Bie. So I know why I said that? Have you ever heard any anyone say marshmallow is my favorite artist? Probably not unless you frequently have conversations 9-year-olds who play Fortnite, but Marshmallow currently sits at over 50 million monthly listeners on. Oh I disagree I think Marshmallow was doing great and then he went full mainstream and he continued to do the same thing just because people liked it and he never like broke out box ever again which is just end up being on on. Loop Spotify has four songs with over 1 billion streams, is Grammy nominated and has dominated popular radio for years.

In 2017, Forbes reported Marshmallow was the eighth highest paid DJ earning $21 million and they were able to do all of this without ever revealing their identity. Marshmallow is not a person, it's a mascot that represents marshmallow. Creative. LLC Similar to Tony the Tiger or the Green Giant only their main profit driver is watered down generic EDM and pop music.

and while you think I might sound like a hater, they don't even consider marshmallow Art. It's an investment firm with 11 to 50 employees. If you found out the man who created this entity didn't perform his DJ sets, didn't produce his songs, didn't do interviews, didn't physically ever go out in this costume. What would change? Absolutely nothing.

It could be a different person in that suit every single time you have ever seen them and nobody would know. What are the chances that? The Man Behind The Marshmallow Mask is an American Ninja Warrior finalist. A pro fortnite player teaming up with Ninja a chef a skateboarder all while being a Grammy nominated producer and World touring. DJ The funniest part about it? He has been hiding in plain sight since day one.

Marshmallows identity was leaked just 3 months after releasing his first song and he wasn't infiltrated by a hacker group or Hometown haters Skrillex The biggest DJ in the world Straight up told everyone who he was. what? Who's that right now? it's Chris Oh Marshmallow Marshmallow. Speaking of new, Talent Really, this kid is making great music for on that young, new great maybe I'll get to interview you one day Mar come Ono From this interview with Skrillex we learned that Marshmallows name is Chris and that he is a promising upcoming Talent Now most upcoming artists don't just get a shout out from the biggest DJ in the world. So they suspected Marshmallow was an industry plant.

Some even suspected Skrillex was marshmallow and tried to play the reverse psychology card. after all, Marshmallows first song was uploaded just 3 months before this interview waves was was uploaded to SoundCloud March 2nd 2015 Professional quality, mixing and mastering from an account with zero followers was not helping industry plant accusations. After releasing just nine songs, he had reached 46,000 followers in 2 months. EDM Fans were suspicious from the very beginning.

It's not uncommon at all for producers to multiple aliases for side projects. Skrillex is also in a duo with Diplo called Jack You Diplo has a side project as a group called major Laser aichi had Tim Ber Pendulum has knife Martin Gar had area 21 party Mac Miller's producer was Larry fisherman There is an endless list of popular producers DJs with active side project I Enjoy that lot! So people suspected that Marshmallow was a side project of another popular artist. but before we reveal Marshmallows true identity, a word from our sponsor: Underdog Fantasy Underdog Fantasy is the easiest place to play fantasy sports. popular DJs Named yo Bro Bro listen I Watching a video dud like this kind kind of disrespectful bro Patrick see I love your videos Bro Bro stti clear as I'm sorry at the time Adventure Club half of the duo is Christian Srigley Christian could be shorten to Chris but it's unlikely.

Rusco, whose real name is Christopher William Mercer B Rusco is an EDM Legend and seems extremely out of character to pursue an anonymous career making generic Festival EDM What So Not's real name is Chris Emerson was alsoa at that time which is Skrillex's record label, but What So Not is Australian and that accent would have been obvious on the phone with Skrillex So that leaves us with whose real name is Christopher Comto, who was a prime suspect for being the identity behind Marshmallow was a popular base music DJ from Philadelphia In the mid 2010s, he made a splash in the EDM scene for his late 2013 remak of Chief Keef's hate being sober then continued to make Festival Trap Remixes of Popular Songs Trap is a genre of Bass music, originally hip hop. it often features huge 808 baselines, fast high hats and simple catchy synth. Melodies Festival Trap is the same, but slaps a ton of Reverb on those Melodies to make it feel like you are in a Stadium concert. Exploded in 2014 with over 15 million streams on his songs and tens of thousands of followers, he got signed to Byor Records, which had a roster of many top tier base music acts.

