GojiFan93

*"Stay Big G-Fans!"*

**GojiFan1993** is the second YouTube channel, identity and brand created by Chris Cuypers on January 18th, 2013. Originally intended to be a "Godzilla hub channel," this channel would become one of Chris' most well known and most popular thing he would do for the next coming years. Despite retiring from it in 2017, and later deleting the original channel out of anger in 2018, the legacy of GojiFan93 would continue for a long time, and on the 10 year anniversary in 2023, Chris would bring back the GojiFan93 channel, re-uploading all the old videos from 2013 to 2018 along with the Godzilla videos made on the C.J. Cuypers Productions channel from 2020 to 2022, and has now since been uploading brand new GojiFan93 content to the channel since then.

## History

As EXO Sphere Studios began to fade away and was almost non-existent, Chris was left with a what he described as "a creative hole in my soul," and needed something to fill it up. And so on January 18th, 2013, Chris went onto YouTube and created a channel that went under the name, *"GojiFan1993."* The channel's original purpose was to be a "HUB" for Godzilla-related content. Chris originally uploaded content ripped from other sources such as trailers, TV spots, behind-the-scenes footage and other various pieces of Godzilla-content around the web. However, the channel would later be hit with a copyright strike slowing down Chris on uploading all sorts of Godzilla-content. This would then turn him into creating his own original content for the channel.

The first original series Chris made for the channel was called, “Godzilla: Game Battles,” a series of videos where he would mix music from the movies and set pieces and match them up with game footage from the Atari Pipeworks games. From there, Chris would then start to show his face and began to make more original content. The first time he showed his face was during an unboxing video, which would mark a turning point for the channel where now, it had more of a personality behind it. From here on, Chris would begin making all sorts of YouTube genre-styled videos but with a Godzilla-themed twist. This would help GojiFan93 to stand out from other channels at the time as he wanted the channel to be sort of a "jack-of-all-trades" kind of channel. The channel would go on into 2014 hitting the channel's biggest growth in terms of subscribers and viewership. The two things that helped thrust GojiFan93 into popularity were the fact that a new Godzilla movie was being released that year and Chris jumped on the opportunity to cover it. The second reason the channel got a boost in viewership was due to an infamous rant about Legendary not showing the trailer for Godzilla 2014 during the summer.

From 2014 to 2016 things were successful. Chris had an established fanbase and would be releasing content on a consistent basis. On the side, Chris also exprimented with a spin-off channel called *"GamerFan93,"* which was basically a Let's Play channel that would play things other than Godzilla, before later changing it to a channel where he'd upload livestreams he held on Twitch, re-branded as *"GF93 Archives."* Before later evolving into a more personal random channel in 2017 called *"CC93 Archives."* Chris also then started another channel that would then be dipped into creating a studio called *"Attsri Studios."*

During the tail end of 2016, Chris began to hit a burnout and felt a lack of motivation to continue the GojiFan93 channel. This was due to thee major stresses in his life. The first was that back in 2014, Chris had broken up with his ex-fiancé at the time and that put a toll on his mental health. The second was due to the Godzilla fan base becoming rather toxic during the time of 2014 to 2017 and that also was putting stress on Chris’ positivity and outlook on the franchise. The third and most impacting reason was that Chris felt he was stuck in a box due to Attsri Studios not taking off the way he wanted it to and that the GojiFan93 channel was taking over his life. On January 18th, 2017, the 4 year anniversary of the channel, Chris put out a video announcing his retirement from GojiFan93, and that he would be moving on to bigger things. This was a good thing for him overall but it left a huge impact on his audience. At the time of the retirement, the channel had amassed more that 30,000 subscribers, which was a lot of people to disappoint. Still Chris pressed on and his audience would just have to understand.

Throughout 2017 going into 2018, Chris was struggling with Attsri Studios not performing well. People were still watching the GojiFan93 channel even though he wasn't uploading anymore content. So he decided that he'd try to use his popularity to help showcase his Attsri projects. It didn't quite work out however as there were two big projects that were the straw that broke the camel's back. The first was a sequel to a series Chris did on the GojiFan93 channel called, *"Kaiju Fantasy Battles!"* A series where Chris would have various Godzilla and other Kaiju/Tokusatsu characters duking it out through gameplay footage ripped from the Atari Pipeworks games and several other games. Chris was making season two which was going to showcase many different animators from the Godzilla community. He created a GoFundMe to help fund the project so he could pay the animators for their hard work. However during the livestream, Chris didn't make the goal, which made it hard to fund the project. The second project was an original story idea Chris had since 2016 called *"Kaiju Horizon"* (later rebranded to *"Emergence of Monsters"*). A story about monsters roaming the surface while humanity lived underground. It was intended to be a comic book and Chris made a Kickstarter for the project to help pay his co-writer at the time, an artist, and other bills to fully fund the first volume. The Kickstarter failed and at that point, Chris had completely lost it.

Feeling frustrated with everything creatively, Chris thought he was all washed up and done. With the combination of an unhealthy mindset on Attsri Studios, two failed projects, and living in the shadow of GojiFan93, he felt backed into a corner with no way out. And so without any warning, Chris announced that on September 1st, 2018, the GojiFan93 channel would be deleted, Attsri Studios was shut-down and deleted earlier that year on April 5th, KFB Season 2 was canceled, and Chris left the KH team, handing off the project to his then co-writer, something which he would later regret doing. This left a lot of his audience in shock and confusion. However prior to the deletion of the GojiFan93 channel, Chris allowed his viewers a week to download as many of the original video as they could and some even archived them.

In 2019, Chris decided to return to YouTube after taking a break from content creating and would make a new channel that would mix in his GojiFan93 side with his more personal side. This channel would be called *"Chris Kaizen."* This didn't last long however as Chris felt it wasn't meeting the expected success as GojiFan93 did. On top of that, his other projects were failing to live up to his expectations as well. With no positive outlook, Chris decided to delete all of his online presence, going completely silent. He thought that content creating was behind him and he would move on to other career options. Realistically however, all he needed was a good long break from the internet, and in the last half of 2020, Chris came back to the content creating scene with his new channel *"C.J. Cuypers Productions."* This would mark a breath of fresh air for him and he would begin making all kinds of content again, including Godzilla-related content. By making new Godzilla content from 2020 to 2022, Chris began to miss the good old days of GojiFan93 and decided it was time to do something special.

On January 18th, 2023, marking the 10 year anniversary of GojiFan93, Chris made a tribute video in dedication to it, but this would be more than just a tribute video as later on in the second half of it Chris ended up having a one-on-one conversation with himself as his sub-conscious discussing the idea of bringing back GojiFan93. After some back and forth and hearing what the fans had to say, Chris then came to the conclusion that he would bring back it back and ended the video with the announcement of a brand new official channel for GojiFan93. Chris managed to put together an archived site and recreate the channel with the help of a few dedicated fans, re-uploading all the past content along with the Godzilla videos made on the C.J. Cuypers channel, relabeling them as GF93 revival content. Afterwards, Chris then put out a video announcing the new era for GojiFan93 going forward and since then has been uploading new content to the channel and will continue to for the foreseeable future, while at the same time balancing it out with his main C.J. Cuypers brand as his main priority.

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