Modest Pelican

Geoff H, better known online as Modest Pelican (formerly Modest Pelican Gaming), is an Australian gaming YouTuber who began his career making primarily videos often with intentionally humorous narration. He has since branched out to playing a number of different games, especially Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Hitman 2, Red Dead Online, Watch Dogs 2, Watch Dogs: Legion and Grand Theft Auto Online. His focus has also shifted over the years from somewhat serious gameplay videos to completely comedic takes on games. Recently, Modest Pelican has been creating overarching stories for his characters in the games he plays, often spanning numerous videos or even entire series.
==History==
Modest Pelican Gaming created his YouTube account in 2013 but didn't post any videos until Autumn of 2016https://www.youtube.com/ModestPelicanGaming when he began posting primarily Battlefield I gameplay montages. Although his videos were never particularly serious, after the first six or so months of posting, Modest Pelican's videos began to become more and more comedic. It was also around this time that he began to branch out in terms of video format, often focusing not on a gameplay highlight reel but on an aspect of the game that he wished to speak in-depth about. He produced nearly 100 videos in this way before deciding to branch out from Battlefield formula in October of 2018https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKa-SLBNCo8 to make a video on Red Dead Redemption 2.
After the release of a month later Modest Pelican began alternating between posting his traditional Battlefield videos for Battlefield V and posting new videos depicting the violent exploits of Papa Pelican, a character and narrative created by Modest Pelican for use in Red Dead Redemption 2's online mode. Likely recognizing the success of the latter video series, Modest Pelican began gradually transitioning his channel away from Battlefield videos and towards other games in early 2019https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaUGaQwMHNM. He tested out numerous different games around this time including Hitman 2, , , and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmWuTGgH0ePB33biS1OA-BQ/videos.
On March 31st, 2019https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VhpX7SjEFI, Modest Pelican released the first video in his Thickman takes over Los Santos series, chronicling the narrative he created for his character, Thickman, in Grand Theft Auto Online. Since the release of the first Thickman video, Modest Pelican has limited his videos to primarily covering Grand Theft Auto Online, Red Dead Online, and Hitman 2. However, he also plays Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, DayZ, and an assortment of other games from time to time.
On December 6th, 2020, Modest Pelican hit 1 million subscribers. He celebrated by making a video of him jokingly naming future channels that he would create. As of September 2023, Modest Pelican is sitting at 2.18 million subscribers.
==Collaboration==
 Modest Pelican frequently features some of his online friends in videos, especially in his GTA V and RDR2 episodes. The group calls themselves "The Sons of Virgins" and, as of February 23rd, 2020https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSoW1E1Wem0, consists of nine members. Certain comments made during videos imply that Jesus Christ may be an honorary member of the Son's of Virgins.
==Personality ==
Modest Pelican is a highly sarcastic individual who narrates his gameplay clips in an ironically deadpan voice. Modest Pelican seems generally easygoing from his vlogs and is often so indifferent to the fate of the character he is controlling that he lets them die just for the fun of it. Modest Pelican has been known to go on killing sprees in Red Dead Redemption at random, often singling out a specific player and killing them again and again and again. Aside from these occasional outbursts, Modest Pelican is usually courteous to real players during online encounters, often asking them if they would like to join him on his absurd quest, whatever it may be.
Modest Pelican frequently requests that his viewers remember to stay hydrated. In fact, he generally seems to have an "obsession" with drinking water. It can be assumed that this is mostly said as a joke, however, it is unclear where this quirky phrase originated. It is possible it originated from the channel name, as pelicans have large lower beaks for holding large amounts of water, however this may just be a coincidence.
==Personal Life==
While little is known about Modest Pelican, it is known that he currently resides in Australia. Modest Pelican's first name is Geoff and he has a girlfriend named Anna. Geoff H has a younger sister and at least one other sibling. Modest Pelican has said to be 27 in a Podcast Of DarkViperAU. He began the channel while still in college but now considers "YouTuber" to be his profession. In "We spent $1M on these cars but didn’t expect this.." he claims that before quitting his day job, his boss showed his wife one of his videos, who watched in horror as he "mowed people down with my supercar".
=== Philanthropy===
On January 5th, 2020, Modest Pelican announced that all money made from that day's video would go towards helping firemen fight the bushfires ravaging much of Australia at the timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5-e-n26zOU&t=19s.
