LS Mark

Mark McConville"Meet the teenage gaming whiz from Co Down making a living from YouTube and living in LA". Belfast Live, 12 January 2022 (born: ), better known online as LS Mark (also known as Splash Dash, formerly known as Immortal Resurrection), is a Northern Irish YouTuber known for his opinionated commentary about people, popular culture, and television. Mark was rather known for his videos on Butch Hartman, the animated story-time community, and Quinton Reviews.
==Content==
Mark started his channel at the age of 12 as "Immortal Resurrection" in 2014. His earliest accessible uploads were a series of gaming videos, where he played the mobile port of Sonic The Hedgehog 1 for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, which would later be unlisted somewhere around 2018. Mark then went on to doing drawing and pixel art tutorials, the channel was renamed "LS Mark" sometime around 2015, (He still uses his older channel name ImmortalResurrection in the link) Mark would produce his first "commentary" video when he uploaded his review for Sonic The Hedgehog. Mark continued making reviews and eventually began to make commentary on the Sonic games. Mark's old Sonic videos are now unlisted, but some users saved nearly all of the old LS Mark videos, In 2020, he made a second channel called "SplashDash" for making Sonic videos. 
On March 26, 2018, Mark uploaded a video on Butch Hartman. It quickly spiked in popularity, currently sitting at almost 300,000 views. The video received a mixed reception. He quickly became a commentator, presumably due to this newfound viewership. However, due to too much negativity in the community, Mark decided to stop making commentary videos and privatized as well as unlisted his old videos and started reviewing animated media, movies, and video games. Mark's last commentary video was "Game Grumps is on its last legs". In February of 2021, he relisted his old commentary videos to show the progression of his channel.
===Trilogy Videos===
These videos on LS Mark's channel focus on movie franchises, usually only going for 2 to 4 movies. Mark has done many of these videos, starting with his video talking about his love for the Diary of a Wimpy Kid trilogy.
=== Ranking Videos ===
Starting in 2021, Mark would start a series where he watches and ranks shows, movies, and books starting with The Simpsons, as well as Disney, Family Guy, SpongeBob SquarePants, Five Nights at Freddy's, South Park, The Fairly Oddparents, Saw, Regular Show, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and American Dad!.
===SplashDash ===
Mark's second YouTube channel was originally a shitpost channel called "LoSer Mark", but he later re-branded it to SplashDash where he makes videos discussing Sonic The Hedgehog. Mark originally started his SplashDash channel to be similar to Cybershell's videos who was absent for nearly 3 years at the time. Cybershell returned to the internet soon after Mark started his second channel probably in fear of Mark replacing his title as the "Sonic Lore Master". Cybershell and Mark became good friends with each other and they interact regularly and support each other's channels. Mark has a running joke on his main channel about SplashDash being his "friend's" channel, Several fans play along with this joke, although he stopped it after some fans noticed that SplashDash is actually also run by Mark himself.
===Midnight Mark===
Midnight Mark is the third YouTube channel created on May 28, 2024. It mainly consists of compilation videos from the LS Mark YouTube channel where videos are edited together based on a specific topic. These include videos of The Fairly OddParents, The Simpsons, Five Nights at Freddy's, etc. He also edits any loud or startling edits so that it can be more relaxing for the viewers. 
==Events==
He attended VidCon in 2019 and again in 2022 that was located in Anaheim, but before that, he also attended for GamerCon 2017 in Dublin, Ireland, and Insomnia in Birmingham, England back in 2019 and again in 2022. He recently appeared on UTV Live on 12th January 2022 but was referred to as the "gamer wiz," during that time his last name got revealed. Mark originally lived in Ireland until eventually moving to Mayobridge, County Down, Northern Ireland. More recently, he lived in Los Angeles, California. before returning to Northern Ireland.
==Personal life==
In August 2022, Mark married online artist Veronica Gallardo, known as "VeronicaAndJelly". Veronica first met Mark in September 2020 when he was 18, and their marriage was not made public until YouTuber Just Stop released a controversial video in January 2023 about their relationship that was later removed. It was revealed during this time that Mark and his close friends ran a private server, where they would bad-mouth creators and leak DMs. These included messages from Veronica's ex-boyfriend, Chris O'Neill from OneyPlays. This was revealed in Veronica's video Escaping Mick, Smokey & Alcohol in which she goes over recovering from alcohol, cheating on Mark and past boyfriends, bad-mouthing other creators, and various difficulties throughout her life.
