Zalzar

Christoffer "Zalzar" Lorell (born December 1, 1989), is a YouTube Let's player, Reactor and national icon. Lorell became known world wide for his hilarious let's plays, and soon due to his great popularity he started to explore the art form of reacting. Lorell has amassed over 100,000 subscribers on his Youtube channel "OfficialZalzar" ,over 800 likes on Facebook, and over 1000 followers on Twitter

His fans, known as "companions" are highly loyal and many of them are close friends with Zalzar, including Wes, PewThePieXX and Jerejoe. Zalzar has a brother, Sebastian and a loving dog, Sigge.

Early life and Education
Christoffer Lorell was born December 1, 1989 in Vimmerby, Sweden, exactly two years before his younger brother Sebastian Lorell. He graduated from Vimmerby Gymnasium high school in 2008 and started working in Linköping two years later. In 2011, he started studying at Linköpings Universitet and graduated the same year. Currently, Lorell is studying at Umeå Universitet in Umeå, Sweden where he also lives.

YouTube Career
Lorell started his YouTube channel in August 12, 2013. He began his channel as a Let's Play channel and he quickly gained popularity thanks to Facebook ads promoting his youtube channel. Ever since it has been growing with an exponential growth. He soon also started creating reaction videos to popular clips on youtube. As of October 2015 he had 100 000 subscribers.

Zalzar's fanbase is known as "Companions". Why that is is still uncertain. Many companions theorize it is inspired by Marc Cohn's 1991 song "True Companion". Lorell begins his videos by saying "Why hello there my dear companions..." while doing a salute to the camera, and ends them with a "Toodeloo!"

Pesonal life
Lorell has a Welsh Terrier named Sigge, who bears a striking recembelance to Milou from Tintin. It is unknown if Lorell has a girlfriend or any other type of partner.

Incidents
Because of Zalzar's world wide popularity, he has sadly been the victim of several incidents committed by anti-companions.

FroxieGames incident
Main article: The FroxieGames Incident (2014)

Later in 2014, on Facebook, an up-and-coming let's player called FroxieGames stole Zalzar's banner picture and wrote his name over it. Zalzar was not pleased and warned Froxie that he could have his image taken down due to copyright infringement. Froxie soon disappeared from Facebook and was never seen again.

Edowado incident
Main article: Edowado



In 2015, Lorell recived a fanart on his facebook page of great quality, drawn by facebook artist Edowado. Zalzar was so proud that he used the artwork for his facebook banner. A few months later it was discovered that the fanart was stolen, and Lorell fell into deep depression. Edowado dissapeared and was never caught for his crime. Zalzar later changed his banner.