"i yabaaa dabaaa dee" ― Mrflimflam
Albert Spencer Aretz (also known as mrflimflam, Flamingo, AlbertsStuff or Cleetus) is an American YouTuber and a myth hunter that gained fame from creating Roblox content on YouTube. His primary YouTube channel, Flamingo, has over 12 million subscribers, and is the most popular Roblox channel on Youtube.
As well as various other content, Albert is well known for his video series in which he investigates the myth hunting genre on Roblox. His videos on the myth community is one of the main reasons to this day the myth community has gained as much recognition on Roblox as it does. While Flamingo at the moment no longer makes any myth content, Albert has played a key role in the history of the myth community and his impact on the community has had a lasting effect to this day.
History[]
Mrflimflam occasionally makes videos where he investigates myths. He also makes scam game videos, admin troll videos, game raid videos, making Roblox account videos and plain exploring a game video. In 2017 and 2018, he usually would myth hunt with Speedy2662, hunt with Jokerkid5898 in 2019, and Temprist in 2020. He stopped hunting Myth Games in Mid 2020 after a few complained about him "Ruining" the Myth Community. However, on February 11th, 2021, he made a video on a surreal myth called DOLLOR TREE. Four days after, he uploaded another myth-related video, this being his final video on The Smiles Family.
Later in the year on November 1st, he somewhat unexpectedly made another video containing more myth community content.
Controversy/Drama[]
Albert has also been criticized for ignoring the victims of Kazdam requesting to take down his videos on now controversial myths such as Chuck_Lloyd and AloneTraveler, who are known throughout the community to be owned by pedophiles. He has also been criticized for presenting misleading information regarding the Kazdam drama in a video, and still being friended to Chuck_Lloyd even after Kazdam was exposed. It has been alleged by baddieblood and Taphies in a twitter post that he still has contact to Universities. They claimed along with a long list of other things that they confronted Albert and even after the confrontation he still hasn't taken down any videos regarding the now controversial myths, even after reading threads with Temprist, as the videos continue to platform them.
He has also been criticized for being used by particularly larger myth group owners to promote their myths such as G0Z and the Shadelight myths, among others. A previous helper to Albert, and now a known predator Universities, admitted to sending him myths for him to use in his videos. He is also criticized by some (primarily older members of the community) for causing the influx of younger players to join the community during 2018, in turn causing myths and myth-related places to be raided by his fans. Albert is often criticized for his immature behaviour in serious situations.
Appearance[]
Mrflimflam occasionally changes his avatar, however what is considered to be his main avatar which he has stuck to for over two years, is a character named 'Cleetus'. Cleetus consists of peach-toned skin, the 'Penguin Torso', the 'Cleetus Overalls' suit, the funny 'Goofball' eyes, and the 'Laid-Back Cowboy' hat. The outfit is well-known by almost everybody in the ROBLOX community and a notable amount of people copy it. It is also the avatar he primarily uses when myth hunting.
Personality and Traits[]
Albert is well known for having troll-like behaviour or acting childish and rarely ever acts mature in myth situations, often doing goofy voices. He also often makes alternate accounts so he is not stalked or harassed in-game, but usually has to keep making alternate accounts due to Albert exposing his own account by using them in his videos, such as ihatemyson which he used to investigate RUST_010 before switching to his main, Mrflimflam. Albert will usually get scared and scream a lot when someone or something appeared in front of him in most of his videos, including myths and troll videos.
While recording meetings with myths on camera, Albert investigates myths with somewhat respect. Because of his large following and his status as a popular YouTuber, he tries to avoid crowds and annoyances. Due to this, he usually goes into private servers or meets up with the myths he interacts with with the server locked.
Albert has opened up to his fans on twitter that he had depression before.
Trivia[]
- While there is no real title for his myth hunting video series, he frequently uses the term "Dark Side of Roblox" in reference to his myth hunting.
- The thumbnails for Albert's oldest myth videos are based of the thumbnails for the popular show Buzzfeed Unsolved.
- Albert was uninvited with Speedy from Masqueraze's Masquerade and were replaced with G0Z and MartinCult, due to being disruptive.
- Albert himself is not a myth, but has solid ties and relations with multiple myths including Chuck_Lloyd, G0Z and his assistants, Goldity, RUST_010, etc.
- Albert is the first person to meet Goldity in game.
- Albert has played a key role in a number of popular myths, typically playing the role of what some may consider to be The Protagonist.
- The reason for this being Albert's role as a popular Youtuber, being a means for myths to convey their story from the viewpoint of a main character to a larger audience, as if their myth were a film.
- Myths that Albert has played a key role in include The Smiles Family and The Shadelight Investigation.
- He made two joke myths called "Demonboy8929381" and "G0RNX".
- G0RNX is a parody on G0Z.
- He did not create G0RNX, he confirmed that a Friend gave him the account.
- As of 8/16/2020, Albert has cut ties with RM due to Kazdam being exposed for pedophilia and abuse.
- Albert used to swear in his videos in "AlbertStuff", but as of now, he doesn't and deleted most of his videos in AlbertStuff.
- Flamingo had another account for myth hunting at one point named, "Ihatemyson".
- Flamingo gets called “fat” by almost every myth.