Quark Doge

Vova Nikolaev, better known online as Quark Doge is a Russian YouTuber and animator. Quark Doge is best known for the ongoing viral FlexAir series of action/parody short films. Quark Doge is likely bilingual, speaking Russian and English.
==FlexAir==
FlexAir is a series of meme videos that are mostly popular in Russia due to its satire of Russian politics, but have attracted international notoriety for being well edited and containing a diverse collection of western pop-culture references and memes. As of March 2024, eight "episodes" have been released with a cumulative view count of over 23 million. 
The first FlexAir video originated from a meme collaboration "COLLAB MILOS FOREVER 2019" uploaded to Russian social media network vk.com by Gachimuchi meme page FlexHub. The clip was then uploaded to YouTube by Quark Doge on March 25 2019 as the premiere of FlexAir. 
FlexAir was mostly animated in Blender 3D. The films' production styles incorporate 2D and 3D animation, live-action video samples, CG special effects and physics simulations. The videos are set to EDM or house/trap music.
FlexAir has gained a long list of financial supporters and donators for Quark Doge, who are listed in the credits and subtly referenced throughout the videos. FlexAir has gained traction in the west after being reposted to reddit and imgur.
Although the FlexAir series does not initially appear to have any coherent plot or relationship between characters besides meme value, there is an unmistakeable anti-authoritarian theme throughout the series as various Soviet leaders and law enforcement are portrayed antagonistically. Notably, the main antagonists ( and ) who are infamous for regressive anti-LGBT policies, are menaced by LGBT adult entertainment stars such as Ricardo Milos, Van Darkholme, Mark Wolff and Billy Herrington.
The series follows the perspective of the crew and passengers of FlexAir, a private airline, as they battle against hostilities from the anime-loving, government-backed competing airline, Жмых Airlines.
The FlexAir videos are age-restricted due to implicit nudity and sexual references. They can only be watched by YouTubers aged over 18.
===Setting===
The FlexAir series is first set on a jungle island in the Gulf of Mexico. The island may be presumed to be in the territory of Soviet-occupied Cuba due to its diplomatic relationship with Russia and Belarus. Although the island appears to be remote, a futuristic dystopian mega-city is nearby, accessible via a road bridge. There is heavy use of Soviet symbolism by the city inhabitants. From the technology used, the temporal setting is likely an alternate near-future; possibly 2023 as homage to the recently released video game Cyberpunk 2077 which is a prominent theme in Episode 5. Real-life characters in FlexAir are depicted as their current real-life age.
===Episode 1: Ricardo Milos Forever===
Episode 1 was released on March 25, 2019. It has gained over 3.4 million views and has a like to dislike ratio of over 200. Episode 1 has been blocked in most countries due to the music license, however it was reuploaded on vk and vimeo.
The soundtrack is "King of the Jungle" by SHANGUY.
====Synopsis====
The FlexAir commercial jet aircraft flies over the ocean near a scenic tropical island in the Gulf of Mexico. Protagonist Ricardo Milos and the pilot Bongo Cat are introduced, along with passengers Noggin Clontith (and his comrades), Carl Wheezer, Vladimir Putin and flight attendant Fujiwara Chika. Putin calls for an attendant using the TurboFlex button. To his disappointment, rather than more anime girls, Ricardo himself appears from the cockpit wearing nothing but American flag-printed underwear. Milos menacingly approaches him down the aisle past dozens of gnomes whilst seductively slapping his thighs and dancing. Bongo Cat notices the aircraft weather monitoring radar displays a formidable cyclonic thunderstorm unavoidably centred in the path of the aircraft. The monitor throws a barrage of insulting errors in Belarusian (Тобі пiзда; lit. You're f**ked) before the flight computer bluescreens, implying the system has been compromised.
