What The Final Year Of Corpse Husband's Streaming Career Was Like

Corpse Husband didn't have the longest streaming career in history, but his fans have never forgotten him. As a YouTuber, Corpse Husband gained a dedicated following by reading scary stories from across the internet. Fans came to love Corpse's taste in creepy tales and his unmistakable deep voice, but Corpse's following exploded when he made the leap into streaming.

Corpse Husband's career really took off during the "Among Us" craze, when he would play the game with his other friends in the streaming industry. Some major streamers became friends with Corpse Husband in real life, so his videos quickly started featuring guests like Pokimane, Sykkuno, and Valkyrae. Then, almost as quickly as it all began, Corpse Husband's streaming career came to an abrupt halt. Corpse Husband stopped streaming in 2021, and he disappeared from the spotlight in 2023. Corpse Husband's last year of streaming is the kind of whirlwind story that can only happen on the internet. Here's what it was like.

It's been so long since Corpse Husband read the internet a scary story that you might have forgotten that used to be his primary gig. Take a look back at some of the early content on Corpse Husband's YouTube channel and you'll find a fantastic collection of frightening tales and dramatic readings of the internet's best creepypasta. Corpse Husband used to narrate these stories with his gravelly bass voice, and fans sought out his videos to experience a good scare.

Corpse Husband uploaded his last video of scary stories in September 2020. The world was still reeling from the pandemic, and Corpse Husband helped his fans distract themselves with nearly 20 minutes of horrifying tales from Reddit. Whether it's because we were all cooped up inside when the video dropped, or perhaps because fans keep going back to it for a hit of Corpse Husband nostalgia, that final video has become one of the most-viewed on the channel. At over 3.5 million views, it's pretty far ahead of most of the other scary story videos on Corpse Husband's channel — but far behind the "Among Us" videos that really helped skyrocket him to internet fame.

It's wild to really look at how little of Corpse Husband's content creation career was spent streaming. Corpse Husband built up his audience with those horror story videos, and by the time he became interested in streaming, those fans were willing to follow him anywhere. When he finally held his first live Twitch stream in July 2021, and it was a massive success. Afterward, Corpse Husband posted on his social media feed to celebrate a monumental milestone that many Twitch streamers never get to see: "First Twitch stream and we hit 1M followers on Twitch, thank you so much for everything, that was fun," he wrote.

It's hard to overstate how impressive that number is. There are countless people on Twitch who'd be thrilled to have half that many followers after doing dozens (if not hundreds) of streams. If Corpse Husband had been more interested in creating content for Twitch, there's no doubt he would have been able to make a very successful run of it. Of course, even though his YouTube viewers definitely helped Corpse Husband get to that one million mark, Corpse also had help from his friends in the streaming space.

Streaming requires an interesting mix of social and anti-social skills. You've got to be comfortable enough to sit alone in a room all day, but you also have to be capable of entertaining your unseen audience the entire time. Corpse Husband was perfectly positioned to make it as a streamer because he was inherently a bit introverted — everyone who hides their face is. However, his streaming content was also interactive from the very beginning.

For the most part, you don't read stories out loud to yourself, so even before Corpse Husband was streaming, he was thinking about the audience. Corpse Husband started off telling scary stories to connect to his fans, but eventually found himself streaming as a way of connecting with other online content creators. Corpse was never an IRL streamer; he was pretty much always playing games — usually "Among Us" — and he never played them alone.

Looking back, there were signs that Corpse Husband was really only streaming his games because he felt like he had to. In July of his final year as a streamer, Corpse husband posted that he planned to play a game with Valkyrae, Sykkuno, and Pokimane, and would stream it "if my brain lets me." He added, "[it] could go either way idk so don't count on me streaming 100%, but whether i stream it or not i'll be playing for sure." For Corpse Husband, streaming sessions were more about playing with his friends than performing for his fans.

The more you learn about Corpse Husband, the more you realize that streaming, and content creation as a whole, was really just one of his many interests. Corpse Husband doesn't seem like a person who gets bored easily, because he's always pursuing something new. As Corpse Husband's streaming career reached its end, his music career reached new heights. 

