| “ | S-S-S-S-SAMURAI SLICE THAT LIKE BUTTON! | „ |
| — Cory the "ankle-breaker" | ||
Cory DeVante Williams (born November 9, 1992), better known online as CoryxKenshin, is an American YouTuber and gamer. He's best known for his horror and comedy gameplays, one of the games being Five Night's at Freddy's. Williams started YouTube on April 26, 2009, when he was 16. Williams is also known for being friends with other popular YouTubers, like POiiSED, 8-BitRyan, BangBangBrandon, YuB, MavAttack, Dashie, OGChan, runJDrun, Tear of Grace, RaisiM1222, Krptic Unknown, iBerleezy, AfroSenju XL and JAY SAVAGE. Although he gained popularity from his Five Night's at Freddy's gameplays, he also got popular for being nicknamed "The Ankle Breaker" due to juking Ao Oni, a horror character in the self-titled 2007 RPG game.
On August 24, 2022, Williams uploaded a video onto his channel alleging that "racism and favoritism" may influence YouTube's review process. In the video, he recounted an incident where a reviewer age-restricted his video of the horror game The Mortuary Assistant (2022), thereby lessening his visibility and monetization. As many other videos featuring the same content were not subject to the same restrictions, Williams felt unfairly targeted. Numerous other YouTubers voiced their support online, and the video reached #1 on the trending tab.
On June 27th 2023, The Five Nights at Freddy's Movie Official movie trailer was released, and towards the end of the trailer, it revealed that Cory is in the movie and playing the role of a Taxi driver.
Early Life
Starting YouTube
Williams became addicted with anime when he was young, one of them being Dragon Ball Z. In 2009, he made his first YouTube video. From that day on, his channel would eventually be one filled with comedy, starting with one subscriber to 10 million subscribers by June 2021. Williams has been heavily viewed as a positive and naturally comedic person by his fans and friends.
He played his first horror game called "White Finger". Cory started to play more horror games and gained 1,000 subscribers overnight. We would very often see him play a series of games as well.
Milestones (and celebration videos)
He never made an official 1,000 subscribers' video but made a vlog on February 23, 2014, stating his future YouTube goals. He did mention having 1,900 subscribers.
On March 17, 2014, He made a re-introduction video of himself when he hit 2,000 subscribers.
On June 5, 2014, he made a dance battle video with a "fan" for hitting 3,000 subscribers. (Who was actually himself but edited in green screen)
On July 30, 2014, he made another dance video for hitting 4,000 subscribers.
August 15, 2014, he made a video of him playing with a doll and playing in a playground for hitting 5, 6, and 7,000 subscribers within the span of 3 days. This was one of the early stages of Cory quickly earning a lot of subscribers.
On August 16, 2014, he made a compilation video of FNAF 1 games for hitting 8,000 subscribers.
On August 17, 2014, he made a video being "over 9,000" subscribers, which is a reference in Dragon Ball Z when Vegeta and Nappa found out that Goku's strength is over 9,000.
On August 18, 2014, he made another compilation video for hitting 10,000 subscribers. The video talks about him looking forward to his upcoming subscriber milestones, before hitting 10,000 subscribers.
On September 4, 2014, he did a giveaway for hitting 20,000 subscribers. He things he gave away was 2 T-shirts, and a $15 Steam gift card.
On October 26, 2014, he made a fourth highlights video for him hitting 30,000 subscribers.
On November 12, 2014, he made another re-introduction video for hitting 40,000 subscribers.
On December 8, 2014, he talked about FNAF and what he's looking forward to for hitting 46,000 subscribers.
On January 1, 2015, he made a New Year's resolution video for hitting 50,000 subscribers.
On February 12, 2015, he made a seventh highlights video for him hitting 60,000 subscribers.
On April 3, 2015, he made a long talk video where he talked about how thankful he is for conquering all of the things we wanted to do like meet other YouTubers and go to PAX when he hit 70,000 subscribers.
He made a video of reacting to his older videos for hitting 80,000 subscribers but has been privated.