Bongo Cat is shocked but the passengers dance and party with Ricardo, seemingly unaware of the dire situation. The aircraft continues on its trajectory towards a spirit tornado with the face of Russian YouTuber Glad Valakas. Bongo Cat attempts to pilot the aircraft through severe turbulence and lightning as it enters the tornado but instead is thrown around the cockpit. Meanwhile, gnomes that are briefly illuminated by lightning bounce chaotically around the fuselage, whilst Ricardo continues to dance seductively, opening and closing his legs. The aircraft, under critical strain from the turbulence, is suddenly sheared in two. Many gnomes are ejected from the aircraft, but one of the Noggins clings to a seat and is rescued by Ricardo after being shoved into his underwear.
===Episode 2: With Ricardo Milos===
====Synopsis====
A few gnomes have met their watery demise. The flaming wreckage of the FlexAir jet is strewn across the shore of a jungle-covered tropical island. Noggin Clontith awakes and regains full health thanks to Ricardo. Ricardo then retreats into the bushes on the jungle edge, apparently indicating that danger is near. Noggin spots Fujiwara and Bongo Cat also hiding amongst bushes and notices an approaching red glow and island inhabitants running with flaming torches. It is Sanic Hegehog with a large swarm of Ugandan Knuckles launching a hostile attack on the FlexAir gang. They charge towards Noggin and he is too slow to outrun them. He is saved as Fujiwara intercepts the attack, shortly followed by Ricardo carrying Bongo Cat. Despite being overwhelmingly outnumbered, Ricardo single-handedly defeats the army with a single pelvic thrust. The camera pans up to reveal Putin to be an impostor, who appears to be in control of Glad’s spirit (now taking a rabbit form) and is in cahoots with Sanic.
Soundtrack: "Headhunterz & KSHMR" by Dharma
===Episode 3: Titans and gnoms===
====Synopsis====
The FlexAir gang have defeated the swarm of Ugandan Knuckles, and are celebrating over the dead body of one of them. Suddenly, the camera pans up to see Putin alongside Sanic, carrying a feathery mass that was Glad’s spirit. The FlexAir gang look up at them, shocked. Putin puts down Glad and Glad starts a form of summoning ritual involving Fortnite dancing that picks up several Ugandan Knuckles, putting them mid-air in the shape of a cross. A beam of light shoots up, forming a bright cross on the beach, reminiscent of the Third Impact from Neon Genesis Evangelion. This acts as a tornado, picking up all the Ugandan Knuckles, and sucking up Fujiwara. Ricardo reaches out and gestures Noggin to hold on to him, but Noggin is reluctant to accept Ricardo's help, knowing he will be shoved into his underwear. Noggin then gets sucked up by the tornado. Ricardo gets up, dodging all the Ugandan Knuckles, attempting to reach Glad. Glad begins to implode, and an explosion buries Ricardo under some sand. Bongo Cat digs him out to show Glad on top of a giant Ugandan Chungus, along with an army of Wide Putins. Behind the army is the original Putin on a prison bus imprisoning Fujiwara and Noggin. Glad and the Wide Putins charge at Ricardo and Bongo Cat, and Bongo Cat waves her last goodbye to Ricardo. However, Ricardo pulled out a set of bongo drums from his underwear, and Bongo Cat delightfully begins to play them while Ricardo wipes out the Putins with pelvic thrusts. A bolt of lightning knocks out the rest of the army, and Ricardo charges at Glad. He attacks the Ugandan Chungus, who becomes aggravated and attempts to destroy Ricardo with its hand. While a dust cloud forms from the attacks, Ricardo and Bongo Cat run up Chugus's arm behind Glad and blindfold him with Ricardo’s underwear.
Soundtrack: "Rumble In The Jungle" by Zatox
====Trivia====
* It is actually possible to see the Ugandan Chungus while Ricardo approaches Glad.
