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Max Gilardi
Gilardi in 2014
Personal information
Born (1988-01-28) January 28, 1988 (age 36)
Massachusetts, U.S.
Other names
  • Max G
  • HotDiggedyDemon
Websitehotdiggedydemon.com
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2007–present
GenreComedy
Subscribers1.96 million[1]
Total views414 million[1]
100,000 subscribers2012
1,000,000 subscribers2017
Last updated: 1 May 2023

Max Gilardi (/dʒɪˈlɑːrdi/ jil-AR-dee; born January 28, 1988),[2][3] also known as Max G or his Internet pseudonym HotDiggedyDemon, is an American internet personality, cartoonist, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for his PONY.MOV web series, a parody of the popular children's animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and his media analysis series, known as Brain Dump.

Early life and education

Gilardi was born in Massachusetts in 1988.[3][4] He is of Italian descent. He attended the Art Institute of Boston briefly before dropping out.[5]

Career

Gilardi, under the name "HotDiggedyDemon", first started creating Flash animations in the early 2000s on Newgrounds.com.[4] In 2007, he began uploading his work to his YouTube channel as well. That year, he created the "Jerry" series, an animated web series detailing the terrible life of a man named Jerry.[3]

In 2010, he created the "Wacky Game Jokez, 4 Kidz!" series, also known as "WGJ4K", featuring video game-based humor. In addition to creating animations, he co-hosted the Wisenheimers podcast with fellow animator Yotam Perel from 2010 to 2012.[6][better source needed]

From 2011 to 2013, he gained notability for releasing his six-part video parody of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "PONY.MOV", an adult animated dark comedy web series in the art style of John Kricfalusi and Spümcø's The Ren & Stimpy Show.[7][8] The series grew as a spin-off of Gilardi's Tumblr webcomic, "Ask Jappleack", and each video highlights a different character from the main cast of the television series.

He also gained notability for his parodies for video games like Five Nights at Freddy's, Cuphead, and Animal Crossing, due to their dark nature. The Animal Crossing parody has Isabelle, an innocent character in the game, worshiping Karl Marx.[9][10]

Gilardi has over one million subscribers on YouTube.[11] The majority of his videos are self-made: written, animated, and voiced[5] by himself. In his more recent projects, he has experimented with 3D animation.[5][12] On September 2, 2016, Gilardi launched a new YouTube series titled "Brain Dump" in which he reviews movies, often satirically.[13] The series has since become the main series on Gilardi's channel with an overarching narrative featuring a ghost called Goofball and a living television called Burnbot.[citation needed][needs update]

Gilardi has cited Craig McCracken, Matt Groening, John Kricfalusi, Jhonen Vasquez, Danny Antonucci, Genndy Tartakovsky, United Productions of America, Hanna-Barbera, Junji Ito, Akira Toriyama, Bill Watterson, and early Charles Schulz as influences on his art and animation.[14][15][relevant?]

References

  1. ^ a b "About hotdiggedydemon". YouTube.
  2. ^ Max G [@hotdiggedydemon] (January 29, 2016). "Thanks for all the birthday drawings ..." (Tweet). Archived from the original on February 5, 2017. Retrieved May 21, 2016 – via Twitter.
  3. ^ a b c "Gilardi Animates Jerry's Daily Grind". Cold Hard Flash. June 27, 2007. Archived from the original on June 30, 2007. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  4. ^ a b McCloud, Skye (May 5, 2004). "[ NG Mag ]- Max Gilardi". Newgrounds. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012.
  5. ^ a b c "Hotdiggedydemon • Frequently Asked Questions!". Hotdiggedydemon.com. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
  6. ^ "Wisenheimers by Wisenheimers on iTunes". iTunes. April 26, 2012. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  7. ^ Woerner, Meredith (June 26, 2012). "Incredibly messed-up short gives My Little Ponys's Pinkie Pie a sex tape". io9. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  8. ^ Stohs-Krause, Hilary (December 26, 2013). "BEST OF 2013: 'Brony' fandom carves out space for young men to enjoy friendship ... and cartoon ponies". Netnebraska.org. Archived from the original on June 4, 2016. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  9. ^ "A Cuphead fan has made his own cartoon". Hypertext. November 20, 2017. Retrieved June 4, 2021.
  10. ^ "Isabelle Has Some Revolutionary Ideas For Running Your Animal Crossing Town". Kotaku. January 25, 2016. Retrieved June 4, 2021.
  11. ^ "hotdiggedydemon YouTube Stats, Channel Statistics". Socialblade.com. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  12. ^ Person, Chris (August 19, 2013). "King of the Hill, In Eye-Popping 3D". Kotaku. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  13. ^ Max G [@hotdiggedydemon] (September 2, 2016). "Please watch my new clickbate / movie review show, BRAIN DUMP! ..." (Tweet). Archived from the original on February 6, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2016 – via Twitter.
  14. ^ "Hotdiggedydemon Tumblr". Tumblr. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  15. ^ "Hotdiggedydemon Tumblr". Tumblr. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
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