This was a key point for his career because at Bore he met and signed with his manager, Mo Shalizi. Mo is arguably the Mastermind behind Marshmallow because despite Doom getting tons of streams and followers on Soundcloud, he wasn't interesting enough. From a marketing perspective, all of's biggest songs were remixes not original. Creations The Name.com didn't have any creative branding or uniqueness around it and he looked like just any other.

DJ since he was playing a lot of Festival Trap in small clubs with a bunch of dubstep fans. When he hit the stage, people would take a bathroom break or get a drink at the bar. He plateaued and Mo came up with a plan they tried to assess the problem with. EDM It was flooded with a bunch of egotistical DJs who partied hard, created an image of coolness, and made music to satisfi whatever.

Well, that never changed though. that literally never changed. It's still like that trend is happening in the clubs. Most of the fans were 18 plus because many of the concerts had age restrictions, they wanted to create a brand that was positive, kid-friendly and most importantly, Anonymous Marshmallow was created as a side project for Chris to express himself through a new style of music.

All song Almost pretty much just copied Dead Mouse. This whole plan no were original Productions that blurred the lines between Festival Trap and Future Base. The songs were light, uplifting, and emotional to go along with his brand of positivity. Mo got all of his other artists to repost and support Marshmallow Music on SoundCloud Mo says that Skrillex reached out to him asking who marshmallow was early on which is possible Skrillex Still to this day shows love to smaller artists and has always scoured the internet looking for new Talent It's also likely that Mo sent Marshmallows music to Diplo since Mo managed an artist called Jaws who was signed to Diplo's label and then Diplo put Skrillex on Skrillex reposted Melo's track called Find Me on April 5th 1 month after Melo started releasing music then Skrillex gave Melo the biggest opportunity of his one-month career to produce the official remix for Jack youu and Justin Bieber song where Are You Now This song had everyone in the scene wondering how did Marshmallow get so famous so fast but Mo and Chris had a problem.

They didn't know how to hide marshmallows physical identity. how were they going to do shows? Of course they considered a helmet because two of the most iconic EDM Brands Daft Punk and Dead Mouse orted a helmet during their performances. So Mo reached out to a friend who could make them a prototype. The helmet was was a yoga mat wrapped in a circle with the eyes cut out and a dollar store LED light on the inside.

This was revealed during the trailer for The Hard Day of the Dead 2015 Festival While on set, Mo took a picture of Melo and pretended to leak it to billboard anonymously the next day. Mystery producer Marshmallow reveals first ever photo ahead of Halloween Live debut Mo Negotiated Melo's first live performance and appearance in this trailer for a whopping $30,000 five or six times more than what was being paid for a show. His d was as an opening act for Skrillex's Peer of Fear Halloween show, but the more memorable set was at Hard Summer with his intro leaning into the Mystique. A lot of people are thinking maybe it's SCRC he's just, you know, using another name to put out different tracks and stuff like that.

but I think those people are kind of exp I don't know, it's been bothering me, been killing me I am dying to know who Marshmallow really is from there. The Takeover began started starting with a USA tour. then a massive International Tour all over Australia China Spain his debut album Joy Time went number one on top electronic albums the day of it Chad I wish that um uh unfortunately people don't really know the martial progression of Music they only know like the end game I wish kind of two other documentary he played a little bit of I know it's prob D or some like that played Snippets of what songs were like popular from him at the time cuz it's kind of hard to tell but now it's release. He dominated social media with captions his fans enjoyed like Diplo trying to distract me with pictures of naked marshmallows or with marketing stunts from Mo like purchasing a billboard outside of Coachella that read I'm working hard now so my future daughter doesn't have to sell detox tea on her social media.

Detox tea was a popular trend on social media as a quick fixed weight loss product mostly promoted by female influencers. They claimed this billboard went viral and had many people asking who marshmallow was, but I found no evidence of that marshmallow. Ascended through the EDM ranks headlining a world tour less than a year after releasing first song That's The Power of the helmet and the Scrx cosign. His track alone would be a defining moment for Melo as it was his first Bonafide original hit sitting at over 2.4 billion views on.

YouTube Coincidentally, Doom stopped doing shows and releasing music at the same time Marshmallow started doing shows but the whole is marshmallow expose was only for EDM die hards. Most of the Mellow gang didn't care about his anonymity, they just like the music. A photo of Melo was posted backstage at a show in Vegas You can see through the rib jeans that he has a tattoo on his right leg that seems to match the tattoo.com has on his right leg. and if that wasn't enough proof, Dead Mouse straight up exposed him.

