Alex CND

      

Alex CND
YouTuber Information
Profile	Alex CND
Style	Gaming, Vlogs & Commentary
Date joined	January 11, 2011
Twitter / X	@OfficialCND
Instagram and Threads	@alex._.pekala
Other media	Discord Server TikTok
Videos	470+
Schedule	Unscheduled
Status	Active
Associates	Plainrock124 • Jacob Ocarina • Etika • Lamarr Wilson • RSGabe
Username	Alex CND
Personal information
Full name	Alex Pekala
Nationality	American
Location	Richmond, Virginia, United States
Pronouns	he/him
Channel trailer
DAY 28 FINALE I Waited an ENTIRE MONTH to be FIRST to Get a Nintendo Switch!
Most viewed video
Super Mario Odyssey - TRICK SHOTS
First video
Pokemon Black and White Collectors Guide Unboxing Review USA HD-0

Alex Pekala (born: October 14, 1997 (1997-10-14)), also known as Alex CND (formerly known as CaptainNintendoDude), is an American YouTuber known for making unboxing, rants, collection videos, skits, and Let's Plays related to Nintendo since 2011, but he had another channel dedicated to LEGOs in 2009.^{[citation needed]}

He is known for being the first person in the world to get the Nintendo Switch system on its launch date in March 2017, as well as his "trick shots" videos in which he throws a hat of a character named Cappy from Super Mario Odyssey into different objects and obstacles, similar to Dude Perfect. He briefly strayed from creating the kind of content he once did when his channel was just starting, and his content was primarily live-streams for quite some time.^{[citation needed]}

On November 30, 2019, he announced that CaptainNintendoDude was cancelled and that he would stop creating and uploading videos, but in July 2021, he started uploading videos related to Nintendo again. On November 20, 2022, his channel got hacked by crypto scammers and later terminated, but several days later, after appealing his request to reinstate his channel, he got his channel back.^{[citation needed]}

Collaborations with other YouTubers

JacobsOcarina

He often hangs out with his friend, JacobsOcarina.

Plainrock124

He has competed with Plainrock124 to see who was the bigger Nintendo fanboy in one video. In another video in 2021, during King's road trip across the southeastern United States, he met with him in Richmond, Virginia.

November 2022 account hacking

On November 21, 2022, his account got hacked by cryptocurrency scammers, first being Ark Invest, and started live streaming old discussions by Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey about Bitcoin and Ethereum. Several hours after the stream aired, the username was changed to "Ethereum US" before shutting down the channel. After the stream ended, YouTube terminated his channel got terminated by YouTube for violating the Community Guidelines.

Alex CND reached out to YouTube's Support team, only for them to send a link to their help page on how to fix a hacked YouTube account, but several days later, with the help of his followers and supporters, he managed to get his account back after the YouTube Support Team reached out to him. After reinstating his request to get his channel back, he lost his Gmail and over a thousand subscribers, but all the content on his channel returned. Prior to receiving his account back, some of his videos were available to watch (mostly his latest videos), but his other videos could not be viewed on his channel. Moreover, there were spammers and bot accounts that would reply to his tweets and leave a link or somebody else's username in their comments so he could reach out to them to recover his account. Several hours later, he received the correct form from the YouTube Support Team to recover his account, and he had to wait approximately one day for them to respond. At 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm (EST) in several days, his channel returned with all his videos public, but all his past videos and livestream took over his subscribers subscriptions section (some with notifications if his subscribers had their notifications turned on to his channel before his termination), but shortly after, he posted three apology announcements on his YouTube and Twitter pages for their understanding.