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• Ali-A (Alastair AIken) is one of the platform’s most popular Fortnite and Call of Duty YouTubers. His main channel has over 18.8 million subscribers.
• Other channels include More Ali-A, Clare & Ali (with his partner), Ali-A Plays.
• He is British, but often uploads during times when his US audience can watch.
• Some of his videos are quite informative, like “The Evolution of Fortnite! (2011-2020).” I was surprised when I came across this video from three years ago, because his voice was calm, and I enjoyed his encyclopedic knowledge of the game.
• Those videos exist, but most of his channels are super hyped, sensationalist, and always sound loud, no matter the subject matter.
• Alken often posts the typical “React” videos, where he will react to YouTube Shorts and TikTok, where he loses many points with me. As with most React videos, the content he reacts to is inappropriate for younger viewers and shows the worst of people.
• He holds five Guinness World Records, including Most Popular Call of Duty Channel by views and by subscribers (2015), The tallest staircase built in one minute in Minecraft, Most blocks of wood collected in three minutes in Minecraft (both in 2015); and Highest score in offline Team Deathmatch using only the knife and combat axe on Call of Duty: Black Ops III (2016).

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• FGTeeV stands for Family Gaming Team Extraordinarily Entertaining Videos, and consists of six members, the two parents and their four children. They have 22,000 million s.ubscribers and over 24 billion views.
• Their main host is the dad, who is incredibly popular, specifically among nostalgic tweens who grew up watching him. I only find him obnoxious, and he gets worse the older his kids get.
• The family all appears to enjoy their hijinx, but the parents’ consistent immaturity makes it hard to remember who are the tweens and who are their parents. Honestly, the older the kids get, it’s much clearer just how immature the parents– at least the Dad– still are.
• Their channels cover all sorts of game playthroughs and comical skits intertwined with family vlogs. They’ve gotten into trouble in the past for not disclosing when a video is a skit and not a vlog, specifically in a solar eclipse video where it was unclear whether a member of their family was actually hurt and many fans were worried for days before FGTeev posted an update.
• Additionally, the Dad (real name Vincent Carver) has a temper and is not a good role model for any age.

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• Kearsten Lance Foltyn launched his current YouTube channel in July of 2021. His subscriber count grew steadily until he jumped from 50,000 to 100,000 subscribers in the month of January 2022.
• Going by Foltyn, his channel can be divided into vlogs and playing Bedwars on Roblox.
• His vlogs are styled after MrBeast (whose aren’t these days?) but could use a better editor and are obviously scripted, at least when there’s conflict.
• His Bedwars videos typically involve pranking someone, specifically his little sister (I found no evidence that she is in on the joke). Watching him pull these pranks made me feel crummy for giving him the views. 

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• Jelly, real name Jelle van Vucht, is a Dutch YouTuber who combines vlogs and gaming videos. He marks his videos and channel very clearly family-friendly, and his gaming videos mostly following through on that statement, but his vlogs aren’t always good for kids.
• Jelly was part of a rotating trio called Robust with varying stories on why his collaborators left. He’s been criticized for playing games that aren’t very popular anymore and his audiences quickly age out of the content, something that Jelly confirms in his reaction to SunnyV2’s “The Brutal 92% Decline of Jelly.”
• His vlogs are not always family-friendly and he often boasts about his luxury lifestyle (which he has since explained were not always truthful).

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• LankyBox ((Justin “Justie” Kroma & James McArthur) are an extremely popular YouTube channel who essentially do very broad sketch comedy with the tone of an annoying kids’ show. They also have an incredible amount of merchandise available, which, much like their videos, are flashy but empty– quite literally, in the case of their mystery box. (Yes, this comes from personal experience.)
• They often make jokes about how much Justin eats, and he calls himself “thicc” often, which is where the fatphobia comes into play.

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• If you like gaming channels, these videos are fun. As with most MrBeast content, the set ups are slick and editing is fast.
• MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) and friends do challenges like Red light, Green Light inside a game and challenge their subscribers to contests like building something in Minecraft. If they vote it the best build in its category, then MrBeast buys the actual item for the fan.
• There’s shit talk and some swearing, “your mom” jokes, etc.
• Read more about MrBeast and his many channels here.

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• It’s hard to review Minibloxia or TapWater separately from Foltyn, because they all create the same kinds of videos. 
• They moved into Foltyn’s house and created a joint channel called TMF_Team in June of 2023 (TMF stands for TapWater, MiniBloxia, and Foltyn, I assume). Here they recycle pranks like ordering everything on a menu in a drive-through, react to other videos, and of course, Roblox. It’s still a pretty new channel but it’s similar to the content on their individual channels. 
• TapWater used to pretend to be other players to test his (now ex) girlfriend in different ways, like pretending to be an inexperienced player. 

