Pantelis Kassotis

Pantelis Nikolaos Kassotis is a Greek/Canadian internet entrepreneur, engineer, video game developer, and animator, best known in the video game world as the host of Amazon Prime Video's Wednesday Addiction (2017) and for his work with the Overwatch League (2017) both as a streamer and producer. Born in Athens, Greece he graduated from St. Stephen High School in northern Athens and then attended the University of the Aegean in Chios, Greece to study business administration. It was during his college years that he started working as a web producer for American websites such as BuzzFeed and Funny Or Die and later joined the eSports world as a streamer. Thanks to his online work he decided to change fields and pursue a formal education in computer science from Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences. Back in his high school years he dreamed of becoming a professional painter and took afternoon classes to prepare for the Athens School of Fine Arts but eventually went to business school to appease his family. As a way to express his frustration he started writing and eventually created his first comic book "Eric & Erica" which he presented at the Comicdom Con Athens of 2014. This comic book helped him pursue a writing career first as a contributor at CollegeHumor and Dorkly back when they accepted submissions from their readers and eventually BuzzFeed and Funny Or Die. At Funny Or Die he challenged himself by switching to a video format and later created the sketch comedy show Just Funny (2017), his first animation project. Although his work is almost entirely behind the scenes and on a technical or entrepreneurial level he still holds publishing deals as an artist with Vevo, Amazon and Apple and uses them to publish work under many nicknames and false appearances. His most prominent alias is that of a fake German DJ named Otto Schweinsteiger that he uses to publish EDM music. His family originates from the Aegean island of Icaria in Greece, he has one older brother named Philip and he's based in Athens, Greece.