===Episode 4: Snatch.===
====Synopsis====
The episode starts off with Putin driving into a city surrounded by lava, with Fujiwara and Noggin still kept as hostages. The city is defended by Ugandan Knuckles and drones, with the Knuckles in tanks taking defensive formation. A commander Knuckles is heard saying "Враги на один час, они подходят сзади," or "Enemies for one hour, they come up from behind." Van Darkholme is seen in the Ahegao covered tank. As a Knuckles scopes in get ready to fire, Ugandan Chungus, hijacked by Ricardo and Bongo Cat controlling Valakas jumps onto the bridge. The Knuckles ineffectively fire tank shells and bullets at the Chungus, followed by a Creeper being shot via catapult at Chungus's head. The explosion knocks Ricardo and Bongo Cat through a window, Valakas into a coffin to be carried away by Coffin Dancers, and Ricardo's underwear onto a 5G tower. In the apartment, Ricardo and Bongo Cat are ambushed by Genadyi Gorin from a fridge (a reference to a popular video of his). Bongo Cat hands Ricardo some chairs to exploit Genadyi's weakness. Genadyi is scared when Ricardo starts DJ'ing the chairs, leading to his demise in an explosion of green goo. Ricardo walks up a flight of stairs past some Obamas to encounter Putin and army of Wide Putins on the roof. Putin equips Ricardo's underwear, electrified by the 5G tower, powering up his Wide Putins. A copy of the Russian Constitution is shown being shredded. The 5G, however, gave Putin the coronavirus. Ricardo and Bongo Cat are carried away by the horde of Wide Putins, but Bongo Cat hits an emergency COVID-19 button to call an ambulance to capture Putin, and the medics take him presumably to quarantine for 14 days.
==== Cultural references ====
* Covering up dilapidated building façades with false banners when Putin visits has been reported in the past.
* The Obamas on the staircase is reference to a Russian joke directly blaming Obama for the country's problems such as crumbled roads and urine in the residential complex stairwells.
Soundtrack: "Battle Royale" by Apashe
===Episode 5: Slav and Furious.===
====Synopsis====
The episode starts off with a pan past an illuminated city scape, with Fujiwara and Noggin looking out the window of a bus, controlled by Wide Putins. Noggin is seen singing Baka Mitai through the glass. They drive past a massive construction of Wide Putin in which a crane is installing a giant SO-DIMM RAM stick as fireworks go off in the distance. The bus decends into the slums of the city, showing chaotic scenes in which the citizens are revolting against the totalitarian Soviet regime. Car wreckages burn and explode and rioters fight against the Ugandan Knuckles who represent the police. CJ (Carl Johnson) is seen walking by with a stolen television and Kermit the Frog is seen falling from a building in the background. A Cheems Doge is bonked by one of the Knuckles. Tyler1 is holding his own against a swarm of Knuckles, as Fujiwara meets eyes with Carl Wheezer who has been imprisoned in a Deep Dark Fantasy shop, and forced to cosplay as Megumin from KonoSuba. 
President of Belarus, Alexander Łukashenko followed by drones, Ugandan Knuckles in police cars and Van Darkholme in the ahegao tank is searching for Ricardo Milos. He scans Noggin, and picks up Ricardo's DNA from when Noggin was put in Ricardo's underwear in the plane. Lukashenko flashes his ID to the Wide Putin driving the prison bus; his ID reads "Tough Nut" from "Department of Combating American Diversionists". Suddenly Ricardo is sensed in a pipe system nearby the drivers. As the BGM bass drops, Ricardo and Bongo Cat launches out in a flying bathtub decorated with the and trailing an LGBT/NyanCat-esque rainbow. Alexander opens fire on the FlexAir gang, who evade the shots. The bathtub then is launched off a ramp, allowing Bongo Cat to squirt a bottle of "Жумайсынба shampoo" into Alexander's eyes, momentarily blinding him. Alexander screams loudly. Tyler1, Carl Wheezer, and CJ join the car chase in a modified Tesla Cybertruk, and Shrek Silverhand hacks Alexander and the police radar scanners using AEZAKMI (a GTA cheat code to evade police) to force Windows Updates and display the "Get Stick Bugged" GIF. Alexander prepares a rocket launcher, aiming directly at Ricardo, but misses when Tyler1's Cybertruk rams his vehicle from behind. The rocket is knocked off course, and instead accidentally blows up former who is in a nearby police car. Chaos ensues as Van Darkholme wrestles with Mark Wolff, and Fujiwara, Wide Putins, CJ, and Alexander all engage in fights. Mark is unfortunately defeated by Van through a chokehold. Fujiwara uses Noggin to bludgeon the Wide Putins, with one of them being launched out of the prison van window and hitting Alexander in an explosion of potatoes (a reference to his many dealings with potatoes in the media) and resulting in his tractor getting crushed by the ahegao tank. Van takes aim at CJ from his tank, only to be intercepted by Ricardo jumping at him. The screen turns to white as Ricardo is knocked out, to be greeted by the FlexAir gang and Shrek Silverhand saying "Wake the fuck up, samurai. We have a city to burn." The video ends with the FlexAir 5 logo in the style of Cyberpunk 2077.
