Channel Pup

Will Grantham (born: ), better known online as Channel Pup, is an English YouTuber known for his subjects in television, movies, pop culture, s, and comics.
==History==
Channel Pup was created in May of 2018. Originally named Channel Goat early on, but in December 2018 he decided to change his name to Channel Pup to honour his Dog, Toby who passed away at that time.
Channel Pup started off as a Reddit channel taking clear inspiration from SorrowTV and SootHouse before making video essays on DC Comics Characters.
Channel Pup was first discovered with his debut video essay 'Gotham's Joker Problem' in which he criticised the show's decision to replace fan favourite character Jerome Valeska, with an identical twin brother.
Channel Pup grew fast from then on covering a range of other subjects including Doctor Who, Spider-Man, Sonic the Hedgehog and more.
Arguably Channel Pup's most popular subject of discussion became the Spider-Man movies and the Channel was revamped to feature his mascot sporting an outfit reminiscent to Spider-Man as well as beginning production on the short fan film 'Marvelous Tales of Spider-Man'.
==Personal Life==
Will was born in 1996. In 2005, he won the Blue Peter “Design a Monster for Doctor Who” competition with his entry “The Abzorbaloff” who would go on to be featured in the infamous Season 2 episode “Love and Monsters” facing off against David Tennant's Tenth Doctor. Will attributes his interest in film and TV production to this event.
Will had a very close bond with his dog Toby hence modelling his online presence after him. The Pup that Will uses as his mascot is called Toby and is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
==Collaboration==
Will regularly has friends and family feature on his Channel occasionally letting viewers submit their own videos for Channel Pup to showcase. Prevalent guests have been his girlfriend Liz, Who Chaser, his "son" Tharries, Council of Geeks, Game Apologist and, the highly controversial for his hate speech, TomTopics all of whom he considers friends.
Channel Pup has assisted and collaborated with a number of other YouTubers including Quinton Reviews, and Votesaxon07.
His recent collaboration with Game Apologist was a five-part series discussing the two Sonic videogames; Sonic 06 and Sonic Forces.
Channel Pup now co-hosts a podcast about 'Sonic The Hedgehog' "for the classic and modern age" called 'Sunset City'. The podcast concists of three key members: Channel Pup, Game Apologist, Suris and Waneisboss. 
==Community ==
Back in May 2019, Channel Pup's audience convinced him to create a discord server after a video talking about his life "The Channel Pup Story". Channel Pup commonly interacts with his audience in the comments section, and, via Discord and Twitter.
During April in 2022, Channel Pup decided to redesign his avatar again this time adding fur and pupils. His audience were mostly upset with the change and 83% of his viewershttps://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxMgT93lCxotBivL6bhMJG2gYDdatoBm8z wanted the previous design to return but Channel Pup refused to give in so instead made a compromise of having the fur details dialled down to them being hardly visible anymore.
==Into the Joker-Verse==
Prior to the airing of Gotham's Series Finale, Channel Pup made a prank video claiming it was a clip of the Joker from Gotham's finale when in actuality it was a parody that he had animated. This received a mostly positive reaction with many seeing the humour in it, however, there was some backlash which Channel Pup responded to with an animation of Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska sitting at a bar chatting. 
The video was a modest success but the audience enjoyed it and asked for more, which became the mini-series 'Into the Joker-Verse'. The animation techniques used to make 'Into the Joker-Verse' were later employed for further animations including Spider-Man and his own avatar which he uses for most of his videos.
==Short Films==
Channel Pup has made quite a few short films before his success of becoming a youtuber. Some titles for these films were:
'The Idea Man', 'Spider-Man and Superman in: Dinner at Deadpool's', and 'Antagonists Anonymous'
Channel Pup teamed up with ToughCookieMedia in 2019 to produce 'Marvelous Tales of Spider-Man', a short film taking place in the Universe of ToughCookieMedia's 'The Marvelous Spider-Man' Films. The film was met with mixed response and Channel Pup admitted that he himself was not entirely satisfied with the film, so a few months later, he re-released it with a few editing tweaks and had Council of Geeks dub over the voice of the Chameleon.
He then set his sights on creating a sequel to 'Marvelous Tales of Spider-Man' but unfortunately due to COVID-19 that idea was dropped and replaced with another Spider-Man related fan film titled 'Stay Home: A Spider-Man Short Film'. A story set in the MCU between 'far from home' and 'no way home'.
Channel Pup did another collaboration with Stuff Films to create 'My Haunted Hometown - Ghost Documentary 2020'
The latest short film by Channel Pup named 'Burrito De Mano' was created as an assignment for his university finals project which it reportedly received an average gradehttps://twitter.com/channel_pup/status/1535196091200708614?s=20&t=QaxG08VMk0TJueEU4Xivbg. The film has been submitted to multiple film festivals and we are yet to discover the results.
In 2023, Pup announced two further fanfilm projects, a short centred around Sonic the Hedgehog, and a Spider-Man feature based on the character's early days. The Spider-Man film would make the use of virtual sets.
== The Future of Channel Pup==
Channel Pup had pledged to improve his content in 2020 with the help of his friend Heath Gleason, changing his videos from the previous picture slideshow format to more involving videos. To achieve this, the daily upload plan was axed in favour of taking more time on videos. Different artists who had submitted fan-art to Channel Pup were recruited to create the official artwork for the channel giving it a makeover. Channel Pup recruited EmissaryFromHeck, Biotyn Arts and adZinco to produce graphics and visuals for the videos and channel.
After getting over a breakup in 2021 and almost quitting his channelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR0lXnbls4s&t=2s. Channel Pup has set out to make more easier to make content without the animated avatar so it won't take too much time make video. However, this isn't the end for the animated canine as it's still used for short sketches at the beginning of some videos as a cold open. He has also made an attempt to bring back "lore" to his videos, something which was experimented with and quickly abandoned back in early 2020 but seems to be making a return. A current example being the "pup's time machine" series where he travels to the past to take toys from his younger self which causes many thing to go awry. 
==Hacking and Termination==
On October 7, 2020, Channel Pup was hacked after a fraudulent sponsorship installed a keylogger on his PC. The very same happened to other YouTubers in his circle including Ace Creeper and Suris earlier in the year. Channel Pup was rebranded to a Ripple Crypto Currency channel and the channel was last seen streaming a Crypto Currency conference before it's termination by YouTube. Will Grantham has since started a second channel called 'Pup Boy Jr' where he is still posting content, while he works with Team YouTube to recover his channel which he says he "remains optimistic" about. As of October 11th the Channel was restored.
==References==
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:Film YouTubers
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Book-narrating YouTubers
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Category:English YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2018