==Thiccman takes over Los Santos==
"Thiccman takes over Los Santos" is an ongoing series that follows the exploits of , a supposedly retired hitman who moves to Los Santos and attempts to become the most feared man in the city by selling drugs and robbing a wide assortment of institutions including banks, casinos, and recently, a private island. Thiccman formed a feared gang called "Sons Of Virgins" with people named "Boys Boys Boys"
==Background==
First created by Modest Pelican on March 31 2019, Thiccman Takes Over Los Santos is set in the fictional city of Los Santos in Grand Theft Auto Online. The protagonist is an alternate version of Agent 47 from the Hitman series. The series follows the life of Agent 47 who has retired from being a professional assassin and must now face life in the GTA Online world. 
==Plot Synopsis==
Having lost his job as an international hitman, Agent 47 (aka Thiccman) finds himself in Los Santos with only a few thousand dollars to his name and without his signature red tie (its fate is unclear). In an effort to get his life back on track and recover from losing the job that had pretty much defined him, Thickman hijacks an SUV, buys a new red tie, meets up with his friend, Crosby, and decides that his new objective in life will be to become a drug/crime lord and take over Los Santos. He starts his new life of crime by holding up a convenience store and participating in an illegal street race for RC cars before visiting a nightclub. At the nightclub, Thickman and Crosby decide to intercept an in-progress bank heist and steal the money for themselves. Traveling in an armored vehicle owned by Crosby, the duo eliminate the robbers and lose the cops after an intense firefight. Upon completing the mission, Thickman and Crosby hold up several more stores, earning Thickman enough to purchase his first home, a dumpy apartment that "looks like a drug den."
==Trivia==
*Modest Pelican claims to have broken up with his grade-school girlfriend in order to get more time to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
*While Modest Pelican has stated on multiple occasions that his real first name is Geoff and the first initial of his last name is "H", his full surname remains a mystery.
*Modest Pelican has a cat named Tony, which can be seen from time to time during vlogs or vlog portions of videos.
*Geoff's grandfather served in World War II, being a member of an unspecified branch of the Australian Armed Services. 
*In one video he jokingly states that Hydration, Communism and Christianity are the Holy Trinity of Modest Pelican
*Although he often refers to himself as a Christian Music channel, his first album is due to release fall 2026
==Quotes ==
*Hi lads and lasses, Modest Pelican here with _. If you enjoy this video, please _ as this really helps spread the good word of my channel. (The catchphrase at the beginning of Modest Pelican’s videos (up until around late 2022), jokingly asking his viewers to do something illegal or dangerous. Example: Hi lads and lasses, Modest Pelican here with Hitman 2. If you enjoy this video, please assassinate a few public figures and then broadcast a message stating that the killings won’t stop unless the world subscribes to Modest Pelican, as this really helps spread the good word of my channel.)
*Remember to stay classy! (a classic Modest Pelican outro/his catchphrase)
*Meet Thickman, a retired assassin who is on a mission to become the most powerful crime lord in Los Santos, whilst also ensuring he stays sufficiently hydrated at all times. These are the "boys, boys, boys," and together they form a feared gang known as the Sons of Virgins, these are their stories. (His GTA Online/Sons of Virgins intro.)
*I think it says a lot about society …(a Modest Pelican catchphrase, usually proceeding something illegal happening in game e.g. We’re chasing somebody down the street with a chainsaw, I think it says a lot about society that nobody’s doing anything about this)
*I ... to assert dominance (a Modest Pelican catchphrase, usually something that harms or kills another player or character)
*A Christian Music Channel (Often by Modest Pelican used to describe his channel satirically)
*As a power play … (This phrase varies and is used to describe an action either he, another player or a character does in game that makes the other characters or players seem less powerful, e.g. “They both sit in the back, I think this must be a power play to make me feel like their taxi driver”
*We leave Sapienza as the hero the world needs, but not the one it deserves to need, but rather a hero in need of some desert (a quote from “I visited an Italian Coastal town and THIS HAPPENED”, as a satire of the quote from The Dark Knight “He’s the hero Gotham deserves but not the one it needs right now”
*(Comparing being dehydrated to war crimes)
*Yeah, Nah, Yeah, Nah, Yeah, Nah, Yeah, Nah, Yeah, Nah Mate (Often used to sum up a conversation in a game, usually in a cutscene)
*Dodgy Malaka
*Be a PeliCAN, not a PeliCAN’T
*Top 10 saddest gaming moments (A catchphrase often used by Modest Pelican when something satirically “sad” happens in game. He usually says this when parting with his briefcase in a Hitman video)
== References ==
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