| “ | Hello blazers, it is your boy Roman, your favorite neighborhood Russian! | ” |
―NFKRZ's intro | ||
NFKRZ (short for No-Fuckers), is a Russian YouTuber that uploads videos commentating about Russian society and current-events aimed towards English-speaking viewers in Western countries.
Roman was well known among the YouTube commentary community, for videos such as his multiple rants on Keemstar as well as No Bullshit. Over the years he transitioned to his current content regarding Russian culture, as well as his vlogs around Russia and neighboring countries.
History[]
Early career[]
2011 - 2018[]
NFKRZ created his YouTube channel on August 31, 2010, but started uploading since October 22, 2011. His first upload was "biggest TF2 noob ever? lol". He began his career making MLG montage edits, before transitioning to commentary videos in the vein of his friend Pyrocynical around 2015 and 2016. Roman continued making said videos, whilst sprinkling in more personal videos regarding Russian culture around 2018 and onwards. During 2018 Roman also lost 30kg of weight.
Current format[]
2019 - Present[]
Roman's content started to gain more traction when his videos regarding Russian influencers and western rip offs went viral, gaining him a following of people interested about Russia's culture. Since then, uploads talking about Russia's unique and sometimes bizarre culture have dominated his uploads in recent years, as viewers from western countries have shown interest in NFKRZ's take on Russian political and social issues that rarely get talked about in the west.
Personal life[]
NFKRZ was born and raised in Chelyabinsk, Russia.[1] He went to Chelyabinsk State University, majoring in linguistics and translation. He has asthma, making him exempt from Russia's mandatory military service. In 2021, he was vaccinated against COVID-19 using the Sputnik V vaccine. In 2022, he left Russia and currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal.[2]
Political views[]
Roman leans on the left side of the political spectrum and has expressed support for gender equality, racial equality, LGBT rights, abortion and refugees/immigrants in the past. He is anti-war and condemned Vladimir Putin for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, making videos saying that ordinary Russians say no to war.
He went on hiatus on February 24, 2022 due to ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, saying that he does not feel that it’s okay to keep entertaining with the current situation. On March 16, 2022, he announced through his Telegram channel that he left Russia for an indefinite amount of time and was stationed in Tbilisi, Georgia. On Jan 4, 2024, he announced he had been granted a visa to move to the European Union, and on February 10, 2024, he announced he was moving to Lisbon.[3] Roman says he doesn't align with either Palestine or Israel, but is against Israeli government commiting a massacre in Gaza. He is also against Zionism.[4]
Collaborations[]
He is friends with Pyrocynical, Dolan Dark, Jameskii, and BamanBoi, sometimes recording Counter-Strike: Global Offensive videos together with them in his early career.
NFKRZ has done multiple collaborations with Bald and Bankrupt where he showed him around his city of Chelyabinsk in Russia.
Appearance[]
His old YouTube profile picture was a Yoba, which stands for "Youth Oriented Bydlo Approved", Bydlo is a Russian word for rednecks. It features a black cap with the Russian flag printed on the front and is also wearing a black hoodie.
His current YouTube profile picture is a black and white photo of him photoshopped in front of a Russian "commie block".
Music[]
Roman released a number of joke tracks on his YouTube during his early career, including Can't Touch My Swag, which uses the beat of Tyler The Creator's Yonkers and mentions MLG Montage Parodies. The next piece of music he released was his Keemstar Diss track, Using the beat of Drake and Future's Jumpman, he critiques Keemstar, bringing up the infamous Alex quote, and much more. He then released Click To Bait, which brings up how people say that he and other commentary channels are Clickbait, this track uses the beat of Drake's Back To Back. His then released Zoie Burgher (Diss Track), Which as the title suggests, is a diss track on Zoie Burgher, who sparked drama with a group of NFKRZ friends. NFKRZ (Along with Filthy Frank/Pink Guy Is featured on theneedledrop's Cal Chuchesta's version of "Panda", originally performed by Desiigner.
He also started a music project under the name of Lil Vodka in October 2017, and his first track is called LEPS which was released in November. Lil Vodka was later dropped as a persona.
Roman currently releases serious music on his SoundCloud Romaskosmodroma. He makes hip-hop oriented music.
Fandom[]
He calls his fanbase The Blazers.
In-jokes/memes[]
NFKRZ started 2 memes: "Use code NFKRZ", which was a mocking representation of Keemstar's Use code KEEM for G Fuel. The second meme was "Buy me Overwatch Mafia 3", whose root or reference cannot be found, but NFKRZ tweeted this to both Pyrocynical and PewDiePie. In response, Pyrocynical jokingly bought him Grand Theft Auto 3 and the gameplay video can be found on NFKRZ's channel.
Despite having extremely good English pronunciation in comparison to the average Russian, he has always been mocked many times for by individuals who cannot understand his English, and his viewers used to roast him in the comment section of his videos, often commenting: "Give subtitles, Ablo Pigman", and "NFKRZ, I can't understand you". He has also been called an ablo, which most likely comes from a YouTube video posted by Zathandrapus, titled "Orman ablo drives his car". NFKRZ also jokes about it sometimes.
Trivia[]
- He once stated that he ripped off a video thumbnail from J.J. McCullough.[5]
- According to his ancestry results, he has major ancestry from Ukraine and/or Moldova and some ancestry from the Baltics[6]
- One of the largest Hearts of Iron IV mod "The Fire Rises" included him as an advisor. [7][1]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://youtu.be/YWJRdsdi7YQ?t=520
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRoAXbOQhDI
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRyIIvcjl08&t=17s
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XiWyM2it3Q
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQyqcUzaLSo&t=62s
- ↑ https://youtu.be/kGuBKBiLkOE?si=g2Kw3ca_TJtIBgUx
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLKaB55olqT/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==