Kenny Hassan Irwin (born: May 6, 1974),[1] better known online as dOvetastic Microwave Theater, or simply dOvetastic, is an American former YouTuber who microwaves stuff that don't belong. He was known to have the longest running microwaving YouTube channel. The YouTube channel was created on February 26, 2006 and it was terminated due to violating Community Guidelines on April 28, 2018, holding at least 22,687 subscribers.[2]
History[]
On March 29, 2006, dOvetastic uploaded his first microwaving videos called "Explosive Electronic Light Bulb ROBODINNER", and "Outdoor Microwaving With Large Electra Plasma Light Bulb Blue".[3]
On May 27, 2015, he uploaded a video about microwaving a vintage 1950s electric shaver/razor.
On September 25, 2015, he uploaded a video about microwaving an iPhone 6S Plus in Rose Gold.
On March 3, 2017, he uploaded a video about microwaving a Nintendo Switch.
Account termination[]
On April 28, 2018, his YouTube account was terminated due to violating Community Guidelines, and all his videos were removed from YouTube.
On July 6, 2018, his Facebook post announced the termination of his YouTube channel. In a statement, dOvetastic said in part,
"To my fans of the internet's & Youtube longest running first and original microwaving entertainment show. It has had an amazing over twelve years run. My youtube channel known for the show dOvetastic Microwave Theater was wrongfully terminated likely due to malicious flagging that might have come from trolling or bots that took my channel down with little to no warning. Since the end of April when this happened I have been trying for over the last two months to get my channel restored to no avail. If anyone has inside connection with youtube that night help me get my channel restored, it would be greatly appreciated. I have put untold amount of hours of hard work, effort and resources into creating unique creative content for people's viewing pleasure on youtube since March of 2006 not long after youtube initially began it's service. In 2008 I was awarded a Youtube partnership. The microwave show, dOvetastic Microwave Theater "www.MicrowaveShow.com" has had the most microwaving episodes produced setting itself apart to this day in creativity & imagination that has yielded numerous microwave artworks over the many years it has been running produced by microwaved products. Some of these microwave artworks that I produced in the show where even on display in the American Visionary Art Museum in 2013 for about a year as part of major art installation I did. I am always grateful to my fans for your support and enjoyment of my work as an artist. Thankyou."
On July 29, 2018, another Facebook post said that he wasn't available to get the YouTube channel reinstated after over three months.
Trivia[]
- Kenny is a Muslim convert.
- Kenny is known to be an artist on the side in which he creates slugs out of trash and things he’s microwaved. His digital artwork, travels and screenshots of past microwaving videos can be viewed on his Flickr.
- He runs a successful art exhibition, Robolights, which is still active.
- Kenny got his start with doing microwave experiments at a very young age, although it wasn’t until around high school (1991) when he first began videotaping his microwave experiments. He initially broadcast it for his school’s homepage, but eventually switched to posting them onto YouTube.
- Although terminated on YouTube, Kenny still remains active on Facebook — occasionally posting his artwork and art pieces. He also has a Dailymotion account, where about a hundred of his microwaving videos survive (though the majority of which are older videos).
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