Some Stupid Sketch Show Guy

Nathan (born: ), better known online as Some Stupid Sketch Show Guy (or simply Sketchy), is an American YouTuber who makes videos mainly about dinosaurs.
==History==
===Savagecoverman===
The very beginning of his YouTube channel began when he created it in late 2015. However, he only used it at the time for watching YouTube videos, not for making them. Until April 19th, 2016, when he uploaded his first video publicly. It was a cover of the song Beat It. Excited about making the video, he shared and promoted the video everywhere around his school, simply by telling all of his friends about it in a very obnoxious manner. But it helped the video gain over 200 views and gain him 15 subscribers in only one week. At the time, he called the channel Nathan Klein, but eventually he came up with the name Savagecoverman to call himself due to being called "savage" by his classmates. He posted many other similarly low-quality cover songs under this name, however, most of these videos have since been private or edited down to 10 seconds including the Beat It cover.
Over the next 6 months, he would regularly make tons of random videos as well as low-quality covers that would slowly help him grind to 50 subscribers and 3,000 views. However, his views would randomly fluctuate from each video and due to his frantic upload schedule, he would run out of ideas for covers and videos in general by the end of the year. Due to him uploading 108 videos in just 8 months. He even would mention this regularly in some of the uploads. By 2017 he had exhausted a lot of his ideas, he also tried to make other content like N8 at 8 a random show he made where he made polls and covered random news. However, this didn't get many views only about 10-15 per episode and it quickly made him feel unmotivated. This was a regular theme with people only sometimes watching his videos for his shout outs and some of his covers. He eventually had enough and decided to quit in late July of 2017 right after his 13th birthday.
===Some Stupid Sketch Show Guy===
Following him quitting his channel he didn't upload for 8 months. His sub count fluctuating from 75 to 80 subscribers and his views slowly growing to over 7,000. However, he found inspiration in something else. Ever since August of 2015 he had been filming home movies with stuffed animals he owned. He never actually uploaded any of these skits except The Haunting Reality Of Lilio Lam which was not even a toy film. He mainly did this due to potential embarrassment and the fact his channel was at the time made for something else.
But now that he had quit song covers he could finally try something different. At the time he had been binge-watching Monster Island Buddies. A toy show following the foul-mouthed adventures of Godzilla toys. This gave Savagecoverman the will to upload a series he had been making at the time. Giovanni And The Seven Seas, although it was as laughable like most of his previous content it was the beginning of his channel reboot. He then privatized, deleted, and recut his old content to get rid of some of the videos he was now ashamed of.
As well as that a name change came as well. When watching a Monster Island Buddies channel trailer he was intrigued by him calling Monster Island Buddies a "sketch show". He liked the way it sounded but due to his past failures as a content creator, he didn't have much faith in his content. Thus he undermined his content by adding the word stupid to the channel name, and with him being a guy he created a mouthful of a name he is known as today, Some Stupid Sketch Show Guy. 
After starting the Giovanni series he found a second inspiration for content after watching the recently released Dinosaur Island Season 4. This inspired him to try and buy similar dinosaur figures and make a series of his own. Originally he wanted it to be a meta documentary about a dinosaur making a show of his own but it eventually changed into the generic low quality show Dinosaur Archipelago. The show surprisingly gained small bits of traction gaining a few loyal fans.By June his channel began to gain subscribers at a faster rate reaching 90 subscribers a feat he never thought he would reach.
July would help with his growth and by August he finally reached 100 subscribers. A genuine dream come true for him. But things were to change quite rapidly after he got discord and binged watched another show. Camosaurus was a content creator he was also inspired by and loved the series Billy The Dimension Hopper. A comedy show about the misadventures of the title character. He eventually turned into Camo's biggest and most obnoxious fan and discord didn't help that. But after creating the Billy The Dimension Hopper fan wiki. He got a shoutout from Camosaurus.
In just one day he gained 30 subscribers and his views went up significantly. With videos now on average gaining 60-100 views, and his multiple series's began to gain more of a knowing amongst fellow dinosaur YouTubers. With shows like Dinotube Achievements and Vinomorph joining his group of series. By the end of 2018, he had managed to reach 230 subscribers. In total, he gained 150 subscribers in one year.
With a full reboot, he was now beginning to figure out which series stuck and which ones didn't. He also added a new series that would be responsible for some of his most popular videos New Figure Thoughts. A series that talked about the newest announcements from figure companies mainly new images for figures that would be released the following year. These figure thoughts videos at the lowest would get 100 views and at there best reach over 3,500. Helping gain a bigger audience and view count. As well as stepping up the quality thanks to better editing skills and a decent camera to film with. 2018 was Sketchy's year to establish something and 2019 was the year he built of it and improved it. By the end of the year, he had begun to start making projects he never thought he would ever make such as "The Rise and Fall Of The Dinotube Community" mini-series. 
