SmilerAI

**SmilerAl**, also called **Alex** or **Al** for short, is a recurring guest on EFAP and a friend of MauLer in the supposed "real life." He doesn't have much of a presence outside of EFAP, however, as his channel does not contain any videos.

## History

### PreFAP

Al is MauLer's friend in real life. After watching *The Last Jedi* in theaters, MauLer needed proof that he hadn't gone crazy and watched it again with Al to confirm that the movie actually was that bad.

### vs Joseph Anderson

Al was part of a rag-tag team comprised of himself, ChaseFace, Metal, and Fringy by MauLer for an Emergency EFAP - Joseph Anderson had finally released his hotly-anticipated video on why horror games don't scare him, and Rags and Wolf were unavailable. MauLer realized that some may say this video was just Joseph's opinion, and so made it known that this stream was similarly just their opinion on his opinion.

Joseph explained how when he was younger he used to be scared by both horror movies and horror games, but now only horror movies scare him while games do not. He figured that the reason was that movies cause you to imagine being in the characters' place, but you can't imagine being in a video game character's place since you already are in their place, and you have what he calls their superpower to resurrect, as opposed to movies where every death is set in stone. The roster agreed that the intensity of a game is at its highest right before death and then drops off after you die, and that that experience dwindles as you replay it each time, but that's true of any game, not just horror.

Joseph revealed that the game that has scared him the most recently is *Don't Starve*, which left many people in his comments baffled, and left Al with blueballs. He cited the game's permadeath mechanic as giving death meaning, leading him to panic when death was on his heels. While the gang understood what he was getting at, they found the absoluteness of what he was saying a bit of a stretch, and one commenter on his video pointed out that this would make *Minecraft* Hardcore Mode the best horror game. Anderson called *Until Dawn* the only modern horror game that made him uncomfortable through its mechanics, while the whole EFAP crew found it not scary at all, with Chase bringing up its claim at the beginning that the player's choices matter, and MauLer adding that that claim is bullshit, remembering his and Al's playthrough of it where Al attempted to kill as many characters as he could and ended up saving more of them by accident. Al also wondered aloud if Joseph had inadvertently admitted that *SOMA* is a horror game, since he had previously said it wasn't one because it wasn't scary but is now claiming that all horror games are not scary.

Before blaring some *Undertale* music for his end title card, Anderson stated that he eagerly awaits a game that pulls this off, to which MauLer responded that he felt he hadn't sought out the game he wants, since games like that are already out there, citing *Monstrum* as an example. MauLer felt like the video should have been more of a discussion about immersion and reckoned it'd be a great topic to have a conversation with him about but this video didn't argue it very well. When asked his opinion of the video overall, Al simply answered that he couldn't get past him using *Until* *Dawn* and *Twilight* as examples unironically.

### vs Seamus Gorman

Al next appeared in EFAP 39, where he joined MauLer, Wolf, and Nerdrotic in looking at Seamus Gorman's video titled "No, game of thrones fans...you don't deserve better." Seamus actually agreed with all of the criticisms that people had of the ending of *Game of Thrones*, but decided that people had been criticizing it for too long, and therefore felt the need to defend it, as well as wanting to get views.

When Seamus mocked the idea of a petition to have the finale redone, likening it to paying to see a football/soccer game where your team loses then petitioning that the game be done over, Al, himself a footie fan, gave the better analogy of a hypothetical team that is ranked highly and therefore cost more to watch play, even though they always lose, about which people would have a right to complain. MauLer added on the simpler analogy of paying for a football game and they're all playing basketball. Seamus scoffed at the idea that people would think the petition would work, to which the roster argued that they likely didn't actually think the ending would get remade and were simply venting frustrations, with Al bringing up that there was even a petition to have MauLer write the show, which obviously wasn't made under the expectation that it would happen. Al also asked what people who wanted the ending changed were supposed to do if not sign a petition, go to D&D's houses with pitchforks?

On a similar topic of symbolic protests, Al brought up the people who burned Rose Tico action figures, finding it odd that they would have had to give money to Disney to do so, with both him and MauLer being a bit mixed on the idea because on the one hand they understand it's more about the message but on the other hand it's still giving money to the thing being protested. Gary added that he once barbecued a DVD of *Picard* but only because it was bought for him by a fan under the request he barbecue it.

## Trivia

*Warning: None of the trivia are sourced. Take this info with a pinch of salt.*

* Al's microphone occasionally makes him sound like the Mouth of Sauron
* Browntable is not invited to his birthday party.
* He is neither dad or daughter.
* He doesn’t care for romantic comedies.
* *His* Hulk wouldn’t have erectile dysfunction.
* He lights up a bong when a reviewer mentions that he want to talk about criticism about Captain Marvel done by white dudes. Rags though it was Fringy because he is green.
* He has fallen asleep to every DCEU movie he's ever seen.

## Quotes

* "Fuck's sakes, I'm bald. I don't fucking give a shit about masculinity. It's robbed me of my hair." - EFAP 3
* "That instant fucking blue balls, I'm so flaccid" - EFAP 11, upon seeing *Don't Starve* onscreen
* "I just want one big video, it's been so long"
"It's not gonna be this one, is it? It's not gonna be a v-log saying 'guys shut up about Game of Thrones'"
- Seamus Gorman and Al, EFAP 39
* "As a way to add some flair to the video, I snapped a DVD in half"
"Madlad"
"He's crazy!"
"Somebody get this man a straitjacket, Holy Moses"
- Seamus Gorman, Al, Gary, and MauLer, EFAP 39