Mariotehplumber

John Engel, better known online as mariotehplumber, is a Canadian YouTuber centered around video game reviews, mainly of Nintendo games, as well as Sonic the hedgehog games. He is best known for his intense hatred of the modern Sonic design, as well as his hatred of modern Nintendo. His videos are somewhat infamous for their intense vulgarity, constant swearing, and highly offensive nature. 
Mariotehplumber's vulgar and rage filled style of videomaking was one of the direct influences behind the much more famous users, SammyClassicSonicFan, and Super Minecraft Kid. 
Mariotehplumber is currently active on Twitch, where he accompanies his longtime friend and fellow streamer, TheBalishChannel. Together they host contests, and discuss gaming news.
== History==
===Early History and Attention (2010)===
Mariotehplumber joined YouTube on June 10, 2010. His first video was on June 11, 2010, which was a commentary and rant on Sonic Colors. In his subsequent videos, he reviews many of the recent modern sonic games, where he describes his hatred for the modern sonic character design. The rage filled videos featured poor microphone quality, frequent swearing, and rants against the newer Sonic. These videos garnered decent attention after the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 4. He was compared with several other Modern Sonic hate trolls, like AKnotHoleResident, RichestPlayerInrs, and Testies125.
After his discovery, many Sonic fans began taking notice of him, responding to and criticizing his strong opinions. He often called critics of his content and fans of the modern Sonic games "Modern Morans" [sic]. In addition to his rant videos, he also uploaded several in-person game reviews, on games such as Spyro and Crash Bandicoot. At the end of each review, he would violently destroy the game with a hammer.
===More noteworthy attention (2011-2012)===
By 2011, around the time Sonic Generations was released, causing him to freak out over Classic Sonic returning, Mariotehplumber began to operate an alternate account, titled "SONIC1SONICHEDGEHOG". This account was briefly talked over by Jim Sterling on Destructoid's website, after a (now-deleted) video of him ranting over the 3DS version of Sonic Generations not having the "Sonic 1 Sonic" in it.https://www.destructoid.com/sonic-fan-goes-completely-crazy-over-sonic-generations/
In 2012, it began to show that Mariotehplumber was slowly starting to lose interest in Nintendo, as mentioned in a few videos like his New Super Mario Bros. 2 rant, and "Pretendo", where in the latter he describes Nintendo as caring about a "New audience and not the long time fans". Around this time, he did a let's play on Banjo-Kazooie.
===Troll calling out, Feud with GameGrumps and original account termination (2012-2013)===
In mid-2012, Mariotehplumber began to have issues with trolls creating commentary videos on him, as well as them spamming his Skype account. Fed up with the nonstop pestering, he decided to get into Skype calls with the trolls in an attempt to settle the disputes. This simply resulted in more trolling and spam. 
In response to the sheer volume of trolls and commentaries being made, he uploaded a video titled "You all asked for it." In the video, he screams and rages at his haters to stop creating videos on him, calling them "MODERN HENTAI FUCKING F*****s", insulting them by saying that they like to fuck "Six set foot quills of shit" [Sic], and that "they'll never get a good Sonic game released". The video was later taken down sometime in late-2012, but was soon reuploaded.
In January 2013, he began creating videos directed towards the GameGrumps. Some of these videos were several "animations" insulting the Game Grumps, as well as accusing them of being bad gamers, and having no skill. The motive behind the creation of these videos was purportedly due to the Game Grumps meeting up with the video game composer, Grant Kirkhope. These videos eventually got the attention to many GameGrumps fans, and as a result of this video, his account was terminated on January 28th.
===Return as "MTPmoranguides" and "mariotahplumber" (2013)===
Following the termination of his first account, Mariotehplumber began creating rant videos on a new channel called MTPMoranGuides, which was created on January 29, 2013. Most of them were more Sonic rants, as well as an entire live action commentary video about the so called "Modern Morans."
