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Bashurverse, real name Brandon Ashur, was an American [=YouTuber=] who resided in Australia. His Youtube channel was started on April 1st of 2010.

On his old channel, he would post various scripted ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' series such as "Legend of the Hobo" and "Bashpack", plus other series such as "Magical Modded Minecraft Morning". His avatar was represented by a [[PlantPerson humanoid watermelon]], with his online persona being an eccentric-voiced and [[LargeHam hammy]] individual. He would then collaborate with LetsPlay/SkyDoesMinecraft after the latter admits to liking his videos, with many other collaboration videos with Sky and many others to follow.

Controversy would arise in mid-2015 when rumors of pedophilia started cropping up, with Brandon receiving a torrent of accusing tweets and message, including of dares for Brandon to kill themself, impacting their mental health, estranging his relationship with his now-former girlfriend, and slowing down his activity on [=Youtube=]. By April 27th 2017, he would black out his [=YouTube=] account, deleting all of the videos that have been posted, along with changing the name to "--". And for a long while, that was considered the end of Bashur...

[[CreatorRecovery ...Until September 19th 2019]], where he would post a tweet on his old Twitter profile, encouraging fans to follow his new account [=T0astyTime=]. His [=YouTube=] channel revived/rebranded, along with subsequently streaming on Twitch as TOASTY. Tragically, this return would not last, as Brandon would lose his life to both pneumonia and COVID-19 on September 12th 2021.
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!!The channel's contents feature the following tropes:
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: '''M'''agical '''M'''odded '''M'''inecraft '''M'''orning.
* BlackComedy: Bashur is a [[PlantPerson watermelon man]], and once you add in the fact that ''Minecraft'' features watermelon blocks (plus watermelon slices as food), you get instances such as the Watermelon Massacre video, where Bashur has to murder his own children to either get to the inmates or survive starvation.
* BlackComedyCannibalism: Anytime Bashur has to eat his own children -- that being slices of watermelon -- with him being once forced to do so [[ItMakesSenseInContext while starving in the depths of hell.]]
* CharacterCatchphrase: "What the balls?"
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Warden Bashur's threat toward Sky after escaping his imprisonment in the Watermelon Massacre video:
-->'''Bashur:''' I'm not gonna hurt ya! I'm just gonna beat ya till you can't breath no more!
* PlantPerson: Bashur's avatar is a watermelon person, which gets played for all its worth in the various role-playing series, from treating watermelons as his own children, to vomiting up watermelon slices.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: PlayedForLaughs when, in the Watermelon Massacre video, he had to [[ItMakesSenseInContext mine through his own children to escape]], thus dropping his abusive warden persona.
-->'''Bashur:''' I'm not even in character anymore, ''cause this is traumatizing...!''
* SnarkyNonHumanSidekick: Pewface plays this role to the wacky Bashur.
* ShoutOut: The Villager Innkeeper featured in Summer Bashpack, courtesy of being a mob compared to [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Squidward]], has the same [[SignatureLaugh "honking" laugh]] as the latter.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Played as a skit in Summer Bashpack, where Bashur's usage of the Experience Potions (which in-game are "used" by throwing them, breaking on impact to spawn XP orbs) leads to [[AgonyOfTheFeet Bashur crying out in pain at the glass shards ending up in his feet.]]
* TooDumbToLive: Because of the ''Minecraft'' wolf's ArtificialStupidity, Pewface is prone to running into open fires unprompted to the point of being a RunningGag, subsequently getting caught on fire and suffering from the burns.
* UnfortunateNames: He names his wolf companion "Pewface", which naturally gets questioned by the animal himself at points.
* ZergRush: Bashur's strategy against Sky in the ''VideoGame/{{Pixelmon}}'' Cops-And-Robbers video is to sick a full team of Squirtle against them. [[CurbstompBattle They all fall one by one to Sky's Pikachu]], which prompts him to blow up the wall behind him to reveal a whole room full of chests, which holds ''even more Squirtle.''
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