Fact Fiend - With Karl Smallwood

Fact Fiend - With Karl Smallwood, or simply Fact Fiend, is an English YouTube group that turns articles from the Fact Fiend website into videos. Karl Smallwood (born: ), the owner, writer, and face of Fact Fiend, presents the show, with one of his editors behind - and increasingly in front of - the camera contributing to add commentary to the presentation. 
Fact Fiend has expanded as a brand past its main YouTube page and in addition to the Fact Fiend - With Karl Smallwood channel and the original pre-YouTube website, there are other related sites like the Fact Fiend - Behind The Facts channel which contains longer and either uncut or raw cut versions of the videos in the main channel, which feature other clips, outtakes, more casual conversation, more tangent content, bloopers and less editing,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikynOiFqbhw and now the Untitled Side Channel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIM1iHFc-ZQ
== Content ==
The content follows the original premise of "Profesionally unprofessional"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6GM6149ta4 videos, as proposed by Karl himself, who wanted to create a friendly atmosphere akin to that of a "conversation between fiends". During these videos, Karl will regularly go off on tangents that have some connection to the topic of the video. The tangents often include either channel members' real-life experiences, adjacent information or trivia related to the topic of the video.
Many of the videos feature Karl drinking during the videos (though he tends to stray off-topic after drinking). The channel presents itself as a casual, straight-forward and self-aware space, with no intents of creating in-jokes, layered characters nor deeper 'lore' which may potentially alienate or turn away new viewers. Karl has openly admitted nothing is planned within the channelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWcac91ANvg and while the "organized chaos" nature of their work is true to both Karl and the creative side of Fact Fiend, a lot of logistical work and formal research work takes place behind the scenes with Karl and the editors working to meet schedules and for the videos to be properly and formally released with the corresponding proffesional and ethical standards.
== History ==
The Fact Fiend channel was created on March 11, 2017, and in the month of May 2018, YouTube started heavily promoting his content, resulting in a roughly 70,000 subscriber gain, based on a figure of about 10,000 before May 2018 (According to tube buddy). Karl claims that their success was a simple stroke of luck, claiming "we struck gold in a copper mine." in his review of this Wikitubia pagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWcac91ANvg.
On April 1st 2022, the launch of a new channel was announced in the video "FACT FIEND NEEDS YOU", the Untitled Side Channel, which was released shortly after, at the same time the first edition of the "Fact Fiend $hill-Fe$t" was announced as a stream the following day, April 2nd, in which the goal was to recruit Patreon subscribers for their newly revived Patreon page, now under the new channel's name, all of this following then recent issues with YouTube monetization and videos performance.
On September 10th 2022, in the video "Where is Karl? MAJOR CHANNEL UPDATE"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK80rsPwXSs, it was announced that Karl would temporarily leave the channel after five years of presenting it with little rest, leaving Lucas, Nisha and Brad in charge of the channel. A month and six days later, on the 16th of October, it Karl returned in a video called "Karl's Return and Upcoming Changes | Fact Fiend Update."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4N4JPOcadQ In the same video, it was announced that the "with Karl Smallwood" would be dropped among other branding changes.
==Fact Fiend Crew==
*Karl Smallwood
*Brad Rawlinson
*Lucas Holland / "Far Away Lucas"
*Nisha Revill / "Far Away Nisha"
*Lulu / Lisako Hirano (LisKiss)
*Adam Varley
*Joshua Hall
==Trivia==
* Before gaining popularity, the channel used to have a patreon page, however, due to the channel's surge in popularity, it was shut down since it made enough money to support the channel's crew, apparently thanks to the surge of popularity according to Karl, as of now the Patreon page has been revived under the Untitled Side Channel name.
* Karl has stated that many YouTubers played ads in the middle of the videos on purpose since they had to press a button to do so. Since he found it annoying, many of his videos do not have ads in the middle of them.
* Originally Brad wanted to crop out the corners that were visible in the videos, however, Karl thought it'd be funny to make the videos look as bad as possible and just stand in front of a green screen that they didn't actually use. Now it's mostly just for the sake of continuity. Brad bought a new greenscreen which both Karl and the audience didn't like so Brad used Photoshop to put back the corners back in their videos. However Brad revealed, in Fact Fiend Raw - Vin Diesel's favorite beer sucks, this was only for the first five or so videos, with the old greenscreen being placed in front of the new greenscreen to keep their distinctive style.
* Karl gets annoyed when he sees his name spelled with a "C" instead of a "K" in the comments section which he mentions at the end of his video "Daft Punk Don't Give a Robotic crap (How to Spell Karl).
* He has also started his own company by the name of Big Wangers Inc. Ltd. and is now officially a Managing Director.
* Karl's record for getting drunk is his video "People Used To Think Rick Astley Was Black", where he drank around 12 and a half shots of Jim Beam with Honey.
* They are aware of this wikitubia page as stated in the video Lemmy was Pretty Much Indestructible (Raising a Drink) (around the time 2:50) and a whole video was dedicated to this wikitubia page in December 28, 2019
* At the start, they would add in "Like, Comment, Subscribe," moments at the end of the videos, but stopped because they ran out of jokes to make of it, as well as their own distaste for it.
* On Karl's own YouTube channel called: Karl Smallwood, They used to upload the occasional Raw Fact Fiend videos as well as lengthy tangent videos that were cut out from the main FactFiend videos because of length. The channel is now used for uploading gameplay, and the previous content was moved to a new channel, called: Fact Fiend - Behind The Facts on August 7th, 2019.
* Karl has had a few jobs in bartending and restaurant works where he has told various interesting stories about his previous works. Two main examples being how he gave a cleaning lady a cup of tea every day much to the annoyance of his manager, and how he would get an easy £10 tip making a bet with young rich men on how Moët Champagne is correctly pronounced.
* He was born in 1991 on February 2nd as stated in his Fact Fiend Wiki Page video video.
* Karl has written content for YouTube channels TopTenz and Today I Found Out.
==Quotes==
*"Nobody comes here for the facts!" 
*"I don't want to be famous. I just want to be well known enough for people to make sick fanart of me."
*"I am constantly amazed by Man's ability to put penises into things where they're not supposed to be."
*"Spiderman can hold back, bricks can't."
*"Barney Stinson is a psychic Nazi."
*"That's not running before you can crawl, that's planning an alibi for a hit and run three years before you get your drivers license."
*"I've said it many times before, but, I'm trying my best. And I like making these videos and judging by the passionate response we've had from fans about this issue, you like the videos too. And if you want to see them keep getting made, please just stop harassing my friends and family on social media about this. It isn't too much to ask. Is it?"
==Subscriber Milestones==
Category:Vlogging YouTubers
Category:Educational YouTubers
Category:English YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2017