Veronica would later take down her video Escaping Mick, Smokey & Alcohol on July 24, 2023 for unknown reasons. Her Tweet about the video remains up.https://twitter.com/veronicandjelly/status/1624861088302137344
==Controversies==
=== Lego Ninjago ===
In a now-privatized video called "Lego Ninjago's Kinda Dumb", Just Stop collaborates with Mark in which they harshly criticize the animated series, Lego Ninjago. This was met with a very negative response from the community in which they point out the strange comparison between season 1 and season 11 in their arguments. He has since apologized for the video and has privatized it; however, the video can be seen here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tBNxWzoBuM
===DaftPina===
On February 11th, 2023 Just Stop or "Braxton" released "Clearing The Air". The video addresses his prior video about Mark and his wife Veronicandjelly’s relationship, going into detail about how she cheated on Mark as well as keeping him around while she was sleeping with other guys.https://youtu.be/7_p6Sb0fzjs Braxton claimed that DaftPina was the driving force behind the video and proceeded to cut him out of his life entirely. Commentary channels reacted to this video mostly agreeing that Braxton had 'thrown DaftPina under the bus' and 'doesn’t actually own up to his mistakes.' Doc on the Radio showed inconsistencies between his live debate and the video he ended up making.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBFOXbAA_Yg
DaftPina would release a now-deleted response video showing DMs citing a few clarifications.https://youtu.be/5RNVEeMAuto Braxton came to him about making the LS Mark video, and on numerous occasions told him he didn't have to make the video. He also stated that he wasn't the only one working on the script with Braxton, clarifying that MangaKamen amongst several others participated and that Braxton never mentions their names within his video. DaftPina also reacted to a now-deleted video by Veronicandjelly about the situation.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up6FEUqfMxQ DaftPina had found out that LS Mark had been leaking his animated pilot as well as making fun of him behind his back. He did this with his friend SonnyTM in a Discord server alongside Veronica and SecretNarcissist.
Sonny had previously worked with DaftPina on a pilot that has yet to be released, and later leaked parts of it on his channel citing that he hated working on the project because he thought it was terrible.https://youtu.be/5p9zA7eqAKw
==Quotes == 
*"That Hartless Son of a Butch"
*"Furries" (Mark's pronunciation of "Fairies")
*"Who was this crash and the heck is a bahbandemen?"
*"Oh Don't you worry my silly little comrade"
*"Subscribe to my "FRIEND'S" channel SplashDash"
*"Oh No Butch....No..."
*"I think we're in for our scariest game yet" 
*" Please stop your parents divorce"
* "I don't hate Butch Hartman, I DISLIKE him." 
* "So guys, I recently checked out the analytics for the channel and found out 100% of you guys are massive smurfs fans"
*"Some might even say.... epic"
*" Sonic Adventure 2 is actually a pretty good gaeme, way better tha Sonic Heroes in my opinion"
*"Vailskibum is still a fucking retard"
* "No, no, no, no, no! don't turn me into a MARKetable plushie!" 
*"Boy, I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder."
*"Damn, I didn't know Fred was homer-phobic, what the hell..."
==Trivia==
*It is a running joke on his channel about what the "LS" in his username stands for. Names include but are not limited to: LoSer Mark, Loves Sonic Mark, Lord Sonic Mark ("official" acronym), and Long Sleeve Mark.
**He states that the "LS" is a reference to a friend group he had in grade school known as "The LS Club."
*Mark's favorite video game is Sonic Heroes.
* Mark was a huge Fairly OddParents fan as a child and the series is the biggest inspiration for him becoming an artist. Ironically, he and Butch Hartman are considered rivals.
**Butch is basically a running gag on his channel since he is one of the first few people to make a video relating to him before the drama and allegations regarding Butch.
