Do what you love to do.
Colin Charles "Elliot" Wyckoff (July 6, 1994 – January 25, 2015, aged 20), better known as kitty0706, was a video creator hailing from Point Pleasant, New Jersey. He joined YouTube on April 14, 2007. While he is best known for his Garry's Mod animations, he had also worked on some Grand Theft Auto IV machinima, as well as some YouTube Poops.
Wyckoff would be diagnosed with leukemia in May 2012. He eventually died of complications from the disease on January 25, 2015 at the age of 20.
Selected works
The following tropes are a general overview of his work:
- Author Appeal: Dude's quite the fan of rock music, especially A Day to Remember.
- He was also very fond to skateboarding culture.
- In his later works, Kitty had a thing for the Funny Animal trope.
- Many of the sound effects come from Ed, Edd n Eddy, and he frequently used the Jet Set Radio soundtrack in his Gmod videos.
- He also had a thing for giving his videos parody titles of video games, such as Mass Defect (for Mass Effect), Ass's Creed: Enter The Anus (for Assassin's Creed), Left 4 Farts (for Left 4 Dead), and so on.
- Black Comedy: Some of the jokes in his videos were known for being very dark, for example; When a The Sims-like scene happens in Mass Defect, one of the choices that was presented to Commander Shepard is "Take cancer and die".
- Rapid-Fire Comedy: One of his comedic staples in almost every work he did, whether it be Elliot Goes To School, Moments with Heavy, or the 30 Second Let's play, you can almost always see the trace of this method used in his works.
- Reference Overdosed: His videos contain reference after reference of various video games, movies, and other forms of media. It would be easier to count only his works that doesn't make any reference to pop culture media.
- Renaissance Man: Where do we even begin? He had directed, produced, edited and recorded his own videos, designed custom assets for some of them like character models and maps, voice acted several times, was very skilled in both digital and hand-drawn art, and even done both 2D Adobe Flash animations as well as some 3D animations with Source Filmmaker, all before his 20s!
- Self-Deprecation: Some of his videos contain jabs at the Furry Fandom. Colin himself was a member of the fandom at one point in his life.
- Surreal Humor: Let's just say that context isn't the biggest priority for his videos.
- Teen Genius: He produced and edited machinima and chaotic-yet-intricately animated GMod videos, drawn artwork, and even made Garry's Mod maps before he turned 18for context. In his later works, Colin would also create a standalone Adobe Flash animation snipped into his other work as seen in Team Fabulous 2 and Mass Defect.
