Chad Warden

Chad Warden was an online persona created by Anthony Pinto that is often regarded as one of YouTube's most infamous trolls. He is also a prominent figure and meme on the SiIvaGunner channel.
== History ==
=== Chad's first video ===
On March 13, 2007, Anthony Pinto created a YouTube account under the username "chadwardenn" and uploaded a video titled "Why PS3 is better than the Wii and 360". In the video, he touched on a variety of topics, including women, geometry, the viability of sword-wielding protagonists in a world with guns, and the color of his hair, but it essentially consisted of six main points:
* Of the three main video game consoles available in 2007, the PlayStation 3 has the best selection of games.
* The Nintendo Wii's controller resembles an artificial penis and is therefore unfit for gaming.
* The Wii should copy how to get good games.
* The Xbox 360's selection of games is so lackluster that it may as well have no games at all.
* Girls can't do shit, other than suck dick.
* At $599, the PlayStation 3 is an easily affordable purchase.
Three of these points were direct refutations of common criticisms of the PlayStation 3. It is unclear if the Wii's controller had ever been compared to a sex toy before Warden's video.
In accordance with the standards of early YouTube videos about video games, Warden's video was of him holding a camera up to his face and talking into it. It had several cuts; these have never been explained. The video appeared to have been shot in the daytime in a well-lit room adjacent to a bathroom.
Reaction to the video was largely negative, as many people were quick to take the statements in the video at face value, not realizing that Warden was most likely a troll. Warden was criticized not only for the arguments that he made, but also for his production choices (use of Jim Jones' "We Fly High" as intro and outro music, swiveling in his chair) and his choice of words (frequent use of swears and racial epithets, referring to the PlayStation 3 as the "P.S. Triple"). Some believed that the video was merely an attempt at viral marketing by Sony.
=== Chad's second video ===
Along with writing negative and critical comments on the original video, many people were quick to create video responses to harshly criticize and insult Chad and his views. One of these people was a YouTube user named "ThatFunkyHippo", who uploaded a video response. In this video, a man wearing a hoodie expressed doubt that Warden had a job or could afford a PlayStation 3 and then demanded that he "get off the internet" and YouTube.
On March 19, 2007, Chad Warden uploaded a video titled "Chad nigga be ballin", which was primarily a response to ThatFunkyHippo's video response. In this video, Warden disproved the allegations first by driving around for a bit in his Cadillac Escalade, an expensive vehicle. He then cut away from his computer screen to show two piles of $100 bills spread out on his desk. After dismissively knocking several of the bills onto his floor, he turned the camera on his face and mocked his critic for being proven incorrect.
Like Warden's first video, "Chad nigga be ballin" received mostly negative reviews soon after it was uploaded.
=== Chad's third video ===
Chad Warden uploaded his third video, which was titled "Why the PS3 is better than the Wii/360 PART 2 NIGGAZ", on April 16, 2007. He shifted his focus from the PlayStation 3's and its competitors' overall qualities to each console's games. The ones that he discussed were:
* , which he dismissed as a toilet repair-based game whose protagonist had entered the country illegally
* Devil May Cry 4, which he dismissed for its cowardly portrayal of Satan
* The series, which he dismissed for the absence of, among other things, hydroponically grown marijuana, 40-oz. alcoholic beverages, and the sipping of "syrup", also known as "purple drank". Warden also regards the inability to eat a mushroom-resembling character as disappointing, referencing psychedelic mushrooms.
* , which he dismissed for lacking any African-American characters
Instead of talking about the PlayStation 3's games, Warden offered hypothetical PS3 alternatives to the games that he criticized - namely, , , and He also explained the secret to Sony's success in ensuring that the PlayStation 3 had the best selection of games: a policy and acronym known as A.B.A.P. that required any potential PlayStation 3 game to be "As Ballin As Possible."
Warden's third video had even more frequent and more obvious cuts in it than his first one. Some came in the middle of sentences, and others jumped to Warden in a different place from the one he had previously been in. Like those in his first video, no explanation for the cuts has ever come forth.
=== Disappearance ===
On May 2, 2008,Chad Warden retires from youtube - bigballin610baby - YouTube the chadwardenn YouTube channel was deleted along with all of the original videos. Re-uploads of all his videos still exist on YouTube, but the reasons for this decision still remain unknown.
=== Reappearance ===
On February 21, 2013, a photograph of Chad Warden was taken and posted online on 4chan. The image showed Chad holding a piece of paper that read "2/21/13 STILL BALLIN". Many fans speculated that Chad Warden did this in relation to the announcement of the PS4's release which had occurred the day before on 2/20/13. Since then, the Chad Warden persona has made no other appearances on the Internet. The real person who created and acted Chad Warden, Anthony Pinto, has been spotted in public several times with tweets revealing him. In 2016, Reddit user NoThnxIAlreadyAte spotted him at Super Magfest, a Maryland gaming convention. Polygon creator Nick Robinson took a picture with him at 2017 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. He was spotted again by Matthew Lovenzka at Super Magfest in 2018. In 2019, Twitter users Preston Kwan and ssbshears spotted Chad at a Super Smash Bros. tournament and at the Salty Suite.
