Cartoon Post

Cartoon Post is an American content creator in the YouTube cartoon community. His real name is Joshua. He has over 400 subscribers, and is an aspiring YouTuber and television/film writer.

## Ongoing YouTube Series

* Fixing Animation
* Reviews

## History on YouTube

Josh made appearances on YouTube before even creating his YouTube channel. Josh showed up in videos on one of his friend's YouTube channels in 2015, and a different channel his friend had in March 2016. In early 2016, Josh wanted to make a Crossy Road YouTube channel, where he'd upload videos of himself playing the game. That channel never got created because Josh, at the time, couldn't figure out how to create a YouTube channel on the phone he had. Later that year, though, he got a new phone as a gift, and with that phone, he went on to create his first ever YouTube channel on July 24, 2016.

It was called "Josh The Lego Animator". On the channel, Josh primarily uploaded Lego SpongeBob videos, but also started three other Lego video series, "The Joker Show", "Looney Lego News", and "Leonardo's Ninja Show". At least two more episodes of Leonardo's Ninja Show were made than the amount of episodes that were uploaded to YouTube, but they are now forever lost. Notably, the song Josh used as the opening sequence for Leonardo's Ninja Show was "Liquid Blue".

During that time, Josh would go on to make a second channel, called "Crossing Gamer 152", where he would upload mobile gaming videos to, on the side. Eventually, he made another channel called "Crossing Gamer 152", because he forgot the login info for the first one. Now, both of the Crossing Gamer 152 channels are inactive, and only one of them is still on YouTube. Sometime in 2017, the second Crossing Gamer 152 and Josh the Lego Animator channel became fully inactive.

Josh created another YouTube channel sometime in 2018, called "Cinema Jish Productions". He planned on uploading a fully animated 2D action series to it, but it never came out, and the channel died not long after being created, and it was soon deleted.

Then, on August 3, 2019, Josh created a new YouTube channel, called "Cartoon Post". His first video on the channel was about Nickelodeon's, at the time, new purchase of Paws Inc, which is the company that owns Garfield. Josh continued uploading short videos about breaking news in the animation industry, as his main gimmick. It was around this time that Josh was learning how to edit. Therefore, his videos were very minimally and poorly edited, but the editing in his videos would go on to improve in the following couple of months.

On September 9, 2019, Josh posted to his Cartoon Post Twitter account, announcing that he will no longer be making cartoon videos, "in favor of a BRAND NEW gaming commentary channel I'm really excited about!" He went on to rename his old Josh The Lego Animator channel "psPICKLE", where he would upload unscripted commentary videos reacting to YouTube videos of strange people he found and making jokes about them. The videos he uploaded under the psPICKLE commentary brand in 2019 didn't feature any gameplay footage like the announcement of his commentary channel said they would. Instead, they were like a less edgy/mild Leafyishere mixed with TheMysteriousMrEnter (in terms of having a cartoon avatar with facial expressions inspired by Mr. Enter's cartoon avatar, rather than CSGO gameplay). The psPICKLE channel was short lived, but birthed the original "Darn Bug" video, which became a meme among Josh's friends at school, and a few years later would become a small meme on the internet.

On November 4, 2019, Josh said on the twitter account he had created for the psPICKLE brand that creating edgy commentary reaction videos isn't as fun as he pictured it being. He concluded the tweet, saying, "I might return to my x-channel [Cartoon Post]". He also deleted all of his psPICKLE videos on YouTube (including the original Darn Bug video), making them lost media. However, people can still get a glimpse of what his content was like on the psPICKLE channel, when looking at the video titles that were shared on the psPICKLE Twitter account.

Josh made his official comeback to his Cartoon Post YouTube channel, on November 5, 2019. The video was titled "SpongeBob Movie 3 TRAILER Release Date CONFIRMED". When he revived his Cartoon Post YouTube channel, he began using the song "Liquid Blue" as the end screen music for each video, because he remembered using it during his Lego animations era and he still really liked the song. Eventually, he also created a short and simple intro animation which was almost exactly like his 2022 intro animation, but it had different music playing through it, which sounded like a fast, positive piano track.

Up until mid-2020, Josh continued to frequently upload videos to the Cartoon Post channel. At one point, the channel became so active, Josh was uploading two to three videos a day. It was during that period of time, Josh realized one of the things he loves the most about having a YouTube channel is the grind. In early 2020, Josh started getting more views on his channel, over a thousand views on select videos. His most viewed video during that era of his YouTube career was one called "VENOM IN REAL LIFE: REAL or FAKE?!!" (uploaded in April, 2020).

His second most viewed video during that era was about the video game "SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated", which was a game Josh spent a lot of time covering in videos about it on his YouTube channel, even as much as making multiple news videos about it at midnight, one time, on the night the official trailer for the game and images of it were released. Another topic Josh frequently talked about on the Cartoon Post channel during that era was "The SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage!", which he talked about in at least four videos on the channel, and uploaded a very positive review of, after he watched the live broadcast of it on T.V. He didn't get many views on his videos about it, but at one time, he would bring it up whenever he could in a video because of how much he loved the musical.

During this era of Cartoon Post, Josh continued uploading cartoon news videos as his main YouTube gimmick, but also uploaded a variety of short reviews of SpongeBob episodes, and a couple of cartoon rant videos, the most controversial one being about the reboot "Rise of the TMNT", which he didn't like at the time, but has since grown an appreciation for (mainly because of its impressive animation). However, sometime in the middle of 2020, due to various reasons, but primarily the Covid 19 pandemic, Josh stopped uploading to his YouTube channel, because he was feeling very unmotivated. He went weeks without uploading, but what made matters worse was that almost every day, he would get a new subscriber, despite not uploading at all, which made him feel even more unmotivated. Eventually, it started feeling like a tease for him every time his subscriber count would increase. Therefore, he made the decision, sometime in the second half of 2020, to permanently delete his Cartoon Post YouTube channel, and for about a year, he was completely done making YouTube videos.

