Layne Collins

Layne Michael Collins (born August 30, 2003) is an online entertainer who is the founder of the signature YouTube channel known as  ' KrabbyLama ' . His work consists of producing the SML-inspired plush series "YoshiHood" and voicing every single character such as Gangster Yoshi, Back to the Future spoofed mini-film trilogy "Forward to the Past" providing the voices of Marty Mcfly and Doc Brown etc.    

   

      

Personal Life
Collins was born in Pittsburgh and was the third to last child of Jessica McConnell (Collins) and Michael Collins. He was the only male and youngest of his two sisters, Kylee (May 1997) and Stacia (October 2002), being named after Layne Staley (one of his mother's favorite lead rock singers). The two parents were married a year prior on August 16, 2002 which was when they were in the middle of raising Layne's oldest sister Kylee.

As an attempt to prepare Layne for what was yet to come in his youthful stage, he was assigned to receive education earlier than a standard child. Thus, he started preschool at the age of 3 and it was because of his preschool experience that got him to finally speak. According to his mother's resource, Layne's first alleged words were "SpongeBob Sqaurepants" in which were evidently a strange set of vocabulary for an ordinary child. But this proves that Layne's everlasting love for the sponge shined through even as a child.

In 2009, Layne was ready to face his fear of social pressure by graduating from preschool in the Hickory area and moving up to Kindergarten at Burgettstown Elementary.

From that point until fourth grade, Layne had to switch schools and was attending a private school in the Trinity area until around the end of sixth grade, when he moved back to Burgettstown.

Throughout his freshman year, he participated in chorus and joined the school's annual musical production. For Disney's The Little Mermaid, Layne had the opportunity to portray two lead characters, Scuttle and Chef Louis. For his sophomore year, he portrayed Marcellus Washburn in The Music Man and an train-salesman extra and in his junior year, he portrayed the titular role of the Big Bad Wolf in The Big Bad Musical. Layne will be graduating from Burgettstown Area High School this year (2022) and will be involved in production of Aladdin (Jr) serving his final Burgettstown role as the titular character.

Layne and his two parents had recently moved into a new house (December 2021) as explained in a few recent vlogs after 10 and a half years of living in his old house (known as the "studio").

Career
Early Beginnings (before K.L)

Growing up, Layne had been fascinated with the pure nature of voice acting and how these well-acclaimed actors pull off these zany voices to suit the cartoon character. He had watched a ton of cartoons on television, most notably on the popular channels Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. Then his fascination lingered once he discovered the world of online entertainment and YouTube from his sister Kylee around 2007-09.

A particular plush-Youtuber by the name of SuperMarioLogan peeked Layne's interest and at the age of 11, he was influenced to produce private plush videos and did anything he could to make the most fun out of what he was doing. Then near the end of 2016, he started wondering about starting up a YouTube channel. Layne got allegedly cyber-bullied by some user named "Jim Smith" and Jim picked on Layne for having a differing opinion on a progressive rock band named Genesis (one of Layne's all-time favorite bands). This caused Layne to lose a bit of confidence and he immediately deleted his old Youtube channel. The channel was called Collins25.

Later on in May 2017, he remade the channel and it gained 3 subscribers but then took it down due to being sick of dealing with the channel. A handful of Layne's attempts of creating channels were never successful until Christmas Day 2017, he was surprised with a gift that would change just about everything for him. A brand new laptop and Layne fell in love with it the moment he saw it. A sudden idea sprung in his head that of course led to the channel being what we know today as 'KrabbyLama. '

The first half of its iconic name "Krabby" spawn from Layne's longtime fascination with SpongeBob and the second half, "Lama", originates from an old inside joke during Layne's 8th grade. On his school's Halloween dress-up day, Layne went as a hippie-like character with a long and curly beard, resembling Forest Gump. His math teacher at the time jokingly called him a "llama's butt" and his fellow peers stuck with the name "llama" ever since.

Layne personally chose to drop the extra "L" in "llama" as the actual spelling wouldn't look right being set next to "Krabby." Early work

Layne already had a Roblox account prior to KrabbyLama, so he transferred the account onto his new laptop and recorded gameplays on it. The first gameplay involving pizza delivery and that would soon qualify as the first video Layne posted which was a day after Christmas. He was not too sure as to what content he wanted to publish, so he went with whatever floated his boat and so he has an idea of making his own "Goanimate videos" because he remembered watching those type of videos back then. He made a consist amount of Goanimate videos and was primarily known for being the "Goanimate dude" at one point until he eventually lost interest in being involved with the community.

He forced himself to migrate onto alternate content such as Roblox, other forms of gaming, Goanimate rants (which tackled onto low-quality users and was the closest thing to Goanimate left on the channel), school vlogs with his buddies which eventually lead to his own vlogging series titled KrabbyVlogs. On September 3, 2018, his renowned plush series known as YoshiHood premiered and rose Layne a bit further into fame'. 'The show unfortunately ended with its sixth season on December 20, 2019.

In August 2018, he wrote a complete online novel titled Illegal Alien from the U.K. 

His Wattpad account (est. February 2019) showcases a few of his other short stories.

Later Work

He has went on to produce several music videos/singles that have reached moderate success such as diss track "#FREEKRABBY" (now deleated off Youtube) and love ballad "Before All Hope Departs", animated Weird Al music videos of classic hits including "Another One Rides The Bus" and "Jurassic Park", etc. SoundCloud has become a more recent outlet for Layne's music as he aspires to continue pursuing content on the platform more frequently.

Not only has Layne been involved working around music, but the art of comedy has been a huge passion in which he's kept pursuing since he was 11. His comedic wit and charm has been overtly developed over the course of KrabbyLama and it's rise into public domain. Comedy skits grew more common on KrabbyLama and gave him an even bigger opportunity to collaborate with other Youtubers including his Egotistical Bathroom co-star Tanner Link and former Twitch Streamer/content creator Piggidy Poppin.'