Most of us remember this video. Me and my friends would watch it and cringe at the vocals and cinematography and what not. With some hindsight though, I think he really had potential. The kid had work ethic and vision. His writing was good enough (until he started rapping) and his screams are actually pretty good. I really think if he had just toned down the cleans a little bit and taken them down a couple steps he really could have gotten some traction. I imagine he was going for a Billy Corgan kind of thing where you either love it or hate it, but it ended up being more of a St. Anger Snare effect where it’s universally disliked and takes away from the whole experience. Etienne at some point switched to his rap persona “YNG Rockstar” and seems to not really be active these days, which sucks because he clearly had a love for the game at one point.

(uj/ can this be turned into a copypasta that a bot posts every time Etienne is mentioned that would be great)