Cousins' Productions

Cousins' Productions (formerly FNAF Cousins) is an American YouTube channel created by Cousins and Taco. The content posted on it is currently gaming-related videos, but sometimes videos about other topics are uploaded. The channel gained the majority of its popularity from making Wii tutorials. The channel now has over 2.5K subscribers and has collected around 800,000 views in total.
==The beginning==
The Cousins' Productions channel was created on the 17th of December, 2016. The first publicly available video on the channel, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate World of Light Pt. 1, was uploaded on December 10, 2018. In the video, Cousins was playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on the Nintendo Switch. However, this is not the first video on the channel. They had actually created many videos before this one. The videos were FNAF Plush videos containing characters from FNAF, Sonic, Mario, and other franchises. They made a series which was about 2 seasons long containing a total of around 50 videos. Cousins and Taco made these videos until they got bored of the concept. After they stopped filming FNAF Plush videos, they renamed their channel to Cousins' Productions. Since they made videos which used to be public, they gained a few subscribers. They got 50 subscribers on September 2, 2017. Even before he made his first currently public video, they hit 100 subscribers on November 12, 2018. 
Their first publicly available video was mentioned above, where Cousins played Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Cousins then made another video playing the same video game and titled it Super Smash Bros. Ultimate World of Light Pt. 2. Cousins uploaded another video of him reacting to Persona 5 being added in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and named the video Persona 5 in Smash LIVE REACTION!. The next video was more gameplay of the game but the next video he created was the first publicly available unboxing video on his channel. He then uploaded a video playing New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe and the video was called New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe Pt. 5 (100%) + Channel Updates, which indicates that older videos of this series were made private or deleted. This video was also the last video in the series. This series was a playthrough with Cousins and Taco, where they played together and finished the game. 
In the next video, Cousins unboxed a Funko Pop and then he would create a gaming series. Cousins would try to 100% complete one of the most favored Mario games of all time, Super Mario Galaxy. Cousins made six Mario Galaxy videos in a row before he uploaded another Funko Pop Unboxing video. Cousins then made another six videos in a row playing Super Mario Galaxy before two more Funko Pop unboxing videos. Cousins uploaded only one Super Mario Galaxy video before another Funko Pop Unboxing video, With a mix of Funko Pop unboxing videos, gaming videos from other video games, and the videos by Cousins. The Super Mario Galaxy series by Cousins was finally wrapped up in the 34th video titled Super Mario Galaxy! Pt. 34 The Grand Finale! (720p HD). Videos at this time gained around 50 views and it was around this time where his fans noticed his voice got much deeper. 
His first video to get over 200 views was How to fix input lag on game consoles! where Cousins made one of his first tutorial videos on the channel. This video was made during the Super Mario Galaxy series he created. After Cousins completed the Super Mario Galaxy series, he uploaded a video named This could be the end of our channel. (COPPA). In this video, Cousins expressed his feelings about the enforced Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and how it could ruin his channel. It ended up not ruining his channel and the videos kept on being published by the two cousins. After this brief video, Cousins and Taco uploaded a mix of Minecraft Creative videos and Super Mario Maker 2 videos. 
==The rise==
Cousins began a new gaming series where he tried to 100% Sonic Colors. But after a few videos of that series and a Funko Pop unboxing video by Cousins, he uploaded a video on January 7, 2020 called How to Install The Homebrew Channel on the Wii! (UPDATED TUTORIAL IN DESC.). It was a different type of video than the previous videos he made. This video gained lots of views and is now currently the 2nd most viewed video on the entirety of the channel. He later added "(UPDATED TUTORIAL IN DESC.)" in 2021 after he made an updated tutorial. After a while, Cousins realized that the homebrew tutorial video was gaining a lot of views, so he made another Wii tutorial a few days later, this time showing how to install Riivolution. That video also gained many views, so Cousins uploaded a video titled How to Install Newer Super Mario Bros Wii!. This video was a tutorial video on how to install one of the most popular mods on the Wii. This video gained tons of views and is currently the 3rd most viewed video on the channel.
It was around this time that Taco had suddenly disappeared from videos. Cousins announced that they could no longer make videos together anymore since Taco moved away. Taco uploaded around 2-3 videos/streams on the channel before Cousins announced that Taco will no longer upload videos on the channel. Taco said he wanted to restart his YouTube career, so he created a new channel called Imaginary Taco.
After the sudden demand of Wii tutorials, Cousins started to upload more and more tutorials, each gaining a lot of views. While Cousins was getting lots of views and fans, he wasn't gaining many subscribers. Around this time, when his videos were getting tens of thousands of views, he had still yet to reach 200 subscribers. Eventually, he made a live stream of him hitting the milestone, but it was very slow compared to how fast his views were climbing. Cousins uploaded a few more Sonic Colors videos and even stated in a video that he will upload one video every weekday playing through Sonic Colors. He eventually completed the series after various different types of videos. On February 23, 2020, he uploaded a video titled How to Install and Setup USB Loader GX on the Wii!. This video would change the face of his channel and give him lots of subscribers and views. The video would gain an astonishing 185K views and it would become his most popular video on the whole channel.
Cousins started to grind on these tutorials with them still gaining lots of views. Different tutorials would become his 4th most popular video, 5th most popular video, and so on. Suddenly, he stopped doing tutorials frequently and switched back to gaming-related videos. Every once in a while, he would make a tutorial but now it was easier to find gaming content on the channel. He also uploaded videos like Funko Pop Collection and him speedrunning Super Mario Odyssey again. He played many more games on the Nintendo Switch and a few more series. Cousins even made a few episodes of him playing Minecraft Story Mode. After completing the game, views were going down a bit so Cousins created one of his most memorable series.
Cousins created a new series where he tried to complete ever New Super Mario Bros. game. He started with part 1 on June 23, 2020 right after he finished Minecraft Story Mode. People enjoyed the video. He jumped from DS to Wii to 3DS to Switch to complete all five New Super Mario Bros. games. While trying to complete all the games, he and his fans encountered lots of new things. A few trolls started showing up, interrupting the stream. There were also lots of new fans, despite recent videos not gaining many views. Fans also got to see rage moments. For the first time in a long time, fans were able to see Cousins rage. He raged on a level in New Super Mario Bros. U, and you can see him fail at a level and rage here. Eventually he finished the series with many struggles. After he finished the series, he made a few ranking videos. He then started streaming himself playing Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii. He completed that game and he is now trying to complete one of the harder NSMBW mods; Another Super Mario Bros. Wii.
On April 7, 2021, Cousins uploaded his first #Shorts video on his channel. The video was about an Easter Egg in Sonic Unleashed. Only two days later on the 9th of April, he uploaded his second #Shorts video in a row. Around this time it seemed like Cousins was interesting and having fun in the concept of #Shorts. He started uploading lots of #Shorts videos, most of them about Sonic games.
==Trivia==
*He likes Sonic, but also likes Mario as Mario has better games.
==Gallery==
Here are the Profile Pictures from the Cousins' Productions channel over the years.
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Pride_month_profile_pic.jpg|The Cousins' Productions discord server icon for June
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2016