Martincitopants

Martin,"https://youtu.be/rSu0poSCDpo?t=88" YouTube. Retrieved 8 July 2024. better known online as martincitopants or simply mart,"https://x.com/martincitopants" Twitter, X. Retrieved 8 July 2024. is an Australian"https://www.favikon.com/blog/top-australian-youtubers-2023" Favikon. Retrieved 7 April 2024. Source 1 also proves this. gaming YouTuber, residing in Sydney,"https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx79Yv1BFdXnJdJO6UT6aYQbz4LdaEHbtm" YouTube. Retrieved 7 April 2024. who is known for his energetic, over-the-top comedic editing. As stated in his QnA video, his editing style is inspired by that of Internet Historian, SsethTzeentach, LazyPurple and others.
He primarily makes videos across a wide range of games, some of which are , , Factorio, , , , and . His vlogs to America might signal a change to a more experimental style of content."https://www.youtube.com/@martincitopants/videos" YouTube. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
==History==
===Early Attempts at Fame - Pre-2013===
Martin created his channel on 25 April 2011, at age 10, uploading Minecraft videos after being inspired by Minecraft YouTubers YOGSCAST Lewis & Simon and OfficialNerdCubed. Because of this, he decided to make Minecraft videos on his 2011 MacBook Pro and used ScreenFlow to record videos with his brother. His first venture into YouTube was a relatively active one, uploading up to 6 times in one day. These early videos have since been deleted. He continued to upload inconsistently, getting sparse viewership. The most popular of his early Minecraft videos received about 350 views."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIWo24zg7N8" YouTube. Retrieved 7 April 2024. The amount of videos fizzled out until he completely lost motivation."https://www.reddit.com/r/NewTubers/comments/13g1ajc/hey_everyone_im_martincitopants_gaming_youtuber/" Reddit. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
===Sparks of Success - 2013-2018===
On 23 August 2013, he made a video about the game on his current channel, which is now privated. He went radio silent until 22 April 2014, when he uploaded the first of his old videos still available on his channel."Minecraft shortything", uploaded on 22 April, 2014. Currently unlisted. Retrieved 1 May 2024. He continued uploading about a dozen videos between April and May of that year, with some of them being vlogs showing his face. Most of these videos have also since been privated, or deleted. He went on to stop uploading entirely after his attempts at fame failed once again. On 3 August 2015, he uploaded a video about the game , which is the first of the many unlisted videos uploaded during this period. After this, he continued uploading videos about a variety of topics, notably , the most successful of which received about 470 views at the time."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRChhg_dpJ0&list=PLvmRPhO1-HJqMYaZyAbRt3-4b-TJFFuPR" YouTube. Retrieved 7 April 2024. This, was mainly because he shared almost all of these videos on Reddit and Steam to promote them. This was decently successful, netting him about 2,000 views overall. On 3 February 2017, he uploaded his first video. After that, he once again stopped uploading from April 28 2018 until 16 January 2020. At this point, he had 37 subscribers.
===The Take-off to Stardom - 2020-2021===
Around this time he switched up his strategy, he focused on making quality, well edited videos with storytelling, leaving as much time for himself as he needed. His philosophy shifted to the belief that creating 1 high-performing video with over 1 million views would be better for his channel's brand - and more memorable - than producing 10 videos with 150,000 views. During this time, he was enrolled in a university, studying physics. He eventually changed his choice of study to aeronautical engineering, which he would go on to quit about 7 months later to peruse YouTube full time. The first video on his channel that is still publicly available, is a review about . Using the same strategy of promoting the video on other platforms, combined with his new slower, higher quality approach his steadily grew to about 150 subscribers by June of 2020. On 2 June 2020 he would release by far his most popular video to date, about From the Depths, called From the Depths - Somali Pirate Simulator. In a month, this video would bolster his subscriber count over 166x from 150, to 25,000 in just a month. The Covid-19 pandemic certainly helped in this sudden exponential growth, as the traffic of platforms like YouTube greatly increased."https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/07/youtube-is-social-medias-big-winner-during-the-pandemic.html" CNBC News. Retrieved 9 April 2024. After this point, the boost from posting videos to other platform became too insignificant so he stopped.
