A Popularity Explosion!

I created a YouTube channel in 2021. I posted several unlisted videos in the past while I was bored, as it killed time and served as a place for me to rewatch those moments.

4 years later, I began posting public videos just to get my things out there. I started with Sonic Robo Blast 2, a Sonic fangame that I played ever since I was just 6 years old. These videos were about the custom characters I had created in that game with SLADE, an editor to create mods for Doom-based games like SRB2.

Once I posted the first video for a mod called ThokEveryone, which gave every character in the game Sonic’s speed thok ability, loosely based on Sonic’s homing attack from official games, 2 days later it had garnered 200 views. I was honestly surprised that making it public could make such a big impact.

Before I posted the video, I had created the mod and a custom character known as Blue Blur. He was originally named Speedy Sonic, but a modder who created a much more popular custom character with the same name asked me to rename it, and who would I be to disagree. So I renamed him to Blue Blur (unrelated to the BlueBlur modder).

By then, the trailer for that custom character had garnered around 700 views. Now it has 1.2K, but that isn’t the point. By then I had created more custom characters, but I feel my first one was the best.

A month later, I posted a trailer for the custom character pack for those characters, along with another one featured as a separate mod that appeared as a surprise at the end of the video.

Since then, I now have 2K views on my YouTube channel for my most recent videos. But my motive was to get the characters out there, and I did. :)

You can see my mods here.