Stefan25897

Stefan25897 (born: ) is a Bulgarian YouTuber whose content is about Plants vs. Zombies. From 2017 onwards, most of his videos feature his private mod Plants vs. Zombies: Ultimate Edition, which has been in continuous development since said date and is known for its intricate referential nature and heavy edits accurate to the game's style (unless intentionally not).
==History==
Stefan's YouTube account got created in 2012, however, he did not upload any videos until three years later. 
During his early days 2015, Stefan would mainly upload Plants vs. Zombies gameplay videos. A recurring theme during that time and bit later was the game's Survival Endless mode, which was also featured in his first ever upload. Aside from that, Stefan would push conventions and modify the game to access and play custom gamemodes such as 3 rows Frontyard Day Survival Endless; Vasebreaker Day Endless; Wall Nut Bowling Zomboss; PC Last Stand Endless and more. He would also feature some Plants vs. Zombies 2 videos as well as videos of Plants vs. Zombies 1 mods of varying quality changing the game's texture to look like Plants vs. Zombies 2. Near the end of 2015 he would upload four Minecraft Let's Play videos as well as two additional ones which were not a part of said Let's Play.
In 2016, Stefan would upload a total of 12 videos, all of which featuring Plants vs. Zombies 2 PAK, a mod widely known for it's accuracy in converting the style of Plants vs. Zombies 1 to the style of Plants vs. Zombies 2. Most of these videos are Suvival Endless gameplay, two of them feature sprite modifications to Plants vs. Zombies 2 PAK done by Stefan (one of them having a space theme and another adding Kongfu World lawn and zombies from the chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2). The last video titled "Plants vs Zombies Bowling with Dr Zomboss" seems to be a sequel of sorts to the video from last year titled "Plants vs Zombies Wall Nut Zomboss".
In 2017 he would stop featuring PvZ 2 PAK in his videos. It is also the year where Plants vs. Zombies: Ultimate Edition would appear for the first time, first getting featured in the video titled "Plants vs Zombies Last Stand Fog Endless flags 5021-5025". In the video, a Giga Football Zombie from the online demo version of Plants vs. Zombies can be seen being modded into the full version of PvZ. Stefan has confirmed that it was the first ever addition to his mod, and the Giga Football Zombie can still be seen in his videos to this day. Throughout this period, Stefan would keep making Survival Endless videos as well as upload three more videos of Vasebreaker Day Endless but but an evolution from his previous content would occur during this year. He would specialize in video topics experimenting even further than before within PvZ, editing the game's animation files, testing the hp of zombies, beatmatching coins from marigold to music, and other unconventional and unique ideas. One video from this era, Plants vs. Zombies Edited Files Gameplay Part 2, features a glitched basic zombie with all armor visible. This zombie would later get popularized by Starry Ciocîrlan , who has commented under said video but later confirmed to not have been influenced by it, as a meme under the name of Jeff. Starry featured the meme in many of his videos and used it as his channel mascot. However, he later grew tired of it due to its unoriginality (as he claims) and the gave the rights for the character to Stefan. 
In 2018 only a total of 14 videos would get uploaded to the channel, 12 of which being Plants vs Zombies 2 videos, the second to last being a showcase of a hack within PvZ 1 which allows for a blover to blow away all zombies on screen and the last showcasing a gameplay of Survival Endless in a modified Frontyard Day stage that features three water rows - two on top and one at the bottom.
In the last months of 2020, Stefan uploaded memes about the ECLISE developer, goodpea2, featuring edits of Jacksfilms footage with text-to-speech to change the video tones. Goodpea2 later found out his videos and decided to copy-strike three of them. Stefan made a video about responding to the strikes, and he claimed that those strikes were unfair because those were copyrights of PvZ fan art and a background recolor. Stefan remarks that the copyright system is damaged while neither Goodpea nor him owned the content. This means that Goodpea could strike, while Stefan could not fight them.
Stefan also uploaded a video about completing his challenge of complete a level of Zombie Nimble Zombie Quick without Sunflowers. However, that video was unique because it disguised his review about Project ECLISE in an unfiltered and unironic state, as he explained the flaws he thought the mod contained.
Stefan later decided to upload his final video about goodpea2, an edited version of Looney Tunes episode The Dover Boys at Pimento University with the music Biggering by The 88. The video is a complete commentary over his full behaviors after the previous events. Stefan also remarks that some of the points in the video still hold up much later. 
Currently, Stefan makes a variety of content, but unlike the early days, it is not necessarily about Plants vs. Zombies gameplay. He shows changes in his ultimate Edition mod, mashups, and other unrelated memes. Occasionally, Stefan also plays mods of Plants vs. Zombies, such as The Cursed, which he regarded as his favorite mod.
During May of 2021, as Stefan checked goodpea2's Patreon page, he noticed that goodpea posting about his recolored Marigold skin being available for Patreon and YouTube members only, which appeared to be illegal and contradicted the meaning of the mod ECLISE, being microtransaction-free. Stefan later uploaded his community post regarding this situation to his fans. He also did the same thing that goodpea did in his own Ultimate Edition mod.
At the end of August 2021, Stefan became involved in controversy with Peridot Ciocirlan, due to the latter's behavioral tendencies. In response, Stefan decided to disband his group and uploaded a document to go over the situation, criticizing Peridot and his negativity towards him. Overall, Stefan still supported Peridot's mod, but he disliked Peridot for reasons above.
==Trivia==
*Instead of ECLISE, Stefan always refers to this mod as "Eclipse".
*Stefan’s highlight for his Ultimate Edition mod is the Robbie Rotten Zombie, who is based on the villain from the TV series Lazy Town with the same name.
*Creeps20, the developer of the mod Shallow, referred Stefan as “Stephan”, as stated in this video.
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Bulgarian YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2012