Never thought Id find myself here, but here we are.
Greetings gents a degenerates. Necroing this thread because I used to know Zak back in 2012, and Im trying to verify some information. It was just after his Thomas spergging was over but before his MLP phase.
He had a self drawn avatar, kinda like the PNG tubers of today but sitting at a desk. The art was 2008 ChrisChan quality, possibly worse. Initially, it was a cartoon facsimile of himself that was clean shaven at first, but then had his goatee. He also wore a red jacket that he carried over into later iterations of his persona, but didnt have the top hat.
If anyone archived this, please let me know.
Additional attestation.
A more specific time frame would be anytime between August and October of 2012, as it was my first year of college. I can howver contribute my eyewitness accounts.
Zak was a highly abusive and manipulative individual. He had an online girlfriend at the time who was just as sperged as he is. There were two others in the group, one who was batshit insane but funny, and the other who was an incredibly talented voice actor and writer. He might have even had a job in entertainment.
The fanfic they read when I was first introduced was Power Rangers Atomic Force. It was already cringe to start, but I went with it as I was still an introvert at college. It was all smiles and fun until a breaking point where Zak started behaving rudely, claiming it was his alter ego taking over. When I confronted him about this in private, I knew he bullshitting everyone. He eventually came out and admitted that he was being malicious, stirring up drama and being a generally shitty person.
TLDR: Zak was always a shitty human being. The only difference is that he was so depraved that he felt the need to find a child to manipulate.
HOLY SHIT I FOUND IT. And it's not as late as I thought either!
A channel called Deleted Brony Videos Archive has a bunch of videos Zak had uploaded a while back. Here's a screencap from one of them: