Mr. Ferrante

Christian Ferrante (born: ), better known online as Ferrante or Mr. Ferrante, is a Canadian YouTuber and co-owner of the collaborative writing website Timeless Places.
He was originally known for his videos revolving around The Backrooms and other horror/internet mystery content, such as Roblox's PM 6:06, The "I AM GOD" thread, and YouTube's full stop punctuation bypass. Christian has seen recent success in posting videos relating to gaming content and commentary.
==Content==
Christian's content originally consisted of videos surrounding creepypastas (such as The Theatre), The Backrooms, ARG's (Blood Cultures' Oculo & The I AM GOD thread), internet mysteries (Robert Helpmann), true crime (Kano Naoyukii & Samuel Opoku), strange video games (Roblox PM: 6:06 & The Gameboy Camera faces) and video essay's pertaining to forgotten/underrated video games (Eversion & Super Paper Mario). 
Christian has since stated he would like to move into video essay & gaming style content as seen by his first video on his newest channel "Playing Roblox Horror Games Until I'm Stuck In A Maze" & "When Markiplier Played A Horror Game With Real Gore..." 
==History==
Christian created his channel, Mr. Ferrante on July 22, 2020, and uploaded his first video on the same day, this video being a complete break from his normal style of gaming content, with it being a commentary video about a new topic gaining traction, The Backrooms. Christian saw a lack of content being created for The Backrooms and especially on the newly founded Backrooms Wikidot, so he decided to take it upon himself to create that content, where he found immediate success.
Christian was contacted by the owners of the Wikidot to join their Discord where they continued to promote his videos and further increase his traction blowing past 100 subs in only ~12 days and reaching 1,000 subscribers in early October of 2020, celebrating with a face reveal alongside a QnA. Around November of 2020, Christian began openly criticizing the Backrooms Wikidot due to their "lack of moderation" and being too similar to the SCP Foundation. The Backrooms Wikidot never listened to his points, leading him to join a newly founded splinter wiki, Liminal Archives, hosted by banned members of the Wikidot and those also unhappy with the Wikidots direction, he would later be banned for his affiliation with Liminal Archives.
He continued to create content based around Liminal Archives and their idea of The Backrooms, finding even more success despite The Backrooms Wikidot being the more popular wiki by a longshot, starting a semi-war of sorts between the two wikis. On May 9, 2021, he took it upon himself to make his own Liminal Archives version of a popular trend by uploading a video titled "Backrooms All Endings" that very quickly became his most viewed video sitting at ~3.4 million views as of June 17, 2024.
Around this time, Christian began experimenting with more varied content in the horror genre, once again finding great success, creating three viral videos in a row. The first video released was on a Roblox horror game called PM 6:06, which was a maze-like game featuring one of the Roblox faces called "Winning Smile" that was known in the community for being unnerving, his video quickly garnered over 1 million views. His next video, "The Internets Biggest Mystery..." discussing an internet thread about finding the pieces of a face scattered around that called itself God that was tampering with people and manifesting inside of peoples homes, the video getting almost 500,000 views. The final video in the 3 was the biggest of them all, titled "NEVER SEARCH THIS ON YOUTUBE", which discussed the Full Stop Punctuation bug in YouTube that allowed users to post content against the terms of service. The video would go on to garner over 1.5 million views, being seen by the likes of Penguinz0 (MoistCr1TiKaL) and may have played a part in getting YouTube to fix the glitch in January of 2022.
On December 1, 2021, Christian announced the Backrooms Awards (Limmies) and invited everyone from any Backrooms community to vote in 24 different categories, such as Best Article and Best Content Creator. On January 1, 2022, Christian released the video showing the awards had gotten 1,118 votes. Christian also won creator of the year beating out creators such as Broogli and Mr. Backrooms.
On March 1, 2022, Christian started work on Timeless Places with fellow banned Backrooms Wikidot and ex-Liminal Archives member Cinnalyn, an alternative Wiki meant to capture some of the original feel that was "lost in translation" in the other wikis. The wiki is quite different from others available but shares some of the key characteristics, such as stricter moderation, dreams instead of noclipping and more focus on the liminal spaces themselves instead of overarching lore. On April 15th, 2022, the site officially launched and received a mostly positive reception. This announcement was coupled with a song titled "I Miss The Old Backrooms", meant to focus on Christian's views and criticisms of the current state of the community. As of July 22, 2023 the site has been rebranded to be independent from The Backrooms and is its completely own wiki, as well as being extremely different from its 2022 counterpart.
On May 28, 2022, Christian submitted an appeal to the Backrooms Tech Support server, run as a community server based on the Backrooms Wikidot after over a year and a half of being banned. His appeal was accepted with Christian's reasoning for submitting an appeal being, "To get rid of this garbage that's been sitting in the back of my mind for the past year".
On July 24, 2022, Christian announced that he will be permanently leaving the Backrooms community due to it no longer being what it once was, and feeling as if none of the wikis catered to how he felt the Backrooms should be written. He states in a pinned comment that he will be moving forward to continue to create content about other horror/commentary topics along with running Timeless Places as a "Backrooms replacement".
