Eric and Erika Media Inc.

Eric and Erika are top-ranking officials of the production studio founded in 2019 by HypeAnimate.

## About

### Formerly

Hype Productions (May 2019 to April 2020)Hype Studios Inc. (April to June 2020)Eric and Erika Productions Inc. (June 2020 to June 2021)

## Faculty

### Executive Chairman

Hyped Up Animator (former CEO from May 2019 to June 2020)

### No. of employees

~1,000

**Eric and Erika Media Inc.** (formerly **Hype Productions**, **Hype Distributions**, and **Eric and Erika Studios Inc.**) is an America production company owned by Hyped Up Animator. On May 25, 2019, a then-thirteen year old content creator founded the studio as Hype Productions and mainly posted vlogs at the time. By April 2020, Vyond animations were first uploaded on his account. Two months later followed Plotagon animations. June and July were mostly Plotagon. By August, Eric and Erika Studios Inc. returned to making Vyond animations. Bro Productions was a predecessor of the Eric and Erika studio. The Bro Productions company has no longer been in operation since the old production company was sold for a whopping amount of GoBucks in September 2019. Overall, Eric and Erika Media Inc. has produced more than two hundred videos, including those from Bro Productions. In February 2021, a hacker went into his channel and deleted everything. As a result, HUA feared that he would be unable to recover from the trauma. His growth had slowed down since. He had uploaded seventy videos since rebuilding his channel. As of January 2023, HUA has 502 subscribers.

## Beginnings (2019-2020)

Hyped Up Animator started out as **Hype Productions** in May 2019. He originally posted vlogs which no longer exist on his channel as his channel was wiped clean by a hacker in February 2021. He randomly took hiatuses, and these hiatuses could last as long as three months. Before the start of Vyond-era Eric and Erika, the channel had posted at least ten videos, all of which don't exist anymore.

## The beginning of an era: Vyond videos

In April 2020, HUA started his YouTube career making Vyond videos, with his first being the Dawson Sisters miniseries. The original edit was lost, but the edited version can be found on YouTube. Only two of the four Dawson Sisters episodes were found. He is currently in the process of remaking the other two episodes. There is a chance that the second episode could be remade, as in the third episode, the synopsis of the second episode had been mentioned. He continued making more videos, even creating a series called The Hype Girls Show. The show started off with a video which was considered to be his first grounded video. On May 15, 2020, The Eric and Erika Show first aired. From that point on, HUA continued making videos.

## Plotagon videos

HUA discovered a new type of videos: Plotagon videos. However, in contrast to Vyond, Plotagon is more restrictive, and you can only use a select few actions. He had fun making these videos, and by July 2020, he made around thirty of them. He even made a short film titled Caillou's Troubles. He is still making Plotagon content but not as often as he used to.

## Rise to popularity in the Vyond market

In August 2020, HUA began to catch the eye of many Vyonders. Perhaps the biggest video he made was titled Violy Gets In Dead Meat Again, which is a sequel to an earlier Hype Girls episode from May 2020. Around the same time, he created his Darklord Gets Grounded series. A compilation was made out of it. In September 2020, he discovered Wrapper:Online as soon as he explored the aesthetic of Comedy World. He switched up his video style. However, he had to switch back to Business Friendly once there were no other Wrapper:Online clones left. In October 2020, he went back to making Vyond videos. His most popular video he made during October 2020 was perhaps the Sandra and Violy Get Held Back video. In November 2020, HUA lost access to his Vyond account, switching back to Comedy World. He continued making Comedy World videos until the early fall of 2021, once he realized that his laptop could no longer run Adobe Flash. He sticked to using Business Friendly after this. Well into December 2020 and January 2021, he still continued to grow. Eric and Erika was at its highest extent in February 2021.

## Decline

In February 2021, a hacker broke into HUA's account and deleted every piece of material he had uploaded. Even with the videos deleted, he was still able to recover most of his videos from the grave. He still uploaded content in Comedy World. He was still popular with the Vyonders, but he showed stagnant activity well into late 2021 and almost all of 2022. The final video posted before his comeback was a video titled Classic Dora misbehaves at the movies and gets grounded. It was clear that HUA's videos weren't doing so well recently.

## Resurrgence

In October 2022, HUA made a comeback with videos such as Halloween Robbery, Childish Dad Gets In Dead Meat, and Erika vs. Homophobic Karen. This resulted in a small increase in subscribers. The Eric and Erika Media Inc. studios managed to make an extended remastered version of the Mariah Claus special, which was uploaded in December 2020. The original version could be found on social media. Perhaps his biggest video after his comeback was Childish Dad's Christmas Surprise, which received over 900+ views as of January 2023.

## Programming

### Current

The Eric and Erika Show (May 15, 2020 - present)

Darklord vs. Everybody (August 2, 2020 - present)

The Derek and Zara Show (August 7, 2020 - present)

The Emma Erikson Shorts (June 27, 2021 - present)

The Alexia Show (July 27, 2021 - present)

The Hype Gals Show (January 1, 2021 - present)

Classic Dora / Dora Clásica en español (July 5, 2022 - present)

Childish Dad's Deprived World: An Eric and Erika Series Inspired By TheRealRandomLozzie! (October 31, 2022 - present)

### Former

Dawson Sisters (April 15 - 28, 2020)

The Hype Girls Show (April 30 - December 31, 2020)

Violy vs. Everybody: An Eric and Erika Series Inspired By Andrew Orozco (April 30, 2020 - October 7, 2021)

The Dawson Gang (June - December 2020)

The Erika Committee (September 2020 - January 2021)