The channel however would end up being short-lived, as he continued to feud with the GameGrumps and their fans. Sometime in early February 2013, he uploaded a video titled "Gamegrumps rant". In the video, he blamed the "Game Grumps f**s" for getting his original account deleted. He proceeded to mock the Game Grumps, insulting them, calling them lazy, undeserving of fame, and untalented. He commented on how he should've met Grant Kirkhope in person, because he is the superior gamer and bigger fan. He then began screaming and destroying furniture. He shattered a lamp against a wall, flipped an entire couch over, and finished the video by calling the Gamegrumps "Fucking F*****s". This caused much negative attention as with the previous sets of videos and the MTPmoranguides channel was terminated sometime around February 9th.
Following the termination of MTPMoranGuides, he returned again as "mariotahplumber" on February 10, 2013. This account mostly featured reuploads of his older videos, with occasional voice acting videos done by him and TheBalishChannel. The account would go dormant in most months, but by Mid-2013, he began to upload more rant videos including several on Nintendo games like Super Mario 3D World and uploaded several storybook videos where he talks about gaming from when he was younger.
A follow-up to his "You All Asked for it." video titled "A Warning to Haters" was soon uploaded to the channel, where he rages at people making rants and commenteries on him again. This video is properly what led to the account's termination on October 7, 2013.
===Return of MTP's original account (2013-2014)===
Following brief sprints on his SONIC1SONICHEDGEHOG account and another one titled "Mariotehplumber" (with a capital M), he eventually got his original "mariotehplumber" account restored.
By this time, Mariotehplumber began to hate Nintendo a lot more, claiming that they have fallen from grace and began to call them "Modern Nintendo". Other than a few Modern Sonic videos, a few toy videos and a "Fuckapella" where he sings gaming music with just the word "Fuck" in it, not much really happened.
===Controversy with Amiibo and the Super Smash Bros. community (2014-2016)===
On December 21, 2014, he uploaded a video titled "How to make money off Nintendo Super Smash Bros. Amiibo 100+ Rosalina Preordered". In this infamous video, he shows his large purchases of Nintendo Amiibo figures, the majority of them being "Hentai characters." He then shows pictures of 100 Rosalina Amiibos all lined up, brags about making money off them, and mocks modern Nintendo fans. In the video he also announces his plan to resell the Amiibo for a higher price on sites such as Ebay and Amazon, as a means of preventing fans of the characters from obtaining them. He his main motive was the belief that this will make Nintendo believe the characters are unpopular, and as such will stop creating the "Hentai shit" and Nintendo will be good again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5jWStR3AHQ
The video garnered significant attention, and was met with an intense, universal criticism. The video caused so much uproar in the Smash Brothers and Nintendo community, that Mariotehplumber ended up being doxxed and threatened by a "Angry Rosalina Fan Cult". The angry fans held all his email accounts hostage, as well as revealing his full name and address. He was then forced to make an apology video, where he admitted that his entire time on Youtube was just an act, and he was just doing it for fun and attention. He also revealed that he didn't actually plan to resell Amiibo or scam people, and was simply just a collector of Nintendo merchandise.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPJEnOE6i14
===The Grinch Leak (2018)===
In 2018, Mariotehplumber attempted to cash in on the infamous "Grinch Leak" topic to continue trolling Super Smash Bros. fans. He soon stopped after the leak was revealed as fake.
===Scarcity (2018-2023)===
Mariotehplumber began uploading once a yea, usually commenting on gaming news, or making more meme/trolling videos as a callback to his old videos. Other than that, he was mostly inactive on YouTube, although he remained on Twitch regularly making appearances on TheBalishChannel's streams, where they play a wide variety of games, such as Halo and Sea of Thieves, they also do live reactions to E3, or Nintendo Directs. 
Mariotehplumber is relatively obscure, and is often overlooked for his style of humor, which has influenced many famous youtubers, chief among them being Sammyclassicsonicfan, and Super Minecraft kid.
====PreciousLeaf (2019-present)====
In September 2019, John launched a new guise named "PreciousLeaf" after he began playing Pokémon Masters EX. This guise was represented as a person with a schizophrenic obsession with the character Leaf. There were many similarities to his Mariotehplumber persona, namely getting angry, throwing fits and using a lot of swear words, but to a far lesser degree for the latter.