==The Finland Saga==
On 29 July 2023, Martin uploaded a YouTube Short to his main channel, in which, he promised that every like the short got, he would drive 1 meter and every subscription the short received, he would drive 20 meters in My Summer Car."https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KSodWmfRDyw" YouTube Shorts. Retrieved 8 April 2024. He set out to drive in an incredibly unreliable Satsuma. When the vehicle broke, he had to fix it on the fly with normal game parameters, with the exception of an infinite money cheat. This means that the shops in-game would have normal closing and opening times. The short went on to become Martin's most successful short ever. At the beginning of the of the first livestream, the total number of kilometers he had to drive, purely from the short, was 1,507.6 kilometers."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da4LpPSKD7g" YouTube. Retrieved 8 April 2024. People could interact with the stream in a variety of ways to increase the distance he had to drive: 
*Chat message (Channel member): 50 centimeters
*Liking the stream: 5 meters
*Subscribing: 20 meters
*Sending a Superchat: 10 meters/USD
*Buying the Frog Plush: 600 meters
* Becoming a member: 50 meters
*Becoming an idiot member ($500 USD): 20 kilometers
These totals, with the exception of the idiot tier, were multiplied based upon how many viewers were watching the stream at the time. For every 1,000 viewers the multiplier went up by 0.1x. This meant that if the stream had 10,000 viewers, the multiplier became 2x, so a subscription would have meant 40 meters instead of 20."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcSz1OEFiRY" YouTube. Retrieved 9 April 2024."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4YgV7hjoc" YouTube. Retrieved 8 April 2024. Look at the description.
===The Aftermath===
The first livestream lasted about 20 hours and 38 minutes. The multiplier stayed at a stable 2x the whole stream, a lot of the time staying at 2.5x, and reaching as high as 3x at some points. It finished with a total of 22,698 subscribers gained, 322 members added, 140,072 likes, 587 plush sales and 14 "idiots" - idiot tiers. This added up to 6,449.6 kilometers that he had to drive in total, roughly 4.3x the amount from the short. He'd already completed 584.1 kilometers of that from the 20 hour livestream."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHZ6OamXvrY" YouTube. Retrieved 9 April 2024."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O46DSa8fT4" YouTube. Retrieved 9 April 2024. His audience was so determined to make him drive for longer, that even when he tried to 'cheat' by parking the car onto a dynamometer, putting it into the highest gear and spinning the wheels at 226kph, the highest speed possible for the Satsuma, the distance still went up. The money earned during the first and second streams were donated to .
For the first few days after this livestream, he fell into complete inactivity. Many people expected him to keep driving and chipping away at this seemingly ever-increasing task, so some were accusing he took the money and ran."https://www.reddit.com/r/MySummerCar/comments/15otge9/martincitopants_ran_off_with_100000_and_never/" Reddit Retrieved 9 April 2024. Eventually, he made a community post reassuring his audience that he isn't giving up on My Summer Car, but he is busy for the next 3 months."https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx8pxeyVnv5ODXLFw0ZZeEt69RBG05Wixs" YouTube. Retrieved 9 April 2024. This turned out to be true as about 3 months later he would indeed return, with a short test stream."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_K1_bLwvos" YouTube. Retrieved 9 April 2024. Although, his audience did not overlook this period of quiet, they proceeded to message Martin on every available platform, even ones he never publicly announced, saying some variation of "Finland never forgets" or "Finland is coming, there is no escape", even in the comment section of this article."https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcnci5vbpLJ-rh_V9yXwawg/community?lb=UgkxsmFXRWQ0usqiPcQlEpdPIAhNXf9uZPML" YouTube. Retrieved 9 April 2024. Look at the comments, the majority are about Finland.
===New Rules===
Martin thought the ability of viewers to increase distance that he had to drive was unsustainable, so he made up a set of new rewards for donating to his stream. Although, there was a period of time when subscribing to his channel would have increased the counter by 1 meter. Instead of the donations adding distance, they would make the game much harder to play. Viewers can interact with the stream by typing certain keywords in their donations: 
*Accel: Accelerate 1%/1 USD
*Brake: Brake 1%/1 USD
*Left: Turn left 1°/1 USD
*Right: Turn right 1°/1 USD
*Drunk: 0.01 blood alcohol/1 USD
* Becoming a member: Random effect
The multiplier still applied to all of these effects at the same rate, 0.1x per 1,000 viewers. Donations over $180 USD steered for longer and donations over $100 USD braked or accelerated for longer. The drunk effect only lasted for two seconds."https://puu.sh/JVG4z/80759b2af6.jpg" Retrieved 10 April 2024.