Marshmallow tweeted I wonder if Dead Mouse would be down to play basketball Together Oneon-one winner buys dinner Dead Mouse replied yes, okay, we get it, do wasn't working you put a bucket on your head and mentioned me weekly. winning for bro dead mous bro when he's Petty he's so pett it's unbelievable dude Bro that is like the classic Dead Mouse response I Bro I Can't think of more de than this crazy happened 1 month later at EDC Las Vegas Marshmallow took off his helmet I'm going to take off my helmet in 3 2 One Social media is in fact another iconic. DJ Testo This was a major news story that made headlines outside of the EDM Community Dead Mouse chimed in Okay, so the biggest news item from EDC is some piece of taking off a helmet to reveal another piece of hey, it's your Money Melo replied Winning Formula for Relevance: Talk on marshmallow Once a week. you should add CeX maxi pads to your riter.

This would be an ongoing bucket Head beef for many years. If you talk about like music and success Dude I don't guys, it's not jealous though. Dude brother, brother brother brother. you have to pay some respected for dead Mouse's contribution to the genre.

Okay, people are just being dumb and they don't remember and they're stupid. Okay that Mouse is ahead of it. Time it. I Don't give a talk once a week.

you should add CeX to your Rider This would be an ongoing bucket head beef for many years. Eventually people realized that the Testo face reveal was just a prank. But they did begin to question yeah, it'd be really stupid to go to go out that Mouse especially a couple like that. but possil marshmallow.

Being more than one person more specifically, is he the one actually making the music and this video may have exposed him in a YouTube video posted by Creator Arcade Marshmallow is seen giving a tutorial on how he makes music. First of all, his voice is heavily manipulated. For those of you who might be new to music production I Want to make sure that we take care of a few of the essentials. Our first task will be to change our Tempo We know how he actually sounds because he speaks on the mic at his concerts, but he never spoke during interviews.

At this point in his career. his tutorial feels more like he is reading off a script. For example, I did add some more audio effects to this sound to help it stick out a little bit more. The first effect I added is call of D This can be found in the multivan Dynamics category.

Now compare that to another producer giving a tutorial on the same page on it. Like brings out like the overtones and like the harmonics of IT Music Producers analyzed this video and noted that he speaks and navigates the program Ableton like someone with only a basic knowledge of the music production. Then Marshmallow goes on to add tons of effects. Ablon can suck at FL Studio Gang in this I Don't give a dude Ablon cut dude, Bro, Don't you have a wife to watch? Get what is wrong with you guys changing very specific parameters without even hearing the song to see how those effects are changing it.

Producers in the comments were not convinced this was melow. but does this prove that Chris Comto is not the one that makes the music? Well, obviously it's Shawn Mendes No, wait, it's will frell well. what a boring skit. it's me.

Me: Okay, the joke is played out. Now to make musicy even worse, people also discovered that his song Friends which has 1.3 billion streams, is just a downloaded loop from a stock music website. Come on now. This doesn't necessarily prove that Chris isn't the one producing the music, and while some people scold him for being uncreative and unoriginal, others just look at this as being resourceful.

If there's a website which in this case spice that could help you speed up your workflow, why not use it? The song peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. In fact, from 2017 to 2021 Melo had at least one song consistently on the Billboard Hot 100 Wolves with Selena Gomez Hit number 20, Silence with khed number 30 and happier with bestile peaked all the way at number two. Come and go with Juice! World Also, number two is that one entry-level EDM Fans don't fully understand the culture. They like the big festivals and cute outfits, but probably are not interested in what makes a DJ or producer.

So great. Marshmallow became their favorite DJ because he had one very specific difference than anyone else. The helmet and his euphoric Melodies are designed to just make you feel happy, which he does very well. This is also a big reason why he gained a huge International fan base.

Marshmallow has no race, religion, or human connection. His brand represents this vague positivity and the helmet is literally smiling the whole time time. Melo has just enough human characteristics for fans all around the world to connect with, but the debate of who the real Marshmallow is was finally ended by Natalie Roan from Forbes. In mid 2017, she searched for Christopher Comto in Bmi's public database.

