Mike Salcedo

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**Mike Salcedo**, full name **Michael E.** *[assumed to be Edmond]* **Salcedo** is an American animator at Cyanide and Happiness. He is most well known for his Alphabet Lore series which he had started animating on February 2nd, 2022. Currently, Mike has been animating for a decade.

## History

### 1991

On January 31, 1991, Mike Salcedo was born.

### 2010s

Mike Salcedo joined YouTube on 14 September 2011. His oldest animations were part of a series named "LET'S DO THIS!". One of those animations was based on the popular "7 8 9" joke. Mike Salcedo returned to the internet to start working for Cyanide and Happiness, as well as make a video on the "Uganda Knuckles" trend.

He decided to run a webcomic named "Bigfoot Justice" as well as making animated versions of them on his YT channel on 2021.

### 2022

After a while, he became bored and decided to do a "daily animating exercise" where he would make daily animations that are based on the English Alphabet. Eventually, the newer episodes took a lot longer to make, so Mike abandoned the daily exercise idea. He ended up creating something that has became really popular: Alphabet Lore. Mike did not expect the compilation to blow up, as none of the episodes themselves reached 100k views before the compilation was uploaded.

However, he intended his daily exercise to include an epilogue, so he began working on that. By the time Mike uploaded it, the compilation already got over 40M views and many other "Lores" inspired by it. Mike still directed some Cyanide and Happiness shorts.

### 2023

Once his animation reached 100 million videos, he uploaded the full compilation that includes the epilogue + the first episode of Number Lore three days later.

Episode Two was a struggle however, it was delayed to sometime between February 21st and March 10th, with it not being finished, it was delayed to April. After April 30th, fans started to riot. On May 15th, Mike uploaded a trailer for 2 and a seperate video of the Fan Art video. He had produced a Q and F plush alongside that, with Q releasing between July 1st and 10th, and F coming July 7th.

In other unrelated news, Mike Salcedo began developing a separate miniseries called "Binq the IP Slayer", which introduces a purple creature named Binq who attacks well-known characters, such as Super Mario or Sonic the Hedgehog.

Episode 3 was a long struggle however, It was delayed to between August 13th and 30th. With it not being finished, It was delayed to Between September and October. After October 31st, fans started to riot. on November 12th, 2023, Mike Salcedo released 3 from Number Lore.

## Trivia

* Mike Salcedo's YouTube channel currently has 413M views, 1.17M subscribers and 85 videos.
* His channel reached one million subscribers on January 29, 2023.
* His video "Alphabet Lore (A-Z,,,)" has over 100 million views on Youtube, and reached over 1 Million likes on February 11th, 2023.
* In his Happy Covid Birthday video, When he says "You" it sounds like U saying U.
* ExplosmEntertainment commented on the Number Lore Teaser and Mike hearted it, hinting that 7 and 9 will look like their respective counterparts in Mike's early video "7 Eats 9", and might even be the same characters.