Rezo Explained

Rezo
Channels:
Views:170 million (main channel)
160 million (second channel)
Birth Date:14 August 1992
Birth Place:Wuppertal, Germany
Nationality:German
Education:Technical University of Dortmund
Years Active:2015–present
Genre:Music, comedy, vlog
Subscribers:1.7 million (main channel)
1.6 million (second channel)
1.1 million (third channel)
465.000 (fourth channel)
Network:Home of Talents, Leonine Studios[1]
Silver Button:yes
Gold Button:yes

Rezo is a German content creator and entrepreneur.[2] His video Die Zerstörung der CDU, in which he criticized the CDU/CSU, gained a lot of attention and sparked a political debate.[3]

Rezo also runs a podcast with Julien Bam called Hobbylos.

Early life and education

Rezo was born in Wuppertal in 1992[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] and grew up in a pastor's family.[9] From the age of 14 until one and a half years before his master's degree, he played in various bands. He plays the guitar. A distinguishing feature is his blue-colored hair. According to his own information, Rezo studied computer science at the Technical University of Dortmund and graduated in 2016 with a Master of Science.[10] He currently resides in Aachen.[4]

Career

Since September 2012, Rezo has had his own channel on YouTube, with almost 1.75 million users as of 2019 which is mostly about music, including his own performances, as covers, mashups or remixes. On his second channel Rezo ja lol ey he usually jokes and converses with other YouTubers about line-ups, bizarre chat messages or hate comments.[4]

In 2018, he created an ensemble cast music video of Hall of Fame (song) with 100 YouTube creators to celebrate having reached a million subscribers.[11]

On 18 May 2019, one week before the 2019 European Parliament election, Rezo published under his second YouTube channel Rezo ja lol ey[12] [13] a 54-minute video named "Die Zerstörung der CDU", which literally means "The destruction of/by the CDU", in which he said that essential political positions, especially of the parties CDU/CSU and SPD, are destroying "our lives and our future". The 55-minute video, with a list of 247 references and citations of scientific literature, accused the governing conservative alliance for a range of unsustainable policies such as inactivity in politics of global warming, making politics for the rich, war and internet censorship. He explicitly warned against voting for the right-wing populist AfD, as they would "only make the world worse". Towards the end, he stated: "You always say that young people should be political, in which case you have to get to grips with it when they think your politics are shit". His video went viral, received more than 13 million views within the first eleven days and triggered a broad social debate.[14] [15] [16] [17] On 24 May 2019, two days ahead of the vote, Rezo was joined by more than 90 known bloggers in a three-minute followup video entitled A Statement of 90+ Youtubers which summarized the statements of the first video. They asked voters not to back Angela Merkel's bloc or the SPD, because of their politics of global warming.[18] [19]

In May 2019, after the EU election the leader of the CDU, Merkel's successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announced she wanted to "regulate" political opinion in election campaigns. This was met with a wide political backlash. Bundestag Vice President Claudia Roth stated: "For years, the Union (CDU/CSU) has said that populist-right-wing discourse shifting, sometimes even national-right-wing agitation should not be approached too hard." As soon as a blogger expressed himself critically, "[Kramp-Karrenbauer] fabulates about the restriction of freedom of expression in the election campaign, one can only hope that it is rooted in helplessness and not in political conviction."[20] In spite of the backlash, Kramp-Karrenbauer put the item "asymmetrical campaigning" on the agenda for a meeting of her party leadership on 2 July 2019.[21] [22]

In September 2019, Rezo won a Goldene Kamera Digital Award as a special jury prize.[23]

After the Halle synagogue shooting in October 2019, Rezo took to Twitter to criticise German interior minister Horst Seehofer for suggesting increased surveillance of the country's gaming community. Rezo accused Seehofer and the CSU of incompetent leadership.[24]

