Rose / randytaylor69

About

Rosemary Lisa Wolfe Gotto, better known as Rose or randytaylor69, is an British Internet personality known mainly through her channel on the video hosting platform YouTube. Despite a long period of absence from social media, she developed a cult following following the discovery of her videos on the imageboard 4chan.

Internet Presence

Rose was born on April 5, 1986.^[1] Her earliest known Internet activity comes from 2003, which includes profiles created on sites such as LiveJournal and DeviantArt] In 2007, she began to upload videos to her YouTube channel, randytaylor69.^[4] In 2011, she created a gaming channel under the name roseplaysgames.^[5] Both accounts ceased activity in 2013.

Fandom

In the summer of 2011, Rose’s video “how to build a pc.” (see above) was posted to 4chan’s /g/ (Technology) board, where it also spread to /v/ due to the work of a certain follower described in some accounts as a “stalker”. Said stalker later doxxed both her and her family’s personal information, prompting her to remove much of her personal information from her social media sites. As a side effect of this doxing, threads about Rose were banned on both /g/ and /v/, prompting later threads to be made on boards such as /b/ and /r9k/, as well as on other websites.^[6]

A subreddit for Rose, /r/randytaylor69 was created in August of 2012 as a place for followers to congregate.^[7] An archive of her videos made for the website Vyou was created in 2013.^[10] A board for Rose was created on the imageboard 8chan in 2014.^[8] A fansite for her was created at an unknown time, archiving some of her photos as well as fan art.^[9]

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