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Kenneth Bernard Domik (born: May 6, 1966), also known as KBDProductionsTV, or Joseph Cuntman is a Canadian YouTuber, minor celebrity and commercial "personality." He was most well known for his style of reviewing fast food within the confines of his car, where he would present himself in front of a pair of portable mounted cameras on his front window, and would use editing software to give reports of what fast food items were currently within the trends of fast food, and other smaller indie restaurants. He will use the exact same editing style every video, and has since 2012 never changed.
Biography[]
Ken Domik was given the start to the scene of YouTube on Feb 4, 2009. Where he was put into the spotlight by reviewing rollercoasters at the Canadian amusement park, Canada's Wonderland (formerly Paramount Canada's Wonderland). It was within these videos he had begun to develop the personality of somebody who would become more reckless and daring, but was also very reserved and unbiased upon the reception of his critiques of different rides. Early videos even included filming Spin Out - guy almost hits a gas truck and Drunk Driver's Can't Drive
Upon being given the taste for YouTube, he then began to become more dynamic in his production. He begun to branch out into the latest trend of YouTube within the early 2010s - Sketch comedy. Highlights include "Hawaiian Shirt Guy," a stop-motion feature that took over eight (8) hours to complete; "Man Behind the Mirror," a short sketch featuring Ben Domik (BigBenStudios); and "Kick-Ass - Big Daddy Clip "SPOOF!"" where Ken showed his comedic acting skills.
On March 12, 2010, Ken uploaded his first food review video, in which he tried the new English muffin breakfast sandwich (with cheese, egg, and bacon) at Tim Horton's. The breakfast sandwich cost $2.72 Canadian and had 310 calories, 13g total fat, 710mg of sodium, and 165mg of cholesterol. Ken described the sandwich as good and said he gave it a thumbs up.
Ken briefly gave a music career a try as on February 16, 2012, he released a song called "Rock'n the Poutine. The song, as of August 2017, has 14 300 views. His musical ambitions never came to fruition, as this was the only recorded instance of him making a music video, collaboration or otherwise. Anthony Fantano, on his youtube channel theneedledrop gave this song the first 0 ever given on his channel.
Ken's favourite ice cream flavour is rum raisin. He also loves a good two pound burrito from Fat Bastard Burrito.
Early Life[]
Ken Domik was born on May 6, 1966 on the municipality of Scarborough, Ontario, Canada; what is considered today to be a part of Toronto, Ontario. Ancestrally, his upbringing consisted of having both of his parents in his life - his mother, Rosemary Domik, and father Bernard Domik. Ken's lineage can be traced to the United Kingdom on his mother's side and Hungary on his father's.
Ken's early life remains relatively quiet to the public eye, and snippets of his childhood can only be found in urban legend and rumour coming from the word of Ken himself. Ken was raised in Scarborough, but had in his later years moved from there into Richmond Hill, where he had been raised in what Ken had described as "Not the most wealthy family."
For grades nine and ten, Ken attended a private all-boys school in Newmarket, Ontario called Pickering College. However, for grade eleven, Ken attended Woburn Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, Ontario before his family moved to Richmond Hill. Ken has stated his "weenie" stopped growing around this time. After the move, he went on to graduate from Bayview Secondary School.
When all of his high school studies were finished, he moved onto post-secondary where he had first studied at Humber College in Toronto for film and television production, beginning in 1986. He had graduated from his studies in the class of 1989. This degree that he possessed wasn't enough for Ken, as he also pursued another degree in graphic design at George Brown College, also located in Toronto, Ontario. He had begun his studies in 1988, and graduated as part of the class of 1991.
Early Career Ken had begun his professional life working for the York Region District School Board in Newmarket, Ontario where he was a camera operator and a film editor. Ken began working at the school board in 1994.