On October 7, 2022, Christian created and released a video game on the game distribution platform Roblox. It was a recreation of a 2013 game that was based on the creepypasta of the same name "The Theatre", which talked about a forgotten MS-DOS game couldn't be finished and gave people severe migraines and health problems from playing it. Christian created it because the game is nearly impossible to find and thought this would be a good way to increase accessibility for the game.
On December 12, 2022, Christian released a statement stating he will no longer be posting content on the Mr. Ferrante channel. He thanked all his viewers for a good 2.5-year run, but that "all shows must come to an end." The channel's final video was uploaded on February 2, 2023, which was a video showcasing all of the channels achievements and milestones to the tune of his synonymous outro song, "Credits" by Frums.
In early May 2023, the Mr. Ferrante channel was hacked and used to shill the Ripple cryptocurrency, being soon deleted a few days later for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines for scamming and phishing practices. Christian got many questions about the ban with some assuming he sold the channel and others assuming he did nothing to stop it. Christian made a statement that stated, "I tried everything I could, I was aware of it the moment it happened, but by then it was too late, they had changed everything." Christian tried reaching out to YouTube through email and Twitter, which took 4 months to get a response back.
After the deletion of the Mr. Ferrante channel, Christian hinted at wanting to come back to content creation. He made several community posts on his new YouTube channel about how he was thinking about how we wanted to approach this new channel and simply needed time. During this hiatus, he began to stream more frequently on Twitch, creating a channel dedicated for storing his VOD's. 
On October 22, 2022. Christian created a new channel under the name "Ferrante" on which he posted its first video on July 7, 2023, titled, "Playing Roblox Horror Games Until I'm Stuck In A Maze". Christian stated this video was more of a test to relearn Premiere Pro after not using it for so long, and quickly followed this up with a video two days later called, "When Markiplier Played A Horror Game With Real Gore..." The video discussed Markiplier and his playthrough of an indie horror game from 2016 called "The Hospital" which had recently come under fire for containing real images of torture and gore in them. Markiplier's video was soon privated and the game was taken down from Game Jolt a few days later, It's unknown if Christians video had any effect on the decision, although he did send an email to Game Jolt asking for the game to be removed.
On August 14, 2023, Christian was finally able to regain access to his compromised email account associated with the Mr. Ferrante channel after nearly 4 months of emails and appeals. On August 16, 2023, the Mr. Ferrante channel was reinstated after 4 months of being hacked.
===Mass privating videos===
On July 1, 2021, Christian unlisted all videos pertaining to the Backrooms Wiki as he didn't feel like supporting them any longer after his ban from the server and also felt that they were poor quality and would be a bad/misleading introduction to new viewers of the channel, instead opting to replace it with his new Liminal space content from Liminal Archives. After this, he lost over 3.3 million views from the videos he unlisted from the "Old Wiki". He would eventually reinstate this content in late 2022.
On March 2, 2022, Christian privated every video on the Mr. Ferrante channel and went silent for a few days. This was due to a mixture of burnout, stress, and a feeling of being forced to create content he didn't want to create. He reinstated the videos a few days later.
Starting on March 14, 2022, Christian privated many popular old videos unrelated to the Backrooms on the channel. This is because he felt as if "the videos were of poor quality and filled with misinformation" and set out to recreate them starting with What Is PM 6:06 on March 14th, 2022, and ending with Who Are You Running From on May 7th, 2022. As he began creating these updated videos, he privated all videos about The Backrooms because he wanted to focus on, and be known for creating content on other things in the horror content space.
==Trivia==
*He used ClipChamp to edit his videos, then YouCut, then Adobe After Effects 2022 and currently, Adobe Premiere Pro 2023.
*Hosted the 2021 Backrooms Awards (Limmies) to gather the entire Backrooms community for an event and won Backrooms Creator Of The Year at the event.
*He has cited YouTubers known as Daniel D and Entity No. 002 as his inspirations to start making Backrooms content.
*His inspiration to start making YouTube videos came from YouTubers such as Jacksepticeye, Markiplier, Smosh, DanTDM, SkyDoesMinecraft, SomeOrdinaryGamers and many others.
*He created and runs the Timeless Places Wikidot, launched on April 15th, 2022
*He is an avid speedrunner, once holding every record in Eversion, holding a record in the extremely competitive Minecraft, a once top 3 runner in also competitive Roblox Speedrun 4 and runs his own speedrun page for Killer Bean Unleashed.
==Channel milestones==
===Mr. Ferrante===
====Subscriber milestones====
*100 subscribers: August 3, 2020
*1,000 subscribers: September 29, 2020
*5,000 subscribers: February 16, 2021
*10,000 subscribers: March 27, 2021
*100,000 Subscribers: January 20, 2022
====Video view milestones====
*100,000 video views: October 1, 2020
*500,000 video views: December 21, 2020
*1 million video views: March 18, 2021
*5 million video views: December 26, 2021
*10 million video views: February 27, 2022
=== Ferrante ===
Subscriber milestones
*100 subscribers: February 3, 2023
*1,000 subscribers: July 10, 2023
====Video view milestones====
*100,000 video views: August 27, 2023
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