EricVanWilderman

Eric Wilderman (born: ), better known online as EricVanWilderman or EVW, is a Canadian gamer. In the early days of his channel, Eric focused primarily on RPG horror games and recorded let's plays for games such as Corpse Party: Blood Covered, Ib, and Mogeko Castle. Eric's channel began to reach a new audience when he branched out into Super Mario Maker and Geometry Dash.
==RPG Horror==
When Eric started his channel, he was working as an English teacher, later moving to a house in South Korea to teach there. During this time Eric began exploring RPG maker games after a foray in other games such as Catherine, Gal Gun, and the Fatal Frame series. Some of the first games that Eric played during this time were Sleepless Night 2, The House 2, The Witch's House, and Mad Father. However, it wasn't until the release of his let's play of Corpse Party: Blood Covered for PSP that Eric's channel gained a larger albeit niche audience. Eric would go on to make lets plays for its sequels Corpse Party: Book of Shadows and Corpse Party: Blood Drive. This period slowly came to a close when Eric started his series on Five Nights at Freddy's and Geometry Dash, which became a surprise hit. He later picked up Mario Maker and it attracted many people, to the point where his videos were split nearly 50/50 until he separated his channels to appease the YouTube algorithm.
==Geometry Dash==
Geometry Dash is Eric's most played game, which is also the game he is famous for. The first episode was on December 28, 2014. He had 119,500 subscribers at the time. He has beaten several extreme demons, namely Cataclysm, Ice Carbon Diablo X (which is now an insane demon), Aftermath, Quest for Perfection (just like the one down below, it was an extreme demon when he beat it but an insane demon now) NecropoliX, Bloodbath, Temple of Destiny (which is now an insane demon, but was an extreme when he completed it), Phobos, Artificial Ascent, Digital Descent (his current hardest) Down Bass, Sakupen Hell and Black Blizzard. He has also verified several levels: Subterranean Animism, Astral Nebula, and Cosmic Festival, and a 240 hz bugfix of Hi by KrmaL. He now has more than a million subscribers and uploads content on his recently created Mario Maker channel as well (which has more than 15k subscribers). Eric's three most popular series for Geometry Dash are the Recent Levels series, Impossible or Not series, the Five Demons in One Video series, the 100 Lives Playing a Level of Each Difficulty series and 12 Demon of Christmas series.
==Wilderman Weekends==
A series of videos Eric recorded that weren't scripted and typically involved his travels in South Korea or other real life topics.
==Trivia==
*Eric is 6'2".
*The description of his main channel, EricVanWilderman reads "I play games. I'm pretty good at them sometimes." and is where his Geometry Dash videos are published. He occasionally streams Geometry Dash there, but not by any sort of regular schedule.
*He has two alternate channels, EricVanWildermanMM and EricVanWildermanHorror, for Mario Maker and Horror, respectively. He separated his channels in January 2020 so that the YouTube algorithm would recommend his videos more often to more people.
*Eric also has a Twitch channel, twitch.tv/ericvanwilderman, where he streams mostly Super Mario Maker on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights starting around 8 PM Eastern. He is also a competitor in Division B of GSA's Mario Maker Expert Mode League, streamed on Friday nights on the official GSA channel, which started in January 2020 and ends in early May.
*Eric has beaten Artifical Ascent, an extreme demon collaboration hosted by ViPriN.
*Eric was born in Canada, but lives in South Korea with his wife and his son, Taylor.
*“van” in Dutch means “of”, the reason why Eric picked that word is currently unknown.
*He also won the "Most Favorite Content Creator of All Time" award in the Geometry Dash 10-Year Anniversary video, with a whopping 3717 votes.
*Eric is known for the phrases he uses when explaining if a level in Geometry Dash is possible or not called "POSSIBLE!" and "IMPOSSIBLE!" possibly due to his voice tone when saying them.
*His current hardest completion is Digital Descent, beaten on October 12, 2022.
==Subscriber Milestones==
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