====Cultural references====
* Lukashenko's ID reading "Tough Nut" is a reference to a conversation between Berlin and Warsaw, in which Lukasheko was described as being "a tough nut to crack".
* The White-Red-White flag of Belarus is often used by opponents of Lukashenko, such as in the .
* Lukashenko has published videos appearing to show him harvesting potatoes and inspecting tractors. He has also gifted potatoes to Putin. 
Soundtrack: "Stay Too Long [Pendulum remix]" by Plan B
===Episode 6: Lord of the ban.===
Episode 6 was released on July 5, 2021. It easily gained over 1 million views within a week of uploading and is so far the longest FlexAir video, with a running time of 7:10. It is the first FlexAir video to contain multiple soundtracks. References to Genshin Impact, Kill Bill, The Matrix and Lord of the Rings are a recurring theme.
====Synopsis====
Track 1: "Battle Without Honor Or Humanity" by Tomoyasu Hotei
 is asleep at his mansion with a Genshin Impact dakimakura. The mansion, which closely resembles Putin's Gelendzhik palace, is surrounded by lava in the dystopian Soviet hellscape. He is suddenly awakened. The FlexAir gang approach the mansion in the style of Kill Bill and are admitted. However, Ricardo is gravely injured and being carted in a shopping trolley. FlexAir 6 logo and opening credits are inside the mansion, which resembles a cathedral with a heavenly Cheems Doge mural on the ceiling. Various prints of anime-style girls, such as characters from Genshin Impact are displayed in frames. One of them morphs into gachimuchi actor Danny Lee, who winks seductively at Noggin Clontith (the "Gen" in the logo also changes to "Gay"). They walk past a room containing Pepe viewing a questionable shower scene of Fujiwara from Kaguya-sama: Love is War S2 OVA. Pepe notices them watching and switches windows using the Alt + Windows hotkey to a more innocuous window. This is a reference to the "are you winning son" meme, an excerpt of which is displayed on the wall with some virtual YouTubers. Fujiwara looks away in embarrassment. They then enter the "No Smocking" [sic] central room, heavily decorated with questionable anime pictures. This appears to be the headquarters of the anti-Soviet resistance. New protagonists are introduced, which is made up of a team of hackers on laptops, including various versions of Cheems, Ryan Beckford, a brawny Shutterstock model, the kid who sings "Владимир Путин - молодец!" (literally "Vladimir Putin - Well done!"), and Billy Herrington himself who is bartending. Plenty of Conk Cans are behind him. Vibing Pug and the Dog from Brazil Dog Dance also make appearances. LittleMoeFades is one of the head hackers, and in order to help Ricardo, connects him via an ethernet cable to a terminal operated by hackerman Steve Rambo. Immediately, many Soviet viruses are displayed (such as the Amigo Browser bloatware from mail.ru and Odnoklassniki social network). Steve exclaims, "Holy shit! You know there's not too many people around who can develop a sophisticated virus like this one!"
===Episode 7: Communism Impact===
Episode 7 was released on August 11, 2022, it gains over 100k+ views a week or month and it's so far QuarkDoge had uploaded, he didn't upload for awhile, when working on part 7, Quark Doge had difficulty finding material and writing a script. He also could not find music suitable for the plot. Eventually, Quark Doge got tired of working on part 7. He became addicted to Genshin Impact which consumed a lot of his time. Thereafter, he got depressed. Luckily, he has gotten better and started to fix his schedule. Still, many aspects of part 7 are technically difficult for Quark Doge to implement, so he has to learn new things on the go.
