Podel

Marco, better known online as Podel (formerly known as BlazinSkrubs and Darkpuddle or Darkpuddle Productions), is an English YouTuber who creates animations with random sound effects and unusual parodies. 
==History==
Podel first joined YouTube on May 15, 2008 with the username Maxothegreathttps://www.youtube.com/user/maxothegreat, which he later changed to Darkpuddle in early 2012, then Podel 2, and now Podel 3 as of May 2021. On 16th May 2008, Podel would upload his first video to YouTube called "Lego Lost: The Plane Crash!", which has now been made private. It was the first of a series of Lego stop-motion animations recorded using a Nikon Coolpix 2200 and Panasonic NV-GS60. Other videos in the series were titled "Lego Star Wars: Rebel Idiots", "Lego Minifig Collection (with an interruption)" and "Lego Disaster Area 51 - Everyone Dies". These videos have now also been made private. His last upload using the username Darkpuddle would be on May 2019, titled "Block Test - Trackmania 2 (2014)". His first upload as Podel 2 was uploaded on August 24, 2019, titled "Horizon - 2013 (unfinished) - Trackmania 2". His last video as Podel 2 was uploaded on February 16, 2020, titled "Forever - by Podel (07.12.09) - Trackmania". His first video as Podel 3 was uploaded on February 25, 2020, titled "Podel Livestream Archive (06/08/2016) - Editing Star Wars Episode 2 - Part 1". 
On February 11, 2014, Podel made a YouTube channel called BlazinSkrubs with his friend who went by the username Sgt. Skrub. Sgt uploaded the first video on the channel titled "Sample Fued", on February 19, 2014. Podel uploaded his first video on the channel called "Jeremy Kyle Proper Rumble" on the 22nd February 2014. Over the next couple of years, his channel changed from a Montage Parody channel to an animation focused channel; however, the animations still retained the comedic smashing and metal SFX combined with random overlay text. (which is now often shown in Chinese characters) 
In 2015http://web.archive.org/web/20151215205228/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCafHhYjsbBODEHfZwdWpt5w, he changed his name on all platforms from Darkpuddle to Podel. 
In August 2020, a group called Podelsoft started working on a bot for his discord server. This bot was named after Podel. Version 0.1 followed soon and version 1.0 was released on August 21, 2020https://github.com/Podelsoft/Podel/releases?after=v1.2.0. When their site was still active, there was a page on his site that allowed you to add Podel's bot to your own server.
On 8th November 2020, Podel created another channel called Podel IRL, where he would upload videos about nature, long walks and other random content that wouldn't fit on the main channel.
==Content==
Many of his videos consist of nihilistic, ironic and ambiguous themes mixed with deadpan jokes and abstract references to topics such as computer programming, life, modern British culture, cigarette smoking and radiation. Animations are made to have low-effort, nonsensical storytelling yet high-effort animation quality. A recent video implies that Podel spent over 1400 hours of work animating one project. 
The parodies are almost always bizarre and out of place for the characters being depicted. 
==Trivia==
*Podel used to be an active member on TMX Exchange from 2007-2016, a track-swapping website for the popular racing games Trackmania Nations/Trackmania Nations Forever.
*From 2008-2014, Podel would upload Trackmania videos to the video sharing website TM-Tube. A few of his very first videos have been deleted, but the majority remain viewable.
*Podel used to have a website called Podelsoft.
**Podelsoft is the third iteration of Podel's website.
**Podel used to have a subdomain on that website called movies.podelsoft.com. It was a short-lived announcement page for YouTube videos made by him and the Compressed Lads.
*Podel used to have a Facebook Page called Darkpuddle Productions which has now been deleted. (Requires inspect element to see).
*Podel used to have a Google+ account called Darkpuddle (requires inspect element to see).
*Podel used to have a Twitter account called Podel_YT.
==Gallery==
Podel appearance.jpg|Podel.
Podel profile 2021 v2.jpg|Podel's current profile picture
Podel channel banner.jpg|Podel's current channel banner.
Podel Appearance 2.png|Podel as seen on his game.
Podel young.png|Young Podel.
Podel 2014.jpg|Podel's profile picture during 2014.
Podel 2015.jpg|Podel's profile picture during 2015.
Podelcover2014.jpg|Podel's channel banner during 2014.
Podelcover2015.jpg|Podel's channel banner during 2015.
==References==
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:English YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2014
Category:Users who joined in 2008