Sparkzie

Sparkzie (born: ), formerly known as Sparkz Animates, is an American YouTuber known for her gaming and animation videos.
== Content ==
Sparkz's content used to consist of animated storytime videos talking about her real life experiences but she began making gaming videos featuring her character playing the game in the bottom corner. She has also done many videos featuring her Spinel impression while playing various video games, such as Among Us and Five Nights at Freddy's, but as of now she has moved on from making gaming content based around the Spinel persona and focuses on videos with her own personality.
== History ==
Sparkz created her channel on June 7, 2019, but wouldn't upload until August of that year. Her first video was an introduction video, welcoming viewers to her channel. She created a few animated storytime videos until uploading her first Spinel related video, "I reanimated other friends because I'm scared of Spinel" on December 20, 2019. This video would quickly become popular and her channel would grow substantially afterward. She followed it up with a thank you video 6 days later.
Sparkz entered 2020 with an already decent following of a few thousand subscribers. Her channel would continue to grow as she posted more storytimes. Many people around this time, especially on TikTok, began to acknowledge how Sparkz's voice sounded exceptionally similar to that of Spinel from the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe. Sparkz would soon address this. On April 4, 2020, she started the "Spinel Plays" series, an array of videos of Sparkz using her Spinel impression to act as if Spinel was a gaming YouTuber doing let's plays. The first video in the series featured Spinel playing The Impossible Quiz. This series was wildly successful and Sparkz's channel would see another boom, this one bigger than the last. At the beginning of April 2020, Sparkz had around 5,000 subscribers. At the beginning of May 2020, her channel had surpassed 12,000 subscribers. Her channel would continue to see large growth throughout 2020 as she posted more Spinel Plays videos. The most recent installment in the series, "Among Us Spinel Plays ..." was uploaded on September 20, 2020.
Sparkz has moved on from uploading Spinel videos and went back to making animated storytimes and commentaries. After posting several storytime videos she began making gaming videos once again, but featuring herself playing rather than the character of Spinel. 
== Trivia ==
* Her favorite color is bubblegum pink.
* Sparkz would describe herself in one word as 'expressive'.
* Sparkz animates in RoughAnimator, and previously animated in FlipaClip.
* She edits using CapCut.
== Channel milestones ==
=== Subscriber milestones ===
* 1,000 subscribers: November 15, 2019
* 10,000 subscribers: April 19, 2020
* 50,000 subscribers: September 10, 2020
=== Video view milestones ===
* 100,000 video views: April 12, 2020
* 1 million video views: May 20, 2020
* 5 million video views: August 13, 2020
* 10 million video views: March 28, 2022
== Gallery ==
File:Sparkz Animates.jpg|Old YouTube icon.
File:Sparkzie's Ref Sheet.jpg|Sparkzie's Reference sheet, can be found on her Twitter.
File:Sparkzie-Other.jpg|An alternative icon that's used in her Instagram.
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2019