ThirtyVirus

Brandon Calabrese (born: ), better known online as ThirtyVirus, is an American Minecraft YouTuber. He is most known for producing Hypixel Skyblock (on Minecraft) videos, but is waiting for Hytale for a fresh style of video.
==YouTube==
ThirtyVirus joined YouTube on February 13, 2010. He started out making videos on his Minecraft worlds, (such as the Survival Island series) and playing random games such as Portal. He tried multiple different games, but the ones that got him the most views were his Skyblock videos. When Hypixel Skyblock was first released to the public, he started making videos on it because he realized that Skyblock related content got him the most views. He then proceeded to get bigger and bigger on YouTube as time went on.
==Skyblock Series==
After being in a coop Skyblock island with his friend Fezzy, he decided to start a solo Hypixel Skyblock profile, with the intent of playing through the game without help from his audience. He dubbed any items or coins his audience gives him "contraband", but as of "season 2" he can take "contraband". Some highlights from this series include when thirty livestreamed for 24 hours farming Zealots a profitable money-making method (at that time), his 24-hour dungeons stream and his 24 hyperion stream (before it was cut short by Youtube). Currently this is his main profile. After Fezzy got hacked, his coop Skyblock island was deleted, and he switched entirely to his solo profile. Then they blew up his solo and he switched to Lemon. 
Lemon was originally a coop with 5 "sweats" having fun, before they all quit from lack of content. Then, Thirtyvirus and Fezzy made a "contraband" profile.
Thirtyvirus also has a Hardcore profile where he plays just like the Ironman Gamemode, but it is a normal profile because he created it before the update.
Recently he also started a new Stranded profile with Fezzy when the Stranded Gamemode released.
==Hate from the Community==
Due to ThirtyVirus exposing many people's money-making methods in Skyblock in his YouTube videos, ThirtyVirus has received hate from the fanbase. In one of his videos, ThirtyVirus showed how anyone can calculate which minion (a resource generator) is the best at making money depending on what upgrades and fuels on it. This initiated a backlash against him, resulting in a high dislike number, and many hate posts written towards him. 
Another example of hate was much more temporary; when Hypixel Skyblock was releasing their Pets v2 update, ThirtyVirus had word from the admins that the update would drop at 9pm CDT. When the time hit, with no update out, there was angry messages in his live stream chat, in the game chat, and even from famous YouTubers such as Technoblade.
After ThirtyVirus left the forums in mid 2021, the hate died down as people moved on. Later, he would reflect that he was merely giving the "haters" the attention they wanted. He's regarded as a more chill and laid back streamer.
==ThirtyVirus Rants==
Starting on May 26, 2020, ThirtyVirus has released a smaller series in which he rants about what his on his mind that is making him mad or annoying him. As of Febuary 5, 2021, ThirtyVirus has released 21 episodes in his series, about the hate that he is receiving, how being a YouTube streamer can be difficult, how sponsors can be insidious, and how infuriating Spigot forums can be (and the complete inaction in dealing with trolls).
== Thirtyvirus Coding ==
Thirtyvirus has been studying object orientated programming languages for quite some time (as per Thirtyvirus rants) and has made a couple of videos coding "Spigot" plugins which adapt Vanilla Minecraft to make it more interesting. A key moment was when he made an "UberItems" plugin which added Hypixel Skyblock-like items of his own. He got a creative mind for the buillder's wand, which he showcased in one of these episodes.
== Moving away from Skyblock ==
On February 24th, Thirty hopped into the Creator's Club VC and accidentally stayed in it for around an hour. Fellow Skyblock Youtuber DKMCC123 then joined the call and the 2 talked before a 3rd, IGoByLotsOfNames, asked to join the call in Thirty's livestream chat. What followed was a 6 hour long deep philosophical conversation about the nature of their content, potential plans for moving on, new styles of content, all interspersed by funny moments. More and more content creators from Creator's Club joined the VC and partook in the discussion. During this part of the stream, viewership was down to 350, which many pointed out were his "core".
==Memes and Quotes==
ThirtyVirus has a lot of memes on his channel. Some of them are:
*"Nuuu! My soups!"
*"Wake your foot up and let's go!"
*"Penguin?"
*"CONTRABAND!"
*"BEANNNS"
*"BURRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP"
*"This is... yes"
*"BERNIE"
*”Circus compactor, yes! That’s how they get all the clowns into the car.”
*”It sounded like you ree’d into a tunnel and then a frog was just like ‘b l e h’”
*“Chat I just got one fifth of a cent it’s incredible”
*’”I love your videos’ Nice! Thank you for fanboying min-AHHHHHHHHHHHHH”
*”They birthed an adult cow!”
*“Thank you for the $5... ‘What you egg’”
*“Is this enough gravel for you, game? All my minions are sad now”
*“‘Those sea lantern placements make me angry’ Well I’m sorry but...”
*“I ran out of cane... no... the fun is over”
*”Oh I have more cane!”
*”Is it the bean man?”
*”Crypt soul stealer, more like your soul dead”
*Why are they called lonely spiders? There’s a billion of them”
*“If I’m gonna eat stone, you can’t stop me”
*“I kill you with key.”
*”I can’t farm-farm because the hoes are in the backpack.”
*”Bow down to me mortals, for I am the univer- BERNIE”
*“And they made a ‘your mom’ joke in 2021.”
== Trivia ==
* He is 5’7” tall, or 170cm.
* He used a picture of a Cave Spider as his YouTube icon and channel logo for 8 years before changing it in 2018.
* He has two little brothers named Sammy and Mikey, who appear frequently in his streams alongside his dad, whom he has nicknamed PapaVirus.
* He went to the Rochester Institute of Technology for a number of years before dropping out due to the immense drain on his mental and physical health.
* He used to be in martial arts, used to play soccer, and used to be a Scout.
* His username was generated by an Xbox Live algorithm.
* He owns a Tesla.
* He is close friends with TimeDeo, Menacing Banana, Refraction, and more.
*He is known for having a strong attachment to cheese and a strong disdain for pickles.
**In fact, one of the most popular memes on his channel is his affection for eating blocks of cheese.
* He has a rare condition called Thumb Hypoplasia Type II, which makes him unable to bend his left thumb.
* He organized a GoFundMe for his friend Hellcastle, who was trying to escape Lebanon after his power was slashed and the mass instability in the region. It raised over $10,000 in a week, with many prominent Skyblock creators donating to the cause, including Simon (who owns and manages the Hypixel Network) with a $3,000 donation.
* His Favorite Pokémon is Ditto, calling it "an interesting concept"
* He owns a cat called Cosmic.
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