The YouTube star Kyle Myers is most known for the channel “FPSRussia,” in which he portrays the fictitious Russian character Dmitri Potapoff, who always carries a gun. He speaks with a flawless Russian accent while acting out the part in English. Kyle demonstrates the uses, characteristics, and histories behind the creation and advancement of many firearms in his videos, as well as the technical distinctions between them. He shows off live weapons in his videos, including practical 9mm handguns, AK-47 rifles, rocket launchers, and even anti-aircraft cannons. He uses a variety of artificial things to shoot at in order to show the audience how effective the various weapons are. Kyle Myers’ presenting approach became so well-liked that FPSRussia quickly attracted millions of views and subscribers. He also goes by the screen names FPSKyle, FPSMcDuck, The Assassin, and Scrooge McDuck in addition to Dmitri Potapoff. In Lavonia, Georgia, on his father’s farm, he shoots the majority of his videos.
The career of Kyle Myers
Kyle Lamar Myers was born in Georgia to upper-middle-class parents (US). A farmhouse belonged to his father in Lavonia, Georgia. In his late teens, Kyle landed a job as a salesman at a car dealership. At this point, he encountered a Russian coworker who had a strong Russian accent when speaking in English. Because of Kyle’s aptitude for mimicking, the future “Dmitri Potapoff of FPSRussia” began to take shape in his head. He created the klm5986 YouTube channel in 2006 where he produced videos with commentary while engaging in First Person Shooting under the alias “FPSKyle,” mostly as a “Call of Duty” gamer.
Four years later, he launched a new YouTube channel called “FPSRussia” to boost his YouTube career. Under the alias “Dmitri Potapoff” online, Kyle impersonated a professional Russian commando in “FPSRussia” and posted comments there in English with a strong Russian accent. He performed first-person shooting with genuine rifles and military weaponry at mannequins and other unusual targets while playing the role of Dmitri Potapoff.
With the help of his business partner Keith Richard Ratliff, who operated a gun manufacturing and repair factory in Georgia, his channel got off to a roaring start. Keith was a huge assistance to Kyle in obtaining licenses for and obtaining a variety of difficult-to-get firearms because of his ties in the arms industry. What happened next became history! ‘FPSRussia,’ which debuted on April 19, 2010, had one million subscribers by June 2011. It had more than 784 videos, over six million subscribers, and 785 million views as of June 2017. Kyle also has a channel called “MoreFPSRussia,” which has 33 million views and roughly a million subscribers.
Disputes and scandals
The passing of Kyle’s 32-year-old business partner and friend, Keith Ratliff, is the sole controversy that can be linked to his professional life. Ratliff has strong relationships with those in charge of the US Government’s arms licensing divisions. He was in charge of planning and acquiring all different sorts of specialized weapons and firearms used in FPSRussia. He was in possession of an ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Weaponry, and Explosives) arms license that allowed him to import, manufacture, and sell any type of destructive firearms through FPS Industries Global LLC. He served as FPSRussia’s soul.
Ratliff was found shot three times in the back of the head execution-style on January 3, 2013, at his Carnesville, Georgia, office. The arsenal of weapons strewn around him and the bullets fired at him did not correspond. Due to the fact that Ratliff did not attempt to protect himself with any of the firearms he had with him, rumors have claimed that the murderer may have been a close friend of Ratliff. An investigation was carried out by the ATF, FBI, and GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigation). But thus far, no arrests have been made.
Following the slaying, on March 26, 2013, the ATF and GBI conducted a fruitless search on Kyle’s father’s farmhouse and other family properties in Georgia for what they believed to be the unlawful possession of firearms or explosives. FPSRussia was briefly stopped as a result of these events until January 2014. Once more, it started airing normally again with Kyle Myers in charge until April 2016. After that, though, the channel came to a complete halt once more.
Individual Life of Kyle Myers
On May 9, 1986, in Hart County, Georgia, Kyle Myers was born. Cars and computer games with action themes were among his early hobbies. He picked up the art of deer hunting as a young boy with the help of his father. At five or six years old, he fired a 22-caliber pistol for the first time. His father owned a variety of close- and far-range weapons. His father had a farmhouse in the Georgian countryside that he had renovated using a $100,000 bank loan. Later, Kyle used this 60-acre farmhouse as a shooting set and testing ground for videos he was producing for the FPSRussia channel. His love of guns and shooting opened the path for FPSRussia and other channels he started that were similar. He is a well-known YouTuber who also has 1.7 million Facebook fans, 364k Twitter followers, and 78k Instagram followers.
Kyle Myers’s Net Worth
One of the wealthiest and most well-known YouTube stars is Kyle Myers. According to our research, Kyle Myers’ net worth is roughly $1.5 Million, as reported by Forbes, Wikipedia, and Business Insider.