Stacks

Not to be confused with Sticks
Stacks is a Canadian former YouTuber known for his videos revolving around the messaging platform Discord. He is also known for his distinguishable voice, the recurring humour in his videos, and for his success on many of his videos throughout Spring of 2021 through 2022.
Most of Stacks' career on YouTube was built around Discord style videos, with the exception of his first few videos from late 2019 and early 2020. Stacks ceased uploading for unstated reasons on April 5, 2023, later deleting his second channel, Stacks II, three months later. He is now a co-owner and voice actor for the new Discord channel The Discord Empire, co-operated by him and Xobot.https://www.youtube.com/@thediscordempire
==History==
===2015 - Mid 2020; First few years===
Stacks created his YouTube channel on December 27, 2015 as Anonymous SportStacker (shortening it to thesportstacker in August 2020), but didn't upload his first video until November 6, 2019 (which has since been removed.) Stacks' first videos on his channel revolved around test animation videos made in Vyond (better known by its former name GoAnimate). Only about three of these videos were ever uploaded and were later taken down for unspecified reasons. 
===Mid - Late 2020; Viral Era===
thesportstacker started to gain some success after posting a Discord.JS bot tutorial on April 19, 2020. He gained a small following as more bot tutorials were posted. Some notable bot commands Stacks made in his tutorials include music controls, giveaways, and even a math calculator. 
In August 2020, sportstacker's video, All Discord Easter Eggs (2020), which had been uploaded two months before, started to gain more views than he usually expected., quickly overtaking the title for his most viewed video. The views abruptly shot up between late September and early October 2020, getting as many as 94,000 views each day. Stacks' subscriber count also had a large increase, going from 463 subscribers on September 25, 2020, to about 2,100 just two weeks later.
===Late 2020 - Mid 2021; Dark Ages===
Since thesportstacker had no idea what to do after the spurt, he continued on with his Discord.JS series. 
Because of this, his channel declined, going back to the usual views Stacks would get on a video. By the time 2021 had 
started, thesportstacker's channel was doing extremely bad, gaining only about 1,000 views a day and little to no subscribers (or even losing some.)
===Mid 2021 - Mid 2022; The Glory Days===
Around Easter of 2021, All Discord Easter Eggs (2020) had another spurt, likely due its title containing the word Easter in it, but this spurt didn't last long and died down after a few days. Later that month, Sportstacker released an updated version of the video, respectively titled All Discord Easter Eggs (2021). Although it started off slow, a very large spurt occurred on the video in late May 2021, possibly because of Discord's rebranding, quickly becoming Sportstacker's most viewed video. At its peak, Stacks gained as many as 250,000 views per day, and had an even larger subscriber jump, doubling from 6,000 to 12,000 within two weeks. A slightly smaller but still large spurt occurred in June 2021 almost immediately after the publishing of "How To Get Every Discord Badge (2021)". Around this time period, thesportstacker rebranded his channel to Stacks in order for others to find his channel more easily.
On June 22, 2021, Stacks announced via his Twitter account that his channel topic would be changing, as his channel slowly transitioned into mainly Discord content focusing more on the platform rather than just Discord bots. He accompanied this announcement by introducing a new logo, wordmark, and slogan. In September of the same year, he once again had another spurt on his channel, but not as big as his previous one in May-June. Another spurt occurred on his channel again in October of 2021, with it being around the same size as the previous one from a month before. Also in October 2021, Stacks became the first brand partner at a newly formed company named Sicro Management. The company folded in 2022.
In January 2022, almost immediately after the publishing of All Discord Easter Eggs (2022), Stacks experienced the largest subscriber count increase in his channel's history, gaining approximately 8K-10K subs within a matter of days, enjoying further success six months later on Discord user's hatred to pings suddenly going viral, accumulating more than 100,000 views within a matter of days. This was the last time any of Stacks' videos went viral.
===Late 2022 - Mid 2023; Decline and retirement===
In late August 2022, Stacks' channel, alongside many other YouTubers, had a sudden decline in both views and subscribers. He suspected the sudden and drastic dip to be caused by many of his viewers being back in school. In November of 2022, Stacks' channel briefly resurged out of the decline, only for it to fall immediately following an upload on how to obtain a new Discord badge. Stacks himself has mentioned that he believes the extreme decline in his views and subscribers has also been caused by the rapid growth of fellow Canadian Discord YouTuber No Text To Speech (NTTS), whose videos had begun to go mega viral beginning in 2022. 
Stacks released one final video to his main channel on April 5, 2023, which indirectly announced the channels operations being ceased. His second Discord server, The Stacks Empire, which had opened only six months before following the closure of Stacksville, his first server, had closed down just two nights earlier. The video, originally titled "Epilogue." consists of a VHS displaying the flashing words "INCOMING MESSAGE" before cutting to footage of two unsold Stacks merchandise items, a pillow and a coffee mug, being removed from a desk by an unseen figure. The video cuts to another message reading "THE END IS NEAR" while on a static background, and then proceeding to separately show the Stacks logo before it and the background music abruptly cuts out. Following a few moments of blank footage, the text "2020 - 2023" appears on the screen (the years Stacks made his Discord videos).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSky738Fsvs
===Mid 2023 - present; Post-retirement and return===
Despite the last video on the channel being uploaded in April, the channel has still had some slight success on some of the newer videos, with Stacks seeming to be somewhat active in the comment section on some of his videos, particularly his final video.
Stacks' final Discord server, The Stacks Empire, reopened to the public on March 17, 2024 under the new name The Discord Empire, almost one year after its initial shutdown. A new video with Stacks on the voiceover was released the same day under the new channel The Discord Empire, operated by Stacks and Xobot. The video received mixed reviews, who praised Stacks' voiceover but criticised the editing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MXY_5S-P1s
==Trivia == 
*He was a member of the rarest Hypesquad house on Discord: Hypesquad Brilliance.
*Almost all of the material posted onto Stacks' YouTube channel between November 2019 and March 2021 is lost. The only video posted between these dates that is still on his channel is All Discord Easter Eggs (2020), which was published on June 13th, 2020.
==Quotes== 
*DISCORDO!
*Dear Stacks, please stop doing this illegal shit. Otherwise, we'll sue.
*How do you go on to obtaining it? Well, you buy Nitro you cheap fuck.
* First off, we need to go back a few year-whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Not that many years! Go back to 2015!
*What the fuck is this?!? What is this?!?
* Oh my god, why do I have to- I fucking hate slash commands!
*Because of this, I have hired a professional to uncover this secret, new Easter Egg on the platform.
*Thirty-five dollars for a single boost?!?
==Subscriber milestones==
===Stacks===
*100 subscribers: June 22, 2020
*500 subscribers: September 27, 2020
*1,000 subscribers: October 1, 2020
*2,500 subscribers: October 12, 2020
*5,000 subscribers: April 6, 2021
*10,000 subscribers: May 20, 2021
* 25,000 subscribers: September 22, 2021
*50,000 subscribers: March 18, 2022
==Gallery==
File:Stacks Logo 2021.png|Stacks' old logo, used for only seven months, from June 22, 2021 until January 10, 2022, when it was replaced in fear of copyright infringement.
File:StacksLogo2022.webp|A variation of the final Stacks logo, entirely colored in Discord purple (blurple)
==References==
Category:Educational YouTubers
Category:Canadian YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2015
Category:Verified YouTubers