Hyped Up Animator

HypeAnimate (left) poses for this photo in August 2020.

## Biographical information

### Marital status

Single, not in a relationship with, engaged to, or married to anyone in the meantime.

## Appearances

### Debut

Lost "Dab On Them Haters" video (c. February 2019)

**Hyped Up Animator** (born January 1, 2006) is an American animator and former blogger who makes videos using Vyond and Plotagon. He was believed to reside in the U.S., staff of Eric and Erika Media Inc. say. He started watching GoAnimate videos at some point in late 2013 or early 2014. He saw the website for the first time in 2017, as well as the GoAnimate For Schools website which has since shut down due to Flash ending support. By 2017, HUA started a YouTube channel of his own as JL Productions. However, there were no uploads until February 2019. But somehow that channel was deleted on March 19, 2019, and he made an account for himself. The productions were made in April 2019. But the production went into semi-active mode by late May. That same month came Hype Productions. He uploaded videos from the former blogging channel rather than his old channel which ran under the name Bro Productions at the time. But Bro Productions would cease operations in September 2019. In late March 2020, HUA made his first successfully done video using Vyond which parodies Tom Brady being traded over to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after playing for the New England Patriots for twenty seasons. Later, he made more Vyond videos and even found Plotagon on June 2. June and July were mostly Plotagon animations. He planned to return to Vyond after a long break. Vyonders such as Ronney Zamora, Shaun Tahler, and others subscribe to the HUA channel. Sadly, on February 9, 2021, his channel was wiped clean for some deranged reason. He did not take the videos down, but a random hacker hacked into his account and did so. Some of his work was lost, considering that he had at least 400 videos. He now has 70+ videos up on his main channel with 469 subscribers and growing. He is still re-uploading them for everyone to watch, especially his Violy Gets Grounded videos. He has video files of his Plotagon videos, especially his Caillou's Troubles video. By 2022, HUA showed signs that he was semi-active, as the channel uploaded once every few months.

## Beginnings

Hyped Up Animator became a blogger before he became a Vyonder. He created his first YouTube channel in March 2019. It had around 24 videos, 37 subscribers, and 1,000 views at the time of its inactivity. In May, he created a second channel by the name of HypeProduction4, which would be shortened to Hype Productions. In August, both companies agreed to a joint venture, but in November, all of the assets from the JL Productions company were sold. He did not upload a Vyond video until April 2020.

## Transition from blogger to Vyonder

By April 2020, blogging started to fall out of HUA’s favor, and he preferred Vyond videos over blogging in general. At the time, he had around six subscribers. He uploaded four Dawson Sisters episodes (only one is found) and some random videos. On April 30, the first Hype Girls episode premiered and marked his first grounded video in his career. On May 15, the series debut of The Eric and Erika Show premiered.

## Transition from Vyond to Plotagon

In June 2020, HUA transitioned from Vyond to Plotagon as making Plotagon videos on iPhone was easier. He made tons of them. The second season of The Hype Girls Show was originally going to be on Vyond, but it was moved to Plotagon. The same could be said about The Eric and Erika Show. In July, he made tons of Plotagon videos. He was also making Caillou’s Troubles at the time. He also partook in the RainBoy107 drama. HUA did a rant on him the same day he got in trouble with the Vyond community.

## The golden age

August 2020 was the month when HUA’s career really began taking off. Perhaps he was best known for his Violy Gets In Dead Meat Again video which premiered on August 8. It was around the same time when he was making Darklord Gets Grounded. Finally, on August 21, Caillou’s Troubles was released. In mid-September, he transitioned from Business Friendly to Comedy World as it matched the traditional GoAnimate landscape. His biggest video to date was perhaps the Sandra and Violy Get Held Back, which was uploaded on October 8. He continued making videos throughout. On December 31, following the retirement of Adobe Flash, The Hype Girls Show ended. In January 8, eight days later, The Eric and Erika Show went on a pause.

## Downfall

By February 2021, HUA was accumulating 380+ subscribers and 85,000+ video views when a hacker wiped his channel clean. He had to reupload hundreds of videos he had salvaged from the trauma. Around that same time, Erika announced her pregnancy and her semi-activity.

Even with things going on, HUA was still making Vyond videos. Perhaps Violet’s April Fools’ Prank was the only successful hit he premiered. In May, The Emma Erikson Shorts came out and premiered as a spin-off of The Eric and Erika Show. He came up with a new intro in July 2021. On July 27, after one year of development hell, the series debut of The Alexia Show premiered. By then, he was somewhat semi-active because of busy work.

## Stagnation, name change to Hyped Up Animator, and full-fledged return

By late 2021, HUA’s career stagnated. His subscribers and views were dropping. By January 1, 2022, the channel name was changed to Hyped Up Animator. For the last time he made a video using Comedy World for the New Year’s Day countdown. He was also working on a Behavior Card Day which featured 73 cards, his longest. In July, Classic Dora Gets Grounded premiered and became his first Spanish-language grounded series. He introduced his new intro in late October and then uploaded Halloween Robbery, which marks the first appearance of Childish Dad. The Emma Erikson Shorts, The Alexia Show, and The Eric and Erika Show have all resumed production after a year long hiatus. Perhaps his biggest video since his comeback is the Childish Dad’s Christmas Surprise video, which today stands at 900+ views.