he tries to read the US constitution out loud (he can't read well but he gets a little further each time), and sometimes he talks about the history of the USA. The other half of his videos are of him blowing stuff up and reading romantic (crappy) poetry that he's either found or wrote himself. Scout has a field day trolling Soldier by insisting that there are different lyrics to every patriotic song Soldier posts and by making up US history facts. Soldier responds to every comment by typing in caps insisting Scout is wrong.

Pyro:

Their channel name is xpinkxkittyx32. They upload gaming videos without spoken commentary, and their camera only captures their gloved hands and keyboard. They edit text commentary in and they randomly put cat ears on things in game. Uses the :3 face a lot. They also post toy reviews, still not showing their face, just them dressed in cute sweaters. Some videos are of them setting things on fire in their full suit to see what happens and enabling Soldier's destructive explosion tendencies. Scout tries to troll Pyro but quits because Pyro responds to all of his comments with <3.

Demoman:

His YouTube channel is SCOTTISHCYCLOPSWITHSWORD. He blows crap up on camera. He teaches chemistry concepts as well, but has to be careful about not getting his channel taken down for promoting bomb building. He and Soldier collaborate sometimes. He also teaches proper sword maintenance. He sometimes streams while drunk to just talk about stuff into a camera. People love it for some reason. Occasionally uploads videos of him pretending to sword fight someone. It's usually just Sniper waving a vaguely human shaped sack around with a long stick for Demoman to fight. Scout trolls him with one of his random accounts by saying he has a cooler sword made of various impractical materials. Demoman tells Scout to tell him his location so he can sword fight him every single time. He'll even ramble about it on stream.

Heavy:

The name of his channel is just RussianLiteratureGuy because he thought it would make his channel easier to find. His channel is mostly in Russian. He reads Russian literature and gives his thoughts on them through reviewing them. He puts his literature degree to good use. Occasionally uploads him cooking something. He puts English subtitles in his videos, but the translation is a bit wonky. Once collaborated with Pyro on a gaming video and spoke in English, and people thought it was hilarious. He didn't like it very much, but decided not to take it down when he realized that people were enjoying his over the top commentary rather than making fun of his accent (well, most of the time). He still collaborates with Pyro every once in a while. Scout will leave comments on his videos wildly misunderstanding every video Heavy makes on books on purpose, while also using Google Translated Russian. Heavy, however, seriously discusses Scout's purposely bad takes in his videos so Scout actually ends up learning random things about Russian literature.

Engineer:

His channel name is EngineerIsEngihere. Oh boy. It's all about engineering, complete with all the complicated math that comes with it. It's mostly about mechanical engineering where he designs and builds stuff, but occasionally he posts something about electrical engineering. Luckily, he tries his best to explain all the math. Some videos are entirely dedicated to him building a machine instead of going in depth. Will also blow things up with his various machines, intentionally and unintentionally. Goes on and on about safety and the proper safety items one needs to build things with. Makes really bad dad jokes and puns. Scout uses one of his random YouTube accounts to try and start a rumor that Engineer is 4'7". Engineer mentions the random channel Scout is using in every video and insists he's not that short in a way that makes everyone believe that he is, in fact, that short.

Medic:

Medic's channel name is just DoveMan22352. Almost all of his videos are of his doves done with a low quality camera. It's usually just him petting the doves, feeding them, taking care of them, etc. He makes collages of them but instead of posting them on a blog or something, he makes a 3 second video of just a picture of the collage. Occasionally he'll post himself doing some wild medical science thingy. People mistakenly think he's making an ARG due to this, so he has a small batch of followers that overanalyze all his videos. Scout increasingly points out very minor things in the videos to spur on people that think the channel is an ARG. Medic has no idea what's going on and gets increasingly more confused.

Sniper:

His channel name is Archery And The Outdoors because he thought somehow that he was writing a description for his channel. Posts videos of his mediocre archery skills and videos on neat animals he sees. His commentary on the animals is pretty hilarious, mostly just him rambling off whatever he can think of. Will occasionally teach survival skills, like starting campfires. Has no idea what a "software" is so his videos have no editing whatsoever. Scout makes 30 different YouTube accounts to just post the comment "ha ha old man" on all of Sniper's videos. Sniper responds to every one of them saying "I'm 27." Has to ask Scout how to make the video go into the computer from the camera, and then how to make the video go into YouTube. Scout has access to Sniper's account because of this and randomly uploads videos of him writing "old man" on cardboard signs on Sniper's channel.

Spy:

His YouTube channel name is John Guy so he can hide his identity through a ridiculously common name. He never appears on camera, never speaks, and writes all his captions in perfect English to avoid his typing style from being traced. He mostly just rates various fashion items and complains about food he really hates. Uploads very rarely. Scout trolls him by leaving seemingly innocent comments that also slightly hint at knowing Spy's identity. Like, he'll review a watch and Scout on a dummy account will comment, "Hey! I know a guy with a watch exactly like that," or, "You should upload knife tricks." Every time Spy tries to track down Scout, Scout just deletes his channel and makes a new one. He is also hidden behind a VPN, the Tor Onion client, and a proxy. The only team member with better knowledge on computers is Pyro.

BONUS

Miss Pauling:

Her channel name is Cleaning Up Crimes. It's dedicated to teaching people how to clean up dead bodies and dispose of evidence in various ways. She doesn't get taken down because everyone assumes it's some kind of ARG, a parody channel, or a joke channel. Miss Pauling speaking in a very cheesy, incredibly cheerful voice adds to this effect. Scout doesn't troll her. Instead, he leaves comments through his main channel that's always something like "<3 thanks! I'll use this in the future!"

The Administrator: "What is a YouTube?"