Brandon Dylan Ashur † (September 9, 1985 - September 12, 2021 [aged 36]) better known online as TOASTY (also known as TOASTY TIME, formerly known as Bashurverse), was an American Minecraft YouTuber and Twitch streamer who used to reside in Kentucky, before moving to Australia.
About[]
He was well known for his eccentric voice and his scripted "Minecraft" series "The Legend Of Hobo" which made him gain thousands of subscribers. He uploaded primarily Minecraft content but has a second channel named BashDoesThings where he vlogged about his life and him dealing with the events after the confession he made. He uploaded on a regular basis, usually every single day on his main channel. He also called his fans Melons or Goonies rather than viewers or subscribers.
Content[]
Minecraft[]
Brandon mainly uploaded Minecraft content. Over his full YouTube career, he had made Minecraft series such as Magical Modded Minecraft Morning (MMMM for short) Love Craft, The Legend Of Hobo, 99 Diamonds Challenge, Sky Factory and more.
Skylanders: Trap Team[]
Brandon uploaded many videos on the fourth installment of the Skylanders game series, Skylanders Trap Team. These included Skylanders toy unboxing videos and playthroughs of the game itself.
Quit[]
On April 24, 2017, Bashurverse blacked out his YouTube channel with a plain black profile picture and banner. He also changed the YouTube name with just a dash as his name. He has privatized every single one of his videos. The only way people could talk to Bashur was going to the discussion post. But YouTube added the Community Tab and Bashurverse added it to his channel, or YouTube just added, with no posts so far. Bashurverse also deleted his Twitter account, but his tag was @ToastySucks, then deleted his Twitter. There is a user with the @bashurverse account with the bio saying Brandon is back @bashurverse, with a few likes supporting Bashurverse. However, this account most likely isn't the real bashurverse account, since it has a low number of follows, and Bashur had around 200,000 followers.
On Feburary 22, 2018, Bashur's Minecraft account was hacked and put up for bid.
Fake channel stirs up the competition[]
On December 7, 2017, a new Twitter under the name of @TheBrandonAshur, came to the stage and claimed to be Brandon Ashur and had also announced in his new channel, Brandon Ashur, which currently contains livestreams and music. The channel currently has over 550 subscribers. But it was later proven that this was NOT Bashur, as the user never spoke on any of his videos, and the picture used for his twitter was from an older tweet. SkyDoesMinecraft themself stated the following on a video about the fake account "This picture was on his instagram captioned under I can't believe I'm hopping in a call with Keemstar something along those lines. This is a fake account using Brandon's name for views."
Return to Twitter and YouTube[]
On September 17, 2019, Bashur took to his old Twitter to tell people to follow T0astyTime as that's what he would be using now. He then started streaming on Twitch under the name Toasty.
On December 28, 2019, Bashur began uploading content on his YouTube channel again, which he renamed TOASTY TIME.
Personal Life[]
Early Life[]
On March 4, 2015, Brandon uploaded a confession video (now deleted) on his main channel about his past life and one specific event that kept getting brought up and was threatened by others to be thrown out into the public. He apparently was losing a lot of friends and was going through a lot, and simply wanted to get the story off of his chest. Everything in the video he still claims to be completely true.
He revealed that he doesn't know who his father is and that he knows who his mother is but never talks to her and hasn't seen her in a long time. He also stated that his mother was not a good person. Throughout the video, although he nervous, he tried not to tear up or cry. According to Brandon, his life started off rough, and his mother did not look after him when he was very young.
His mother ended up in court and his relatives took it upon themselves to care for and raise Brandon. His adoptive father was a country musician and would take Brandon to his concerts. When he got to high school, he lost interest in education, so he was put in a school that undesirables went to where, he played EverQuest on his laptop everyday whilst further failing in his education. He would get physically bullied and his money stolen, and have his his laptop broken. On the weekends, he would play dungeons and dragons with his middle school friends.
When he was 17, he met a girl that would later become his first love. However, she later ended up cheating on him, which was devastating according to Brandon.
Brandon would always go to his best friend's house, and his best friend had a sister younger than Brandon himself. His friend's sister was talking to Brandon a lot and would comfort him about what was happening in his life. They started to develop feelings for each-other before becoming an item in 2003. She had just turned 15, and Brandon had turned 18. Her parents hired a private detective to watch them both in case anything goes south. The sister and Brandon would talk online through AOL and other forms of messaging services. They got pretty intimate, but only through messaging and not through any physical contact. One day, he woke up to a knock on his door where he was introduced to the private detective, who arrested him for his provoking chat history with a minor.
After his arrest, he was taken to jail and later released on bail. By then, he was charged with a Class B felony for unlawful transaction with a minor 1st degree <16 yrs. He had to go to a therapist's class for pedophiles, not to mention that all of his computers were confiscated. He also had to go through 12 months of an unknown sentence. The therapist contacted the court to tell them that Brandon did not belong to the therapist class at all and told the court that he didn't have to go again.
For the past ten years after this event, he did not leave the house. Later, when he moved, he became a shut-in and spent every single day in one room on his computer that he would buy for himself after his original ones were confiscated. He never left the house or saw anyone other than his adoptive mother, which was very rare. He would play games such as World of Warcraft or Katawa Shoujo. Sometimes he reportedly wanted to take his own life.
One day he made a Minecraft series called The Legend Of Hobo and it received over a million views. He then made more episodes of The Legend Of Hobo. Popular YouTuber Sky Does Minecraft told Brandon they liked his videos and he started collaborating with popular YouTubers such as Sky and CaptainSparklez and JeromeASF. He then developed a fan-base of people that enjoyed his videos.
Brandon in his confession video.
Death[]
On September 12, 2021, Brandon died due to complications from COVID-19, and pneumonia.[1][2]
Subscriber Milestones[]
- 100,000 subscribers: May 15, 2013
- 200,000 subscribers: June 7, 2013
- 300,000 subscribers: June 26, 2013
- 400,000 subscribers: July 15, 2013
- 500,000 subscribers: August 14, 2013
- 600,000 subscribers: September 22, 2013
- 700,000 subscribers: October 23, 2013
- 800,000 subscribers: January 2, 2014
- 900,000 subscribers: March 4, 2014
- 1 million subscribers: April 9, 2014
- Below 1.8 million subscribers: April 20, 2017
- Below 1.7 million subscribers: April 27, 2018
- Below 1.6 million subscribers: September 28, 2020
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