Ryan "AestheticGamer" Stanford, a.k.a. DuskGolem, is an American YouTuber who primarily focuses on video game walkthroughs. His AestheticGamer identity comes from his love of finding great artistic styles in the games he plays.

As of January, 2014, AestheticGamer has rebooted his YouTube channel and started from scratch, re-editing all of his old videos and many new ones as well. According to him, this was done in part to respond to YouTube's recent changes, as well a desire to put more effort into his videos, and become overall more accessible.

Ryan is also known for doing various live streams, usually to play through games, watch films, or just socialize. His attitude in streams is usually of that of being pretty open-minded and fun-loving, but he can have flairs of a temper, particularly when the chat is acting up.

His official persona is that either of a strange and creepy doodle of a Face he drew when dead-tired on a stream once, or that of a chibi version of Seto from Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon. That said, his actual look has been shown before. Ryan is 6 foot, has brunette hair, blue eyes, and notable for baby cheeks that make him look a lot younger than he actually is.

He claims that popularity is not his main goal, though it can be nice. He started doing this as a personal hobby, and the moderate success has come as a surprise to him, but he'll continue doing what he's doing as he enjoys doing it. He plays games occasionally with other people, mostly close friends, but other honorable mentions go to Cryaotic and Megaman765.