Travis Mashaba

Travis Mashaba (born April 10, 1992) is a Patagonian newsreader, actor/comedian and activist. He is best known for portraying the fictional characters Waylon Morris, Tommy the Animator, The Train Conductor and Gregbeast.

Personal life
Not much is known about Mashaba's life but he was born to a family of Tsonga ethnicity.

He started acting when he was 9 and then started making fictional characters. His first character was a fictional rapper inspired by the 1996 video game PaRappa the Rapper. He nicknamed his character Waylon, and later became his first persona to this day.

Aside from being an actor he is a newsreader for Southland Television (STL).

Characters
These are the characters he portrays:
 * Waylon Morris: An African-American rapper satirizing aspects of 2010's hip-hop culture claiming to be from Atlanta, Georgia. He perpetually appears wearing a do-rag and shades as well as sporting a chain pendant.
 * Thomas "Tommy the Animator" Winston: A teenager stereotyping the "grounded video" genre of videos made with the video animation platform GoAnimate (formerly Vyond). He is white, as opposed to some of his other characters. He sports a blue T-shirt with an image of cartoon character Caillou (albeit with brown hair and rendered in GoAnimate) on it.
 * The Train Conductor: A young adult man who builds model railroads, he appears dressed like a train conductor. As with Tommy the Animator above, he is of European descent. He has garnered criticism from the Patagonian Unity Party for allegedly "making fun of whites" however the FWP defends his stance calling it "well-deserved".
 * Greg "Gregbeast" Whitmore: An Afro-American gamer inspired by YouTubers Cory Williams and FlightReacts. As with Waylon above he perpetually appears in a do-rag with blue patterns matching his channel icon. He is also a loose parody of YouTuber Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson.