Cory Williams, known on YouTube as CoryxKenshin scared his fanbase of 21 million subscribers in 2023 when he seemed to disappear from the popular video-sharing platform after posting videos regularly since 2009.
And, then, out of the blue, Cory posted a new video in December 2024 and finally explained his long absence. He revealed that he had actually been working on a long-time passion project to create his manga series called “Monsters We Make.,” The manga, which he created with a team of artists, is a sci-fi thriller featuring a battle between humans and aliens.
Cory posted a trailer of his new series on YouTube and posted the project on his website for fans to purchase. “I hope you’ve been well over this long period of us not seeing each other,” Kenshin said in his return video. “Praise God, it is good to finally be back.”
Cory has impacted the YouTube community and inspired people to become YouTubers. But before I talk about that, I will talk about how iconic CoryxKenshin really is.
From what we can see on his YouTube profile, Cory started YouTube on May 25, 2009, about 15 years ago called “Girls in Particular.”. Cory also made his first Spooky Scary Sunday video 6 years ago and it actually was on a Sunday, but since then it wasn’t always on that day of the week. The Cooking with Kenshin series happened was 9 nine years ago. I never really watched Cooking with Kensin because I became a fan of Cory about 5 or so years ago, so I didn’t know that series existed, but I have seen clips of Cooking with Kensin. Cory started playing Five Nights at Freddy’s about 10 years ago from what we can see on his YouTube channel.
A few of my favorite series Cory has done are Security Breach, Duck Season, Fears to Fathom, Puppet Combo, Dark Deception, and Chilla’s Art. These 6 video series have to be my favorite because of how Cory plays the game. Like Fears to Fathom, anytime Cory has to drive in Fears to Fathom he drives like a maniac.
Puppet Combo, in my opinion, has to be the best Cory videos. Just because of the sole purpose of how scary Puppet Combo games can be, and just how entertaining the gameplay can be to watch.
When Cory played Duck Season it was pretty fun to watch, especially with the different endings that the game Duck Season has. What I also liked was when Cory was shooting the ducks, he would make most of the shots; however, but as soon as he said he was the best, he started to miss his shots. I also think that Dark Deception is one of Cory’s best series because the game is just fun to watch. My favorite one has to be the chapter with the nurses or the Joy Gang. Those two chapters are so good.
Cory’s play-through of Security Breach is just really good and I just love Five Nights at Freddy’s. Chilla’s Art is also one of Cory’s best series. It, Chilla’s Art is just scary and I love it. The random jumpscares, the PlayStation1-level graphics, and just how you can change the ending depending on what you do in the gameplay. I mean Puppet Combo also has PS1-style graphics, which tends to make games even scarier because of how weird the characters look and move. If any game has PS1 graphics it gets another level of scary.
Cory has inspired many YouTubers like my favorite YouTuber 3FS aka Max. I could write a whole thing about 3FS and how he has helped me tremendously, but we’re talking about Cory.
In one of 3FS’s lives, he talked about how Cory inspired him to start YouTube. Like how Cory doesn’t curse in his videos and just has a funny and nice personality to watch, and just nice to see there are nice people out there who care. I’m honestly really happy that Cory is back on YouTube to bring more smiles to his “samurai” followers.
