Broomestick

Rhys "Broomestick" Broome (born 2003 [age 18]), better known online as Broomestick (Formerly Rhys Broome, RB Productions) is a Scottish Youtuber and musician known for his Commentary style Minecraft videos and challenges.

Personal Life
Little is actually known about Broomestick off of YouTube. He was born in Scotland, United Kingdom and he mentions that he is 18 years old. During another reaction video he also said that he could Drive and has a full UK Drivers licence.

During a video unboxing a fake Technoblade t-shirt, it was revealed he had met with Youtuber Avocery (Formerly VirallFN) and the pair are friends in real life.

History
Broomestick started his channel on the 20 December 2012, under the name Rhys Broome. However he did not upload his first video until January 3 2019 where he uploaded a 17 second Tiktok of him bouncing on a slime block in Minecraft which is currently his most popular video with over 40K Views.

He stated during a Minecraft Let's play that his friend, referred to as "James" (who appeared in just one video) had encouraged him to start uploading Minecraft content.

His channel started with Five Nights At Freddy's walkthroughs but transitioned into a Music Channel in November 2019 where he uploaded piano covers of popular music.

It wasn't until March 2020 (during the Covid-19 pandemic) when he rebranded his channel to RB Productions and began uploading Commentary and Grand Theft Auto 5 content.

Minecraft
Broomestick uploaded his fist Minecraft video titled "Minecraft Survival #1 - First Night" which began an 18 episode lore series of him playing Minecraft. Throughout the videos, random blocks of what looks like parts of a spaceship could be seen around his world, however it was never acknowledged, in later videos a rocket could be seen flying around the sky.

In his last episode, titled "I flew to the moon in Minecraft" Broomestick revealed that he built a "Space Machine" that could also travel in time. He can be seen flying the rocket around the sky until the end of the video.

The series was never officially concluded.

Broomestick took a short break from creating Minecraft Videos after saying he no longer enjoyed playing the game as much.

Fortnite and the Diss tracks
While Broomestick's Minecraft series came to an end. he began uploading Fortnite "Montages" as his friend VirallFN saw some success from the video style. Despite gaining an audience from the Fortnite videos, they stopped soon after he moved towards commentary videos.

However, in a video titled "This has to stop..." Broomestick revealed that he had asked VirallFN to collaborate with him, however he was ignored. This sparked a long running joke and "War" with the pair which lead to Broomestick releasing his first Disstrack ("VirallFN Disstrack" on Spotify)

The disstrack reached over 1K streams on Spotify and 400 on YouTube. However Broomestick quietly made the video private before the end of 2020.

The "War" between the pair lead to many viewers believing that it was serious and lead to a high number of dislikes on their channels. However it was noted in the description of the videos that it was a joke and they are still friends

Around the same time, Broomestick released another disstrack titled "Give me your views- The Youtuber Diss" which was also a joke disstrack where he calls out other youtubers for views. However it was quickly removed by Broomestick not long after.

Commentary and Popularity
From around September 2020, Broomestick began moving towards Commentary and reaction style videos, a style he still sticks with today, where he began reacting to "Cursed Tiktok" and subreddits. In the long run this proved beneficial for Broomestick has this lead to his videos gaining hundreds of views, which he was not used to.

He remained consistent with this style but soon began uploading Minecraft content again, with Meme style videos and even starting his own Survival Multiplayer, which lasted 8 episodes before the story concluded.

X-Life
On the 20th January 2021, Broomestick uploaded a video titled "Minecraft but with 1 heart? - X Life Ep1" where he revealed he joined the popular modded Minecraft server. The series gained a large amount of views and lead to Broomestick passing 200 Subscribers.

It was also around this time (according to web archive) that he rebranded his channel to "Broomestick"

Decline and Revival
After Broomestick left the X Life server, he revealed he opened a Minecraft Anarchy Server and began to stream on it. However the server was closed after a few weeks due to development issues. One of the servers Developers announced this on the servers Discord, with Broomestick later replying to the post stating that "It was a flop"

It was after this that views and subscriber growth started to decline, with Broomestick loosing an average of 1 subscriber every day. This lead to him quickly trying out new video ideas, including on the popular Minecraft Anarchy Server 2B2T and a modded Minecraft Let's play. During May 2021, multiple reddit most made by Broomestick stated that he was looking for 50-60 Minecraft Java players to take part in a social experiment. Later in the month Broomestick uploaded the video "I trapped 50 players in a communist Minecraft server, this is what happened..." where he trapped around 50 people in a small area in Minecraft.

Controversy and Backlash
During the summer of 2021, Broomestick, in a dramatic change of content direction, uploaded a video titled "Crashing a Pay-to-win Minecraft Server | Datblock.com" where he filmed himself causing mass amount of lag on the cracked Minecraft Server which lead to it being taken offline for several hours. He began making similar videos on different servers. He received a lot of support from people thanking him for taking action against the servers in breach of Minecraft's End User Licence Agreement. However, this caused some of the moderators of the violating servers to raid his channel which lead to Broomestick receiving death threats.

Since the incident, Broomstick took a one month break from uploading. He is yet to address the situation publicly

Music and Theatre Career
Off YouTube, Rhys has been testing the waters in the professional Music industry, releasing various singles on Spotify. However, in February 2020, he announced that he had written a full length musical theatre show titled "The End!". The production was set to premier at the Webster Memorial Theatre in Arbroath, Scotland. However, due to the changing of Covid-19 restrictions. The October run of the show was postponed.

In March 2021, Rhys released the EP "The End! Original Studio Cast Recording" where he, and what would have been some of the original cast members, performed numbers from the show. He stated on a reddit post that the album was a concept release and was NOT going to replace the Premier Cast Recording.

The production is currently set to have a 2 week run in 2022 if restrictions allow it to. The show was scheduled to perform a workshop style performance at the 2020 Edinburgh Fringe Festival but was cancelled due to the Pandemic.

The End! was nominated for two Laurence Oliver Awards for Best New Musical and Outstanding Achievement in Music but was beaten by "& Juliet" and "Dear Evan Hansen"