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1991 - present
Built elsewhere, landed here: Casey Aaron Cooper was born on 27 September 1991 in Arlington, Texas, opened his channel on 20 November 2007, and began posting in earnest in 2011, in his college days at Georgia State. The channel, COOP3RDRUMM3R, made him, on the biography record's plain statement, the most subscribed and most viewed drummer on YouTube. Pearl Drums, which sells his signature Igniter snare, puts the figure at over 2.71 million subscribers. His Fort Wayne chapter is the reverse of Andrea Russett's: the audience came first, and the city is where it landed.
The Make-A-Wish afternoon: The Journal Gazette fixed his arrival in the record on 24 August 2024. A Canadian teenager, Caleb Walsh, 16, of suburban Vancouver, had come to Fort Wayne on a Make-A-Wish visit, and within his first hour at the Fort Wayne music company he had accomplished one of his goals: playing drums with Casey Cooper, described by the Gazette as a Sweetwater employee and a YouTuber with more than 2.7 million subscribers. It is the leg's cleanest single document: local news, a dated audience figure, and the fact that a fan's wish, granted in Fort Wayne, was to meet a YouTuber.
The content team: Cooper moved to Fort Wayne in 2024 to work with Sweetwater Sound, and Sweetwater's own product copy records him joining its content team that year, after amassing 2.7 million and more subscribers since his channel's takeoff in the early 2010s. The independent creator and the company channel now share a campus, and his signature snare is sold by the store that employs him: the creator economy and the music trade, in Fort Wayne, occupying the same building. His channel describes him as based out of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and that is how this record prints him: based here, from 2024.
Sources:
- Journal Gazette, 24 Aug 2024 (NewsBank archive): the Make-A-Wish visit at Sweetwater; "Casey Cooper, a Sweetwater employee and YouTuber with more than 2.7 million subscribers".
- Pearl Drums, Igniter signature snare page: over 2.71 million subscribers. Sweetwater, Igniter product copy: 2.7 million+ subscribers; joined Sweetwater's content team in 2024.
- Socialcounts channel analytics: channel joined 20 Nov 2007; Fort Wayne base as the channel describes it. FamousNamesPedia, "Casey Cooper": born Arlington, Texas, 27 Sept 1991; moved to Fort Wayne in 2024 to work with Sweetwater Sound.