Eagle Builder Animation

Eagle Builder Animation (born: ), also known as PixelEagle138 (or simply EBA), is an American YouTuber who produces mostly gaming content, although he has branched out to create a variety of videos including parodies, mashups, movie theories, and more.
The name "Eagle Builder Animation" stands for three traits that EBA has: "Eagle" to represent that he is an Eagle Scout, "Builder" to represent his love of the Lego construction toys, and "Animation" to represent the original purpose of his channel to house his original stop-motion videos.
EagleFaceReveal.jpg|EBA's 1,000-subscriber face reveal.
EBA IRL.png|EBA wearing his signature eagle mask.
KnitMouse Untitled Goose.png|EBA and his mother KnitMouse in episode 1 of his series Untitled Goose Game.
==History==
EBA originally created his channel to upload homemade Lego stop-motion animation videos but was only able to upload a total of four of those videos over the span of his channel's first two years due to the schedule of his personal life.
===His Official Career Begins===
In August of 2016, he finally joined the Minecraft community and decided to begin recording gaming videos. The first episode of his Eagle Gaming series, a Minecraft survival Let's Play, was posted on the 10th of that month and gained nearly 100 views in the first day, also earning EBA his first subscribers.
Because of the importance of this video, EBA considers August 10th as the day his YouTube career began (as opposed to January 2nd, the day he created the channel).
===Expansion Beyond Gaming===
By March of 2017, EBA had become almost exclusively a gaming YouTuber, but he wanted to reach a wider audience. To do this he looked towards his interest in movies and television shows for ideas. On the 26th of that month, he posted his first Eagle 8 Countdown video. 
In this series, EBA counted down the top eight quotes of characters from his favorite animated shows (later on a special edition of this series would count down funny moments from another YouTuber's video, but that was not the original purpose).
This video gave EBA's channel another growth spurt in subscriber count and opened the doors to a plethora of videos centered on animated shows, including what would become his first videos to surpass 1K views and 10K views.
===First Subscriber Milestone===
As EBA was preparing to mark one year since his first Let's Play episode, the channel surpassed 100 subscribers. EBA immediately claimed his custom URL and revealed a new intro sequence for his Eagle Gaming vids. 
A major contributing factor to surpassing this milestone was a shoutout that EBA received in a Disney XD livestream that featured characters from the show Star vs the Forces of Evil that he had used and would continue to use many times in his videos.
===Face Reveal===
Two years after crossing the 100 subscriber mark, EBA's channel surpassed another major milestone: 1000 subscribers. To celebrate, he ordered a custom Opal Play Button from Etsy to unbox on camera and he also removed his eagle mask to reveal his face. After this, the play button could be seen on the wall behind him and he began to use facecam in nearly all of his videos.
===Reactions and Shorts===
After celebrating the fifth anniversary of uploading his first Let's Play video, EBA ended 2021 with another expansion of video type on the channel. Let's Plays on all types of games had become almost the sole focus of the channel by this point, so to reach a few new audiences EBA began uploading two types of content: reaction videos and Shorts.
EBA's first reaction was to the teaser trailer for Marvel Studio's Spider-Man: No Way Home. A mjaority of his reactions are to Marvel trailers, but he has also gone on to watch trailers and first looks for other franchises like Star Wars and Jurassic World as well as cinematic trailers for Apex Legends.
YouTube added the Shorts feature in late 2020, but it wasn't until towards the end of 2021 that EBA uploaded his first Short. This allowed him to upload content much more frequently and on a wider variety of games, bringing back games such as Rocket League and introducing others like Phasmophobia. 
EBA also occasionally uses Shorts to give a quick review of a new movie or comment on the latest news/leaks in entertainment. Shorts opened a new opportunity to EBA and helped him break a year-long streak of minimal channel growth.
===Current Status===
While series and specials occasionally appear and disappear on the channel, EBA's main focus has steadied somewhat after he had been creating videos actively for a year and a half. Eagle Gaming videos go up nearly every week and the random assortment of other content EBA creates (parodies, mashups, Shorts, etc.) is uploaded as he completes it.
==Personalities==
Over the years EBA and his friends have come up with various personalities that make him up, not unlike Markiplier's ever-growing list of personalities.
These personalities include:
*The King of SaLt (representing EBA's rage)
*Darth Eagle (appearing whenever EBA's content includes Star Wars)
*The EBAN Man (named after EBA's imaginary weapon of choice: the EBAN Hammer, a more powerful version of the Ban Hammer)
*And others
These personalities have mainly been in the background, just jokes that have been brought up occasionally during Eagle Gaming videos, but starting in the later half of 2018 EBA began to implement them more as part of his content to establish channel lore similar to the aforementioned Markiplier's universe of personalities, with "Evil Builder" being his take on "Darkiplier." He has since scrapped the idea.
==Family==
EBA keeps most details about his personal life out of his videos, but his mother KnitMouse has appeared in his 300 subscriber special as her Minecraft character. She then reappeared in the 2020 Star Wars Day special playing the VR game Vader Immortal and again in EBA's series on Untitled Goose Game.
His father has yet to appear in a video.
He has also mentioned that he has multiple dogs, and they can occasionally be heard in the background of his videos (although he tries to edit out their "help" whenever he can).
==Series==
*Lego Stop-Motion Shorts (ended)
*Eagle Gaming
**Minecraft
**Steam games
**Mobile games
**VR games
**Nintendo Switch games
* EBA Reacts
*Eagle 8 Countdown (ended)
*Animation Reaction Mashups (ended)
*Bird Brain Theories
*EBA Edited Universe 
**The War for Starco
**Daron's Endgame (postponded)
==Subscriber milestones==
*100 subscribers: July 25, 2017https://youtu.be/IJ0n70u_okw
*200 subscribers: December 24, 2017https://youtu.be/IiU6zZkx6cI
*300 subscribers: April 18, 2018https://youtu.be/sGp4nrl59zY
*400 subscribers: July 28, 2018https://youtu.be/KrT-CVms_Nw
*500 subscribers: December 17, 2018https://youtu.be/qM0VIm8rvOM
*1,000 subscribers: October 31, 2019https://youtu.be/RJRr73pIimQ
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:Reaction YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2015
Category:Verified YouTubers