Renetto

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Renetto in an early video

Renetto is a video blogger that came to international attention via YouTube, a popular video sharing site. The central character Paul Robinett (born November 24, 1966) is an extremely active vlogger who speaks often on forming a YouTube community or clique for YouTube vlogging 'purists'. A bald man with black thick-rimmed glasses, Renetto undertakes various roles and generally averages around 50,000 views per video, often receiving even higher ranges in selected acts.

The Renetto channel is currently listed as 11th most popular channel on YouTube with over 18,000 subscribers. His most popular clip to date showed him chewing Mentos while drinking Diet Coke. The resulting carbon dioxide 'volcano' which has been in the YouTube featured list since its posting has registered more than two million views and counting. [1]

At the request of Young & Rubicam, Renetto posted a video showing him climbing up to the roof of his home with his laptop in hand to protest against world poverty. [2]

1 Character and plot
2 Speculation of authenticity
3 See also
4 External links and references

[edit] Character and plot

A self described defunct inventor, 'self-unemployed' insomniac and 'entrepreneur'.
Suffering chronic addiction to YouTube.
Reviews other members' video blogs and uploads.
Apparent father of a family of four whom he brings into the show to consult with.
Apparently residing in Columbus, Ohio.
Gave away 100 Web Cameras to users of the You Tube Community

[edit] Speculation of authenticity

Many YouTubers have speculated that Renetto is actually a YouTube executive promoting the existence of and sustaining the YouTube community, thus promoting the video sharing platform on a whole. Some YouTubers deduce this from the fact that he is making public too much information of his personal life without worry. Furthermore, supposed family members keep on hacking into his account, introducing new and difficult scenarios into the storyline. [3]

Still other YouTubers think that these "conspiracy theorists" ought not worry about how much of his life he reveals. Apparently the path to becoming an Internet celebrity was accidental. While surfing on YouTube with a new MacBook Pro, Robinett decided to try uploading a video for himself. Using the camera in the laptop, he made a video in the character of Renetto, the name of a current business project of his. Soon, 'Renetto' was posting more frequently. Robinett has put his family online (including his kids and his dad soon after forgetting to pick him up from the airport).