Creator / Wileyk209zback

Zak Wolf.

Wileyk209zback (also known as Zak Wolf) is a well-known YouTube Pooper and Furry Fandom figure from New England (specifically from the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts.) He is well known also as the co-creator of Golden Book Video Killers with user Tomblappy. He and his brother have also collaborated together on Barney Bunch-themed Speakonia dubs of Rugrats episodes, under the BigBoyRats alias (named after the "Big Boy" baby in "Angelica's Worst Nightmare," the first episode they dubbed).

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His videos provide examples of:

• Actor Allusion: Fairly common in his YouTube Poops, and also featured in a few of the BigBoyRats Barney Bunch-themed Rugrats dubs (such as making the James Belushi -voiced Santa Claus actor in the "Babies in Toyland" special being the same crooked mall Santa from Jingle All the Way, whom Belushi also played.)
• All Just a Dream: "Daffy Duck's Wuvluv Nightmare." It's lampshaded earlier on, when Mushu assures Daffy that he's in a dream and to go along with hit, saying "Anything can happen in a dream!" He also stops Daffy from ending it early to avoid sleep paralysis.
• Ambulance Cut: He's fond of doing this in his YouTube Poops when someone gets injured or seriously sick, often utilizing a very simple animation of an ambulance driving by on a white background accompanied by a very fast high-pitched siren. In his YTP "Cecil Goes Crazy," this happens to Cecil because he got sick from smoking a cigar.
• And You Were There: Done at the end of "Daffy Duck's Wuvluv Nightmare." Daffy even compares it to The Wizard of Oz while doing it.
• Author Appeal:
  • Arthur, Sesame Street, Looney Tunes, early seasons of The Simpsons, Golden Book Video, Point-and-Click Games (especially the ones by Humongous Entertainment and Living Books) and Caillou (though this one is more out of ironic love than genuine love).
  • Fire alarms, something he's uploaded several videos of to his channel. Justified, as this is a special interest for him since he has Asperger syndrome.
• Berserk Button: Of a sort; when cosplaying as Disney's Big Bad Wolf, at conventions or whatnot if someone mistakes his costume for Goofy, he'll end up telling them in character, "Does Goofy have fangs like this, and a tail like this, and does he chase after the Three Little Pigs?"
• Catchphrase: In his Big Bad Wolf Disney read-along review vlogs, he usually ends his introduction before putting on the cassette or record with "But enough of this yakking; let's see the pictures, hear the story/record/tape, and read the book!"
• Cluster F-Bomb:
  • The main focus of his Aladdin YTP "The Foul-Mouthed Genie!", which dubs over the Genie with lines from Robin Williams' stand-up shows, lamp-shading the way on how film companies use salty comedians to voice roles in children's movies.
• Deconstruction: His GoAnimate videos tend to do this, poking fun at the "Caillou Gets Grounded" trend popular in the community, most notably when the family goes to court for Boris constantly grounding Caillou. Even though Boris accuses the court of being a Kangaroo Court with a Joker Jury, it actually turns out to be a positive outcome for Caillou, as it screws up big time for Boris and he is declared mentally insane for having a "grounding fetish", all while Boris attempts to paint Caillou as the most obnoxious brat in history, and as the only sane person in his family, even going as far as to try and ground the courtroom when the sentencing is handed down and he is arrested.
  • Later on he did another one where Caillou's family attends a family therapy session, where once again it doesn't end well for Boris and he is similarly declared mentally insane for his unhealthy grounding obsession, and even tries grounding everyone in his family and the therapist. But of course things turn out well for Caillou, Rosie and Doris, and they earn their family bliss, but not in the way they expected.
• Expressive Mask: The fursuit heads he built of Zak Wolf and the Disney Big Bad Wolf, made with fairly-decent moving-jaw mechanisms.
• Fan Vid: He's produced quite a few of these as well...
  • His first YouTube video was one of these, taking clips of the "I'm Gonna Always Love You" song sequence from The Muppets Take Manhattan set to the theme song for the Muppet Babies (1984) animated series.
    • As a fifth anniversary video for his current channel and for the 30th anniversary of the original Muppet Babies series, he made an improved high-definition remake of said video, most notably featuring a clip of Baby Animal from the 2014 Lipton Tea commercial featuring The Muppets at the "Animal dance!" lyric (compared to the still image of a Baby Animal photo puppet at that part in the original.)
