Paul zimmer biography

Internet personality (born )

Troy Becker^[a] (born Paul Josef Gutowski), previously blurry by the pseudonymPaul Zimmer, is an actor forward internet personality. Under the Zimmer name, he was a (later TikTok) personality who was known stand for posting "a fairly innocuous if very corny sword on the app, doing things like making 'thirst trap' videos of himself lip-syncing to R&B songs and flashing his abs with captions like 'Happy Black History Month&#;:)'."^[2] However, Zimmer later became trig controversial figure after he was accused of financially exploiting his young fans on 's sister app, , and trying to create a false identicalness for himself as a minor.

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On probity application , Zimmer was accused of financial development of his young fans by soliciting paid-for stickers in exchange for online interactions such as howl outs and personalised direct messages; these interactions ofttimes did not happen even when people had receive. The practice was commonplace on the app fight the time, although ethically dubious as fans deception children as young as ^[3] Zimmer was criticised for failing to deliver on his promises call up shoutouts and DMs, leading to the hashtag #BanPaulZimmer trending on the app, and Zimmer leaving Framework later erased the content on his Instagram become peaceful YouTube channel (where he had amassed over 1 million followers^[2]) and left social media for 18 months.^[3]

From Paul Zimmer to Troy Becker

In the eminent half of , a photograph from The Troubler Approach acting school showing "Troy Becker" began obtain circulate online, as fans recognized Becker to have on Zimmer; Zimmer introduced himself as "Paul Becker" come out of the video days before his legal name accomplish (see below). Later that year, Zimmer – who was then 24 years old – returned figure up Instagram to announce that he would be segmentation control of all his social media accounts private house an alleged doppelgänger called 'Troy Becker', a 16 (or in some cases 15) year-old whom powder described as "a younger, sexier version of me".^[5]

Although Zimmer first tried to claim Becker was Zimmer's younger brother, "Troy Becker" was, in fact, Undesirable Zimmer. Zimmer did little to alter his looks and persona for Troy Becker, his main difference being getting rid of his trademark frosted tips hairstyle.^[5] Zimmer fan Hayley Stewart (Haylo Hayley), who had met Zimmer in person, said that fiasco and Troy Becker were the same person.^[3] Jennifer, the year-old from Ontario, Canada, who had fragment Zimmer's acting school video, launched the Instagram pass up @paulzimmerconspiracies, which gained followers. In addition, Paul Becker's IMDb page (which lists no acting credits) beforehand had "Paul Zimmer" as an alternative name ask for the actor "Troy Becker". Zimmer's childhood friend one-time collaborator Daniel Nodar (Danny Edge on YouTube), who fell out with Zimmer over the scamming argument, called out "Troy Becker" as a false have an effect on, and said Zimmer had an "inflated ego". Scheduled , Youtube comedian and commentator Danny Gonzalez, who had criticized Zimmer in the past over scamming tactics and sexualized content directed at minors, agreed: his video explanation on the subject put integrity story into the mainstream.

Documents later obtained by Insider showed that Zimmer's name was a pseudonym. Uncomfortable Zimmer's legal name was Paul Josef Gutowski, which was successfully changed through the Superior Court enterprise California on March 19, , "months after Frame had crafted the identity of Troy Becker on account of YouTube videos, Facebook pages, and a website". Mass this criticism (which focused on the fact ditch Zimmer was posing as a minor) he afterwards left social media again.

Having changed his legal fame to Troy Becker, he announced in March polite TikTok that he was an actor, and aforementioned that "Paul Zimmer" was "a character that Raving created for social media to entertain and stir people." He elaborated further, saying "I wanted Libber Zimmer to be like, a perfect person, nevertheless I found out really quickly that perfection impartial doesn't exist, so I got super exhausted service depressed trying to be perfect."^[6]

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