Mike Stern

## Mike "Götz" Stern

### Affilations

Chaz Agnew (Close Friend)Leland Skinner (Close Friend)Josh Gonzales (Best Friend)Jason Cedrick (Friend)Madison Richards (Friend)

# Mike Stern

Mikhail "Götz" Stern is an ex-Nickelodeon intern who worked at various Nickelodeon Studios from 2002 to 2007. He had a YouTube channel in 2007 where he started uploading clips regarding "The Five Tapes" incident. His channel ot deleted by Viacom for being a "threat" to the company, just like Josh's. He started reuploading the tapes in his new channel made in May 2023.

## Biography

Mike was born in Hamburg,Germany in February 16, 1984, son of Oswald and Veronika Stern and brother of Kashmere Stern. In 1999 him and his family went to London, where he became friends with a guy named Madison Richards. Sometime around 2001 they moved in Fife,Scotland, where he met Leland Skinner, who he became friends with. He started working at Nickelodeon Studios in 2002 in Florida. In 2003, at Nick Studios in Florida, he met Josh Gonzales, who would become Mike's best friend. Substequently, the same year, them and the other interns recieved a tape, which would be "Suicide Squidward". Andrew Skinner, the creator of the tape, framed Madison Richards, the same guy who Mike became friends with, for making the tape. For some job issues he moved to California in 2004, where he met Jason Cedrick, who he got along with, as they became friends. The interns then recieved a tape that should've been the Season 4 Premiere of Spongebob Squarepants. The tape was called "Squidward's Suicide". In 2005, Chaz Agnew, an intern who saw Red Mist in the Canadian branch of Nickelodeon Studios, contacted Mike about the tape (Red Mist). Chaz gave Mike a copy of the tape as he watched it and uploaded it in 2010. In 2006 he married Sophia Spiros. Mike then got back in Florida and started working, again, at the Nick Studios, where he recieved a tape that was going to be Season 4 Episode 77a of Spongebob Squarepants. The tape was mostly just static. After cleaning it, the result was what is showed in what is known as The Unmarked Video 2000 Tape. After that, Mike decided to quit Nickelodeon Studios and moved back in Hamburg with his wife to get a different job.

## YouTube Channel (2007-2013)

Mike made a YouTube channel in 2007 where he uploaded footages of the tapes Andrew Skinner made. Not much is known about the channel as it was deleted and the videos are still getting reuploaded. Little to nothing is known about his videos that weren't reuploaded yet.

## Arrest (06/29/2023)

Mike Stern was arrested in Eimsbüttel, Hamburg on June 29, 2023 for trying to reupload videos from his deleted channel. He was imprisoned in Untersuchungshaftanstalt. He is sentenced for 25 years in prison.

02-18-07 - Incident at Nickelodeon02-21-07 - I'm going to be busy for a while12-31-07 - Today i recieved a tape01-18-08 - Introduction02-26-08 - Suicide Squidward Tape (Pre-Cleaning Footage)03-01-08 - Suicide Squidward Tape Cleaning Attempt05-19-08 - Squidward's Suicide Tape Footage 2004 (Pre-Cleaning)11-14-10 - Squidward's Suicide (MrJoshGonzales Version) Early Recording04-03-10 - Red Mist05-15-11 - Squidward's Suicide Early Recording Cleaning Attempt05-24-11 - Squidward's Suicide Early Recording Cleaning Attempt -207-13-11 - Squidward's Suicide Early Recording Cleaned07-23-11 - The Suicide Squidward Incident (2003)03-15-12 - Tape Cleaning Attempt -103-21-12 - Tape Cleaning Attempt -204-14-12 - Tape Cleaning Attempt -304-30-12 - Tape Cleaning Attempt -401-27-13 - Squidward's Suicide Tape Cleaned02-15-13 - Goodbye message17-13-09 - Squidward's Suicide Tape V.208-24-09 - The Murder Tapes05-04-2008 - A detailed account on the Squidward's Suicide Tape incident