On June 28, 2015, he made a tenth highlights video for hitting 84,422 subscribers.
On July 16, 2015, he made a brief dance video and talked about how thankful he was for getting an apartment for hitting 90,000 subscribers, also stating that his biggest accomplishment was putting the foam pads on his wall which became one of his signature looks for Cory.
On July 25, 2015, he talked again about how thankful he was for meeting big YouTubers like Jacksepticeye, and YouTubers that he was inspired by like Yamimash and others, for hitting 100,000 subscribers. He also did his first charity live stream and raised $30,000 to charity.
On September 5, 2015, he unboxed his first Silver Play Button award for hitting 150,000 subscribers.
On October 10, 2015, he talked about the things he done (like previous videos) for 200,000 subscribers.
He didn't do anything for 300,000 subscribers.
On February 11, 2016, he failed making a pizza in his Cooking With Kenshin series, for hitting 400,000 subscribers.
He didn't do anything for 500,000 subscribers.
On May 10, 2016, he ate a ghost pepper for hitting 600,000 subscribers.
On August 6, 2016, he made a diss track towards himself being inactive, for hitting 700,000 subscribers.
On January 26, 2017, he made fried chicken in his Cooking With Kenshin series for hitting 800,000 subscribers. (He meant to do this when he did hit 800,000 subscribers but did it days later.)
He didn't do anything for 900,000 subscribers.
On December 15, 2016, he watched the live subscriber count on his channel and made a fan video montage, for hitting 1,000,000 subscribers. This was where the "OH BABY IT'S TIME!!" quote came from.
On October 10, 2017, he filled his entire bathtub with Swedish Fish, for hitting 2,000,000 subscribers.
On January 9, 2018, he made another dance and long talk video for hitting 2,370,380 subscribers.
On August 1, 2018, he made a birthday cake and Oreo lasagna in his Cooking With Kenshin series for hitting 3,000,000 subscribers.
On March 24, 2019, he watched his live subscriber count hit 4,000,000 subscribers.
He didn't do anything for 5,000,000 subscribers.
On April 25, 2020, he received a special YouTube Creator Award jacket for hitting 6,000,000 subscribers.
On August 22, 2020, he made spaghetti in his Cooking With Kenshin series for hitting 7,000,000 subscribers. He stated in the video for when he hits 10,000,000 subscribers, he would "announce his retirement" from YouTube.
On December 31, 2020, he made a video saying it would be the last day to buy his line of merch, for hitting 8,000,000 subscribers.
On March 7, 2021, he talks more about his retirement for hitting 9,000,000 subscribers.
On August 23, 2021, he unboxed his first Diamond Play Button for hitting 10,000,000 subscribers.
In that video he reveals that he isn't going to retire, and might go to school, and start another channel, hoping for it to also hit 10,000,000 subscribers.
On October 29, 2021, he makes a new line of merch to celebrate him hitting 10,000,000 subscribers for a limited time.
He never revealed his Golden Play Button when he got it from hitting 1,000,000 subscribers, but revealed it when hitting 6,000,000 subscribers.
Personal Life
We know a little bit about Cory's personal life. Williams lives in his own house while his dog Samson lives with his brother Anthony due to a developed allergy to Samson. (Fun fact, he agreed on the name because of his Fallout 4 lets play when he called Dogmeat-a companion in the game-Samson The Savage. More listed below). He lives in his $400,000 house in South Lyon, Michigan. His dog, named Samson the Savage, is Cory's first pet. Sam joined the Samurai community in May of 2016.[1]
On May 30, 2016, he was involved in a near fatal car accident with his friend Brandon. He was driving home from Ohio when he fell asleep on the wheel and crashed into a semitruck. Luckily, they weren't injured, but Williams suffered a bruise on his shoulder. The pictures he shows depict his car with the front bumper and engine severely impacted in the car. If it wasn't any worse, Williams and Brandon could have suffered their legs being amputated, or far worse.
