Leokimvideo

Leo Henry , better known online as leokimvideo, is an Australian YouTuber who mainly focuses on doing toy reviews, as well as looking at the different Spiders that infest his house.
== Biography ==
Born in 1965https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXc2MPbh-y0, Leo Henry grew up on Sydney's North-shore, going to school by train in the 1970s, travelling from Chatswood to Milsons Pointhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtvyIZB_rYw (Anecdote) on "Red Rattlers" - suburban trains operated by the NSWGR. He became employed as a special effects technician (specialised in pyrotechnic) and prop-makerhttps://leokimvideo.fandom.com/wiki/Leo_Henry_filmographyhttps://shotonwhat.com/o/487639/leo-henry. One of his earliest credits was for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie in 1995https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0377902/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr119, for which he was a special effects technician. His most well-known work being for The Matrix in 1999, where he worked alongside Paul Gorrie to plan and coordinate helicopter crash and associated explosionhttps://beforesandafters.com/2019/03/28/anatomy-of-a-crash-the-matrixs-stunning-helicopter-scene/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bc32d8978.
One of his latest credits in film was for Hacksaw Ridge in 2016, where he supervised pyrotechnics work. At some point in the 1990s he joined the Northside Camcorder Clubhttps://leokimvideo.fandom.com/wiki/Northside_Camcorder_Club#Leo's_involvement (now the Sydney Video Makers Club), for which he created four known productions, one of which was titled Rolling Stock, originally screened in 2000 and uploaded to YouTube in 2007, re-titled as the Mad Bomber, which had a planned sequel/series, this was cancelled after complaints from people who hadn't watched the video. At some point he got married to Kim (possibly of Thai originshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Y7iVFA6RI), and had two children, the oldest being a daughter, the youngest being a son. He would later find an occupation in real-estatehttps://leokimvideo.fandom.com/wiki/Leokimvideo/About#March_9.
==Videos==
Leokimvideo is most well known for doing toy-reviews. He does his reviews differently to most toy reviewers like Ryan's World, as he said before that he dislikes the style of videos they do, although he does get associated with those channels.
Leo has a large collection of Thomas the Tank Engine toys in various conditions, and he collects both the real products and knockoff toys. Sometimes, his daughter and son (both are not named in the videos) help out with the videos.
Leo is well-known in the Thomas fandom for his dark and twisted Thomas and Friends parody video Mad Bomber, which he produced for a film class in 2000, around the time Thomas And The Magic Railroad was released.
One of his most popular video series is called "Dark Side", where Leo takes a look at various types of bootleg toys that flood the shops and markets in his country of Australia, mostly relating to Thomas the Tank Engine, Angry Birds or Cars. The toys usually meet the victim of explosives, a hammer, a Garden Mulcher or a blender, alongside others.
Leo is known for producing videos related to the different kinds of Spiders living in Australia (mostly Redback Spiders), after a video called "Big Spider Attacks Daddy" that he produced became popular on the site, the video had also made it into some TV shows such as Ridiculousness, hosted by Rob Dyrdek.
Leo also does videos related to other Animals. Most of the animals shown are various types of interest, but there are examples of other animals such as a cat getting a rat. Most of the videos have custom thumbnails with spiders which are more animated with emojis, and the videos are generally pretty long.
=== Big Spider Attacks Daddy ===
Big Spider Attacks Daddy is a popular video uploaded by Leokimvideo on the 21st of December in 2009, it features Leo Henry attempting to catch a large female Huntsman spider on the ceiling with a plastic food container. His daughter (who is filming) tells him to be careful, but just as he's about to trap the spider it moves and jumps onto him. The camera falls, with the final shot being Henry stumbling past the camera with the container on his foot.
This video went viral shortly after it's release, as of the 29th of January in 2024 the video has 36.7 million views with 95K likes and 32.3K comments being the fifth most popular video on his channel as of the aforementioned date. 
==== Production ====
Big Spider Attacks Daddy was recorded with a Panasonic NV-GS330 camcorder (labelled Cam 1), and stored in a Sony tape numbered 126 (August to December 2009), in subsection 9, the last recorded footage on the tape, where it was titled "Big Spider/Trent/Spider Audio". The video was recorded at night and was staged with many different takes, the person holding the camera for example is actually Leo Henry's wife Kim, Henry's mother-in-law puppeteered the spider, and the Henry's daughter pre-recorded the lines which were edited-inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRK1j8AsFCA.
Leo Henry had never wanted to reveal that the video was fake, but due to the video becoming demonetised by YouTube for apparently being inappropriate, Henry exposed it to show that everything, including his daughter being present to the spider it's self being a prop being proof of how staged the video was. Leo Henry also gave a talk (lecture) at Google Australia headquarters in Sydney as a guest, explaining how the video was made. Two prop spiders were used, being 3D prints with a blown up photo glued on top of them, one was created for the thumbnail and shot that didn't require movement, the other was a 'lazy' puppet with articulated legs to give the illusion of movement, it was lightly blu-tacked to the ceiling and pulled down with attached fishing wire.
==== On TV ====
The video has been broadcast on MTV, NBC, BBC One and Three, Japan TV, and Channel 4, plus possible more unauthorised appearances on other networkshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRV4d9LCawU. Those who want permission to use the video may do so with written permission of Leo Henry himself.
===== Jay Leno Show =====
The clip was shown on the NBC American chat show, The Jay Leno Show.
===== Channel 4 =====
The video was featured on a Channel 4 program, with the network attempting to DMCA the video as their content, Leo Henry was able to successfully appeal.
