Brendan (YouTuber)

William Gomez-Widemann (born August 13, 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
Widemann was born August 13, 2006, to Robert Gaultier and Andrea Widemann. At the age of 8, he was taught by his uncle how to play the guitar. He often witnessed Robert's violent behavior towards his mother and repeated attempts to murder her due to Robert being alcoholic and addicted to drugs, specifically methamphetamine.

Widemann alleged that on more than one occasion, his father attempted to break into their neighbors' houses and murder them by bludgeoning or stabbing, although they were often futile (except for one attempt in 2014).

He started using Robert'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.

After that, Widemann reunited with Elizabeth after she discovered his YouTube channel. The two chose to remain close friends and have no intentions of engagement, but are unofficially considered "lovers" in their character lore. In 2018, they decided on using Pokémon personae, specifically from the Ruby and Sapphire edition, due to Widemann having played the game and made it his favorite during his childhood.

Career
Since May 2016 Widemann 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, vlog and do challenges together with associate YouTubers.

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-Argentine and half-Pennsylvania German, with traces of Dutch 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.