This showed that Comstock is registered as a songwriter and performer for various marshmallow songs. BMI is a performing rights organization that collects performance royalties whenever their members songs are played publicly on. TV Digital Streaming platforms, the radio, live venues, restaurants, shops, wherever music gets played, every song is attached to an artist legal name. Katherine Hudson is the legal songwriter of Katy Perry's music.

Dwayne Carter is the legal songwriter of Wayne's music. Wait, He also has a necklace. No chat guys. what's been going with this necklace? Chat guys I Thought I Thought: Um, I thought fail had it and then Drake has it.

It was him songwriter of Lil Wayne's music. When Natalie made this discovery, she emailed Melo's legal team asking to confirm Chris is mellow and just 12 hours after she sent the email, Comstock had been wiped from Bmi's website searching for. oh, we had it first. Comto as a songwriter, rendered zero results unless you believe he has a ghost producer.

Christopher Comto is producing marshmallows music. However, there is one very obvious time Chris Comto was not the man in the costume and that was when Marshmallow absolutely dominated the American Ninja Warrior course with ease during stage one of the 2018. American Ninja Warrior finals. 97 contestants attempted and only 30 made it.

Marshmallow randomly pulls up when he has never entered the contest in history, never shown any type of athletic capabilities besides standing on a DJ booth and flies through the course wearing the massive bucket in between obstacles. He's not listed on the official website as a finalist, and this was clearly just a marketing stun for the show. This seems like a harmless stunt, but the next one is a little shady. In 2018 E3 was hosting a Fortnite Prom competition which featured the best professional Esports players who each partnered with a celebrity guest.

They had Lil Yotti Pete Wentz Designer Party next door just to name a few. Marshmallow was there too and who was he paired up with Ninja Ninja is the most famous Fortnite player of all time and in 2018 he was at his competitive. Peak Mo Claims that Melo just started playing Fortnite in his free time, asked Ninja to play and they hit it off. Simple as that: now the winners of this Proom competition would get a $1 million prize to donate to charity and it would be great press if the two most recognizable Brands won this competition.

Of course, Ninja and Marshmallow won despite marshmallow wearing this bulky helmet that restricts his vision. Is it possible that Melo is just extremely good at Fortnite and plays it in his free time? Sure. But he also became a partner with Fortnite shortly after launching an official skin and bundle that people could purchase for $2 to $18 Then he did the world's first Fortnite concert which was a 10-minute DJ set that players could attend inside of the game. Then from here released countless Fortnite music videos on his official YouTube channel.

This is a strategic Mult Guys for a cash prize tournament like that. Oh wait, it's for Chari isn't know I'm confused. it's for charity is it? I Still think it guys I'm going to say it I still think it kind of breaches compe Integrity Even for a charity tournament that people are matched with a celebrity that are all dog and he gets like a good player disguise I think that's kind of rigged I that's kind of. That's kind of cooked up multi-million dollar partnership and it just seems incredibly convenient that this started by Melo being partnered with the best player in the world with 1.7 million people watching live and winning the competition.

Melo Earned a staggering $44 million in 2017 and 2018. Not even 2 years after abandoning the Do brand. By 2020, he was worth $56 million and became an equity partner in the Stuffed Puffs Marshmallow Snack brand. marshmallow is not a person.

it's a corporate identity that happens to make music these days. Chris Hides in plain sight you can see his personal Instagram account where he is hanging out with Mo 808 Mafia Jaws all the biggest DJs in the world Chris gets to reap all the rewards of a multi-million dollar Empire but takes off the helmet and nobody would recognize him on the street. He never officially admitted that he was marshmallow because he knows that nobody really cares. EDM is about the entire culture, not parasocial relationships with the DJ and producer.

probably because EDM is not rying on vocals. people connect with Words lyrics and they develop a relationship with the artist. they feel like is speaking to them. but dance music is just about the Rhythm.

Way less fans develop that deep personal connection to an EDM artist. So marshmallow. It does not matter who is producing the music, it does not matter who is under that helmet. what they are making is not art.

it's a product. And as long as they keep releasing that product that makes people dance. marshmallow could be Dejing for the next 100 years. Interesting I I don't even know Pete Davidson's father chat it's like did went full circle and I don't know what the point of the video was to be honest.

I don't really know what the I'm confused am I crazy with this like it kind of went full circle I don't really get the point of it I don't even have like like an exit take about it. sorry though.