He also made videos on the "climate crisis", denouncing for instance the doubts on the scientific consensus publicly expressed by one of the EU Parliament's Vice-Presidents, Nicola Beer.[25]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: YouTube-Star: Leonine Studios verpflichtet Rezo . . 21 March 2023 . 14 December 2023 . de.
  2. Web site: MEEDIA . Tobias Singer . Youtuber Rezo bringt eigenes Social-Media-Analyse-Tool Nindo heraus . 2024-05-05 . www.meedia.de . de.
  3. (Friedrich Ebert Foundation) Influencer als digitale Meinungsführer 2020-07-01
  4. News: David Ruch . 23 May 2019 . Das ist der YouTuber, der die CDU "zerstört" . de . .t-online.de . 2021-11-19 . 13 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230413181413/https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/parteien/id_85797832/rezo-zerstoerung-der-cdu-video-geht-viral-wer-ist-der-youtuber-.html . live .
  5. Rezo, Julien Bam . 2018-11-16 . Wie gut kennen sich rezo und Julien Bam . 2020-06-18 . 2:27–2:33, 8:59–9:04 . 20 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201020081443/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVcIjFePxPo . live .
  6. Web site: Rezo und die neue Generation Subito. Neue Züricher Zeitung. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190608033509/https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/medien/rezo-und-die-neue-generation-subito-ld.1486060. 8 June 2019.
  7. News: YouTuber Rezo im Interview: "Ich sage nicht, dass die komplette Verantwortung für alle Probleme bei der CDU liegt". live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210906191521/https://www.spiegel.de/politik/youtuber-rezo-im-interview-ich-sage-nicht-dass-die-komplette-verantwortung-fuer-alle-probleme-bei-der-cdu-liegt-a-c842dada-fc71-49b0-9bf8-d654fe4dce37. 6 September 2021. Der Spiegel. 22 May 2019. Rothe. Yannick von Eisenhart.
  8. Web site: Interviewpodcast: Rezo, warum willst du Bundeskanzler sein?. Die Zeit. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210910193741/https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2019-10/rezo-interviewpodcast-alles-gesagt. 10 September 2021.
  9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVcIjFePxPo&t=539 How well do rezo and Julien Bam know each other?'
  10. https://imgur.com/a/hGFTTOj Picture with Rezo and an anonymous certificate as Master of Science.
  11. Web site: Rezo: 100 YouTuber singen zusammen . 24 November 2018 . 8 February 2022 . 8 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220208161213/https://www.t-online.de/digital/internet/id_84839768/rezo-100-youtuber-singen-zusammen.html . live .
  12. News: Jonas Schaible . May 22, 2019 . Wie sehr kann dieses Video der CDU schaden? . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230413181445/https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/innenpolitik/id_85797950/youtuber-rezo-zerlegt-cdu-in-viralem-video-wie-sehr-kann-das-der-partei-schaden-.html . 13 April 2023 . 2021-11-19 . T-online.de . de. Jonas Schaible: https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/innenpolitik/id_85797950/youtuber-rezo-zerlegt-cdu-in-viralem-video-with-how-very-may-the-party-damage-can-do-it-all on his YouTube second account.html "Destruction" on YouTube - How much can this video harm the CDU?
  13. https://www.n-tv.de/politik/AKK-reagiert-auf-Anti-CDU-Video-von-Rezo-article21041938.html Wie im alten Ägypten - AKK reagiert auf Anti-CDU-Video von Rezo
  14. News: 2019-05-22 . German YouTuber Rezo's video attacking Merkel party goes viral . en . 19 November 2021 . 26 October 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211026200437/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/22/german-youtuber-rezo-video-attacking-merkel-party-cdu-goes-viral . live . .
  15. News: Müller . Enrique . 2019-05-23 . Un 'youtuber' pone en jaque al partido de Merkel con un vídeo viral . es . El País . Madrid . 1134-6582 . 29 May 2019 . 5 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201205121408/https://elpais.com/internacional/2019/05/23/actualidad/1558634251_116333.html . live .
  16. News: 2019-05-24 . Un Youtubeur fait trembler la CDU d'Angela Merkel . fr . 19 November 2021 . 19 November 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211119211533/https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/un-youtubeur-fait-trembler-la-cdu-d-angela-merkel-20190524 . live .
  17. News: Schuetze . Christopher F. . 2019-05-25 . Youth's Video Takes Aim at Merkel's Party in Run-Up to European Elections . en-US . The New York Times . https://web.archive.org/web/20190529200405/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/world/europe/rezo-cdu-youtube-germany.html . 2019-05-29 . unfit . 2021-11-19 . 0362-4331.
  18. https://www.wz.de/politik/rezo-veroeffentlicht-neues-video-ueber-90-youtuber-stellen-sich-hinter-ihn_aid-39018575 Shortly before the European elections: Rezo publishes new video - Over 90 Youtuber stand behind him
  19. https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/rezo-dagibee-lefloid-70-youtube-stars-geben-nicht-wahlempfehlung-ab-a-1269225.html Criticism of GroKo and AfD - YouTube stars support Rezo with more video
  20. https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2019-05/cdu-saarland-ministerpraesident-tobias-hans-rezo-youtube "Ein beispielloser Angriff auf die Meinungsfreiheit"
  21. Digitale Inkompetenz: AKK lädt CDU mit Fax zur Konferenz ein – und das Internet lacht sich schlapp. Stern.de. 29 May 2019. 23 April 2020. de. 8 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201108002824/https://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/akk-laedt-cdu-mitglieder-via-fax-zu-tagung-ein-8731910.html. live.
  22. https://www.politico.eu/article/german-cdu-chief-annagret-kramp-karrenbauer-akk-under-fire-for-comments-about-campaign-speech-on-youtube German CDU chief under fire for comments about campaigning on YouTube
  23. https://www.goldenekamera.de/digitalaward/article227135225/Preistraeger-Special-Award-Rezo.html, Goldene Kamera, 26 September 2019.
  24. News: Schuetze . Christopher F. . The German YouTuber Emerging as the Voice of a Generation . https://web.archive.org/web/20191021213736/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/world/europe/germany-rezo-youtube.html . 2019-10-21 . unfit . 21 October 2019 . The New York Times . 18 October 2019.
  25. Ruth Ciesinger: Rezos Appell in der Klimakrise: „Ihr habt die Zukunft der jungen Leute in der Hand“ . tagesspiegel.de. 4 September 2021, accessed on 5 September 2021. In German.

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