  • There's one he made using clips from Arthur set to the "Macarena" song, largely due to (and prominently featuring) a clip from "Play it Again D.W." where a group of adults at the party the Read parents attend perform a dance move resembling the Macarena.
  • Two of them are of Robbie Rotten's "Master of Disguise" song. One is of Transfer the wolf from Around the World with Willy Fog, and the other is of Sylvester the Cat. Notable of the former is the "It's so easy to deceive you" verse accompanying Transfer disguised as his boss Sullivan and pulling a Mirror Routine on him, and at the falsetto "Oh I'm so tricky" (accompanying Robbie Disguised in Drag) playing under a clip of Transfer disguised as a beautiful female doe. Notable with the latter is the "I'm as sneaky as can be" verse accompanying Sylvester disguised as a scarecrow with stilts (and it even looks like his animation is timed to the music), the "You walk right by me, not knowing that I'm slimy" lyric accompanying Tweety walking by Sylvester standing behind the fence wearing a rubber goat mask, and the aforementioned "Oh I'm so tricky" playing under Sylvester disguised full-body as a pretty female dog.
  • For the 2012 holiday season, he did a YouTube Poop Music Video, using Bob Rivers's "The Twelve Pains of Christmas" song set to various clips, largely from "Arthur," "Caillou" and the CD-i Nintendo games. Worth of note is Caillou playing the Bratty Half-Pint for eight, Zelda worrying about facing her in-laws for six, Caillou's mommy not enjoying sending Christmas cards for four, Buster Baxter experiencing hangovers for three (including a clip of his South Park-esque counterpart at one point), and David Read attempting to rig up the Christmas lights for two.
  • He's also done a video showcasing clips of Looney Tunes characters smoking accompanied by Tex Williams's "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette" song, concluding with Babs Bunny exclaiming "CIGARETTES ARE GROSS!!!"
  • There's also one he made for celebrating his 28th birthday, showcasing clips from The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Birthday set to "It's My Party (and I'll Cry if I Want To)" by Lesley Gore. Given the context of the episode, the song fits with the animation very well.
  • This music video compiles various scenes of characters pretending to be a train in a tunnel (such as Bugs Bunny, the Road Runner, Shaggy and Scooby, the Muppet Babies, the Galloping Geargrinder and Murdock, set to the Ice Man song from A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (as that episode had a few instances of characters pretending to be a train in a mine tunnel).
  • He also did an AMV of the Beastars anime set to the "Something There" song from the animated Disney classic Beauty and the Beast. This came from starting to watch the anime after the COVID-19 Pandemic affected his area and because he had also recently worked on the costume committee for his college's theater company's performance of the stage adaptation of Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
• Goofy Suit: Not just his own fursuits, but he also performs as a kangaroo mascot for a local college-league baseball team, and has shared a few videos of his mascot antics on his channel.
• Hindenburg Incendiary Principle: On the 80th anniversary of The Hindenburg disaster, he uploaded a montage of this trope occurring in animation.
  • In his "Let's Play" video of SPY Fox in Dry Cereal, he compares the crash of William the Kid's getaway blimp to The Hindenburg and even refers to said blimp as "The Hindenwilliam."
• Hollywood New England: He's a Greater Boston native, and some of his railfanning videos prominently show MBTA trains. He also uploaded a recording of a Dunkin' Donuts commercial involving The End of the World as We Know It, further placing his status as a New Englander owing to Dunkin' Donuts' huge presence in the region.
• Latex Perfection: Some of his costumed egos utilize such masks, although in most cases they are mass-produced rubber Halloween masks from different eras that aren't very expressive, including latex masks of Scooby-Doo and Wile E. Coyote (the latter one of the rarer masks in his collection), along with the Big Bad Wolf (before making a moving-jaw fursuit head of him in spring 2016), Mickey Mouse, a cartoonish Pig Man (resembling the pig mask from the 1984 Unfaithfully Yours remake), a couple other cartoonish wolves and a few others.
  • And of course, he's done a YouTube Poop making fun of this trope, appropriately entitled "The Age-Old Mask Device", in which "The Brain" (who spoke the line the title is based off of) channel-surfs and keeps coming across the latex mask device on each TV channel, and it keeps annoying him so much until he's driven to Shoot the TV!
