Brendan (YouTuber)

William Gaulthier Widemann (born 13 August 2006), better known online as Brendan and using the alias Brendan Birch, is a Patagonian YouTuber, singer-songwriter and guitarist based in Rawson, Chubut, known for appearing in his YouTube videos cosplaying as the Pokémon character Brendan Birch, and his Pokémon-related content. Aside from that, he is a singer and musician.

He partners with fellow Patagonian YouTuber Elizabeth Goertzen, better known as MayPlayz.

Life
William grew up in a pastor's family. At the age of 8, he was taught by his uncle how to play the guitar. He often witnessed his father Robert's violent behavior towards his mother and repeated attempts to murder her due to Robert being alcoholic and addicted to drugs, specifically methamphetamine. William alleged that on more than one occasion, his father attempted to break into their neighbors' houses and kill them, although they were often futile (except for one attempt in 2014).

He started using William's unused YouTube account in 2016 after he died of a meth overdose. There he uploaded Pokémon gameplays and videos of him playing the guitar. He skyrocketed to fame when he uploaded his second original song, Life's a Snitch in 2017, which gained over 2 million views.

Career
Since May 2016 William has had his own YouTube account, which had been inherited from his deceased father, and as of 2021 has had over 39K subscribers. He has three channels:
 * Brendan Sings, where he uploads his songs.
 * Brendan Plays, involving his gameplays.
 * Brendan's Stuff, which involves other unrelated content (including vlogs and challenge videos).

He also makes videos with his partner MayPlayz and are shared on the YouTube channel "Brendan and May Vids", in which they play Pokémon games and do challenges together.

On October 29, 2020, the duo uploaded a video titled "you'll never trust addy again after watching this...", a follow-up to associate YouTuber BobbyBloxer's exposé on Borneoan YouTuber Addy in which he also detailed other atrocities such as alt-spamming.

Trivia

 * He is half-Quebecois Patagonian and half-Hutterite, with traces of Tehuelche ancestry.
 * He rejects drug addiction, seeing how his father was affected by it and how it caused his father's violent behavior in the first place.
 * He is politically left-wing and is a social democrat.