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• I cannot mince words here: all the Mongo TV videos are grating. I felt awkward watching them without headphones on, for fear anyone in my household would question my life choices.
• They do storytimes inside of games like Minecraft and Roblox. I did manage to find some educational content about how to build specific blocks inside Minecraft, but it isn’t worth watching the shows for this information.
• Their stories often verge on misogyny, with the main characters playing pranks on (mostly) girls in the pursuit of dating them. The females often turn it around and “win” in the end, but the path to that victory is not worth showing your kids.
• If they were better writers, I think their small amount of good intentions with their stories could prevail. For instance, one story meant to tell the lesson that life isn’t about how much money you have but how well you treat people is distilled by the execution, where both the “poor” and “rich” players are jerks to one another and the girl they’re wooing.
• They are obsessed with money and dating and are worth the “block” or “don’t suggest this channel” feature.

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• Ninja (Richard Tyler Blevins) is primarily a Fortnite player whose popularity rose with the game’s own, now with over 18 million followers on Twitch and nearly 24 million on YouTube. He is also a professional esports player, the first to be on the cover of ESPN The Magazine.
• His content points out flaws in the game, successes, and hidden tricks. Overall his videos are interesting to players without using loud sound effects or hyper fast editing.
• Swearing is bleeped out or replaced with other words (frickin’, etc), close to what you’ll find in the schoolyard. He often calls out racism in his games or channel comments, including white privilege. He created a controversy in 2017, when heused the ‘n-word’ on a live stream. He later apologized and stated it was an accident.
• He often speaks out against trolls and has come under fire for his policy of not playing one-on-one with female gamers out of respect for his wife. He has clarified this policy is to fend off rumors he can’t control, and he has great respect for female gamers.

You want to know who your kid is? Listen to him when he’s playing video games when he thinks you’re not. 

Blevins in a 2021 New York Times article

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• His main channel, which was renamed Shark from his original “09sharkboy,” mostly does show interesting ways to play Minecraft. When he’s by himself, he brings us through pretty entertaining hacks and teaches coding inside the game.
• The problem is that every second or third video is pranking or trolling his friends, so watch those closely or make a playlist they can watch. 
• If I was better at Minecraft, I could see myself learning about the game from him, and I know my kids have picked up their controllers to try things out while watching Shark’s channel. He often gets into how to add coding and where to find codes to enhance your game, which I always appreciate. 
• His screengrabs move very quickly, and that can get annoying, but it matches his style: breakneck nerdery inside of the game.

LifeOfShark 

• Maybe you steer clear of LifeOfShark’s purely dumb clickbait, or allow it once in a while.
• Plus, once Shark’s friends join him, his content becomes a mess. It’s probably a fun way to hang out with your friends in real life, but his friend Kevin doesn’t seem to add much value to the game except for loud exclamations and annoying facial expressions. 
• Take the opportunity to talk through some emotional language and get as specific about how they would label Shark and his friends’ behaviors as you can. 
• They sometimes caption their videos, but words are misspelled more than once in the videos I watched. 

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• His character of StampyCat weaved an incredible world inside of Minecraft, building beautiful structures alongside his fans, who were often featured in his “Love Garden.” 
• He’s a great influence on beginner gamers, teaching them the mechanics and possibilities of the game while always keeping a positive attitude.
• If you start near the beginning of his Minecraft life, it’s fun to follow the long-form story he created inside of “Stampy’s Lovely World.”
• He has published StampyCat novels and has been working on other interests, so he only uploads one video a week now. But you can show these to your kids with no potential side effects except they’ll likely develop a British accent.

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• His gaming is the typical high-energy, fast edit playthrough that is hard to follow.
• Watching his videos together can foster discussion around how editing is a tool to tell stories and how YouTubers often amplify their personality while on air.
• His gaming videos are typically family friendly (with his family making cameos) except that they’re very loud with obnoxious reactions.
• He plays a variety of games, from Fortnite to Lucky Block Challenge, Among Us, and more.

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• SipherPK, real name Ali Hassan, is one of the better Fortnite gamers you can find. His content is overall family friendly and he often mentions his wife Daniela Ali.
• Hassan was streaming on Twitch and YouTube in his parents’ home, building his audiences to over 5million on each platform.
• Most of his content is instructional, and he’s acted as a good role model for new players.
• His videos about Fortnite news, upgrades, and new seasons is all well done, factual, and respectful of other players.
• He and his wife co-own Oni Studios, an Austin community incubator for creators that willa lso host gaming events.

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TapWater

See MiniBloxia or read the entire review here.

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• PWR’s Fortnite Roster includes: Lachlan Power, Kathleen “Loserfruit” Belsten, Vindooly (Victor Ton), Mitchell Power (Chanzes), & Lucas Grzesiak (Overstrand).
• Their playthroughs and challenges are much more relaxed than other popular gamers. PWR retains silly sound effects and other elements of gaming videos, but they rarely overact or overemphasize their personalities. It feels as organic as is possible when you’re streaming for an audience.
• Belsten and others sometimes played with a 9-year-old, who is the friend of a PWR member’s niece. At first it gave me pause, but but looking back at their history, it seems that the minor does have adult supervision and permission. They also treat him very respectfully and act as mentors in the game.
• PWR also does huge-scale hide and seek games that take their time and are really quite fun to watch.

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