• Master of Disguise: He has several costumed alter-egos and different masks he has appeared wearing online, starting with the Big Bad Wolf in October 2009, and continuing on with Wile E. Coyote, Scooby-Doo, one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, K-O the Kangaroo (the mascot for a local baseball team he often performs as), to name a few. In August 2019, he debuted his nondescript/original character fursona Zak Wolf and in October 2022 he debuted another fursona - Sam Valentino, the private toon fox detective.
  • In 2018, he produced a Fan Vid with clips of Sylvester's various disguises set to Robbie Rotten's "Master of Disguise" song, in memory of the then-recent passing of Robbie's actor Stefan Karl.
• Mirror Routine: One video involved him doing a full-blown remake of this gag from the classic Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Never Ape an Ape Man", utilizing Chroma Key technology, a gorilla suit and a Scooby mask and costume. The result looks pretty impressive.
  • In this video demonstrating the video effects from the pre-2007 versions of Apple's iMovie Non-Linear Edit software, when Zak Wolf gets to the "Mirror" effect he acts this out with the mirrored image of himself. He even mentions he should've brought his Scooby-Doo mask or a Groucho Marx costume.
• Multi Layer Facade: He has occasionally showed this skill with Latex Perfection masks, even wearing one Scooby-Doo mask under another as a gag!
  • For April Fools' Day 2020, he did a video as Zak Wolf exclaiming he was going to reveal his actual face under the fursuit for everyone and dramatically removes it as the audience from The Masked Singer chants "Take it off! Take it off! Take it off!"... only to reveal a tight latex grey cartoonish wolf mask underneath his fursuit head, to which he teasingly says "April fools.."
• Mushroom Samba: He's pretty good at simulating this in YouTube Poops, especially if using software like Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro X.
• Precision F-Strike: He is fond of using a voice recording of the Tourettes Guy saying "HOLY SHIT!" in a majority of his YTPs to lampshade moments when this trope would be applied if the show was not made for a child audience. Sometimes, a voice recording of a loud "FUUUCK!" is also used as well for the same reason.
  • Mostly averted otherwise in his fursuit videos.
• Rail Enthusiast: He is one of these, and has a fairly large HO-scale model railroad layout in his basement that he has shared videos of on his channel, utilizing a neat mix of older and newer model train equipment from The '60s to the present, and even has a working Drive-In Theater! (with a tablet in the screen streaming intermission snack bar advertisements and trailers)
• Running Gag: His YouTube Poops have several...
  • Whenever a character says “Ssh!”, the music from the Gracie Films logo plays. Once in a while, the text "You've been GRACIE FILMED" will appear on a blue background, or Peter Griffin will sing along with the music "And now the show is o-ver now!"
  • “Woah! It’s a fire drill!”
  • Whenever a particular piece of Arthur background music is played, either "Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee..." or "Up a mountain and over a bridge..." is heard on top of it.
  • When someone is injured or seriously ill, a very simple animation of an ambulance driving by plays accompanied by a very fast high-pitched siren.
  • The Brain from Arthur commenting in exasperation "The age-old mask device?" when an example of Latex Perfection occurs.
  • His YouTube Poops of animated Disney features typically open with a spoof of the 1988-1994 Walt Disney Classics VHS opening Vanity Plate, with Weegee in place of Sorcerer Mickey, and also featuring Mario commenting "YouTube Poop. Where there's smoke, they pinch back." and the finished logo reading "Walt Disney POOP CLASSICS."
  • Eat the Camera moments or other similar zoom-ins are often accompanied by some form of the Viacom "V of Doom" logo music.
• Scooby-Dooby Doors: He's done a video recreating this gag in live-action featuring himself wearing his Scooby-Doo costume. He even named the video after the trope name on This Very Wiki!
  • In this video, he takes the chase scene from Snoopy, Come Home that incorporates this gag and syncs it to the "Happy Haunted Sunshine House" song from "Bravo Dooby Doo". It surprisingly fits very well. Worth of note is Charlie Brown briefly quoting Johnny wondering if "Jinkies" is "a breakfast cereal or something."
• Self-Parody / Take That!: His GoAnimate videos were more or less made to make fun of the usual "Grounding" plot devices used in such videos. A minor arc involved Caillou and his mother finally having had enough of the father always grounding him over every little thing he does and they go to court over it.