== Memes ==
After the first video was uploaded, Chad Warden gained fame in the YTMND and YouTube Poop communities, generating numerous amounts of memetic responses to his popular videos. One form of video in particular was to take the Chad Warden videos and "sentence-mix" them to make it sound like Chad Warden is saying different things. This fame would continue as more videos were uploaded to the chadwardenn channel. Anthony Pinto has never publicly acknowledged any memes of his videos.
== SiIvaGunner ==
The first instance of Chad Warden on SiIvaGunner was "Main Theme - Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty", which used a sound clip of Chad saying the word 'dick'.
The first well-known use of Chad Warden's videos was "MEGALOVANIA (OST Version) - Undertale", in which Chad, through the usage of sentence mixing, expressed his approval of rips using "Snow halation" and his disapproval of people who frequently dislike these rips "just because [the rips are] Asian". He urged people to stop "dislike-bombing", as he put it, which many people did after this video was uploaded.
The next notable video featuring Chad was "Megalovania (Beta Mix) - EarthBound Halloween Hack". In this video, Chad expressed sentiments that were similar to the ones in his last video, but this time, he explained how he didn't care if people didn't like "Snow halation", but he did care about people dislike-bombing in general, as this would ruin the surprise for others. He also stated that this hate movement around "Snow halation" sets a negative precedent for quality rips.
During SilvaGunner: Rebooted, Chad Warden was approached by The Voice Inside Your Head to decide the fate of the SiIvaGunner channel. The Voice accused Chad of causing the "civil" war in the fan base over "Snow halation", and so moved the channel to an alternate reality where several memes were replaced (such as "Snow halation" with "GO MY WAY!!"). Chad hates this prospect and the "new" SiIvaGunner, so The Voice offers Chad a way to reverse the hatred: merge the two universes together, but remove "Snow halation".
Chad accepts the deal, merging the two universes and causing "Snow halation" to disappear. However, it is revealed that "Snow halation" was not destroyed, and Chad makes a speech praising "Snow halation" and stressing that SiIvaGunner would not be the same without it. Chad sacrifices himself to kill the Voice, but later The Voice returns...
In an alternate ending/universe, Chad betrays The Voice and kills "Snow halation". He takes over the channel, and makes everything ABAP (As Ballin' As Possible).
==Gallery==
Title Theme & Ending - 7 GRAND DAD 16.png|Behind the "THANK YOU" in "Title Theme & Ending - 7 GRAND DAD"
Chad Warden - SHF1.png|Chad Warden and the MF Like Button by Sonicheroesfan1 seen in the 7th Anniversary Collage.
== Trivia ==
* "[The SilvaGunner Timeline: A Summary of Events]" incorrectly states that the first Chad Warden video was uploaded on May 13, 2007.
* There exists a group of people known as the New Warden Order that created an fansite dedicated to Chad Warden.The Official Chad Warden Fansite One member of the New Warden Order is Triple-Q.The New Warden Order - The Official Chad Warden Fansite
*According to later tweets made before the channel ending, it appears that SiIvaGunner had forgotten about Chad Warden."Anyone remember this guy? I feel like I used to know him... but I can't quite remember." - Tweet by @GiIvaSunner. Twitter. October 5, 2016"I think I used to talk to him, but then he suddenly.. just disappeared. I don't know what happened to him, I hope he's doing well." - Tweet by @GiIvaSunner. Twitter. October 5, 2016
== See also ==
* The MF Like Button
== External links ==
*Archives
** "The Complete Chad Warden Collection" (Re-uploads of all of Chad's videos) - YouTube
** chadwardenn's YouTube channel - WayBack Machine
** "Why PS3 is better than the Wii and 360" - chadwardenn - YouTube - WayBack Machine
** "Chad nigga be ballin" - chadwardenn - YouTube - WayBack Machine
** "Why the PS3 is Better than the 360/Wii PART 2 NIGGAZ" by chadwardenn - YouTube - WayBack Machine
** "The Chadwardenn Wiki" - WayBack Machine
*Information
**"Chadwardenn" - Know Your Meme
**"The Official Chad Warden Fansite"
**"SiIvaGunner Explained: The Reboot & Chad Warden (feat. Xarlable)" by 123zc1 - YouTube
**Rips featuring - YouTube playlist by Aidan Zamboni.
== References ==
Category:Memes
Category:Characters
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