CandyEvie

Lucy (born: ) better known online as CandyEvie or Luvie, is an English YouTuber who posts a variety of Pokémon videos on her first channel, and comedic animations on her second channel. She began her career by uploading clips of shiny Pokémon encounters on CandyEvie but later transitioned to Pokémon trivia videos and eventually became a YouTube animator. 
==Biography==
Her first known online appearances were on her Twitch account where she broadcasted live streams of herself attempting to encounter and capture shiny Pokémon for her collection. None of the streams were saved to her Twitch channel, so there's scarcely any record of them on the internet.
===YouTube===
Lucy's first YouTube channel was created on October 25, 2012, but her first video wasn't uploaded until February 17, 2013. She recorded an encounter with a shiny Poliwag in her copy of Pokémon SoulSilver and claimed that she had missed the opportunity to stream it on her Twitch channel, but wanted to share it with her followers nonetheless. 
Ten months later on December 20, 2013, she uploaded a second video of an encounter with a shiny Koffing in an unspecified Pokémon game. On the same day, she uploaded a shiny encounter with an Eevee in SoulSilver, and after that, her shiny encounter uploads became much more consistent.
Over time, her upload content became more diverse, as she expanded to Pokémon card openings, gathering a bit more attention from her YouTube audience.
===Rising to Popularity===
On December 27, 2014, Lucy uploaded a playthrough of the fan-made Pokémon ROM, Hypno's Lullaby to YouTube, which brought a huge rush of popularity to her channel and gave her a large boost of subscribers, bringing her more popular among the other Pokémon YouTubers. 
Since her channel was based around shiny Pokémon at the time, she later decided to make a video titled Top 10 Shiny Pokémon, which also received quite a lot of attention. Because she was fond of making that type of video, she uploaded a second top ten video titled Top 10 Easter Eggs in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
After she got more into regularly making Pokémon trivia videos—similar to her Top 10 videos—she was able to organize her video uploads into different, separate series, consisting of her trivia videos, Pokémon card openings, and unlicensed Pokémon game playthroughs. From then on, she began to stop uploading shiny encounter captures and leaned more towards trivia videos.
===Luvie===
In 2017, Lucy created a new channel to upload her gameplay of Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon without spamming them on her main channel, thus directing attention away from her trivia content. During the end of 2018 to the beginning of 2018, the Luvie channel began to change to more of an art-based channel once she unlisted her Sun and Moon videos and uploaded a couple of speed-art videos. 
This is when she first showed off her art skills to her viewers, although she later unlisted her speed-art videos soon after, deciding that a DeviantArt account would be a better place for an art portfolio. On July 13, 2018, she surprised her viewers by uploading her first animation, titled My Nightmare Nintendo DS Repair which was completely different from her other content, and accumulated over a million views, causing a massive surge of interest on her channel analytics.
That August, she uploaded a new animation onto the channel called Summers & Heat in the UK, where she stated how surprised she was at the view count of the last video, and mentioned that she was going to continue uploading animations to Luvie while managing CandyEvie as she did before.
===Recognized by the Pokémon Company===
By Autumn 2018, Lucy had gained enough attention in both of her channels to be recognized by the Pokémon Company itself, which sponsored a couple of her videos and sent her a collection of merchandise at one point in that year. The biggest case of recognition was in Autumn 2018 when they personally invited her and three other English Pokétubers to their headquarters to playtest their newest game releasing in November of 2018: Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!. 
This was announced in a tweet by Nintendo UK, which posted a collection of quotes made by the four PokéTubers to explain in someone else's words what to expect before buying the games. She stayed in touch with them after the post featuring her was published. By 2019, Pokémon Trivia videos became the more dominant video type on her CandyEvie channel.
===Channel Improvements===
In 2019, Lucy addressed the difficulty of managing two channels in an update video. She explained the difficulty of her career with the changes of YouTube's guidelines, her videos getting demonetized by YouTube's bots, and that she was opening a Patreon account to gain extra support in case her channels got completely demonetized. It was around this time that she also began streaming shiny encounters on her Twitch account once again, giving her a backup account to turn to if something happened to her YouTube channels, and she soon became a member of the Twitch Partner Program. 
She created an account for Instagram at that time as well. On her recently refurbished Twitch channel, Lucy streamed a playthrough of her first time playing Pokémon Crystal in early 2020, and after the release of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, she streamed that on her Twitch channel too.
With more new viewers finding and watching her videos, she decided that the older thumbnails should be updated with her newer, more refurbished art style to attract attention to her channel, so in early 2020, she drew different thumbnail edits for about ten of her videos, then returning to her regular uploads.
===Little Luvie and Merchandise===
In 2020, Luvie announced a long-awaited merch store, with apparel options from both her CandyEvie and Luvie channels, including a Luvie poster, a Luvie shirt, a CandyEvie mug, and more. She later created a TikTok account, which she used to upload short, comedic animations, sometimes stemming from videos on her Luvie channel. In November 2020, Lucy created a third YouTube channel titled Little Luvie, where she re-uploaded the higher-quality original versions of her TikToks, bringing them to a wider audience.
==Trivia==
*On July 26th, 2020, Lucy opened an online merchandise store.https://crowdmade.com/collections/luvie
*Her favourite anime is Madoka Magica.
*She has Raynuad's Syndrome. https://youtu.be/Xgdvoif5PfQ?t=36
*She is on the autism spectrum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1T5sH0S2qQ#t=5m40s
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:English YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2012