The Mannii Show

Manuel Jesus "MJ" Santamaria (age: 23), better known online as The Mannii Show, or simply Mannii, is an American YouTuber primarily known for his YouTube Shorts-based content. He is also known for his TikTok account called "The Mannii", which currently has 24 million followers.
==Content==
Mannii's content usually consists of other TikTok audios paired with him reenacting them by dressing up as characters. He created a YouTube series called The Mannii Show on YouTube. He mainly who posts comedy skits, POV (point-of-view) humor, pranks, character impressions, and storytime videos. He often makes stitches reacting to other creators' content.
==Criticism==
Much like other Shorts creators such as Speed McQueen and Masteroogwgay, Mannii has faced criticism due to his content being widely regarded as unfunnyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F88o30NJvJ4?feature=shared, stereotypeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Na8LXrroH4?feature=shared, and stealing other people's content.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmnTiXrYU8c?feature=shared He was also criticized by YouTubers CocoCrazy, RadiantBritt for supporting and glorifying serial killer and rapist Jeffrey Dahmer.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpgKNT81wN0&t=133shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmiYYIx849A&t=57s Another user also uploaded a compilation video accusing him of being obssessed with Dahmer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z0rcktxpIQ?si=UfxyyUuVWhjX5UEI
Mannii has also been criticized for his merchandise, which consists of clothing with A.I.-generated art, as well as stolen jokes and designs. Commentary YouTuber Soggy Cereal pointed out in his video "Bad YouTube "Comedians" (MasterOogway, TheManniiShow)" that he may be working with Gildan for his shirts, a Canadian clothing company known for exploiting its employees and firing workers attempting to unionize.
==Controversy==
===False Copyright Strikes===
On June 28, 2024, commentary YouTuber Engween posted a video about how Mannii had issued a false copyright strike on one of his other videos that was critical of him.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcMI7mVtFtY In the video, Engween shows the email he had received from YouTube, which depicts that the strike was sent out by Mannii himself. The following day, Engween's twin brother, Burdie (also known as Tagswag), also uploaded a video on his new channel, Burdye, regarding the situation.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jgxULjSN14 Burdie talks about how he and Engween appealed the copyright strike, which mentions how it is illegal to issue copyright strikes for videos that fall under fair use, which Engween abided by.
Fellow commentary YouTuber Dumpy had also uploaded a video talking about the situation,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uft_seuKnqs&t=37s which also shows a message that was sent to him by Dacept warning Dumpy about the situation, which also suggests that other videos may have been taken down along with Engween's video. Tvkyo also mentioned the situation briefly in one of his Mannii Show videos. On July 1st, Dumpy had made a community post claiming that The Mannii Show had tried to copyright strike one of his videos, but failed since YouTube found the video to be under fair use and kept it uphttps://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxXw6q7y8sRW6lyZWNsEef-B4GBGYaurJ6. 
KeidBoi had also made a video which has Mannii's email uncensored, proving that the strike to Engween was sent by Mannii himself.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9yPlOEq7qk&t=124s (skip to 2:04) It also shows that Mannii had filed the strike under his production agency, Kcuf Productions LLC, which was founded on May 14, 2024, just 45 days prior to Engween's strike. 3 more creators, being TomTheTV, 2Kemon, and Ryth, had made videos about the situation before CocoCrazy made a video about how Mannii had also attempted to strike her video too (but that also failed).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRm0Bx4aEjU It eventually got to the point where Charlie from Penguinz0 had made a video talking about the controversy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjNowm2dwuc A few days later, the strike on Engween's videos was removed and the video was reinstated.
====Apology====
On July 9, 2024, Mannii uploaded an apology video explaining the situationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Z0aurlDTM, claiming it was his agent that filed the strikes while Mannii was at VidCon, despite the fact that the email shown by Engween, Cococrazy, and KeidBoi had proven it was Mannii himself that filed the strikes. It is also despite the fact that only Engween's strike (filed on June 28) was filed during VidCon (which lasted from June 26 through 29), whereas both Dumpy and Cococrazy's strikes (both filed on July 1) were filed after VidCon. Mannii also claims the agent for Kcuf Productions LLC was fired after the strikes were resolved. However, the Florida Department of State Division of Corporations Sunbiz.org report claims that the agent is still on the team.
Despite these oversights, Mannii said that he takes full responsibility and is genuinely sorry and apoligetic towards those who were outraged by this controversy. However, he then goes on to claim the people who spoke out about the strikes are just "haters", which included but were not limited to WestJett, Penguinz0, Engween, Cococrazy, and AugustTheDuck, despite claiming that he is a big fan of Penguinz0. 
Later in the apology, Mannii begins attempting to disprove the claims of content theft, claiming that YouTubers like Soggy Cereal and sensitive soci3ty have "no idea how YouTube Shorts and TikTok are engineered", claiming that he was using the YouTube Remix feature, though you are still required to add credit to the video yourself, which he failed to do. He also created a new section on his YouTube channel's main page called "The Haters", where he had put videos of some of the "haters" mentioned in the section above on his channel's main page.
Despite all of this, the comments on the video are very positive, with some even calling this video "The best apology on YouTube".
====Post-Apology====
On July 10, the day after Mannii uploaded his apology, YouTuber BadAtCommentary posted a video on why he didn't believe Mannii's apology was genuine and urged people to ask for evidence before following it blindly. He finds the timing of Mannii's apology suspicious, noting that it came two weeks after the incident and coincided with SSSniperwolf's response to a similar issue. Unlike SSSniperwolf, who provided evidence to support her claims, BadAtCommentary criticizes Mannii for not offering proof to back up his story about firing his agent.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZG9VbS2Iyg?si=6J43dy2tY4ATJIRM However, BadAtCommentary received major backlash from this video, with people claiming that the points made in the video were wrong, that BadAtCommentary was just mad that Mannii made "the best apology ever"/ joining the hate/ragebait train, or that the video was just straight clickbait.
Mannii made a community post on July 13th that shows the newest episode of the Mannii Show had been dislike bombed by a bunch of "haters who ganged up" and that the episode had a 23.6% like rate.https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxF6AWRN8V-KXYaXmxM5WLpZ-j49BDyLn0 
BillsYT had also made a video on July 17th that talks about most of the things mentioned in this article while also making some extra points, such as how the "haters" section on Mannii's channel was made purely so Mannii's fans can go to leave hateful comments on the videos calling him out. And that the only reason Mannii responded was because Penguinz0 called him out. 
==Trivia==
*Mannii can use chopsticks.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/29H5DWhHvq0
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