FPSRussia reveals why he was worried about being recognized in prison YouTube\/FPSRussiaPopular YouTube star Kyle \u2018FPSRussia\u2019 Myers has revealed what it was like during his two-month stint in prison earlier this year, and explained why he had to tell superfans to \u201cget the f*ck away from me\u201d to stay safe. FPSRussia rose to fame on YouTube for his gun demonstration videos, showing off the terrifying power of weapons like a golden AK-47, .50 BMG rifles, an armored troop carrier, and even a massive Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft cannon. Myers had his residence raided by authorities multiple times, mainly due to the nature of his video content, and during one such raid in August 2017, police found 25 grams of butane hash oil. The star was arrested for possession of a restricted substance, and had 50 of his firearms confiscated. Myers pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute, and on June 19 was sentenced to two years probation, and two months in prison. Unsurprisingly, once he was inside he bumped into a few of his followers \u2014 not too difficult to find considering he hit more than 6.5 million subscribers in May this year \u2014 and explained on PKA 459 how those same fans put him in \u201ca lot of danger.\u201d \u201cThe guards recognized me, two or three of them did, and they told their buddies who I was, and they all became fast fans and wanted autographs and talk to me about all kinds of stuff\u2026 I had to tell them to get the f*ck away from me,\u201d Myers said. The problem, the YouTube star explained, was that while the guards were being quite innocent in coming round to Myers\u2019 cell and \u201ctalking for ages\u201d about his videos, the other inmates didn\u2019t quite believe that was the only reason. Instead, other prisoners began to suspect Myers was \u201csnitching on everyone\u201d because he had become \u201cgood friends\u201d with the guards so quickly, even going so far as to eavesdrop on his conversations around the cells. Myers\u2019 48-year-old cellmate \u201cSnow,\u201d who was allegedly a major player in the Mexican crime family on the outside, warned the YouTuber others had been keeping an eye on him, and were planning on pegging him as an informant. The YouTube star explained to his new friend that the guards were fans of his gun videos, and while Snow believed him, he warned others weren\u2019t going to buy that story \u2014 even if it was the truth \u2014 and he had to \u201cshut it down.\u201d \u201cI was like \u2018Ah shit, you\u2019re right,\u2019 and I had to tell this guard: \u2018Hey man, I appreciate you coming by, it\u2019s nice to talk to someone that isn\u2019t a f*cking criminal, but you\u2019ve gotta stop, and tell the others they have to stop too\u2019,\u201d Myers said. \u201c\u2018These guys are looking at us right now, turn around,\u2019 I said to him, and sure enough there was a dude just f*cking watching me, listening in, trying to see what I was saying and snitching, and I had to tell the guards to lay off.\u201d \u201cThe guards understood what I was saying, and they respected it, so they cut that out, and I definitely had to shut that down right away, that was not going well.\u201d For mobile viewers, the related segment begins at 38:03. Myers also added being friends with the guards, even with them being super-fans, wasn\u2019t going to turn out well at all, after PKA co-host Matthew \u2018Woody\u2019 Woodworth asked if he maybe could have \u201cgot protection\u201d from his fans. \u201cNo, no, they\u2019re not there to protect me, they\u2019re there to protect you, from me,\u201d Myers replied. \u201cThey guard the civilians from the felons, they\u2019re there to keep you there and that\u2019s their only concern. That\u2019s all they care about, ever.\u201d Despite Myers\u2019 two months inside, and away from YouTube, the famous gunsmith is clearly still quite popular, with his four-hour return podcast with Woody and MurkaDurkah already rocketing past half a million views. While the 33-year-old hasn\u2019t produced and uploaded any FPSRussia-branded videos starring his online persona Dmitri Potapoff since his last release on April 16, 2016, it seems like Myers is still going strong on the internet with PKA. There\u2019s no telling if Myers may ever return to the dormant FPSRussia channel, but with all his experience from his two-month stint on the inside, he\u2019d certainly have a host of new experiences to draw on for the character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FPSRussia reveals why he was worried about being recognized in prison YouTube\/FPSRussiaPopular YouTube star Kyle \u2018FPSRussia\u2019 Myers has revealed what it was like during his two-month stint in prison earlier this year, and explained why he had to tell superfans to \u201cget the f*ck away from me\u201d to stay safe. FPSRussia rose to fame on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}