Youtube Career[]
Ken created his main channel, KBDProductionsTV, on February 4, 2009 and had been making videos to his main channel since April 1, 2009 when he uploaded his first video[1]Climbing Devil's Tower - The Summit - VIO POV1 Helmet Cam On December 10, 2009, Ken uploaded a video stating he was approved to the YouTube Partnership Program and was able to run advertisements on his videos.
Where his career had really started to take off was during the food craze on YouTube in the early 2010's, where food reviewers had begun to show in mass prominence on the YouTube stage. Ken had his channel blow up as this trend grew, with his most popular food review being his review of the McDonald's ★ Secret Menu Item ★ The McLand, Air and Sea Burger Food Review | KBDProductionsTVat McDonald's. This video, as of August 2017, has reached 1.4+ million views.
Controversey[]
9/11 Controversy[]
On September 12, 2016, Ken mentioned selling 9/11 memorabilia and called all the items "collectors' items." Due to this, Ken received backlash and also deleted any comments calling out Ken's view of the day. WHERE I WAS 15 YEARS AGO, MY 9/11 STORY
Exploitation of others[]
-Ken has been known to film people without their knowledge and exploit other peoples pain and suffering including his own son's.
On Jan 6, 2018 Ken's son Ben fractured his collarbone while snowboarding and Ken felt the need to film Ben while he was on the ground withering in pain. Ken then procceded to film Ben in the parking lot while high on pain medication nearly get hit by a car due to Ken not paying attention to Ben. Beginner Snowboarder Breaks Collarbone
On Oct 25, 2019 during an another occasion while with his friend Paul, the duo procceded to film an elderly gentleman struggling to back his car out of a tight spot. Instead of going up the gentelman the duo procceded to cackle and laugh at him while he got into an accident. They then got back into their car and stated how it was exciting seeing someone else get into a minor fender bender instead of showing empathy for the situation. Driving to Lake Placid, Cracked Windshield, Car Accident, and Lots of Food and Good Times!
Racial Controversies[]
On Mar 2, 2019 Ken Domik makes a "Hitler flap" while drinking coffee. The joke in poor taste was received by backlash.
On June 20, 2020 Ken Domik posted an insensitive statement regarding the death of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter on his now deleted Instagram story he states, "All lives matter stop singling out black people because one black man dies."
Disputes[]
On Aug 11, 2016, Youtuber Beer Drank Shawty had shown multiple screenshots of an exchange between Ken and him in 2014. Ken had expressed disdain for BDS putting links to Ken's channel in his videos, and had asked him to take down the links claiming that it was "spam." BDS had responded by saying it was out of line to assume that a single link was doing this much harm to his channel. Ken being as defensive as ever defaulted to him being a troll and moved on. Ken would then be later exposed for his insecurities by showing proof that Ken called the cops on CraveCon because Daym Drops was there.
The video had shed more light on how insecure an image Ken desperately tries to preserve. It was also said by BDS that he has such a massive ego for demanding both an apology and the removal of a video that potentially jeopardized the CraveCon trip. Many say he should've left up the video so the disaster of CringeCon would've never happened. CraveCon Background A collaboration of Ken Domik and Daymon Patterson of the YouTube channel Daym Drops had decided to collaborate for a convention based in Galveston, Texas called CraveCon. This was a convention where various YouTubers notable in the food review community, along with other notable YouTubers, would gather and interact with fans and do various panels.
On October 6, 2019, Larry Graves from the channel Canadian Studmuffin made a video on the Ken Domik Reaction Channel addressing his relationship with Ken. Larry revealed that he and Ken had collaborated multiple times in 2012, when Larry had more subscribers than Ken. After Ken surpassed Larry in subscribers, he dropped him as a friend and went on to collaborate with bigger channels so he could mooch subscribers off of them. Larry started to dislike Ken, due to Ken's rude attitude towards his viewers, and he started to comment on the Ken Domik Reaction Channel. Ken found out and sent Larry a letter, reading "Hello larry. I didn't know you were the type of person to condone hate/cyberbullying by by commenting on those kinds of videos. I would have never done that to you, how disappointing. I thought you were better that that!" (sic). Larry's video proved that Ken only does YouTube for the money, and is willing to use people to get subscribers from them.