====== Red Tube ======
It was featured on Rude Tube, a comedy clip showhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt1405257/ focused on YouTube, the video appeared on the show's 2009 new years special which ranked it's top 100 videos of that year, with Big Spider Attacks Daddy being placed at number 14. The special aired on the 3rd of January in 2009https://web.archive.org/web/20100412024430/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/rude-tube/episode-guide/series-5/episode-1, being presented by Alex Zane who presented all episodes of Rude Tube except series 1 on E4 which was presented by Matt Kirshen. It is assumed that this was the program that Channel 4 based their DMCA over, despite not only not owning the video, but also not seeking permission for it's use.
===== Ridiculousness with Rob Dyrdek =====
The video was featured on MTV's Ridiculousness with Rob Dyrdek, a comedy clip compellation show, being seen in a season 3 episode in 2013https://1061evansville.com/big-spider-attacks-daddy-while-little-girl-watches-video/, said episode would've received over 1 million U.S. viewer's on it's initial airinghttps://web.archive.org/web/20130318013517/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/03/15/thursday-cable-ratings-swamp-people-wins-night-big-rig-bounty-hunters-ridiculousness-archer-nba-basketball-more/173473/.
===== Room 101 =====
The video was featured on episode 2 of the fifth/sixteenth series of the comedy show Room 101 on BBC One in which guests must convince presenter Frank Skinner to virtually place items or concepts that they dislike, i.e. pet hates into Room 101 (named after the Ministry of Room 101 in George Orwell's 1984 novel), i.e. oblivion. The episode in-question was recorded on the 22nd of October in 2015 at Elstree film studios before airing at 8:30 p.m. on the 21st of January in 2016https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/room_101_2012/episodes/5/2/. The video was featured in the context that guest Noel Fielding wanted to put spiders into Room 101 after having seen the large spiders that live endemic to Australia. Noel Fielding ended up winning the round and spiders were put into Room 101https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuEjykUpBa8.
===== Google =====
Google Australia created a YouTube advert, titled The Google app: Huntsman, the ad was 16 seconds long, and had over 18 million views before being taken down around early 2018. Leo Henry was approached by an advertising agency via his phone number who outlined their interest in using the Big Spider Attacks Daddy video.
Originally the concept for the ad featured several original scenes played by actors where the father asked the daughter how to catch Huntsman spiders, with the daughter then asking the Google assistant app on her phone, after this Henry's video would play, the ad was to have a more comedic tone. Instead the ad featured almost entirely the Big Spider Attacks Daddy video with no editing except for the a cropped screen recording of Google seen on the left hand side barely obscuring anything. Leo Henry was paid nothing for the ad, nor was he credited.
====== Demonetisation ======
Post the Google ad's release Big Spider Attacks Daddy was demonetised twice by YouTube, as a result Leo Henry uploaded a video titled Big Google Attacks Daddy & The Big Spider Google App Ad Secrets Revealed on the 10th of July in 2018 which explained how the original video was created and explaining how the video ended up as a Google ad. Henry didn't want to reveal the video was fake, however was pushed into it as YouTube claimed the video was inappropriate despite it's content being entirely fake. The response video was also partially a rebuttal to Creator Insider's Monetization Update video uploaded on the 27th of October in 2017.
== Problems ==
Beginning in 2013, Leo has had major problems resolving his channel. The first of which was in regards to monetization resolving bot users who would monetise videos that his own channel would no longer do.
In 2014, Leo left YouTube for a few months as his channel was yet again broken which was explained in a video.
In 2017, during the Adpocalypse, many of Leo's videos were demonetized by the YouTube bots which he wasn’t too pleased with. For the first half of 2018 updates were very scarce although he did return in June. By then, he stopped putting his children in his videos after a new YouTube content update that would disable comments if the YouTube algorithm detects children in videos.
In 2020 with the COPPA changes, many of Leo's videos were flagged as Made for Kids, which was the reason why he transitioned to other videos full time, however on February 3, 2021, Leo revealed that many of his videos were flagged as Made for Kids, after many years of dealing with YouTube's monetization Leo stated he'll no longer be a part of YouTube. Despite that, Leo has continued to upload a few videos saying that he will continue to upload videos in a highly education way and not spend more then $20 making them due to the collapse of income from YouTube.
As of 2022, most of Leo's videos mostly feature him feeling all disgruntled against YouTube for “what they’ve done to me”, in regards to the demonetisation and the Made for Kids rule. He took another hiatus in 2023 following the death of Teddy, one of his cats, and returned at the end of September.
==Quotes==
*"That right there is a Fake and Gay Thomas."
*"OH, SSHI.....GGAA!!"
*"Good night sister!"
*"Wooshkah!"
*"Oh I could be talking like Stampy Longhorn or whatever, Hey kid HUHAH HUHAH!"
*"That's in pretty good nic!"
*"Welcome to the Dark Side!"
*"There's nothing on my Thomas which looks like a traction tyre!"
*"Warning, do not attempt the toy destruction in this video at home, please leave all the work to the professionals."
== Age restriction ==
One of the videos Leokimvideo age restricted was Abandoned Hardware Store 6&8 Months Urban Decay Very Dangerous Teenage Games.
==Trivia==
*He was one of the first YouTubers to do videos in 16:9 widescreen in 2008.
== See also ==
* Wiki Filmography
* IMDb Profile
== References ==
Category:Users who joined in 2007
Category:Australian YouTubers
Category:Vlogging YouTubers
Category:Review YouTubers
Category:One million subscribers
Category:One billion views