NickyBoi

Nicholas (born: ), better known online as NickyBoi, is a Canadian YouTuber residing in the province of Ontario, whose content is centred around the popular MOBA League of Legends. His channel is primarily known for video essays that evaluate the quality of League of Legends champion designs which he combines with an explosive editing style. 
Aside from video essays, NickyBoi also uploads a series called "Rapid Fire Skin Review", where he shares his immediate thoughts on recent cosmetics in League of Legends, and occasional stream highlights, usually based around an event or very particular theme.
==About==
Nicholas created his YouTube channel in 2011 under the username "supernicmax". He didn't upload any videos until March 23, 2013, at which point he uploaded "Godzilla Unleashed: All Monster Intros". This video also happens to still be the most viewed video on his channel, sitting at over 6.5 million views.
Later, Nicholas rebranded his channel to "Anicmations" and in c.2016-2018, Nicholas would try his hand at making animations on YouTube, which included some storytime animation videos. Most of these videos have since been privated, due to the shift in his content's focus. However, the two that are still available are one where he animated Jaiden Animations and TheOdd1sOut sharing their opinions on the Tide Pod challenge and another where he added lip sync to a Rebecca Parham/Let Me Explain Studios video. 
In 2019, Nicholas would then go on to try his hand at making League of Legends montage parodies, starting with "A Slightly Below Average Nunu Video" up until his final montage parody, "GGEZ Yasuo, released on April 1st, 2019. 
Following this video, Nicholas' content would then pivot once more into more general League of Legends content, ranging from mock breakdowns of specific League of Legends champion playstyles to general gameplay highlights with friends. It was also around this time (c. end of 2019 to start of 2020) that Nicholas changed his username once more to its current iteration: NickyBoi. 
Having fully settled into focusing on League of Legends content, NickyBoi started his journey into making video essays that largely centre themselves around League of Legends champion visual design and lore. 
==Rise to Popularity and Approach to Content==
One of the signatures of NickyBoi was playing the champion Ivern and taking this character into the mid lane with abnormal efficacy. This was highly unusual because Ivern is designed to be a supporting-type character that plays in the "jungle" role, which is a role that roams between lanes and collects gold by killing neutral monsters. Mid lane on the other hand is largely reserved for champions that are better suited to a carry role rather than a support, hence the oddity. 
Undeterred, NickyBoi played this character and role combination frequently, even managing a positive win rate in competitive solo queue with it. He then showcased his ability to play the champion in a video released in February of 2020, titled "My Friends Flame Me for Playing Ivern Mid for 35 Minutes". 
Three weeks later, NickyBoi then released another video about playing Ivern in the mid lane as a collaboration video with YouTuber and streamer RossBoomsocks which was called "I coached RossBoomsocks on how to play AP Ivern mid......". This sequence of events and unusual choices is arguably what initially drew people's attention to NickyBoi's current sense of humour and editing style. 
On May 22nd, 2020, YouTuber MagikarpUsedFly uploaded a video titled "MAKE MY VIDEO AGAIN BUT THIS TIME IT'S FOR $$$". It was revealed that Magikarp had taken to Twitter to find editors for his main channel, wherein potential candidates could submit their edits on some test footage to a Dropbox folder. The winner of said contest, which was up to Magikarp's discretion, would then be hired on as an editor for the channel. At the end of the video though, Magikarp couldn't decide between two submissions and ended up hiring both NickyBoi and I Am Bason.
For the rest of the year, NickyBoi put most of his content creating efforts into editing for MagikarpUsedFly and, later, for another League of Legends YouTuber/Streamer known as "Skooch", leaving his channel on a bit of an editing hiatus for a few months. 
Then, on October 24th, 2020, NickyBoi uploaded his first video essay, titled "Why Seraphine is Everything Wrong with Modern League of Legends". The video was critical of the recently released League of Legends champion, Seraphine, and how Riot's approach to the character was bordering on predatory. He brought up how Riot using a fake character to build a parasocial relationship on social media and subsequently having her act depressed for the sake of "sympathy" was misleading and potentially harmful. NickyBoi then went on to make points about how the design was uninspired and how her lore invalidated key points for several other champions' stories in game. 
This video clearly struck a chord with people in the League of Legends community, as his channel tripled in size over the next three months.
To this day, the Seraphine video is NickyBoi's second most viewed video on his channel at over 1.7 million views. His channel now sits at over 132 thousand subscribers. 
==Run-In With "Stan" Culture==
With Seraphine having such a heavy social media presence and with her release being accompanied by "her release" of K-pop inspired music "with" other female champions in League of Legends, the virulently toxic stan group for said character was quickly assembled, most present on Twitter and in the YouTube comments. It would be an understatement to say that they were upset at NickyBoi's video criticizing Seraphine, as they still to this day frequently send death threats and a small variety of insults at the content creator, some of whom openly "hate follow" NickyBoi on Twitter so that they can harass him after any Tweet he makes. 
==Subscriber milestones==
* 10,000 subscribers: October 2019
* 20,000 subscribers: December 2020
* 50,000 subscribers: April 2021
* 100,000 subscribers: January 2022
==Trivia==
*He has a cat named "Gizmo"
**His cat was named after the friendly gremlin from the 1984 movie "Gremlins", as her coat pattern closely matches the gremlin's appearance
*He is openly aromantic and asexual
*He is currently attending his third year of university, with a major in Multimedia
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Canadian YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2011