SuperShortsMJ

**SuperShortsMJ** was a YouTube channel created by two childhood friends named Mikey and Jake. It was created in late 2019 after the Original SuperShortsMJ YouTube channel was suddenly terminated earlier that same year. The content they posted varied but primarily focused on plush skit and plush series videos. In late 2022 the channel would eventually come to a conclusion as Mikey and Jake intended on moving onward from their YouTube channel.

## Premise

SuperShortsMJ primarily focused on plush skit and plush series content. Their main series was titled Shorts and consisted of comedically structured skits portrayed by Super Mario plushies. Later on they would take these simplistic ideas and turn them into episodic plush series titled Yoshi's Island and Civil War. Although these videos are what SuperShortsMJ was mainly know for, there were several genres of content they indulged in over the channel's lifespan. They did several commentary series such as a storytelling series, rant series and some album reviews.

## History

### The Rebirth (2019)

After the Original SuperShortsMJ YouTube Channel was terminated in July of 2019, Mikey was uncertain how to go forward after he had lost his fanbase and all of his content. Jake was at summer camp at the time of the termination, which made things harder on Mikey as he had no idea how Jake would feel about the situation. Mikey kept himself calm for the time being as he recollected his thoughts about the situation. The SuperShortsMJ fanbase was also in disbelief at the time as they had no idea what happened to the channel and had no idea if it was temporary or permanent. It was a hard time for Mikey as he was alone in trying to figure out the future of the channel, and he truly had no idea how to even deal with the situation that had come his way.

Two very active fans at the time, Cycles and MGL, both had contact with Mikey through Discord. They reached out to him about the state of the channel and Mikey responded to them with all the details regarding the channels termination. Cycles and MGL felt for him, as they had seen them grow up through their content and understood the sentiment that the channel had on them. The three of them had no real idea about how this situation could be bettered. Mikey asked them both if they had connections with any other fans to tell them what had happened, and luckily enough they did. Cycles and MGL then proposed the idea of creating a temporary Discord server to reunite some of the fanbase and tell them about what had happened. Mikey agreed to this idea and the SuperShortsMJ Discord Server was created.

After the initial creation of the SuperShortsMJ Discord Server, a portion of the previous fanbase came back and they were immediately made aware of the situation. At the time, Mikey was also in a one week summer camp meaning there truly was not much to be done at the time. He told his fanbase that he wanted to put his worries aside for the time being and enjoy the time he had left at camp. He also admitted that he was having a hard time during the summer and he did not have the mental energy to deal with it all at that moment. His fanbase understood this and let him be for the time being. The SuperShortsMJ Discord Server stayed relatively active though as fans began to come up with ideas they could present to Mikey when he was ready to make his return. There were not many brilliant ideas but the fanbase was optimistic.

Later in July, Mikey returned home from his one week summer camp and mentioned his return to the SuperShortsMJ Discord Server. His fanbase was thrilled to hear this as they had come up with a handful of ideas for him to consider in Jake's absence. Mikey assured the fanbase he had somewhat of an idea for a return that he would get to later in the summer, but his fanbase was skeptical of this promise. In previous years SuperShortsMJ had fallen inactive in the presence of situations like this, and especially since the entirely of their previous channel was deleted, it seemed likely Mikey was only getting his fans hopes up. Before any major announcements were made, the SuperShortsMJ Discord Server continued to grow as some other original fans started to return and learn about what had happened to the original channel.

At the start of August in 2019, Mikey finally created a new YouTube channel, still maintaining the name "SuperShortsMJ". He published a video titled "The Future" which explained his current feelings about the channel and his aspirations for the future. He revealed that he still wanted to do YouTube but still was not entirely sure if Jake would accompany him any longer. He planned to continue some of the commentary series he had going before the termination such as storytelling videos and vlogs.