He revealed on April 25, 2017 that he was born with a condition called Ectodermal Dysplasia, which is a rare genetic disorder he had inherited from his father. It caused him to have 24 teeth instead of 36. He also has the hair variation of ED, which means he has no hair on his legs, arms, and chest. Most of his hair is on his head and face.
Hiatuses
On September 30, 2011, Williams took a two-year hiatus, not uploading again until July 4, 2013. This is not a well-known hiatus as this occurred when Cory was still a small YouTuber.
On February 16, 2016, Williams stopped uploading for two months. During this time, he wasn't active on Twitter, Instagram, or any of his other social media platforms. On April 29, 2016, Cory announced he would return, and uploaded a video on April 30. He apologized for not updating any of his social media sites and also apologized for leaving his fans in the dark about what was going on.
Two years later, on January 16, 2018, Williams stopped uploading again for four months. Cory was on a trip before he stopped uploading. He returned on May 20, 2018, with a live stream in which he explained that he was not 100% ready, wasn't well-rested, and just wanted to quit.
On September 20, 2018, Cory announced he was taking a hiatus from losing his aunt due to cancer. This hiatus was the shortest, lasting only four days. On November 16, 2018, Cory took another hiatus, but returned one month later with a comical skit video called "ASMR HORROR GAMES."
On May 8, 2019, he uploaded the video "THE 100-DAY STREAK IS OVER! 100 Upload Days In a Row." in which he explains that it has been always his goal to upload daily for 100 days before taking a four-month break as a joke. He considered this a test of perseverance and hard work. However, he uploaded a gameplay video one month later on June 12, 2019, and said he was going to return on June 16, 2019, but did not. During this time, he took many trips, notably one to Japan with his friend Dashie, and was spending a lot of time with his family. Cory would also remove his Instagram page in July 2019, but then re-uploaded it in September 2019. This hiatus was the second longest, lasting nine months long from June 28, 2019, to April 3, 2020.
On May 31, 2020, Williams uploaded a video stating why 2020 was the worst year of his life. In the video, Williams stated that he needed to spend some time away from his videos and social media. He revealed that he found himself depressed and anxious because of YouTube. He stated that he wished his life could've amounted to more and he felt he spent too much time focusing on his videos and overthinking them. Williams left for two weeks until June 19 when he uploaded a video in which he plays The Last of Us 2, in which he stated had to come back for.
Throughout both July and August Williams uploaded videos consistently however he stopped uploading after September 19, 2020. Cory's ninth hiatus would last for nearly two months, with him returning on November 6, 2020. Cory would again upload consistently until January 25, 2021, in which he stated in a community post that he had personal stuff going on and couldn't upload that day. He stated he would upload the next day at 2:00 pm but did not, and had a brief tenth hiatus which would last until January 28, 2021.
Following his 9 million subscriber milestone that was uploaded on March 6, 2021, Williams stopped posting on YouTube, Twitter, or Instagram, marking it as his eleventh hiatus. On June 23, 2021, Cory reached 10 million subscribers. On August 26, 2021, Williams released a video titled "Regarding My Retirement" in which he announced he was not retiring but plans on going back to school while still uploading videos, and maybe starting another channel, and unboxed his new Diamond Play Button.
From August 2021 to December 2021, Williams had been consistent and was uploading between 2-5 videos a week. On December 23, 2021, Williams released the finale to his FNAF: Security Breach series. This would be the last video he would upload until February 26th, 2022, with the upload of his new video "ELDEN RING is RAGE GAME of 2022". This would be his twelfth hiatus.
On April 10, 2022, Williams uploaded the last video before his thirteenth hiatus which was his fifty eighth episode of Spooky Scary Sunday. Cory then returned on August 8, where he made a video that is an open and sincere conversation about the state of the community, some issues he have seen within it, and his gratitude towards the Samurais, explained in the description.
From August to September, Cory uploaded consistently until September 28, 2022, when he uploaded the last video, which was his fourteenth hiatus. This lasted ten days.
