Mickelräven

Michael Helin (born: ), better known online as Mickelräven, is a Finnish indie YouTuber, who is known for making top lists and rankings of various subjects. Most notably, licensed video game soundtracks.
He is commonly referred online as Michael, Micke or Mickel.
==YouTube history==
===Old channel (2012-2017)===
Michael launched his original channel Mike's Android Blogspot on December 5, 2012 as an 11 year old. As with most young people on YouTube, he wasn't famous, and just made random videos. And all videos released before 2015 are now deleted from YouTube.
Through out 2014, he was known as Crazy Mad Boy online, but changed to Luna Winger in November 2014. As he felt his prior usernames felt way too amateurish and unprofessional. The only videos remaining with the Luna Winger username is his Angry German Kid tetralogy, which never took off and was left uncompleted.
Starting in early 2015, he changed his username again to Plex Winger, as a reference to the Windows Longhorn original visual style known as Plex, which succeeded Windows XP's visual style Luna. And through out August 2015, he wanted to become a gaming channel. By playing Five Nights At Freddy's 1 and 2, which both were quickly abandoned and went unfinished. Through out late 2015 and early 2016, Plex Winger was most well known for his Geometry Dash content. Where he has videos of each Geometry Dash level beaten, and doing some user created levels too. 
In the summer of 2016, he charted every Geometry Dash song (except Deadlocked) in Guitar Hero, and thought to add Guitar Hero content to his channel. And during the fall of 2016, he attempted to become a Source Filmmaker animator. Where he has two completed animations, and one unfinished one. All of which takes place in the Five Nights At Freddy's 2 pizzeria. Even though his Guitar Hero and SFM content didn't take off, his Geometry Dash content stayed on the channel all the way to summer of 2017.
Through out the first half of 2017, he replayed every main Geometry Dash level in high definition, 60fps quality. And started doing some experimentation with his channel. He did Geometry Dash compilations, and his most successful one is his most viewed video, which sits at 470K views (as of July 2020). He also made mashups, an asdfmovie death compilation, and GH3+ experimentation videos.
In April 2017, he changed his online username again to Plexi, which stuck around until May 2019. But before that, he finished his channel off with Geometry Dash videos, and relocated to his current channel in August 2017.
This old channel's current username is Geometry Dash Mickelräven and sits at 2 050+ subscribers (as of July 2021).
===Current channel, pre-1K (2017-2020)===
On February 15, 2017, Plex Winger (at the time) launched a channel where he would exclusively make Guitar Hero content. And after running out of new ideas for his main channel at the time, on August 2017, Plexi decided to make his Guitar Hero exclusive channel his new main channel. Where through out late 2017, he would mostly upload charts of various songs to the newly created fan-made Guitar Hero clone called Clone Hero. The charts he created are no longer on YouTube, due to trouble with the copyright system on YouTube, and also because he claimed that the charts he made at that time, aren't that high quality to other Clone Hero charters' standards. But he still wanted to make a name for himself in the Clone Hero community, by doing full combos to various songs through out early 2018. In mid-2018, Plexi left the Clone Hero community, because of conflicts with the Clone Hero staff, which caused trauma to Plexi through out late 2017.
On January 2018, Plexi decided to become active in the EA Sports NHL community, because he got himself a PlayStation 4 and NHL 18 for Christmas 2017. According to Michael, he has played the NHL games since NHL 06, but he didn't start making NHL content until he got his PlayStation 4, because of its share functionality. One of the videos that makes Michael's channel the way it is, is when he relased a video on February 2018, where he ranks every single licensed NHL song from worst to best. Michael has said that he loves music, and NHL soundtracks are one of the type of music he likes listening to the most. For a long time, he always wanted to make his own top NHL songs of all time. But Michael wanted to stand out, so he ranked every single song instead. And he has had a beef with the modern NHL soundtracks since NHL 17, because of its inclusion of rap, pop and dance music. So he ranked them low to prove EA a point that this isn't the type of music that works in hockey. A lot of people in the NHL community has had issues with the latest soundtracks, so Michael wasn't alone.