After going a while without making YouTube videos, Josh began to miss it. In early Fall, 2021, he started uploading short mobile gameplay videos here and there, and a couple other videos, not as a full on comeback to making videos, but just strictly for fun. One of the non-gameplay videos he uploaded during this time was called "Darn Bug 2", a sequel to the original video which created a small inside-joke/meme. However, it wasn't until it came to his attention that Chris Pratt was cast as Garfield in Nickelodeon's upcoming Garfield movie, that Josh officially came out of YouTube retirement. "I'm bringing it back for this one. Commentary videos. Discussion videos," he said on November 1, 2021, at the start of the first cartoon news video he made since mid-2020. He only made the video for fun and for old times sake, since it was a video about Nickelodeon buying the rights to Garfield that started his old Cartoon Post YouTube channel to begin with, which is why it's fitting that after this video, Josh slowly started getting back into the YouTube grind again.

After the new Garfield video, he created another similar video for old times sake, then another, and then another. Soon, he found himself reviving the Cartoon Post brand, but this time, because of the original Cartoon Post channel getting deleted, he had renamed his older Lego animations channel "Cartoon Post", and continued the brand on that channel. He no longer had the microphone he had in late 2019 and the first half of 2020 (eventually getting a new microphone which didn't sound as good as the one he had before), and because of how long it had been since he quit making YouTube videos, Josh had to relearn how to make and edit videos like he used to, making a lot of the earliest videos he uploaded in 2021 more similar to his pre-psPICKLE, earliest 2019 Cartoon Post videos, than the ones he was making in 2020.

He got better at editing again like he did in 2019, and started uploading YouTube videos almost every day of the week. Like before, his main gimmick once again became cartoon news videos, uploading over one-hundred cartoon news videos in the following year. One of his most viewed videos became one called "Cursed Sonic Returns," which got over nine-thousand views.

Once in a while, Josh also began uploading non-cartoon news related videos, such as a video he made about "Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus", and occasional reviews of SpongeBob episodes. Although his 2019-2020 Cartoon Post YouTube channel was permanently deleted, Josh used old audio recordings of his own voice to remake three videos he originally uploaded to his old Cartoon Post channel, and uploaded the remakes to his current Cartoon Post channel. Those videos were "The CURSED Phineas and Ferb Musical," "That Time Rick and Morty Killed The Simpsons," and "VENOM IN REAL LIFE: REAL or FAKE?!!" Given the fact they use the same audio recordings that were used in the original versions uploaded back in late 2019 and early 2020, those video remakes offer the best glimpse at how the content was like on the original Cartoon Post YouTube channel.

One of the main topics Josh has tackled in his current YouTube era is the Warner Brothers Discovery buyout and all the controversies surrounding David Zaslav having multiple shows and movies (some fully finished being animated) scrapped, and many other cases of big media companies showing a disregard for animation, such as the video "Netflix Animation is Doomed". Josh has made a name for himself as someone who is critical of big companies, and is someone who supports indie animation.

In May, 2022, Josh created another YouTube channel called "psPICKLE", making a brief return to the days of his old edgy commentary videos. He only uploaded six videos to it, and the channel lasted for just a few weeks. As opposed to the 2019 psPICKLE channel's videos which were typically around ten minutes long, these 2022 videos were only around a few minutes long, but they were slightly edgier than the videos Josh made in 2019. Still not as edgy as LeafyIsHere, but edgy enough, in fact, for Josh to delete the channel within the following month and stop uploading to it just to be safe that it won't get him banned on YouTube for some of the stuff he was saying in the videos. Not all six of them, but a few of the videos were eventually made public on the internet again, in 2023, when Josh created a Rumble account called "psPICKLE". Then, on May 17, 2023, he uploaded his first ever Rumble exclusive psPICKLE brand video, which was a criticism of Elon Musk and Twitter. However, Josh still plans to primarily focus on making content for his Cartoon Post YouTube channel, and only once in a while posting to Rumble, when he wants to make an edgier video that potentially wouldn't be allowed on YouTube.

## Rebrand

On May 24, 2023, Josh announced that the Cartoon Post YouTube channel will be getting a nature themed rebrand, including the profile picture/logo, the cover image, and the end screen in each video. This was to make the channel look less corporate, and was specifically nature themed because nature makes Josh feel positive, and he felt the world needs a bit more positivity in the current age. The rebrand has since been reverted, in favor of the classic blue and white theme used for the Cartoon Post YouTube channel back in 2019.

## Logo

The name "Cartoon Post" was made to be a parody of the news company "Washington Post". Washington Post's company logo appears on their YouTube channel as white letters with a blue background, that says "wp", as an acronym for "Washington Post". Therefore, when Josh created the logo for his Cartoon Post YouTube channel back in 2019, he parodied Washington Post's YouTube logo, by putting white letters that say "CP" over a different shade of blue. "CP", in the context of the logo, is meant to be an acronym for "Cartoon Post". However, there has been some confusion in the past, because the same acronym could also stand for other things, such as "College Prep" or "Club Penguin". Because of people getting confused by it, the logo for Cartoon Post has become somewhat controversial, and some people on Twitter and YouTube have suggested to Josh that he should change his logo and get a different acronym. Therefore, it was changed from being "CP" to a logo that is a "P" with a "C" in it, in 2023.