About

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Work Links (covering WordPress for Torque)

• Torque Mag
• Torque's YouTube
• WordPress
• @TheTorqueMag

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Bio

Hi, I’m Doctor Popular! I’m a yo-yoer, artist, game designer, musician, and WordPresser. I live in San Francisco’s Mission District.

I got the 🪀 yo-yo emoji added to unicode. I’ve produced beats for MC Frontalot, MC Lars, and YT Cracker, and I have toured as a nerdcore rapper. In San Francisco, I’ve organized meetups such as the SF Cartoonist Conspiracy and the SF Yo-Yo Meetup. I’ve been an active crytpo-skeptic and ran NFT Theft, a twitter account that documented the harm that NFTs and “web3” were causing artists and fans.

Here are a few of my favorite things:

yo-yoing

• I got the yo-yo emoji added to unicode
• Recipient of the Trick Innovator of the Year (2001)
• Member of the Yo-Yo Hall of Fame
• 3rd Place World Yo-Yo Champion (in the X-Division of 2000)
• Created Skin The Gerbil
• Created the Gyroscopic Flop
• Created Branding
• Created Möbius, a style of yo-yo play that takes place inside of the finger loop (example video)
• Created Astro style, a variation of Freehand/5A that uses two counterweights instead of one
• Created Washing Machine Style (removing the yo-yo from the string while it’s still spinning)
• Created the Schmoove Groove, a method of reducing friction on the inside walls of a yo-yo
• Created the Beefcake mod, a method of stacking ball bearings to make a wider gap inside the yo-yo
• I do a monthly youtube vlog called PopCast.

games

• Doc Pop’s One-Dimensional Chess (Creator/Game Designer)
• KnifeTank: The Shüffling (Creator/Game Designer)
• SquirrelWarz iOS game (Game Designer/Sound/Music)
• The Mighty Boosh’s Mighty Decider iOS game (Game Designer/some art)
• KnifeTank: The Hauntening (Game Designer/Writer/Creator)
• The Lonely Duneon (Creator/Game Designer)

Illustration

• Read my mini comic, “How To Make A Mini-Comic”
• Check out my ASCII art
• Check out my Trixel art
• Check out my GIFs on Giphy
• Check out God Hates Dinosaurs

Music

• My favorite release is “Quarantined Beats and Inside Voices“, an album I made entirely in May of 2020 (there’s an instrumental version too)
• Here’s my Nerdcore rap album
• I made this chiptune album with Nanoloop for Gameboy (instrumentals here)
• I made this album with Nanoloop for Gameboy Advance
• I made this album with Nanoloop for iOS
• Here’s my tutorial for making music with Nanoloop