And through out 2018 and 2019, he was known for posting full soundtrack videos with lyrics of various NHL soundtracks (no longer available due to copyright), posting shitposts, and popularized the hashtag #MakeNHLSoundtracksGreatAgain, as a reference to the infamous Donald Trump quote "We will make America great again". And in July 2018, Plexi put out his first NHL soundtrack wishlist, as he saw another person do it. So he thought, maybe if he'll add "good" songs to his wishlist, it would send EA a message that this is the type of music people want in NHL. He countinued the trend to 2019 and 2020.
On May 2019, Michael abandoned his online username Plexi, in favour of his actual name, Michael Helin. In his username change announcement video, he mentioned that he has wanted to change his username for a long time now, but he couldn't come up with anything that he would be satisfied with for over two years. And when he abandoned Plexi, he started doing lists of other subjects instead of only NHL soundtracks, e.g. Top 60 Guilty Pleasure songs, All Geometry Dash songs ranked from worst to best, All Burnout 3: Takedown songs ranked from worst to best, Top 40 Five Nights At Freddy's songs etc.
On October 15, 2019, Michael officially joined the furry fandom at the age of 18, but didn't let his audience fully know until February 1, 2020, when he released his ranking of All EA Sports NHL songs RANKED, from worst to best (2020). Where at the end of the video, he gave his long time viewers a little history of his backstory in the NHL community, and how he has made a lot of friends in the NHL community. After that he said quote "And of course, when you meet people who share the same interests (as you), of course that will make you happy. That's why I am a furry!", and he revealed his fursona Mickelräven at the same time. On January 6, 2020, when he released a video titled Michael Helin, he hinted that he's a furry by showing a drawing of his fursona at the end of the video.
On March 14, 2020, Michael announced that he would delete all the NHL full soundtrack videos from his YouTube channel, as half of them are blocked due to copyright infringement. So he didn't want anymore trouble, by not playing any copyrighted song from start to finish on his channel. He announced that the replacements of the NHL full soundtrack videos would go to a new channel, which he named NHL Radio, while also stating that he has plans of making his main channel go professional some time in the future. On April 3, 2020, Michael changed his username to the name of his fursona, Mickelräven. He takes this new name seriously as he went to every social media he has, and changing them all to Mickelräven. He even deleted his Reddit account and started over, so he could have the u/mickelraven username, as Reddit does not allow you to change your 'u/' tag.
=== Current channel, post-1K (2020-present) ===
Michael exceeded his 1000 subscriber milestone on October 23, 2020. And on November 7, 2020, he remade his ranking of all NHL songs from worst to best again, this time including NHL 21 songs as his 1000 subscriber special. But he started using commentary as the intro, explaining what goes in the video. And in the outro, he hinted that he might turn his channel into a furry YouTube channel, and change is going to happen for his channel. Since the release of that video, his video production has slowed down, and has remained mostly the same. He explained that the reason is that he's drawing new character stills for his YouTube videos, which has taken him months to draw.
==Username history==
Mike's Android Blogspot (December 2012 - May 2014)
Crazy Mad Boy (May 2014 - November 2014)
Luna Winger (November 2014 - February 2015)
Plex Winger (February 2015 - April 2017)
Plexi (April 2017 - May 2019)
Michael Helin (May 2019 - April 2020)
Mickelräven (April 2020 - present)
==Intros==
Through out his presense on YouTube, Michael has used several intros with music on them. This is a list of intro songs he has used
Luna Winger
*PlayStation startup sound (November - December 2014) (No videos with this intro no longer exists on YouTube)
*Dj-Nate - Three Step (January 2015)
Plex Winger
*Waterflame - Final Battle (August 2015)
*Bossfight - Partyt Är Igång (September - October 2015)
*Dj-Nate - Three Step (November - December 2015)
*Tobu - Candyland (JJD Remix) (December 2015 - April 2016)
*TheFatRat - Never Be Alone (June - September 2016)
*San Holo - We Rise (September 2016 - March 2017)
Plexi
*Different Heaven feat. ED!HE - My Heart (June - August 2017)
Michael went without an intro since moving to his current channel, but brought the intro back when he abandoned his username Plexi in May 2019.
Michael Helin
*Black Veil Brides - In The End (May 2019 - March 2020)
Mickelräven
*Andrew W.K. - Party Hard (April 2020)
*Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up To Boston (May 2020 - present)
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Finnish YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2017