Stuart Clive Ashen is an English Youtuber who mostly uploads toy reviews . One of his most popular video reviews are POPstations; reproduction versions of major commercial gaming hardware manufactured and distributed by unlicensed 3rd-party companies; most of which are Chinese or Japanese. Stuart Ashen often collaborates with friend and fellow YouTuber Barry Lewis, or My Virgin Kitchen; the two have an additional channel dubbed "Barshens".
He is also popularly known for his review videos of "tat" from British pound shops, along with his reviews of terrible food items which few sane humans would seek to digest.
He has also taken part in collaborative film projects, such as Ashens and the Quest for the Game Child, and the web series The Proxy.
Personal life
Due to a preference of privacy, and a lack of video blogs released, not much is known about Ashen.
Ashen has a PhD in psychology.
Ashen has mentioned in some Christmas-themed videos (in 2011) that he has a girlfriend. He never outwardly mentioned a name, and as of 2012 (mentioned in "stupidly long crap food special") he isn't together with her but now has a new girlfriend with nothing really known about her. She is occasionally referenced in videos and in his twitter posts.
Ashen was born on December 16, 1976 (age 39)
In 2013, he posted a video on his second channel extraashens a Draw My Life video, which starts him revealing that he was born in Norwich, England, afterwards he goes insane and the video stops at the ending frame, with stock music in the background, which continue for 3 next minutes.
Filmography
Quest for the Game Child
Ashen, along with some friends and actors, made a full-feature movie entitled Ashens and the Quest for the Game Child. The production was funded via donations on the popular crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. On August 8, 2013, the movie was released free-to-view on YouTube. The film is solely available on the popular channel "The Multiverse!". It currently has over 950,000 views. It is also available on Blu Ray and DVD.
Inspired by Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Indiana Jones, it is a comedy adventure film that follows Ashens' quest for the mysterious Game Child. It was launched in collaboration with YouTube Geek Week 2013.
The Proxy
Stuart, along with some actors, produced a web-based mini-series called The Proxy. The mini-series falls under the science-fiction genre. Ashen also produced a web show called Ideas Men, in which Ashen himself and co-host Damien Slash solve "complicated problems."
Additional Channels
ExtraAshens
In September 2011, Ashen started a secondary channel called ExtraAshens, on which he uploads behind-the-scenes footage from uploads on his main channel. ExtraAshens also features some reviews of items Ashen originally intended to review on his main channel, but did not for any number of reasons.
Barshens
Barshens is a relatively new collaboration channel featuring Ashen and Barry Lewis from "My Virgin Kitchen", who take part in various sketches and challenge videos together.