HydroLing

HydroLing is an American YouTuber who made cartoon animation videos, mainly consisting of the cartoon television series SpongeBob SquarePants.
==History==
HydroLing created his channel in August 2011 and uploaded his first video on the same day, titled Mr. Krabs Kills Pearl. He continued to upload videos which accumulated thousands of views and daily subscribers. He uploaded his last video on October 12th 2014.
==Series==
During his short time, HydroLing made a few series.
*Mr Krabs Kills Pearl - Mr Krabs kills his daughter, Pearl, as he realises she is spending all of his money at an alarming rate, leading him to the verge of bankruptcy. However, this would be the worst mistake of his life.
*And Then There Were Less - SpongeBob gets invited to a remote island as an exclusive VIP trip by someone known as "Kal McBurney". Initially thinking this is the trip of a lifetime, he soon gets more than he bargained for.
===Spongaholics===
*The Storm - Whilst SpongeBob and Patrick are hanging out, a brutal storm hits Bikini Bottom. Patrick later goes missing, and it is up to SpongeBob and Squidward to find him.
*Mr Krab's Secret - SpongeBob uncovers a dark secret about Mr Krabs whilst at work, which leads to his murder when he exposes it. Patrick is desperate to avenge his late best friend, but will he succeed?
==Disappearance==
On October 12th 2014, HydroLing uploaded his soon to be last video, titled Spongebob in: A Haunting, which was a spinoff of the movie franchise, Paranormal Activity. After this, he vanished off the platform, not bothering to upload again. It is unknown as to why he suddenly stopped uploading, and there have been many theories surrounding his disappearance.
==Potential Channel Activity==
NOTE: Whilst YouTube has the power to "lock" videos they deem in violation of their policies as privatehttps://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7300965, there is still a possibility that they didn't private the videos mentioned in this section.
In January 2016, a playlist consisting of HydroLing's videos was created by a user called "Beastly Vortex223"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL7kkxTOJOSUr3MTkSmZbJjVcOHzV6Tle. As of 2024, there is 1 video unavailable in the playlist. Using the service "quiteaplaylist.com", the unavailable video is titled "SpongeVlog #1" and was uploaded on June 30th 2014https://quiteaplaylist.com/search?url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL7kkxTOJOSUr3MTkSmZbJjVcOHzV6Tle. Accessing the original video's link gives the "This video is private." messagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmCIdIRxirs. If YouTube did not lock the video, this would mean that there was activity on the channel somewhere after January 2016 (excluding YouTube, only the user themselves can private a video).
Recently, another video also went private. The video was a channel trailer uploaded on July 22nd 2014. Unlike the last video, this one was archived by the Wayback Machinehttps://web.archive.org/web/20210718213537/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgcYdXAge84. Accessing the original link, we get the same message as the other video. If YouTube did not lock the video, this would mean that there was activity on the channel somewhere after July 2021.
==Trivia==
*HydroLing used to upload Song videos during 2012, before his channel focused on animations. They were deleted/privated on an unknown date but can be seen on the Wayback Machine (none of them were archived)https://web.archive.org/web/20120721222508/https://www.youtube.com/user/HydroLing.
*HydroLing used Microsoft Paint and Windows Live Movie Maker to create his animations.
*Through an archive of the channel from 2012, it was discovered that HydroLing had another Youtube channel titled "xKOOMIKEx". Upon initial discovery, the channel was named "Dan Baker" and had 18 subscribershttps://web.archive.org/web/20220331192930/https://www.youtube.com/user/xKOOMIKEx. Somewhere between April 23rd 2022 and June 12th 2022, the name of the channel was changed to "Mike"https://www.youtube.com/@xKOOMIKEx.
==Channel milestones==
===Subscriber milestones===
*1,000 subscribers: April 25, 2014https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0XMK-kk4Oc
*2,000 subscribers: July 16, 2014https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DrW4RuWK8I
===Video view milestones===
*15 million views: January 8, 2020
==References==
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2011