**In his rantsona's background still, a poster of Butch can be seen with devil horns and vandalismThat Time Family Guy Killed Brian Griffin — LS Mark (YouTube). 23 Mar 2019.
**Mark has commissioned a drawing of his persona for $200 to Butch Hartman. He was actually pretty satisfied with the quality of the artwork compared to his other commissioned pieces.
*He occasionally changes his avatar's art style to match the style of the topic that he is talking about.
*In some videos, you can find short snippets of his avatar being fully animated, such as the Game Grumps video.
*Mark is best known for the "Arm Crossing Rantsona" meme due to disliking several popular things.
*He does have a Discord server, although he recently made it patrons access only.
*He occasionally produces lengthy videos to rank every episode or part of a series, and the longest was his video about ranking every Simpsons episode (as of January 2021), the length being 6 hours, 3 minutes, and 25 seconds. It has now been taken over by his "Ranking Every SpongeBob Episode" video which has a length of 7 hours, 5 minutes and 14 seconds. From these videos, he has displayed that: 
**His favourite Simpsons episode is "Homer's Enemy," and his least favourite one is "Love is a Many-Strangled Thing."
**His favourite Family Guy episode is "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows," and his least favourite is "Herpe the Love Sore."
**His favourite South Park episode is , and his least favourite is "Pip".
** His favourite SpongeBob SquarePants episode is "Band Geeks," and his least favourite is "Squid Baby."
**His favourite Fairly OddParents episode is "Channel Chasers," and his least favourite is "Certifiable Super Sitter!"
** His favourite Regular Show episode is "It's Time" (excluding the finale), and his least favourite is "Caveman."
** His favourite Diary of a Wimpy Kid book is "Hard Luck," and his least favourite is "Old School."
** His favourite American Dad episode is "The American Dad After School Special", and his least favourite is "Flavo(ur)town".
*He's one of the members and a co-founder of Jeffery 6, the Sonic group run by Ricardo "SpeedSuperSonic" since 2020, since 2022 the group is currently going on hiatus, and is unknown whether Ricardo still running the group or got into its controversial relationship with Mark and Veronica.
*Mark claims that he enjoyed the first FЯED movie.
*He was expecting to appear on the British version of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire game show.
*He owns a jacket that was given out to the crew of the first Sonic Movie from 2020LS Mark on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LSMark_/status/1518968975799078914 "Dunno if I’ve ever shown this much online but I actually own a jacket that was given out to the Crew of the first Sonic Movie from 2020 Even has an older logo, pretty neat"] 26 Apr 2022.
*He cried when Brian Griffin was killed in Family Guy.That Time Family Guy Killed Brian Griffin — LS Mark (YouTube). 23 Mar 2019 
*Alongside Veronica. He planned to create his own animated series, entitled Rob & Clay, which follows the adventures of a teenage cat and mouse duo. The series is animated on Toon Boom Harmony. It was originally scheduled to premiere in 2023 but it was later delayed to Summer 2024(1) ToonHive on X: "Short unfinished clip from the upcoming animated pilot ‘CATCHING UP’ by @LSMark_ coming this Summer. https://t.co/ftlz4kNKg8" / X, with its status remaining unknown."Character rigs and an upcoming coming-of-age comedy in Rob & Clay". Toon Boom, 2022 However, it was confirmed that McKenzie Atwood and Michael Kovach will voice the titular characters.(1) MarkArt on X: "@BPhonetune Clay is @kovox and Rob is @MKatwood!" / X
*He has stated that he is trying to improve his skills at drawing Scott Pilgrim at some point.
*He was inspired by Diary of a Wimpy Kid to create comics with the punchline being someone getting injured. The thousands of comics created were a series titled "DIE." His mother warned him that the comics would harm his image, and as he was working on "DIE: The Movie," one of his classmates discovered the comics and Mark was called out. Thankfully, he emerged from the drama without a scratch or any long-term damage.I read EVERY Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book — LS Mark (YouTube). 1 Feb 2024
==Gallery==
Lsmarkplush.jpg|Mark's figurine collection, including his plushie of himself
==References==
Category:Animation YouTubers
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Category:Users who joined in 2014