Cimozzen

Ken "Kenny" Potocki (born: September 1, 1997), better known online as Cimozzen, is an American YouTuber who's channel specializes in video blogging. Potocki started the channel December 1st, 2008 at the age of 11 to do movie reviews after being inspired by movie collectors such as coolduder and Ramboraph4life. Continuing to this day, the channel is notable for essentially following Ken's entire adolescent life as he grew into young adulthood through middle school, high school, and college. The over-arching theme of this autobiographical channel is Life Appreciation.

History
An only child, Potocki grew up loving to watch classic cult movies of the 1970s-1980s with his dad. From an early age, Ken and his dad would collect large quantities of movies on VHS tape. His all-time favorite movie since the age of five has been Better Off Dead.

Not having any idea what the channel should be titled upon its creation, Potocki took the security verification code (which read "Nezzomic"), reversed it and the name Cimozzen was created. As of 2020, Potocki still denies there being any right/wrong pronunciation of the name.

When the channel began with a review of Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (a decision Potocki still questions and has become an inside joke with his friends), the prime focus was a then-11 year old Ken reviewing various movies in his beginning DVD collection. Being an only child, his prime friend growing up was his cousin Jason whom has always been more like a brother to him. The early years of the channel heavily feature the two of them in the seemingly goal-less, child antics of creating comedy.

As Potocki matured and grew through high school and college, the channel become more of a video blogging outlet where he was actively capturing the progress of his life and showcasing accomplishments through various life events, almost akin to the film Boyhood. Since 2015, a large focus has been on travel vlogging to places such as Las Vegas, Dallas, Costa Rica, and The Dominican Republic. He stopped collecting movies in early 2016, however he returned to the hobby in late 2018 when his creative academic work reignited his interest in it.

He prides himself in making the channel an optimistic and humorous outlet where the concept of life appreciation is the biggest overtone among all of the videos. The channel is devoid of any videos relating to controversial social, political, or hot-button contemporary topics.

Personal life
Ken has always had a strong academic drive and was a very successful student. He graduated high school in 2015 and would go on to achieve his Associate's Degree from Moraine Valley Community College in 2017, and his Bachelor of Art's Degree in Comedy Writing and Performance from Columbia College-Chicago in 2019, all with high honors.

Through his latter two years of college in Chicago, Potocki spent an entire semester writing at The Second City training center in Chicago, eventually performing in a public comedy sketch-show titled BE COMFY. Through these same asperations, Ken has also been seen as an extra on episodes of both Chicago Med and Chicago PD. Ken is actively pursuing a career in the film/entertainment industry as an actor and personality.

Starting with his first semester of college in 2015, Ken worked for three years at the flagship Sears store in the nearby mall. Due to the high amounts of hijinx and bizarre memories, Sears remains a constant running gag within his videos to this day. After the store closed for good in 2018, he has been an employee for the Village of Frankfort, Illinois, where he has been working as a producer for their local public access TV channel, FCTV. He also has a full-time office job working as a marketing assistant and copywriter for a sales company.

Ken is also a rock music fan and has several friends whom are working musicians in the genre. Since 2017, he has done side-work as a promoter and social media publicist for some of the leading international rock music labels, such as Frontiers Music Srl, AOR Heaven, and Escape Music Ltd. In 2018 at the international rock festival Melodic Rock Fest 5, Potocki was called up on stage to duet on the song State of the Heart by Gary Moon (of Night Ranger and Three Dog Night).