Ethan, also known as Old45, was a buddy-troll that infiltrated Cyraxx's circle starting in September 2024. Much like CIA-Hole, he was instrumental in manipulating Cyraxx behind the scenes to either ward off weens or grifters, as well as setting him up for arranged trolling schemes by MusicBizMarty and William Gloryhole.

Despite the ridiculously small size of the barrel, Cyraxx still believes it is a real firearm.

History

Ethan entered contact with Cyraxx somewhere in mid-September 2024. At the time, Cyraxx was in a blood feud with Marty over an imaginary stolen racing rig which he was supposed to recieve for his birthday, and was desperate for any sort of leverage to release his precious toy from Marty's hold. Ethan claimed that he possessed a "Hi Point 9 millimeter" pistol, something which Cyraxx figured could be useful if he wanted to threaten Marty with a bit more teeth. As such, he quickly befriended him just in time for his birthday on September 20th, where he had Ethan threatening Marty on panel by waving his pistol at the camera[1].

Viewers immediately noticed that Ethan's supposed "Hi Point 9 millimeter" pistol was nothing more than an pellet gun, further ridiculing Cyraxx and cementing his role as a buddy-troll. Additionally, Cyraxx believed that Ethan would be able to show up to his house in a moment's notice to protect him, or that he would be willing to drive to Marty's place to put a bullet in his skull, in spite of the fact that Ethan lives nowhere near either Cyraxx or Marty.

Hot tub

On October 10th 2024, Ethan told Cyraxx that a $500 inflatable hot tub he had given his wife for their wedding anniversary was stolen from their backyard. Great detective Cyraxx immediately went to work on the case, and of course found out that all trails led to the cunning MusicBizMarty. Cyraxx went on panel to accuse Marty of stealing his best buddy's tub to get to him. Beyond the obvious logistics issues with stealing an inflated, filled up hot tub using a sedan, Cyraxx contradicts himself describing Marty's vehicle, going from a Nissan Sentra to a Honda Accord in the span of a few minutes.[2]

Betrayal

On November 18th 2024, screenshots leaked of flirtarious and sexually charged text messages from Cyraxx directed at Ethan's wife. Marty exposed this blatant act of cheating and betrayal to Ethan and his whole audience on panel[3]. This prompted Cyraxx to emerge from a 3-week hiatus and barge onto Marty's panel with an explosive fit of rage, threatening Marty and his loved ones while attempting to gaslight Ethan into thinking that all evidence shown is fake and that Marty is trying to drive a wedge between the two. The next day, Cyraxx pursued his angry tirade, this time miserably failing at producing counter-evidence and desperately trying to convince Ethan that Marty is the one gaslighting him, before eventually showing his true colors by threatening Ethan with physical violence if he does not get off Marty's panel.[4]

Death

On November 12th 2025, William Gloryhole announced through a community post that Ethan had passed away.[5] Despite now openly revealing that he was a buddy-troll this whole time, and even showing several behind-the-scenes conversations about trolling, Cyraxx still made one of his infamous "grief-grift" livestreams where he acted as if he was utterly devastated by the passing of his "dear friend".[6]

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