• Shave And A Haircut: In most of his Big Bad Wolf videos where he plays a record of the Disneyland Records studio cast version of Disney's The Three Little Pigs, there's a part where the Wolf on the record knocks this way on Practical Pig's brick house, and usually after that, the actual Big Bad Wolf sings "Two bits!" This is borrowed from a gag he and his friend Tomblappy came up with for Golden Book Video Killers.
• Signature Style: He commonly uses kids' shows that are Popular with Furries in his YouTube Poops, mainly those by Canadian company Cinar.
  • He also uses anything by Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. in his poops, as well as Caillou, which was also a Cinar cartoon.
  • He'll also often do YouTube Poops of The Berenstain Bears, utilizing both the 1985 and 2003 animated shows (the latter seemingly to be used more.)
  • He's also often done Let's Play videos of computer games of his childhood, most notably several titles from Humongous Entertainment, along with some of the Little Critter / Mercer Mayer CD-ROM games of the mid-to-late 90s (such as The Smelly Mystery).
• Stock Sound Effects: He often enjoys pointing out or spoofing certain sounds, if need be. His favorite sound effects libraries to use, as pointed out in a few vlogs, are the "Cartoon Trax" sound effects library from the Hollywood Edge (which contains many classic Disney sounds), the Hanna-Barbera SoundFX Library and the Warner Bros. Sound Effects Library from Sound Ideas. He has especially made extensive use of the Hanna-Barbera library in his Robin Hood (1973) YTP "Disney Buys Out Hanna-Barbera."
• Synthetic Voice Actor: Besides his Barney Bunch and GoAnimate videos, he's also used such means in YouTube Poops...
  • In "Big Bird Brings Death to Sesame Street," he uses Microsoft Sam pitched up to make Ernie (whose dialogue was simply described by the narrator in the original) say, "I'm going over to visit Betty Lou, because she has a contagious fatal illness, with diarrhea forever." It makes Big Bird's "Ohhh" reaction more convincing, though.
  • He has also done a few videos utilizing the text-to-speech feature in the KidWorks 2 productivity software he used in his childhood, even making Drew Pickles speak with it in one video.
  • In "The Age-Old Mask Device," this is used for a couple of TV announcers, including one saying "Today on Mission: Impossible, a Clip Show of this past season's highlights," and the other saying "And now, back to It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special." Both were done using the PlainTalk feature in macOS.
• Umbrellas Are Lightning Rods: He simulates this in his Zak Wolf vlog demonstrating the video effects in the older versions of Apple's iMovie video-editing application; during a demonstration of the "Rain" effect he opens an umbrella, only to then get struck by lightning (via the "Electricity" effect.)
  "I already demonstrated the electricity effect!"
• Vlog Series: When not doing fursuit vlogs as Zak Wolf, he'll also do vlogs cosplaying as the Big Bad Wolf, often showing or talking about something relating to Disney (most notably ranting about their live-action remakes of animated classics, and their buying 20th Century Fox).
  • He's also done a few vlogs as Wile E. Coyote, usually about something relating to Looney Tunes or Warner Bros., such as when AT&T bought Time Warner in 2018.
  • Recently he's done a few Zak Wolf vlogs that debunk some of the myths and rumors about the whole COPPA/FTC rules that have gone into effect in January 2020, including explaining how the automated content-detection system YouTube implements is flawed (and has personally gone through all 1,100+ videos on his channel to set their audience settings.)
• Vocal Evolution: Some of his character impressions; justified in that he's been on YouTube for over ten years...
  • His voice for the Big Bad Wolf has since gotten even closer to the original voice by Billy Bletcher, though once in a while it may start to revert to his earlier impression voice.
  • His Daffy Duck voice started out more higher-pitched, that is, when doing it at regular speed, as in some earlier vlogs he'd basically do a Sylvester-like voice and raise the pitch in post, very much like when Mel Blanc voiced Daffy. He doesn't do this as often anymore, since his Daffy voice has improved a lot to the point where he doesn't need to use the Mel Blanc technique. Regardless, it still bears a strong resemblance to Dee Bradley Baker's Daffy voice from Space Jam and New Looney Tunes.
• Yet Another Christmas Carol: An in-universe example in a Big Bad Wolf vlog where he reviews the soundtrack-story album LP of Mickey's Christmas Carol, commenting on how it's yet another adaptation of the Charles Dickens tale and adding that "Movie and TV writers have been milking that goat for years."

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