Corpse Husband released a handful of songs in 2020, and near the end of the year he released the single "E-GIRLS ARE RUINING MY LIFE." Corpse Husband's fans came together to support his burgeoning music career, and they turned his 2021 into an absolutely unforgettable year. In March of that year, Corpse's fans bought a billboard in Times Square to advertise "E-GIRLS." Then in June, Corpse Husband announced that the single had hit a whopping 150 million streams on Spotify.

Corpse Husband released three more singles that year, each of which quickly pulled in tens of millions of streams. At the end of the year, Corpse Husband shared his Spotify analytics and fans were blown away to discover that his songs had generated nearly half a billion streams in 2021 alone. Corpse Husband hasn't released a new song since 2023, but his Spotify account still has over 2.5 million monthly listeners.

During his last year of streaming, Corpse Husband continued to spent more time in front of a microphone than in front of a camera. Even at the height of his popularity, Corpse Husband was what you could generously describe as camera shy, and music gave him an option to be creative in a format where no one expected to see his face. Corpse Husband's music helped him find a whole new group of fans, but his songs also connected him to some new creative collaborators.

The song "DAYWALKER!" features Corpse rapping alongside Machine Gun Kelly. Working with MGK might be Corpse Husband's biggest claim to musical fame, but it was far from the end of the road. His very next single featured a guest spot from Night Lovell, and from there his music career actually stretched past his time working as a streamer. In 2022, Corpse worked with artists including OmenXIII, Scarlxrd, and Kordhell. After that, Corpse Husband's output slowed down considerably, and the last major collaboration that fans have gotten to hear was "Code Mistake," a single written and performed with Bring Me The Horizon.

Like many other YouTubers, Corpse Husband has decided not to show his face to fans. There are multiple reasons why certain creators prefer to stay hidden, but Corpse Husband has been frank with his fans about why he stays off-camera. As Corpse said during an Instagram Q&A, "A lot of people think it's like a business thing or a gimmick." However, Corpse explained that he can't stand how his face looks, and that "people's expectations at this point are ridiculous and unachievable." That comment sounds like a pretty definitive "no" to the prospect of a face reveal, which is why some of Corpse Husband's fans were extremely shocked when his face was allegedly posted online.

Rumors started circulating in 2021 after a random account tweeted out an image of a young man with long hair and claimed it was Corpse Husband. For whatever reason, the internet grabbed onto the image, and some people started aggressively teasing the person in the picture. Other fans took the haters to task and reminded people that Corpse Husband had already talked openly about his anxieties surrounding a potential face leak. Over on Reddit, Corpse Husband's fans tried to get to the bottom of the story, and though the YouTuber stayed silent on the supposed leak, the original image was seemingly debunked in time. If Corpse Husband had decided to cap off his last year of streaming by unmasking himself, it would have easily been one of the biggest streamer face reveals of all time.

There are some seriously tragic details about Corpse Husband that often get overlooked when people talk about his phenomenal online career. Though Corpse Husband's online persona may be largely concerned with entertaining fans and hanging with his internet-famous friends, in real life, Corpse Husband deals with some pretty serious chronic health issues.

Hardcore Corpse Husband fans have known about his health conditions for a long time. In 2019, Corpse Husband shared that he'd been diagnosed with a slew of different illnesses including sleep apnea, fibromyalgia, thoracic outlet syndrome, and partial Lyme disease. Those various conditions meant Corpse Husband was living with constant physical pain and daily sleep deprivation, and that's not all he had on his plate. Corpse Husband also told his fans in 2020 that he has GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux disease. The disease causes his esophagus to get easily inflamed and puts some restrictions on the kind of food that Corpse Husband can eat. It can also cause him to lose his voice, which turns into just one more obstacle for him to deal with if he wants to stream. Additionally, Corpse Husband had to wear an eyepatch to combat eye strain from extended computer use. 

Corpse Husband was managing his health all throughout his career, and that makes it even more impressive how much work he got done in his last year, especially as his busy streaming career no doubt exacerbated things.

