Rick van Laanen

Zylus
Real Name	Rick van Laanen
Usernames/ Aliases	Zylus, Zyluss, Zylush, Kormit
YouTube Channel	YOGSCAST Zylus
Twitch Channel	Zylush
Gender	Male
Birthday	September 8, 1992
Nationality	Dutch
Network Member?	Yes
Member Since	2013
Working at YogStudios?	No
Occupation	YouTube Content Producer at Yogscast Ltd
Content Partner/s	Nilesy, Panda, Mousie

"Shup guysh, Zylush here."

Rick van Laanen, under the username Zylus, is a Content Producer for the Yogscast. He officially joined the Yogscast in 2013.

Yogscast Website Summary

Zylus is the resident Dutchman in the Yogscast, best known for his iconic "Shup Guysh". After knowing the Yogscast for years he finally ended up creating a channel in late 2013.

Trivia

• Zylus lives in Baarn, in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands, and went to university there
• Zylus has a World of Warcraft DPS world record on Blood Prince Council
• Zylus' favourite video games are Dota 2 and The Elder Scrolls series
• Zylus was offered the chance by Lewis to make a Yogscast YouTube channel before, but turned it down due to his age; he later accepted in July 2013
• Zylus was the guest on episode 174 of The Shaft
• Zylus has got quite a good voice - during the Jingle Jam Karaoke Stream on 18th December 2015, people started calling him "Michael Zuble" in the chat and donations
• Zylus has played in professional Hearthstone tournaments and actually beat Hearthstone pro player Trump before, which he reminds everyone he faces whenever he plays the game (especially Hannah during her Hearthstone Streams where she plays against him)
• He also played TotalBiscuit in the final of the "Lord of the Arena" tournament where he lost to him
• Both of Zylus' parents teach Latin, Greek and ancient mythology
• He appears to have a distinct rivalry against Lewis, which is seen in a lot of Trouble in Terrorist Town videos. This is most likely due to Lewis often picking on Zylus during the game, accusing him of being a traitor or just killing him as RDM
• Zylus has a self-proclaimed "100% win-rate" as the Detective class in Trouble in Terroriest Town and aggressively denies any accusations that these claims are false, going so far as to announce any game where the Traitors win while he is Detective as "non-canon". This also extends to such instances where everyone in the game will deliberately let the Traitors win while he is Detective in order to ruin his win-rate, mostly because of his overly aggressive methods that usually involve killing everyone and forcing them to get down on their knees before him in a submissive, non-sexual manner . . . at least, we hope.
• Zylus has said he would do lingerie modelling. He did also mean this seriously.

Zylush' Notable Quotes

• "Jesus, fuck!"
• "Oh god."
• "Shup guysh, Zylush here!"
• "Z is for Zylus!"
• ''Turps! You mother f*cker!''
• "Don't worry, I'll come back for payback."
• "LEWIS!"
• ”AGGHHHH!!!”
• "BRINDLES!!!"

Links

• YouTube
• Twitter
• Tumblr
• Reddit
• Subreddit
• Twitch
• Google+

Gallery

Zylus' Yogscast avatar.

Zylus' Minecraft skin.

Picture of Zylus from one of Daltos' videos.

Zylus' famous hands.

Zylus on the 2014 Christmas Livestreams.

Zylus on the 2014 JingleJam.

Zylus' "Hype Face."

Zylus on the 2013 Christmas Livestreams.

Zylus on the 2013 Christmas Livestreams.

Zylus on the 2013 Christmas Livestreams.

Zylus on the 2013 Christmas Livestreams.

Zylus on the 2013 Christmas Livestreams.

Zylus on the 2013 Christmas Livestreams.

Rick's former Twitter avatar.

Zylus looking very swanky in his new suit (this is also his Twitter avatar btw).

Zylus as Darth Zylus/Dutch Vader.

Zylus as Jabba the Dutch.

Zylus as Legolas.