PIEGUYRULZ

**PIEGUYRULZ** *(also known as A.J.)* is an internet critic who reviewed cartoons on his YouTube channel of the same name. He primarily reviewed animated television series such as *SpongeBob SquarePants*, *Teen Titans Go!*, *South Park*, *Adventure Time*, etc.

He is most well known for his *SpongeBob SquarePants* reviews, most notably *Every Episode Reviewed!* where he reviewed every episode season by season (he would later expand the series to *Teen Titans* and *Adventure Time*).

Pieguy was also known for miscellaneous reviews on current cartoons and the networks that broadcasted them, his *Bottom of the Bakery* and *Bizzaro Bakery* series where he reviewed Schneider's Bakery sitcoms and his podcast series such as the *RE-CAST* and *The Award Show Audit*.

In March 2023, after a lengthy hiatus on his channel, Pieguy formally revealed that he had decided to move on from the channel for personal reasons.

## Humble beginnings

Pieguy's YouTube channel began on April 9, 2008. One day later on April 10, 2008, he began posting a series of videos called "Animal Crossing Abridged" where he filmed himself playing Animal Crossing with his own dialogue.

He eventually started making rants about television networks on May 18, 2008 with his first rant on Cartoon Network, a little over a month after he initially began the channel.

Later, on September 12, 2009, he made his first rant on the Nickelodeon animated series, SpongeBob SquarePants.

## Series

### Side series

 *DVD Reviews* | November 19, 2012
 *Pieguy Plays* | January 27, 2013
 *Streaming Services* | May 11, 2017

### Short run series

Series that were special events or didn't last very long.

## Pieguy Plays

Main article: *Pieguy Plays*

While Pieguy hosted Let's Plays on his main channel, he also has a secondary channel entirely dedicated to it that was launched on April 6,2010. The first video, "Let's Play Pokémon Red pt 1/8", was uploaded the same day as the channel's creation. The final video, "Pokemon Platinum Baby Challenge Run! - Part 41", was released on March 9, 2022.

## References

1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20230323165953/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr030Gq7lJ30za5ReYuUaLg/community?lb=Ugkx5x123ZBJAYghAzbc-xrZTgY5nbS2Kiq0"I've put off saying goodbye for a year now. It's so final and there's so much more I want to say, but if I keep waiting until I'm able to properly articulate everything in a video, then I'll just leave everyone who cared about me hanging. So here it is, my short goodbye message. Maybe it'll be followed someday by a longer video goodbye, but probably not.

Why am I leaving? Many reasons in no particular order:

-I don't like sharing my opinions online anymore because the Internet's become such a hostile place.

-My channel has been sub stagnant for like a decade.

-I failed to evolve and adapt my style.

-I don't even watch many cartoons these days.

-I'm so very tired of finding out how many animation people are grooming pieces of trash... it's depressing.

-I feel uncomfortable making content on a platform that did absolutely nothing about the groomer who admitted to it on their site.

-For some mental health reason I don't even fully understand, I struggle immensely to work on editing videos for hours, and I've never been able to sit and write scripts. I have all these ideas in my head that I just... struggle to translate into content. It's always been difficult, but it got way worse over time. That's why I did the podcast/stream thing for so long, I didn't have to plan too much and work so much better with a partner.

-I look back at my content and am just embarrassed by it all, I suck at editing, piggybacked off others' hard work, was super negative, and just contributed nothing. Other people do what I did so much better. -Anxiety about everything else on this list, and even admitting these things because I fear I'll ruin the joy others got out of my content.

-When I think about being a content creator, I associate it with people hating me and every one of my failures.

-I'm not even Pieguy anymore. This persona was something I made when I was 16, my views and personality and interests have changed a ton since then.

Anyway, I appreciate everyone who I've interacted with on here over the years. Thanks for all the support. I'm going to continue enjoying life out in the real world as myself. I have no plans of deleting this channel or anything, so if for whatever reason you want to watch my videos, most of em are still there.

Pieguyrulz Offline"
2. ↑ Originally concluded on January 29, 2020, the 70th episode was a reunion special.
3. ↑ The series would continue to be uploaded on the Pieguy Plays YouTube channel.