Npesta

Nathan Joseph Pesta (born: ), better known online as npesta, is an American gaming YouTuber known for his Geometry Dash videos and live streams on YouTube and Twitch. He is also known for beating extreme demons, the highest difficulty ranking for a level in Geometry Dash. He also owns a secondary channel where he uploads clips of him beating maps in a game called osu!mania. He attended one year of college at the Rochester Institute of Technology but dropped out due to health complications. 
==History==
Pesta joined YouTube on June 26, 2017. He uploaded his first video the same day, of him completing Geometry Dash level 'Windy Landscape' by WOOGI1411. He would mainly upload replays and completions of clips from the game, until late 2019, where he would make a community post announcing that he was looking for an editor. Once acquiring his new editor, fellow content creator Doggie, he would then start uploading 10+ minute videos consisting of highlights from his streams ranging from extreme demon completions, his series A Day With [Extreme Demon], Waving With npesta and his progress on his Extreme Demon Roulette.
On December 14th, 2019, Pesta verified the custom level Kenos after playing it frequently for 8 months and more than 135,000 attempts. At the end of the level, where he beats it, he had an abnormal and hyperactive reaction, screaming and proceeding to cry in merry. He had a surge of popularity on December 16th, 2019, after Redditor u/AGT-AM posted a meme of npesta's reaction layered over a video of beating the first level of Geometry Dash in the practice mode in over 500 attempts. This meme, in which Pesta was dubbed "The Speedrun Man" and 'The Kenos Man," became widespread over the proceeding months. However, he has openly expressed his dislike over being a meme, talking about how being known for that rather than his content, as well as the amount of hate and harassment he has received, has hurt him mentally.
==Trivia==
*He often says "Balls" in his streams.
*He was a part of a group called "The Gang" consisting of him and other YouTubers - Technical, GoldenTG, and Gizbro, until its disbandment on January 18th, 2021.
*He has verified many levels, including Kenos by Bianox and more, Deimos by EndLevel and more, and WOW by Trusta and more. 
*Throughout the course of his YouTube career, he has been in 3 different locations. As of September 2024, he resides in Erie, Pennsylvania.
*He has Astigmatism, which is an eye condition.
*He came up with the idea for the Extreme Demon Roulette, a challenge to roll different levels on the list of the hardest levels in the game and get certain percentages on them, when the percentage is raised by 1% for a different level every time. He became the Roulette's first victor in 2022 after two years, with his final level, Zodiac, being the last one that he had to 100% beat, which was the 3rd hardest demon in Geometry Dash at the moment of starting the Roulette.
*He has a series of videos called Waving With Npesta where he plays wave challenges collected/made by his friends Croanix and Artsiburn. He also has a series called A Day With where he plays a very hard level in multiple chunks (usually 3 or 4) and then his editor Doggie stitches the chunks together to make it look like he beat it in one run.
*In August of 2020, he had his entire channel falsely demonetized by YouTube for "Reused Content". He never reuploaded videos or clips from other channels, but YouTube thought the gameplay was copied from the original gameplay footage. This sparked up a hashtag on twitter, which became the first Geometry Dash related tag go be in the top 10 trending. Youtube eventully responded to this by reinstating his monetization.
*He is asexual, as he revealed in a Q&A stream. He also stated this in his "Beating TOP 75 CHALLENGES!!" video.
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
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