===2020 Growth===
2020 started off normal enough with him just making more Dinosaur videos and slowly getting passed 450 subscribers on his quest to reach 500. But things started to change after talking to a associate of his named Jurassic Bob he was given the challenge to make a tribute video. After 4 hours of work he completed it. It was a video based off the mini series Planet Dinosaur the song Demons by Starset. It did well and his fans generally liked it. So he would eventually make more videos like it. But the one that changed things for his channel was one he made in early April. On April fools Primal a cartoon made by Genndy Tartakovsky made a stand alone episode called "The Plauge Of Madness." In light of Corona Virus turning into a pandemic. Sketchy decided to make a tribute video based off the episode using the song Back From The Dead by Skillet since the episodes main villain is a Zombie Dinosaur. It took about 2 hours of work and was completed at about midnight.
When he released the video it didn't garner too much success only getting 150 views which was average for a video on his channel. But then a month later it began to boom in popularity and gain up to 500 views every day. Easily surpassing his original most viewed video which only had 3,500 views in about a week. But after a month of fast growth it slowed down in views. From July to August it slowly gained an extra 5,000 views. He would gain an extra couple thousand views for the next coming weeks. But at the end of August the video caught a second wind. In just a few days it went from 25,000 views to 40,000 views and after that it quickly grew to surpass 100,000 views. The big spurt helped escalate Sketchy's channel passed 700,800 and 900 subscribers. Even at this current stage Sketchy has nearly tripled his sub count from the end of 2019 going from 450 subs to 1,250 subs and quadrupling his view count from 75,000 views to over 300,000 views. Although the video has since slowed down again Sketchy still does regularly gain a 1,000 views per day and his video views have gone up to a average of 150-200 per video. 
===2021 Growth===
2021 as the other years have been was another year of improvement for the channel. The big transition that had started occurring in the later half of 2020 was increased use of Cap Cut over iMovie. iMovie had always been Sketchy's main software but as time went on into 2021 he slowly used Cap Cut more as it proved just as easy to use. So the editing for his videos improved, the other changes were which series fell to the wayside and which ones took centre stage. His comedy series became more of a priority with Claw and Order becoming the new big thing on his channel after he pumped out two episodes in 10 days that both have since broken over a thousand views. He did also make other random one off dinosaurs skits on the side and also featured Stupid Dinosaur Comments a comedy commentary series as well. While he still did his old classics from time to time like a Dinotube Achievement episode, a figure review, or a My Opinion On Every Figure episode they were less common now a days. 
His biggest and most common non comedy show was New Dinosaur Figure Thoughts which took a life of it's own with him putting himself on camera for the episodes rather than you just hearing his voice. This change made it stand out from other figure news videos where you would just hear the audio of the YouTuber and see the image of the figure. These videos statistically also did the best on his channel along with Claw and Order. Although in October he became more experimental trying to make more different types of content such as longer figure films like "The Hoover Snooter Awakening" or even just talking about random topics that had nothing to due with Dinosaurs. The ladder of which actually was responsible for a second surge in popularity. One of the random topics he chose to discuss was One Night At Flumpty's 3 which he did via a tier list video. He wanted to make a video about it because he had always loved the games and this third game would be the finale to the series. So he Ranked all the characters over the course of those three games. It started out surprisingly as a flop with 66 views in the first day below average for a Sketchy video and not very promising. But by the end of the week it broke 825 views and to this day has just over 250,000 views. Helping him fly past 3 thousand subscribers on route to four thousand. He also made serious and informative content that had to do with Dinosaurs bringing back Sketchy Analytics after a whole year and a half on hiatus for an episode about Papo and even starting a Dinosaur figure series called The Dinosaur Protege at the end of the year. 
==Series==
===Sketchy Sketches===
Sketchy Sketches is wastebucket playlist that encompasses the majority of Sketchy's sketch comedy videos from over the years. These vids or sketches can fall into different sub categories. Some are just self contained stories and others are parodies of upcoming dinosaur media such as for example parodying Jurassic World Dominion before it got released. 
===New Figure Thoughts===
By views alone his second most popular series on the channel New Figure Thoughts mainly covers Sketchy's opinions on new figures that have been announced. Mainly in figures that will be set to release next year especially from companies like Schleich, Safari Ltd, PNSO,Mattel,CollectA, and Papo. It initially started out with a simple editing formula where you would see the image of the figure in question and just hear Sketchy talk about it. However, at the start of the 2021 he changed the formula in it's 45th episode "New Beasts Of The Mesozoic Tyrannosaur Series Bistahieversor Images" where he talked about the aforementioned dinosaur figure images but instead appearing on camera via green screen. It is now the most viewed episode reaching over 4 thousand views. With only one exception since then every episode after that has maintained this formula with Sketchy talking on camera with the figure images as the background.
