Gavin Liuranium

Gavin Liuranium is a member of "The Union Of The LBP Players" Discord server and the creator of his own server "Translate Server Error", a partner server. Gavin has been a friend of the server owner and creator danielogi since 2018. He was once a moderator on TUOTLP but because he was moderating too many servers, he asked to have his moderator role removed and danielogi did so, making Gavin's highest role "Partnership".

Story on Discord
Gavin joined Discord on 2017 June 22 and has remained on Discord ever since. He is not active all the time but when he is, he can make an interesting conversation with you. He has a lot of inside humor that nobody else understands :)

Gavin created his Discord server also in 2017. It was originally for himself and a group of real life friends doing YouTube videos. However, his friends have since created their own servers and he had made more YouTube friends with whom they share videos often. In 2019, Gavin gave the server a new name, "Translate Server Error".

In 2021, Gavin renamed his server "Gavin's Ski Resort", theming his server after a ski resort. His inspiration came from him joining many Gacha servers which are themed after different things (e.g. gardens, cafes, sports centers). Since skiing is his favorite sport and winter is his favorite season, he made the decision to theme his Discord after a ski resort. His server "renonvation" was "completed" on 2021 March 1 and "opened" to public on March 15.

Story on YouTube
Gavin created his YouTube channel in 2015 (although not with the current name). He was once uploading boring Minecraft Let's Play videos which have since been removed. He also reuploaded a lot of funny videos circulating online, also removed. In 2017 he started uploading his own original music videos under the name "Gavin Liu". He also did remixes of other songs. That same year, he started doing a series called "Countryballs Speedart" (discontinued). In 2018, he officially changed his channel name to Gavin Liuranium, taking its present form and having the profile picture that exists till today. Also in 2018, Gavin got interested in mappign and started "Alternate Future of Asia in Countryballs" (also discontinued). 2018 was the golden year of production of his countryballs and mapping videos, when they blew up and got Gavin tens of thousands of views. However, he quickly realized he was going "off track" and needed to upload his own music more frequently.

In January 2019, Gavin reached 1000 subscribers.

During this year, everything slowed down for Gavin as he produced significanly less countryballs videos. He uploaded more music videos instead, trying to get his subscribers to notice his music more. This did not work as well as expected. Nearing the end of the year, Gavin began to have thoughts to quit countryballs and mapping. 2019 was not exactly an eventful year for Gavin.

In May 2020, Gavin reached 2000 subscribers.

During the year, Gavin uploaded more and more original music videos. He didn't do countryballs or mapping videos for months as he thought that he was experiencing a lot of stress and mental hardship from the effects of countryballs and mapping. People from the countryballs & mapping communities have become extremely toxic to him, personally attacking Gavin and his home country China. Gavin decided this was too much for him to take. So in July he announced he was quitting mapping and in August he announced he would quit countryballs. He officially quit both communities on 2020 September 17, and removed all countryballs and mapping videos from his channel. He then created an archive channel where these videos were reuploaded.

Gavin immediately knew he was going to lose subscribers and needed to find a way to increase subs and views again, or at least stay afloat above 2k subs. Coincidentally, on September 18 and 19, one of his videos "Tunak Tunak Tun misheard" (I'm playing with mud in Northeast China) (archived link)was noticed by YouTube algorithm as a result of Chinese netizens searching for the song because Chinese soldiers blasted this song at Indian soldiers at the border where there has been conflict going on. This video gained momentum briefly and brought him over 10k views in a month. However, Gavin knew he could not survive on this video alone.

Shortly after leaving the countryballs and mapping communities, Gavin started to establish connections to another community. He began uploading reaction videos to Gacha Life mini movies. He first knew about Gacha Life in 2018 and rediscovered it along with a big community revolving around this very game on YouTube in 2020 May. He does not plan to officially join this community as a "GachaTuber", but has established connections and made friends with people in the community already. He plans to use Gacha as a comeback plan and eventually get his music heard by people from this community. He also reacts to Gacha Club (also once known as Gacha Life 2) videos. Within the Gacha community, Gacha Life videos and Gacha Club videos "coexist" without much difference or divide.

From September to November, Gavin's channel stagnated. No new subscribers were coming in and the count stayed still at 2230 subs. However, Gavin kept creating content and never gave up during this period.

In November 2020, Gavin's YouTube channel had a small blow-up from his new reaction videos, "CLASSICAL MUSICIAN reacts to THE MUSIC FREAKS!" (Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). The Music Freaks is a popular Gacha musical series by famous British GachaTuber RosyClozy, who has more than 1M subs, and at least 2M views on each episode of the series (as of Feb 2020). Less than a month after the first episode, Gavin's subscriber count increased by 100 in less than a month. In the second half of December, Gavin's subscriber count stonks-ed by another 100 and reached a total of 2500 subs in January 2021.

Gavin made a bold New Year's resolution for 2021, which is to make 2021 his year. "2021 is going to be my year," said Gavin in his 2020 reflections video. He took this inspiration from Slovak YouTuber PPPeter who was determined to make 2018 his year on YouTube. He successfully managed to stay afloat above 2000 subscribers in 2020, so he made a 2000 subscribers special in January of 2021 and revealed his sexuality to be demisexual. The same month, he made an Akinator video where he found famous Filipino GachaTuber LenTotally (video), which got noticed by Len, shouted out, and attracted over 4000 views and another 100 subscribers in less than a month. However, on February 22, Len got involved in an incident where he was exposed grooming a minor, and admitted to it being true. To avoid unneccessary drama from coming to his channel, Gavin unlisted this video (along with another video where he reacted to a LenTotally shorts). Subscriber count stagnated again and views went low. In February, Gavin was extemely busy with school work and could not upload many videos, that's also probably why Gavin didn't gain many new subscribers that came from other videos.

Gavin's subscriber count as of 2021 Feb 27 is 2610.

Gavin's subscriber count as of 2021 Apr 4 is 2670.

On other social media
YouTube

Discord server

Duolingo

Instagram

SoundCloud

bilibili (in Chinese)

Twitter