He would stay active with sporadic uploads until June 27, 2023, after releasing his reaction video to the FNAF movie trailer, which shows that he is starring in the movie as a taxi driver. This is his fifteenth hiatus, which lasted 23 months until he returned on December 13, 2024 with an update.
"Retirement"
On August 22, 2020, Williams revealed that he plans on retiring from YouTube when he hits 10,000,000 subscribers, He hints in multiple videos saying that he will retire, but on August 23, 2021, he states that he isn't going to retire. He "wasn't sure what he was doing" when he revealed that he was because he states that he said it too early and knowing that he won't retire.
Besides all of the long hiatuses Cory has been on, he currently shows no signs of retiring at any time (As of now).
Quotes and Phrases
- "Get your ankles broke."
- "Sup YouTube, what's going on, CoryxKenshin here, and WEEELLLLCOME to...(add video content title here)." (This is Cory's intro to every one of his videos.)
- "Let's get it!" (He said this very often in his Happy Wheels series. The word "in" can also be added at the end of this phrase, it is used both ways an equal amount of time.)
- "Sit back, relax, go grab some snacks." (This is said in every Spooky Scary Sunday video.)
- "Y'all don't want these problems." (He says this phrase in different tones depending on the content of the video in which it was said.)
- "He kinda thick, though."
- "I am the chosen!" (This is usually what he says at the beginning of his gameplays of difficult games that others say are impossible to beat. (Ex, "Getting Over It" by Bennett Foddy). The slash is meant to be there at the end, as it is how it is originally said by Cory.)
- "Catch this work!"
- "Ankle Breaker, don't fail me now!" (He said this while playing "Subnautica".)
- "GET YO ANKLES BROKE!!!" (He says this in most of his content.)
- "LET'S GOOO!!" (He says this after he beats games, levels, etc.)
- "What they throw, low cee blow?" (Though this is not a well known phrase of his, he said this doing a hot sauce challenge when playing COD, and farther back in his YouTube career as well.)
- "Freak you think you thought this was?"
- "Hopefully you guys enjoyed it. If you did, be sure to S-S-S-Samurai SLICEEEE that like button, subscribe today to join the samurai, and until next time my brothas and sistas." (This is Cory's outro and in his most recent outro update, he adds different quotes from the bible, which he changes each time he makes a video. Cory said when playing Detroit: Become Human, while choosing something to paint.)
- "I speak Japanese, I am also black," said in SSS #2.
- "Shut Up - CoryxKenshin" (Yes, you heard that right. He quoted himself. This was a quote Cory made in the first episode of the "Getting Over It" game series. The series that, sadly; only lasted two episodes.)
- "You still freakin talkin - CoryxKenshin" (Yes. He quoted himself again. I wrote the previous quote, and this is a quote from the same video as the last.)
- "IT'S YAH BOY TRENDY GAMER PLAYING ALL THE TRENDY GAMES!" (Sometimes Cory says it before he plays a game as his other personality of sorts 'The Trendy Gamer')
- "WOOOOH HOOOO!" (Cory usually says it when he screams.)
- "Y'all can't make me laugh." (He says this in his try not to laugh videos in the beginning of the video.)
- "I ain't laughing, tho!" (He says this when he loses a try not to laugh.)
- "saranghae" means "I love you" in Korean.
- "WOOOOOH WEEEEEH!" (Cory does this to hype himself up after a highlight play.)
- "Up down, up-down." (Cory does this when he first spawns in a game or "left right, left right" but that was only like two times. Up, down, up, down was also was on his taken down merch.)
- "Take your pills Cory. Take your pills."
- "Got em, red dot em!" (Cory says this after making a skillful shot in a game that has a sniper.)
- "Springtrap got them ankles spring snapped." (Cory said this in TJOC: R Halloween edition.)