The last video that Corpse Husband posted (outside of music videos) before unceremoniously ending his streaming career went up on November 22, 2021. "CHOKING MY FRIENDS" is the kind of title that only Corpse Husband could run with, and it clearly worked. The video has well over 5 million views, and people keep coming back to it. Like so many of Corpse Husband's best videos, this one is edited together from clips of gameplay with his friends. This time around, Corpse is playing "Friday the 13th: The Game" with more than half a dozen other streamers, a real who's-who of the 2021 streaming scene. Fuslie, Pokimane, Valkyrae, Sykkuno, Ludwig, Disguised Toast, and TinaKitten all show up in the video and do their best to survive while Corpse Husband ruthlessly hunts them down as Jason Voorhees.

The video really is a perfect summary of Corpse Husband's career as a streamer. It takes a dark and somewhat spooky piece of content and uses that as a catalyst for friends to come together, have a laugh, and keep each other company. Comments from the time show how much fans had come to appreciate Corpse's presence, with one writing, "Corpse's little giggles as he's killing his friends give me life." The later comments, however, show how much Corpse's fans still think about it. Writing in 2024, three years after the video went live, one fans aid, "I think I can speak for us all when I say I miss you Corpse."

Fans had many theories when Corpse Husband retreated from the spotlight: Maybe the pressures of fame finally made him crack. Maybe a ghost from one of his stories came and ate his soul. Or, maybe he just didn't enjoy streaming all that much in the first place.

It's no secret that Corpse Husband deals with some pretty serious anxiety. He's talked about his feelings around the potential of his face leaking online, but his anxiety doesn't just affect the way he streams and makes videos. "I have, like, very bad anxiety," Corpse Husband once told Anthony Padilla. "I never leave my house." He went on to say that the added pressure of keeping his online identity a secret in real life worsened his anxiety about leaving home.

With that in mind, maybe it's not surprising at all the Corpse Husband hasn't streamed since 2021. He has, on some rare occasions, appeared on other people's streams, and once he all but said his anxiety stops him from hosting his own streams. "Every single stream, I would just, like, I would be shaking the whole time ... I'm, like, yeah I don't really think I enjoy doing this," Corpse Husband said. Seemingly to his own surprise, Corpse also said that he does enjoy being on other people's streams, but hosting his own seems out of the question at this point.

Corpse Husband stopped posting on his own YouTube channel in 2021, but he was still around for a bit. For the most part, Corpse Husband would only make a post when he had something new to promote, like a song or a merch drop, but he popped up on friends' channels every now and then. It was always a pleasant surprise for fans. "Corpse and Mouse let's goooooo," wrote one commenter on a stream in which Ironmouse played "Left 4 Dead 2" with Corpse Husband.

Corpse's friends were always happy to have him on their stream, but he started making appearances less and less frequently. In May 2023, Valkyrae's chat brought up Corpse Husband and asked if she still stayed in contact with him. "Yes, of course, I invited him [to play," she said, later adding, "And, he told me, he was like, 'Please don't ever stop inviting me to things.' And I was like, 'I will never stop inviting you, no matter how many times you reject us.'" That same month Sykkuno told his chat that he invited Corpse Husband on for a guest appearance and still stayed in touch with him regularly. It doesn't seem like Corpse Husband is interested in returning to livestreaming anytime soon, but he's still keeping up his friendships.

Corpse Husband used to keep unbelievably busy with content creation. He regularly released videos and streamed with his friends, kept up communication with fans on Instagram, and collaborated with notable musicians to create new songs. Now that he's stepped away from streaming, it's natural to wonder what Corpse Husband does with his time.

According to Corpse's friends, he's still plenty busy. Valkyrae told her fans that Corpse's busy schedule kept him from meeting up with his friends or showing up on streams more often. "He's not just a streamer, you know," she said on stream. "He's not a streamer. He does ... He has a different occupation." Valkyrae seemed to make a point of not directly saying what Corpse Husband's other job is, but the takeaway was that he wouldn't be making a grand return to streaming anytime soon. "I would just get used to the fact that he's busy a lot of the time," she added. 

That cryptic allusion to Corpse Husband's off-camera life is the best that fans are going to get for now. It sounds like things changed quite a bit during Corpse Husband's final year of streaming, but at least fans still have plenty of memories to revisit on his YouTube channel.