History of Blaze's YouTube career

Being on YouTube since 2006, Blaze has had a very long career across 2 main channels.

#### **2006**

Blaze started in 2006 with the name BlazikenMaster. Back then he couldn't take any criticism at all and was disrespectful to anybody who didn't like his content. He mainly made video game-related videos back then. His first ever video was called Pidgeot Madness and featured no commentary. or facecam, just him running into wild Pidgeot In Pokemon Ruby.

#### **2007**

In 2007 he made movie reviews, but all his vlogs were uncut meaning they had long pauses. But for the most part, he still made mostly video game videos. From the Pokémon games and Grand Theft Auto games. The videos he made back then were on a very bad quality since he couldn't take criticism. He also made a Pokémon series called Pokémon Crime Stories which led to the series Pokémon Gangster. He also made vlogs outside of movie reviews, but they were at a bad quality.

#### **2008**

In late 2008 he restarted his channel and deleted all the videos he made. He deleted them because he was dissatisfied with the quality of his videos. Despite that, the quality of his videos wasn't much better after he deleted the older videos since he still couldn't take criticism back then.

#### **2009**

In 2009 Blaze started making videos titled me drinking coca-cola, which was just him drinking coke and talk about nothing, despite that many people enjoyed these videos. This year also marks the first time Blaze made videos outside his own room, in fact he started making trip videos that year, which is something he did once at least once a year from that point on. Usually during summer.

#### **2010**

2010 was the year Blaze made his first skit video, which was titled Blaze Vs. A Troll, that was well received and since then he made them regularly. He also made his first commentary on another YouTube video back then, which was on TheArchfiend. Since then he made commentaries on a regular basis. This is also the year Blaze started cutting pauses from his videos and use movie posters in his movie reviews. Near the end of 2010 Blaze decided to keep his old channel (known as BlazikenMaster back then) and only upload his series Pokémon Gangster there, and upload anything else he makes on a new channel titled BlazeTheMovieFan. Everything that has nothing to do with Pokémon Gangster was made unlisted so he could reupload it on a later day. He also uploaded videos talking about his dreams.

#### **2011**

In early 2011 he made the channel BlazesArchives, which was a channel where he uploaded old videos. Nothing else worth noting happened that year.

#### **2012**

2012 is the year where Blaze finally learned to take criticism. He learned that it is ok if people don't like his videos. Not only could he take criticism back then he also welcomed it. He also made his first episode review (or at least the first one you can still find) in 2012. It was the only one he made that year. By the end of 2012, he stopped making commentaries on other YouTube videos. The end of 2012 is also where his series Pokémon Gangster ended, but a few days before 2013 began he started a sequel series called Blaze's Pokémon Adventures. By the end of 2012 he stopped making videos talking about his dreams.

#### **2013**

2013 was a big year for Blaze The Movie Fan, That's the year where episode reviews became frequent on his channel. And it's also the year where he got more respect from the movie fan community, and many people considered him a good movie reviewer.

#### **2014**

In 2014 Blaze started to make spoiler movie reviews, he didn't make them frequently and still doesn't, but he does do that sometimes. He only made spoiler reviews of movies he loved. Also, the same year he tried doing song reviews, which he did 3 of but stopped doing it due to the fact that his third song review didn't get much attention and many dislikes.

#### **2015**

In 2015 Blaze's spoiler reviews and episode reviews improved in quality since that was the year he used more images, and also clips from the episode or the movie. Later that year he returned to making commentaries on other YouTube videos but quit later the same year. There was also an update to his archive channel where he decided to use that channel to analyze old videos. Both good and bad. This year also marks the first time he did a spoiler review of a movie he hates. He made a video explaining why he's done with videos about his dream, but returned to it later that year, but he only made one video like that. By the end of the year after retiring his Gruntz let's play videos, he rebooted that series by making a Gruntz series with skits in them.

#### **2016**

In 2016 Blaze decided to stop using his channel Blaze's Archives to analyze videos simply because they're old and put it back to the original intent. To re-upload videos he's ashamed of. 2016 was a big year for Blaze as he brought up many series from the past. First, it's his eating videos which he hasn't done on a regular basis since 2012. Second is his commentaries on other videos, which he stopped doing by the end of 2015. And finally, he brought back his videos about his dreams. He has got some controversy in the commentary community, more so than any year prior, which he doesn't mind since he can take the heat. Later on, he felt that he was losing interest in the Pokémon games, in fact he asked his fans if he should buy the new Pokémon games or not, which most people voted yes. Near the end of the year Blaze decided to return to making countdown videos on a regular basis. He also aimed to finish the first season of Prison Break before the end of the year, reviewing one episode at a time which he accomplished by the beginning of 2017.

#### **2017**

Unfortunately, Blaze found out that countdown videos take a lot longer to make than he thought they would, so he didn't do them in 2017 as frequently as he wanted to. But he still plans on trying to make them on a frequent basis. But one interesting thing to note is that he returned to RuneScape.

#### **2018**

He also later that year made a video where he gave his opinion on the video **My Commentary on NC17Productions' Kid Icarus Review Is A Masterpiece** where he had an idea for a new series of videos. He made a poll asking what the series should be called, and since most people voted for retrospective, that's what the series was called. Since then he often made videos where he went over history of old videos and series of videos. Later the same year, Blaze realized that "video thoughts" is a more fitting name for his series.

#### **2019**

By the beginning of the year Blaze quit RuneScape, this time for good as there was an update so bad he couldn't continue. Blaze had a goal of finishing Marriland's Pokémon Emerald Nuzlocke in his video thoughts series where he goes over 1-3 episodes at a time in one part. He decided it'd be better to make it a couple of videos instead of making one video about it as there is far too much to comment on.

#### **2020**

By the beginning of the year Blaze made a new let's play series where he played Super Mario Bros. for the Nes, after having tried to beat it for most of 2019 but failed. Eventually the same year he finished the let's play, which makes it the second time he finished a game in a let's play. Later the same year he announced his return to making videos on RuneScape, though they are just to put old ideas for videos out there, he doesn't play the game anymore. After getting sick of his Mario Pissing video getting too much exposure, he made a video addressing that it's time for it to become irrelevant. And decided to ignore all mentions of Mario Pissing after that. He considers 2020 to be the best year for his content so far, so far the biggest mistakes he made are very minor.

**Characters:** Bane • Paul

**Real life people:** Blaze's father

**Associated YouTubers:** Chris Stuckmann • Doodletones • Jeremy Jahns

**Types of videos**  Movie reviews • spoiler movie reviews • mario pissing • Let's plays.

**Lists:**  2008-2014 movie reviews • 2015-2019 movie reviews • current movie reviews • spoiler movie reviews • video thoughts • Deleted videos • countdowns • episode reviews • Blaze's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Adventures • movie discussion videos • Pokémon discussion videos • television discussion videos