===His Progress===
Below is a timeline of his progression throughout this challenge:
Stream Number	Duaration 	Charity	Distance left difference (km)
Stream 1 (VOD 1, 
VOD 2)	20 hours, 38 minutes	Unknown	+289.1% (1,507.6 to 5,865.5)
Stream 2 	1 hour, 54 minutes 	$844 	±0% (didn't count)
Stream 3 (VOD 1,
VOD 2)	22 hours, 40 minutes	$26,135	-7.1% (5,894.9 to 5,477.6)
Stream 4 	5 hours, 38 minutes 	Unknown	-1.4% (5,351.6 to 5,279.1)
Stream 5 	5 hours, 25 minutes 	None 	-3.1% (5,279.1 to 5,078.1)
Stream 6 	4 hours, 51 minutes 	None 	-4.7% (5,078.1 to 4,841.1)
Stream 7 	5 hours 27 minutes 	None 	-4.3% (4,829 to 4,620.8)
Stream 8 	3 hours, 18 minutes 	None 	-4% (4,594.8 to 4,411.3)
Stream 9 	4 hours, 56 minutes 	None 	-6.1% (4,413 to 4,143.8)
Stream 10 	3 hours, 33 minutes 	None 	-4.1% (4,139.8 to 3,970.6)
Stream 11 	5 hours, 13 minutes 	None 	-5.7% (3,965.9 to 3,738.2)
Stream 12 	5 hours, 21 minutes 	None 	-7% (3,724.4 to 3,463.3)
Stream 13 	4 hours 37 minutes 	None 	-6.7% (3,463.3 to 3,230.1)
Stream 14 	3 hours, 35 minutes 	None 	-7.6% (3,230.1 to 2,985.8)
Stream 15 	3 hours, 17 minutes 	None 	-4.9% (2,985.8 to 2,840.3)
Stream 16 	3 hours, 33 minutes 	None 	-6% (2,870.3 to 2,698.3)
Stream 17 	3 hours, 26 minutes 	None 	-8.3% (2,698.3 to 2,473.6)
Stream 18 	5 hours, 12 minutes 	None 	-21.2% (2,473.6 to 1,948)
Stream 19 	3 hours, 6 minutes 	None 	-9.1% (1,948 to 1,771.3)
Stream 20 	3 hours, 13 minutes 	None 	-17.2% (1,771.3 to 1,466.3)
Stream 21 	2 hours, 57 minutes 	None 	-20.7% (1466.3 to 1163.1)
Stream 22 	4 hours, 50 minutes 	None 	-9.1% (1029.5 to 935.4)
Stream 23 	4 hours, 36 minutes 	None 	-10.9% (935.4 to 833.9)
Stream 24 	3 hours, 1 minute 	None 	-15.9% (833.9 to 708.1)
Stream 25 	3 hours, 10 minutes 	None 	-17.6% (708.1 to 583.3)
Stream 26 	2 hours, 55 minutes 	None 	-14.4% (583.3 to 499.2)
Stream 27 (VOD 1,
VOD 2)	12 hours, 47 minutes	$30,926	-100% (418.3 to 0)
The number of kilometers between streams varies. This is because in most cases, the code Martin used, checked the speed of the car every second and used a rolling average to determine how far Satsuma traveled. In the cases which the distance left decreased between streams, he manually checked the odometer of the Satsuma and overwrote the counter, which is likely more accurate.
Ultimately, Mart finished the challenge from start to finish in 292 days, or 9 months and 22 days. He totaled - including the test stream - 6191.7 kilometers driven, 153 hours and 19 minutes streamed, and at least $57,905 collected for charity. This meant that he, on average, drove a kilometer approximately every 89 seconds at a pace of 229.32 kilometers every stream."https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12iZZeiBN_LzOY8p-2PQg-FPPvAfJMeNh?usp=drive_link" Google Drive. Created 8 September 2024. These values were collected by checking the beginning and end of each stream. Additionally, all dollar values are in United States dollars. For instances where the amount collected was unknown, $0 was assumed, however in his announcement video for the final stream, he stated that, "Last time we raised over $35,000..." which would mean more than $65,926 was raised in total."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEL5MgO0Eek" YouTube. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
Foreshadowed by a tweet, The Finland Saga concluded with a real-life segment, in which Martin finished off the last couple of kilometers in Finland, near Karhia."https://x.com/martincitopants/status/1785481422444400948" Twitter, X. Retrieved 8 September 2024."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpa2Fv9zEcg" YouTube. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
==Channel Milestones==
He received his golden play button on 21 February 2022."https://twitter.com/martincitopants/status/1495605524213243907" Twitter, X. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
*100 subscribers: April 6, 2020
*10,000 subscribers: June 14, 2020
*100,000 subscribers: November 9, 2020
*200,000 subscribers: February 5, 2021
*300,000 subscribers: April 18, 2021"https://twitter.com/martincitopants/status/1383420619895672834" Twitter, X. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
*400,000 subscribers: June 11, 2021
*500,000 subscribers: June 24, 2021"https://twitter.com/martincitopants/status/1407845048876638213" Twitter, X. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
*600,000 subscribers: July 26, 2021"https://twitter.com/martincitopants/status/1419301488967393280" Twitter, X. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
*700,000 subscribers: September 20, 2021"https://twitter.com/martincitopants/status/1439728906139885569" Twitter, X. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
*800,000 subscribers: October 19, 2021"https://twitter.com/martincitopants/status/1450208711239110656" Twitter, X. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
*900,000 subscribers: November 22, 2021"https://twitter.com/martincitopants/status/1462629165375492098" Twitter, X. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
*1 million subscribers: January 30, 2022"https://twitter.com/martincitopants/status/1487426428400730115" Twitter, X. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
*2 million subscribers: December 9, 2023"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcnci5vbpLJ-rh_V9yXwawg/community?lb=Ugkx9vCVzZmdxqdXNJJqJ8bUqzcHpQEp0Hcz" YouTube. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
