{{Short description|American music curator and YouTuber}} {{Distinguish|text=Freddie Dredd, also known as Ryan C}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{infobox social media personality | name = Ryan Celsius | image = | image_caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | occupation = {{flatlist| *Music curator *disc jockey *video artist *music producer *YouTuber }} | pseudonym = | youtube_handle = RyanCelsiusMusic | youtube_display_name = RyanCelsius° Sounds | youtube_years_active = 2011–present | youtube_genre = Music | youtube_subscribers = 610 thousand<!-- PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE WITHOUT UPDATING stats_update BELOW --> | youtube_views = 198.7 million<!-- PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE WITHOUT UPDATING stats_update BELOW --> | stats_update = February 24, 2025 }} '''Ryan Celsius''' (stylized as '''R y a n C e l s i u s °''') is the pseudonym of a Washington, D.C.–based music curator, disc jockey, video artist, music producer and YouTuber.

His YouTube channel features visual mixtapes, combining underground hip hop, phonk and lo-fi tracks with nostalgic anime and movie visuals. ''Trappin in Japan'', which began in 2017, is among the channel's most popular series.

==Career== thumb|Screenshot of a Ryan Celsius YouTube video, showing a first-person perspective of a Japanese highway Based in Washington, D.C., Ryan Celsius began producing music and making videos in 2005.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Andronicos|first=Leni|date=January 9, 2019|title=Interview: Ryan Celsius|url=https://www.amuse.io/content/ryan-celsius-interview|access-date=October 31, 2021|publisher=Amuse}}</ref> The same year, his production hardware was stolen, and he lost all the music and videos created.<ref name=":0" /> Celsius stated that the event made him stop producing music for eight years.<ref name=":0" />

In the early 2010s, Celsius got interested in the vaporwave culture, including vaportrap and simpsonwave.<ref name=":3">{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxRFDT4E3VI|title=Ryan Celsius Interview – Artist Spotlight [Open Doors]|date=November 26, 2020|publisher=Open Doors Entertainment}}</ref> He opened his YouTube channel in 2011 as a "personal project".<ref name=":0" /> The channel's video mixtapes combine underground phonk, trap and hip hop music with nostalgic visuals from popular anime clips and movies.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=July 22, 2019|title=Demonetized: YouTube Destroys Trailblazing Musician's Income Stream Over 'Misleading Thumbnails'|url=https://news.grabien.com/wire-demonetized-youtube-destroys-trailblazing-musicians-income-s|access-date=October 31, 2021|website=Grabien}}</ref> Most of Celsius' tracks come from independent artists.<ref name=":1" />

The ''Trappin in Japan'' series, which began in 2017, is among the channel's most popular,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=LaJenuesse|first=Nicole|date=March 1, 2019|title=RyanCelsius° Sounds taps into personal experience to deliver emotionally resonant mixtapes|url=https://www.creatorhandbook.net/ryancelsius-sounds-taps-into-personal-experience-to-deliver-emotionally-resonant-mixtapes-41c293ffa5ba/|access-date=October 31, 2021|publisher=Creator Handbook}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web|last=Yamamoto|first=Akihiro|date=March 6, 2020|title=【コラム】ローファイヒップホップ現象を再考する|trans-title=[Column] Rethinking the lo-fi hip-hop phenomenon|url=https://fnmnl.tv/2020/03/06/92993|access-date=November 10, 2021|website=FNMNL|language=ja}}</ref> featuring visual mixtapes with first-person footage of people driving or walking through Japanese streets,<ref name=":1" /> coupled with clips from nostalgic films such as ''Akira'',<ref name=":1" /> and imagery from ''The Simpsons''.<ref name=":4" /> He cites YouTube channel Emotional Tokyo as an inspiration for the series.<ref name=":3" /> The series, among others, was key to popularizing the phonk genre.<ref name=":32">{{Cite web|last=yokai|date=30 September 2020|title=how dj yung vamp got 20k followers in a year|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XZCogP757U&list=LL|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=6 December 2020|website=YouTube}}</ref> Celsius' channel also holds 24/7 live streams of visual mixtapes.<ref name=":2" />

In January 2019,<ref name=":0" /> Celsius was hired by indie record label Amuse to build their lo-fi music division.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Zarczynski|first=Andrea|date=December 23, 2020|title=How Lofi Hip-Hop Will Inspire New Music In 2021|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreazarczynski/2020/12/23/how-lofi-hip-hop-will-inspire-new-music-in-2021/|access-date=October 31, 2021|work=Forbes}}</ref> In summer 2019,<ref>{{Cite tweet|number=1141068720271450112|user=RyanCelsius|title=Demonetized and countless videos shadowblocked, not for Copyright but because YouTube doesn't understand what my content is. Keep your ad money, just unblock my videos|first=Ryan|last=Celsius}}</ref> Celsius' YouTube channel was demonetized and several videos were "shadow banned" due to "misleading thumbnails" in his videos.<ref name=":1" /> Celsius stated: "the YouTube policy team cannot understand the link between Japan, trap music, anime, ''The Simpsons'', so since they don't understand my content it must be misleading".<ref name=":1" />

In 2020, Celsius worked with Westbrook Media to create a lo-fi mixtape for Will Smith's YouTube channel.<ref>{{Cite web|title=DonVayei featured in Will Smith's "Chill Beats to Social Distance To"|url=https://www.donvayeimusic.com/featandcollabs|access-date=3 December 2021|website=DONVAYEI|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZGi1SCj1fU|title=Lo-fi Summertime Beats to Social Distance To|date=10 July 2020|publisher=Will Smith}}</ref> In 2021, he performed with Flying Lotus in New York,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Flying Lotus + Reggie Watts at Brooklyn Mirage, New York ⟋ RA|url=https://ra.co/events/1449093|access-date=2021-10-31|website=Resident Advisor|language=en}}</ref> and was the visualizer maker for the official music video content of the TV series ''Yasuke''.<ref>{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEgF9OhC7p8|title=Yasuke Original Soundtrack (Official Album Stream)|date=30 April 2021|publisher=Flying Lotus}}</ref>

==Discography== * ''Marble'' (2021) * ''Golden Hour'' (2022) * ''no collision'' (2022) * ''TYPE 2'' (2023)

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