- "A game isn't a game until CoryxKenshin has played it - CoryxKenshin"
- "Spiderman, Spiderman! He was black and he never knew." (Happy wheels)
- "Cheer up Tyr, don't shed a tear." (God of War: Ragnarok)
- "Looks like cleaning materials.. to clean up." -Cory, 2023 (Fears To Fathom: Carson House)
- "Find something to do Gator!" (Five Nights At Freddy's: Security Breach)
- "Ladies and gentlemen I present to you Mr. & Mrs. stupid." (DO NOT TAKE YOUR EYES OFF THE BOX (SSS #49)
Nicknames/Alter Egos
Cory not only has a couple of nicknames, but a few aliases used in his skits and/or select series.
- "CK" - Used as a nickname in most every game he plays that he has to type in names and such.
- "Co-Rayy" - Used in his Super Seducer series as a sort of alter ego. Co-Rayy is cool, suave, and believes himself to be a super seducer~
- "SaucyxKenshin" - Used in his Virtual Morality video. Saucy is another alter ego very similar in personality to Co-Rayy.
- "BambiKilla69" - First seen in Cory's Finding Bigfoot gameplay. Cory (as BambiKilla69) started off the gameplay video with a 4-min skit (One of his longest skits) where he wore leafy camouflage hunting gear and had an Australian accent. He also sported a Nerf® "rifle" which he used to hunt down "Bigfoot." We BambiKilla69 made a second appearance in Cory's COD: WWII gameplay. The last time BambiKilla69 has been seen is in Cory's Sirenhead gameplay where he is hunting him down.
- Killer Gumball" -First seen in Case Animatronics gameplay. Killer Gumball is a quiz show host of "IS CORY SMART ENOUGH TO PLAY HORROR GAMES" he pasues the video for the questions to be answer.
- "Edward Norton" - Cory's friend in Spooky Scary Sundays who specialised in visual effects and makeup. Cory set him up by asking him to dress up in a gillie suit, artificially reconstruct his face in his likeness and then head down the I94 West highway. He was arrested on arrival by the police for the murder of the family that Cory killed. Shortly thereafter, however, Edward managed to escape from prison, and later began hiding messages at the beginning of a few of the latest episodes of Spooky Scary Sundays. It has been revealed in the latest episode that Edward will return in episode 30 (the next episode), stating "Episode 30, it's all over". But in episode 32, Cory states that Edward Norton was dealt with and done for, but this may not be true as he says it in a suspicious tone.
- "CoryxConcentrated" - Used whenever Cory is having a particularly difficult time beating a game. He doesn't even talk while he is concentrated.
- "The Shogun" - A nickname, which he uses after his 9 month break.
- "The Ankle-Breaker" - Cory takes pride in his "ankle-breaking" skills when he plays video games, so he refers to himself as this.
- "Chef Kenshin" - "Chef Kenshin is one Cory's alter ego's who does cooking with Kenshin.
- "Spider-Man" - Pretty self-explanatory. Just Cory as Spider-Man, complete with a costume suit. His Spider-Man persona can be seen in his "Marvel's Spider-Man" PS4 game-play.
- "CoryxSanta" - This alter ego is a very notable alter ego of Cory. He is well-known for giving out gifts at giveaways in December, generally game consoles.
- "The Trendy Gamer" -He plays trendy games and also becomes popular very fast(got 7M subs after being gone for 9 months).His editing makes people laugh when he makes mistakes and when he doesn't and should be named best YouTuber of all time
- "VC/Vulgar Cory" Vulgar Cory is an alter ego who does all the cussing for Cory.
- CasualxKenshin Cory refers to himself as this when he's doing poorly in a game.
"The chosen" - This alter ego is what he uses in most of his "Try not to laugh series" he says this in a way that its a sign that you cannot make him laugh.[2] Shogun Himself
References
People
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williams | Cory • Sam • Anthony K. Williams Jr. (Father) • Stephanie Williams (Mother) • Anthony Williams (Brother) • Aleya Williams (Sister) | |||
| Friends and Crew |
DashieGames • POiiSED • 8-Bit Ryan • BangBangBrandon • YuB • MavAttack • OGChan • runJDrun • Tear of Grace • RaisiM1222 • Krptic Unknown • JAY SAVAGE | |||
| Recurring Collaborators | None. | |||
| Others | Karen | |||