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MADem

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5. "Youtube star...."

Wed Jan 9, 2013, 08:07 PM

Jan 2013

These are interesting times...the old Television paradigm is well and truly out the window.

Ratliff was the manager of FPS Russia, the ninth most popular YouTube channel, which features a man with a thick Russian accent shooting weapons and blowing items up on the screen.

The channel has amassed a following among weapons enthusiasts, garnering more than 3 million subscribers, making it slightly more than popular boy band One Direction.

"As many of you already know I lost a close friend this week. I ask only that you show respect to the situation for the family's sake," the host of the show, who goes by the name Dmitri, posted on Twitter.

Kitty Wandel, who identifies herself on Twitter as a producer of the FPS Russia videos, said Ratliff had been with the channel "for quite some time, helping us out with everything from pulling pranks to finding almost impossible weapons to use in videos."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/slain-youtube-weapons-expert-defend-brother/story?id=18170305

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