The last avatar used on the FPSRussia YouTube channel, depicting Kyle Myers' head circa the 2010s superimposed on the body of Agent 47.
Kyle Lamar Myers (born May 9, 1986), also known by the aliases FPSRussia and FPSKyle, is an American podcaster and former YouTuber from Georgia (the state, not the country) who previously made videos of himself shooting many awesome weapons and firearms while speaking in a Fake Russian accent. The channel has long since ceased adding new content, the last video having been posted in April 2016. In August 2017, Myers was arrested on drug charges and the ATF raided his home, confiscating 50 firearms. He pleaded guilty to the drug charges and he was sentenced on June 19, 2019, to 56 days in prison and two years of probation, and also had to pay a fine of $7,500.Apart from the YouTube channel, he's also co-founded the weekly podcast Painkiller Already
. While the podcast is not as prominent as his channel was, it does manage to get a respectable amount of views.
He also appeared in the Call of Duty: Black Ops II live-action commercial.
His videos include instances of:
- Arms Dealer: His day job, and how he gets hold of some of his more exotic firepower.
- Artifact Title: Started as a Let's Play channel focusing on FPS games, hence the name.
- Artistic License – Gun Safety: He doesn't always follow proper safety procedures. Film crew have even been hit by shrapnel. In his mind, though, it's worth it.
- BFG: Kind of the whole point of the series.
- Bling-Bling-BANG!: He does, in fact, have a gold plated Desert Eagle.
- Briefcase Blaster: The Suitcase Gun
- Catchphrase:
- "Hello my friends, this is FPSRussia again..."
- "And as always, have nice day."
- "They/he is/are going to have a very bad day."
- Crossover: With Epic Meal Time.
- Dude, Not Funny!: Actual Russian gun enthusiasts aren't too impressed with him, since Russia has somewhat draconian gun control laws that forbid them to have collections like his.
- Funny Background Event: In a few videos, a man dressed as Batman or Spider-Man shows up dancing behind him while he describes the featured gun.
- Gatling Good: Yep, Just an average day for him.
- Guns Akimbo:
- Gun Nut: FPS Russia himself could be considered this, with his collection and all.
- Incendiary Exponent:
- Uses incendiary ammo on occasion, like Dragon's Breath shotgun rounds.
- He sometimes shoots cans of spray paint with flares taped to them, creating a fiery explosion.
- Made of Indestructium: His Glock torture test video demonstrates the amount of punishment the pistol can take. It survives everything except having a pound of explosives detonated underneath it.
- More Dakka: Oh my yes.
- Oh, Crap!: His reaction to the missile in the Call of Duty: Black Ops II "Surpise" commercial. I guess we can say that he had a very bad day.
- Professional Voice Dissonance: Myers' real voice has a Southern accent, in contrast to the Russian accent he uses for most of his videos.
- Revolvers Are Just Better: Yep.
- Reliably Unreliable Guns: He broke not one, but two UTS-15 shotguns in the UTS-15 video during the course of normal use.
- Short-Range Shotgun: Defied. It's shown quite clearly that shotguns still shred targets at more than 100 feet.
- Sniper Rifle: Quite a few.
- Sound-Effect Bleep: One of his videos had the sound of a gun cocking used to censor a profanity.
- Spent Shells Shower: This often happens when he shows off fully automatic weapons.
- Stop Being Stereotypical: His oftentimes lax approach to gun safety is a sore spot among many of his peers, who make the very cogent argument that when it comes to guns and shooting, the
"Stop Having Fun" Guys are 100% in the right and Rule of Cool should never, ever trump responsible firearm use. - Stuff Blowing Up
- Myers' lax approach sometimes extends to these videos as well, best evident in a video uploaded in January 2013 (the last before producer Keith Ratliff was murdered); using a rifle to detonate a tannerite charge inside a truck resulted in a large chunk of metal flying back at him, missing him by inches. Myers can be seen pausing for a moment, perhaps to compose himself, while someone off camera can be heard yelling, "Holy! Fuckin'! Shit!"
- One video had the cameraman taking a chunk of exploding fridge to the leg. FPS Russia thought it was Worth It, but said that the cameraman didn't feel the same way.
- Stylistic Suck: The Quadrotor video. To the video's credit, it made the entire thing look very convincing, but a trained eye can see that the quadrotor is actually a fake.