==== Sypnosis====
It shows the opening of FlexAir 7 with the Genshin Impact style where it takes place on the Hell Cave, which is surrounded by Amoguses, raiding after Ricardo got out on hell, and it shows that are Amonguses are running in front of a one Hellbound Eyeball and there's a one guy who instantly putted a Metal Stick onto his genones, tying it and hitting above the metal stick, and it shows of the base of Shrek Silverhand and there's a mysterious guy watching outside when the Amogus Apocalypse happened, his name, is The Rock. Facing forward to the window and he's in shock, the footage of him without background came from WWE, instantly shaking, and looking at the Volcano is almost going to erupt and the Amoguses have gone outside the Volcano and starts raiding the city. A guy with a metal stick on his genones was staring at a black guy and most Amogus twerks displayed at the background with different colors, looking at Ainsley Harriot laughing at the background while more Amoguses attempted to raid outside. Ainsley was rubbing at someone while lying down tied. And when the floating stone has Candles on it as below of the rock glows blue, a mysterious girl shinning her eyes, sitting on the eye where Ricardo, Tyler1, and his teammate chased from Hell to Heaven after they wake up. 
We can see the scenes of Amogus raiding Shrek's Mansion while one of his gangs tried to fight them, some Amoguses have invaded their base, Shrek Silverhand does a T-Pose Dominance at the Bartender Table, and we can see the guy looks in shock of an Hellastic Giant Eye starting at their broken base, and there's a mysterious figure who is levitating/floating. And it's a girl. We can see her invisible floors she stepped on to make an entrance, but suddenly a rock slided her down to the ground as everyone laughed at her. We can see Mr. Incredible eating a chip, and Shrek Silverhand lowered his glasses in confusion. We can see clown pepe rolling a ball on his feet with the honk. A girl suddenly stood up, showing her face, with a Cube on the Side of her head, tied from a hair, The Blue Neon Cube is from her left tied hair, and The Red Neon Cube appears on the right of her tied hair. The Girl Suddenly ascended and by getting electric powers, Shrek falls down as the electricity hits The Alcohols glasses and the Cabinet and he was almost killed, we can see everyone getting scared and with panic, there are yellow dots going to her hips forming a USSR Underwear, that is where Ricardo's American Underwear turned Russina from the previous episode, it was forming an USSR Underwear on the girl's private part. Amoguses starts to evacuate quickly, as every characters on the FlexAir series were shocked of a new opponent coming to them ascended. Some time later, The Rock climbed up exhausted, he was in shock, Noggin Clontith was eating together with Ainsley Harriot, at a meantime, we don't know what happens next.
==== Cultural References ====
* We can see Dwayne Johnson climbed the wall, as we can see the footage of him from Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle
* Genones in original term, it's called Genitals.
==== Soundtracks ====
"Wrath of Monocerus Caeli" by Yu-Peng Chen
=== Episode 8: Cancellation cataclysm. ===
===Characters===
====Protagonists====
Ricardo Milos.jpg|Ricardo Milos
Bongocat0.png|Bongo Cat
Fujiwara Chika.png|Chika Fujiwara
Noggin Clontith.png|Noggin Clontith
QuarkDoge-MarkWolff.png|Mark Wolff
QuarkDoge-Obama.png|Barack Obama
QuarkDoge-Doge.png|Doge (Cheems)
Shrek Silverhand.jpg|Shrek Silverhand
====Antagonists====
Vladimir Putin.jpg|Vladimir Putin
QuarkDoge-GladValakas.png|Glad Valakas
Sanic Hedgehog.png|Sanic Hedgehog
Ugandan Knuckles.png|Ugandan Knuckles
Ugandan Chungus.png|Ugandan Chungus
QuarkDoge-VanDarkholme.png|Van Darkholme
Genadyi Gorin.jpg|Genadyi Gorin
ดาวน์โหลด (4).jpg|Alexander Lukashenko
Download (93).jpeg|Mini Putin (Wide Putin)
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