Several users on Kiwifarms and 4Chan began discussions about the user in 2020 over his obsession with Leaf, leading to PreciousLeaf flipping out at them who accused him of shipping with the character, and attempted to take down all evidance. This continued on until October 2023, when it was revealed that John had been the person behind the PreciousLeaf persona the entire time.
===Full Return as Mariotehplumber (2023-present)===
Mariotehplumber made his full return to the internet in October 2023 following the "PreciousLeaf" reveal, revealing that he has since gotten married to who he anomynously calls "MissLeafGamer", as she appears in videos in a costume based on Leaf from Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, with John appearing as Red. The name is likely based within John's "PreciousLeaf" persona.
After a return video, Mariotehplumber has gone back to making videos similar to that of his older content. However, he has since started omitting the slurs he has used many times, due to YouTube's guidelines changing.
As before, he continues to appear with TheBalishChannel on Twitch live streams, and commonly does live streams of other video games.
==Quotes==
* "His arms and legs are like fucking noodles, he's the fucking green eyed fucking ugly HENTAI QUILLS that you guys like to shove up your ass!"
*"HE'S GOT FUCKING QUILLS LONGER THAN A FUCKING DICK, AND HE'S GOT FUCKING SIX DICKS ON HIS HEAD!!!!"
*"FUCKING MODERN MORANS!"
*"I'm gonna fuckin' OWN THIS SHIT!”
*"MODERN, HENTAI SHIT, IS BEING SHOVED IN YOUR FACES, AND YOU DONT REALIZE IT. YOU GUYS NEED TO STOP LIKING THIS FUCKING SHIT!!!!!!!!!"
*I got some fucking f*****s, spreading rumors that they're gonna make fucking fanart of me and Rosalina! What the fuck is this shit? STOP IT! I'M TIRED OF THIS FUCKING SHIT!"
*"I fucking hate Rosalina, she's a fucking retarded character, so fucking stop tacking my name onto this fucking bitch!”
*"Splatoon? Literally the fucking gameplay is just being a hentai bitch with tentacles on their head, CUMMING OVER EVERYTHING
*"I hate Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, it is a game that spawned gaming autism and evolved in current Nintendo today, I am not trolling when I say this, you can look the facts up for yourself"
*"THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT, WHY IS IT HAPPENING TO ME?"
==Trivia== 
*Mariotehplumber originally joined Youtube in 2008, on an account called "1991ClassicSonic" On this channel he reviewed retro Mario and Sonic merchandise.
**Ironically, one of his main copycats, SammyClassicSonicFan, also uses the title "Classic Sonic" on his undername, although in Sammy's case, it's named after the character from Sonic Generations, rather than an adjective.
*He is a lifelong avid collector of Sonic and Mario merch, especially vintage Mario.
*Mariotehplumber has stated that his opinions are "partially true." In that they are his real opinions on games and game companies, but exaggerated with anger. He stated he did this because he wasn't getting attention for his opinions on his old channel, and wanted to make his voice known.
*His first name is John.
*He has given away many of the Amiibos he owned as prizes for contests hosted on TheBalishChannel's livestreams.
==Gallery==
Mariotehplumber.png|Mariotehplumber doing Sonic's finger wagging.
MTP.jpg|Mariotehplumber holding a golden Mario statue.
MTP2.png|Mariotehplumber eyeing a Rosalina Amiibo.
MTP3.png|Mariotehplumber from his "Sonic Adventure 3" rant video.
Mariotehplumber_collecting.png|Mariotehplumber discusses his merchandise collection
MTP_sonic.gif|"Sonic Unleashed"... (Throw!)
MTP_Lamp.gif|"Why does he get to meet Grant Kirkhope!? IT'S FUCKING GAY!!"
MTP_STFU.png|Mariotehplumber from the end of his "Top 5 reason for being a Modern Moran" video.
MTP2016.jpg|Mariotehplumber with a Smash Bros. championship belt. As mentioned above, he is a longtime WWE fan.
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Canadian YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2010