Cravecon[]
Events The planned con was to include panels by these big name YouTubers, a food review inside a Bentley Continental GT, and fan meet and greet. The actual events that unfolded were only half of what was expected. The con did have the Bentley review, but the food in question was incredibly rushed and they did a review of Swedish Fish Oreos. Those that attended the con had to awkwardly watch outside of the car as two grown men ate Oreos in a rented car that the rental agency probably didn't appreciate, as the Oreo crumbs and back sweat stained the leather seats.
The panels done by YouTubers only lasted minutes, as men with no real world experience really shouldn't be expected to be charismatic and fun in person. Fans only asked a few questions, and the panel ended abruptly.
J.P. Lambiase of Hellthy Junk Food proposed to his then girlfriend, Julia while attending CraveCon. Many say she only said yes so that Ken would stop hitting on her.
This convention was deemed a success by the organizers, but an absolute disaster for those that both attended and those that witnessed it on vlogs and comment testimonials. The amount of tickets bought was only just over a dozen, and the ratio of YouTubers to fans was 1:1. Those that attended said that it felt completely empty, and have coined it as "CringeCon"
Financially, it was a disaster for all of those involved in planning it. Both Ken and Daym had invested thousands of dollars into the venture, as they needed to spend money on items such as hotels, air travel, booking expenses for convention space, and technical equipment like microphones and audio gear. Ken has said before in his vlog that CraveCon had lost him thousands of dollars, and had crushed all dreams of making it an annual event. Causes of Failure We can only speculate as to why CraveCon was such a massive financial failure. The largest culprits may include factors such as:
- Location: Galveston is not a remote area of Texas, but it's very out of the way for air travel -- it required not only an international flight to Dallas, but a chartered flight from Dallas to Galveston as well. This added to the already steep cost, and turned off many hopeful attendees. Galveston is also extremely hot, and taking place in August, temperatures were at an all time high.
- Planning: Both Ken Domik and Daymon Patterson have never planned something so large-scale in their lives, so it was a brand new learning experience. This zero-expertise meant the convention was inadequately planned for, and major elements of a convention were missing or rushed entirely. These included:
- Backup plans if an attendee did not show up
- Poor usage of mic equipment and audio mixing
- Poor usage of convention floor space
- Poor usage of floor space equipment - haphazardly using any provided equipment necessary
- Boredom: Alongside poor planning, the events planned were not entertaining enough to make guests feel the experience was justified. Going back to previous points, the Bentley food review forced attendees to stand outside of their car and watch as they can hear none of what's occurring. Their view of the review was also obscured, and could only peer through partially tinted windows.
- Guest Appearances: Two notables guests that had attended are boogie2988 and Matthew Santoro. These two got absolutely clowned as their reputation had been tarnished knowing they went to such a failure of an event. They the subsequently tarnished their own careers with their own shares of controversies, and are now heavily declining YouTubers themselves. The CraveCon curse claims two more.
Aftermath Observing the dynamic between Ken and Daym no longer exist after this event, it's evident to say their friendship had fallen out after this con failed. We have seen no recent collaborations between them, and mentions of each other have only been in passing, with no real favourable perception of either aside from simply stating the events. Some have even claimed it ruined many of Ken's other old Youtube connections, as post-2016 saw entirely different YouTubers collaborate with Ken. People had distanced themselves from him, knowing he is a poor planner who will ruin leather seats with his incontinence.
CraveCon's hopes of becoming a reality were crushed, and any mention of it after August 18th, 2016 were swept under the rug. Any mention of it to Ken on a livestream or comment will warrant a deletion and ban from his channel and social media. Ken remains a laughing stock because of how mismanaged CraveCon was.