Ángel David Revilla
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July 16, 1982 Caracas, Venezuela | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Venezuelan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship | Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Mass communication | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Known for | Youtube series | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable work | Luna de Plutón | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ángel David Revilla (born July 16, 1982), better known as Dross Rotzank, is a Venezuelan writer who is currently located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[1]
Career
Revilla started writing game reviews for websites like Meristation and GameFAQs, then moved to blogging on his own site, El Diario de Dross (The Diary of Dross).
Originally interested in the paranormal, in late 2013 Dross began focusing on horror topics and conspiracies. When his DrossRotzank channel reached 8 million subscribers, he became the most subscribed horror-genre user on YouTube. With more than 13 million subscribers, he is the first person to reach this record in Argentina.[2]
Career as a writer
His first novel, Luna de Plutón (Pluto's Moon), was published by Planeta in Spain and Latin America in 2015[3] and became a best seller in a few weeks.[1][4] His second book, El Festival de la blasfemia (The Festival of Blasphemy) was released in 2016,[5] and a sequel to his first book, Luna de Plutón II: La Guerra de Ysaak (Pluto's moon 2: The war of Ysaak), in March 2017.[6] Valle de la Calma (Valley of Calm) was published in 2018.[7][8]
On June 14, 2017, Revilla launched a series of stories entitled Dross cuenta 3 historias de terror (Dross tells 3 horror stories). The series concluded on October 29 that year.
Biography
Ángel David was born on July 18, 1982 in Caracas, Venezuela (he is currently 36 years old). During his childhood, he was one of the most outstanding students of his class.
As an adult, he decided to study journalism, which he has captured in his current videos in which he investigates cases and writes them in a clean and neat way, because he also studied communications.
The story of Dross goes back to when he started being a videogame critic in spaces such as Vandal and MeriStation. He was subsequently banned from these websites. A case recognized as a reason for his ban was when a deliberation was set up which console of the moment was better, if the DreamCast or the PlayStation 2. Dross sided with the latter. Thus, from that moment his character El Troll was born.
Expelled from MeriStation, the Pep portal published some of their video game guides, generally for the PS2 and Xbox 360 consoles, some of those guides also appeared on GameFAQs.
As he was no longer admitted to these communities, Dross decided to create his own website, called El Diario de Dross, a site dedicated mainly to black humor with macho and fascist alignments (expressed under his character), as well as entertaining videos and articles, but also with sections dedicated to reflection many of which came to touch sensitive issues such as the questioning about the existence of God or religion itself, abortion, etc. He also talks about social issues, in which he gives many of his visitors advice on how to improve in their daily lives.
Your site is updated weekly with a video, written article and, from time to time, chats by MSN bothering certain people. His videos deal with topics such as movies and video games. On June 16, 2011, it announced, through its website, that the space reached 10 million visits.
In September 2010 he visited the Planetarium of Buenos Aires where he had direct contact with many of his followers with whom he took photos, signed autographs, answered questions, etc. Dross attended the 2011 edition of the Book Fair. Today he lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has considerable popularity in Spanish-speaking countries.
References
- 1 2 Miguel Ángel Teposteco. "Dross, el youtuber de los 6 millones de seguidores" [Dross, the Youtuber with 6 million followers]. El Universal (in Spanish).
- ↑ "¿Cuánto gana DrossRotzank?" [How much does DrossRotzank make?]. Cuánto gana.xyz (in Spanish). Retrieved July 17, 2018.
- ↑ "Dross, una estrella de YouTube, presenta su primera novela" [Dross, a YouTube star, releases his first novel]. Clarín (in Spanish). October 1, 2015.
- ↑ "Los 10 libros más vendidos en la primera semana del 2016" [The 10 best selling books in the first week of 2016]. Dinero en imagen (in Spanish). Mexico. January 9, 2016.
- ↑ "'Dross' en Lima: ¿De qué trata 'Festival de la blasfemia'?" ['Dross' in Lima: What's 'Festival de la blasfemia' about?]. El Comercio (in Spanish). July 6, 2016.
- ↑ "Dross habla de la trama de su nuevo libro" [Dross talks about the plot of his new book]. El Universal (in Spanish). Notimex. April 1, 2017.
- ↑ Florencia Suárez (July 8, 2018). "Séptimo Día: Dross: La puerta al infierno" [Dross: The door to Hell]. El Día (in Spanish).
- ↑ "Instagram viral: Dross demuestra con este video que es un maestro del clickbait" [Viral Instagram: Dross demonstrates with this video that he's a master of clickbait]. Trome (in Spanish). June 8, 2018.