==Channels==
# His main channel, "martincitopants" was created on 25 April 2011.
# His secondary channel, "martincitopantsLIVE" was created on 3 March 2019. Despite it's name, he mostly posts edited videos on this channel which aren't significant enough to be uploaded on his main channel.
# His VODs channel, "martincitopantsVODs" was created on 1 January 2021. He posts some of his livestreams from Twitch on this channel. Other than the first stream, none of the later My Summer Car livestreams have been uploaded.
# His clips channel, "martincitopants Clips" was created on 12 September 2021. This is possibly a fan channel, because as of 8 September 2024, the handle has not been changed and there is a space between the two words in the channel's name.
# His secret channel, "randomcitopants" was created on 8 August 2023. He uploads unlisted videos or fun ideas that he can make in a short period of time here.
==Quotes==
*"Gentlemen." - What he calls his audience.
*"Lettuce begin." - What he says in his intro instead of let us."https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcnci5vbpLJ-rh_V9yXwawg/community?lb=UgkxaPm8p_xOu3GJgr1uhsaWgFdxlA54jwSW" YouTube. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
*"B O A T" - This became a meme in his first Just Cause 3 video. In later streams, his chat relentlessly spammed this phrase until he banned the word."https://youtu.be/buwY4HhPw-c?t=297" YouTube. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
*"Greer." - How he described a green object once, causing his chat to repeat the word immediately in one of his Just Cause 3 speedrun videos."https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcnci5vbpLJ-rh_V9yXwawg/community?lb=Ugkx7kH1-bFxsVsiCMauOV9KRYYjJjsbVK5Y" YouTube. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
*"Time for bed." - In a low, monotone voice, commonly said during his first vlog to America."https://youtu.be/B9s9rEi0BGE?t=1057" YouTube. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
*"Wart Hunter" - Whenever he mentions War Thunder."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSxuHYjZ4Og" YouTube. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
*"aaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-Hello again, welcome back." - An older intro."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4l06EMUi-A" YouTube. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
*"[Character] is in your walls." - In a low, unhinged voice. The character could be himself as well."https://youtu.be/uIWo24zg7N8?t=144" YouTube. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
*"Yej." - Sometimes uses it instead of yes."https://x.com/martincitopants/status/1383958275855556613" Twitter, X. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
*"Deep vein thrombosis" - An old meme on his channel. He no longer commonly says this."https://youtu.be/buwY4HhPw-c?t=998" YouTube. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
==Trivia== 
*He has a brother.
*He started playing Kerbal Space Program at 12-years-old. He was inspired to take physics in high school by the game.
*His YouTube name is derived from the Gmail username his dad gave him.
*He uses the Doom OST - E1M1 soundtrack under all of his sponsor segments."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z15K8B0QW0k" YouTube. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
*He uses Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) for recording footage, Audacity for his voiceover and Premiere Pro for editing.
*He was the first person ever to complete a Just Cause 3 100% All DLC speedrun. He went on to doing it 3 times, making 3 different videos about the runs. He is currently third on the leaderboards for the category."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buwY4HhPw-c" YouTube. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
*He was the first person to speedrun Just Cause 2 in one attempt."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za-mZKlTaJo" YouTube. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
*He has two cats named Arnie and Eddie.
*He can make up-to 4-12 thumbnails per video, after which he chooses the best one before uploading.
*He thinks of video ideas by looking at games in his Steam library and thinking of concepts for videos.
*He starred in the final episode of Daily Martincitopants Rule 34 News."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNUlpGbGuNM" YouTube. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
*On 5 November 2021, through a merchandise drop, it was revealed that his avatar is an exoskeleton for a smaller frog."https://youtu.be/wbHeE_3hCLI?t=86" YouTube. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
*His least favorite part of making a video is script writing. He has hired a writer to help him."https://twitter.com/martincitopants/status/1682235298485538817" Twitter, X. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
==Gallery==
Martin streaming.png|Martin streaming.
File:Martincitopants.jpeg|Martin's profile picture and avatar.
File:Mart's Avatar Facing Toward Camera.png|Martin's avatar facing straight toward the camera.
==References==
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