===Prehistoric Figure Review===
A series very similar to others on the internet Prehistoric Figure Review is a simple show about Sketchy reviewing dinosaur figures and models in a very critical and formulaic manner. Every episode he rates out of 10 the figures paint job. How well it is applied how colorful it is and if it's durable. it's pose or pose ability if it is articulated. Either scientific accuracy if its a model or articulation/action feature (if it has one) if it's an action figure like the Jurassic World Amber Collection. And detail how nicely things like scales and feathers are applied on the figure or model. The figure will lastly be given a final rating out of ten that averages the four previous scores and is rounded to the nearest quarter (.25,.50.75)
===Stupid Dinosaur Comments===
A commentary series where Sketchy will go through certain parts of the Dinosaur community and find the most poorly worded and stupid dinosaur comments out there. The sections of the community mainly include Dinosaur show fan bases, youtube channels, and Dinosaur debates that are filled with comments that many people would find cringy or laughable. Such as the debate over Spinosaurus vs T-Rex and the shipping of Dinosaurs like the ones from Jurassic World and other parts of the Dinosaur community that others love to laugh at.
===Sketchy Tributes===
By views alone, this is Sketchy's most popular series with two of his top three most viewed youtube videos being tribute videos. The videos mainly consist of dinosaur shows or just prehistory, in general, being edited to a song (usually a rock or metal one but there are exceptions). However, amongst his community, the tributes are rather split in opinion due to viewers of his tributes going outside of his regular commenters and fans. Some of his regular fans enjoy them but others prefer his other series's significantly finding the tributes to be edgy and even cringy. Due to this and the fact it takes more time to make a tribute then his other series's they are irregularly made and the most recent videos that fit this theme have been uploaded to his second channel Some Smart Sketch Show Guy due to either being non dinosaur themed or being MEP (Multi Editor Project) parts. It is the only series on Sketchy's channel to make this transition. 
===Dinotube Achievements===
Another popular but now infrequant series on the channel Dinotube Achievements mainly goes over the community of Dinosaur YouTubers AKA Dinotubers and goes over which members of it excel the best at something. Such as who streams the longest, who has the best collection, or who reviews figures the best ETC. The series was in early 2020 intended to end with a couple of "final achievements" due to a lack of ideas. But only one of these was ever made and the series instead took an extended break with Sketchy making similar show called Sketchy Analytics. However the when Sketchy Analytics stopped (and is now unlisted with only two public episodes from that time) Dinotube Achievements came back with a slightly better more nuanced style. Now a days the episodes only come out every once in a while usually when Sketchy doesn't have an idea for a video for that week. 
=== Sketchy Talks About Other Stuff ===
A very irregular and unscheduled series. It is a blanket series that covers the times where Sketchy goes out of his way to talk about a topic that has nothing to do with Dinosaurs. It could be literally anything else which each of the five current videos in the playlist all focusing on completely different subjects. Weather it be Godzilla, Youtube Rewind, or Pokemon. Typically this means this means these videos are less succesful than his main videos for obvious reasons but on rare occasions it has found him new audiences. Such as his Tier List of the One Night At Flumpty's characters exploding past 300,000 views and gaining him 1.5 thousand new subscribers. 
=== Sketchy Analytics ===
A series that originally was started in late 2019, with the most popular episodes being the Rise And Fall Of The Dinotube Community Parts 1 and 2. Other vids from that time soon followed covering a wide variety of topics such as COPPA, or the supposed end of a dinosaur company called Vitae which was thought to have been discontinued. But most of these were eventually removed with only two of the original 5 episodes still being public. Mainly because these videos either proved to be outdated with new information coming out about the topics being discussed. Like Vitae returning less than a year after the vids initial release. Or opinions shown in vids like the Rise And Fall Of The Dinotube Community videos, Sketchy no longer associated with. He abandoned the series for over a year and a half but has tried to bring it back with newer higher quality videos under a new style with some success but the series is still infrequent on his channel. 
===My Opinion On Every Figure===
An irregular but still fan favorite series. My Opinion On Every Figure From A Figure Making Company (Shortened to just My Opinion On Every Figure). Was Inspired by a pokemon a video made by The Aura Guardian called "My Opinion on EVERY Pokémon [Generation 1 to 7]." In it Aura Guardian covered his opinions on all 800+ pokemon from the first 7 generations just 17 minutes. This style of video was adapted into My Opinion On Every Figure where instead of Pokemon Sketchy goes over brands that make dinosaur figures such as Safari Ltd, or Beasts Of The Mesozoic, Then in a timely manner he quickly gives his opinions on every figure from that line. Usually these opinions are at best a sentence or two long and can be as short as one word or a bad cgi explosion/cutaway used for comedic effect when Sketchy really hates a figure. Depending on how big the line is these videos can be as short as 2 minutes or as long as 15. 
==Other Channels==
===Some Smart Sketch Show Guy===
This channel was a side project by Sketchy where he tried to make skits with a character called Giga Zebra Saurus. However, he lost the motivation to try these skits quickly and abandoned the channel. Since then the channels niche has been very mixed but its general reason to exist has been to make shitposts and other random content that simply would not fit on Sketchy's main channel.
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