Andrei Terbea (born: February 20, 1992) is a Romanian YouTube animator who makes commentary on trending topics with 2D animation. “How KSI Saved Logan Paul’s Career” is the most popular video on his channel, racking over 19 million views and being one of the videos that boosted his popularity. On March 20, 2022, he abruptly stopped posting anything on any social media or his channel without an announcement. He returned from his eleven month long hiatus on March 4, 2023 with a video titled "ChatGPT will make you homeless.".
About[]
Andrei Terbea began YouTube in 2013 creating various types of animation and painting videos from "Watch Me Draw" videos to small mini-series, and as of recently, commentary on trending topics. His commentary content often tackles trending topics in a different type of perspective, often playing the the devil's advocate and seeing the brighter side of negative events.
Channel growth[]
Terbea has gained recognition for the "Filthy Frank Lore ANIMATED!" and "Why I Turned Down Working With KYLIE JENNER" videos. However, the video that made his channel blow up, and it has already become the most popular video in his channel. It is entitled "How KSI Saved Logan Paul's Career", a highly controversial video.
Wilfur[]
Wilfur
Wilfur is Andrei's friend and supposed "sidekick" (though Wilfur would disagree) and is represented as a purple goose, who often argues and interrupts Andrei in the middle of his videos. He is often seen saying "Mak" and is featured alongside Andrei waving his arms/wings in the outro.
Wilfur and Andrei both often work together as "detectives", and this imagery can be seen on videos such as KSI vs LOGAN PAUL: A Very Convenient Draw, Why The SHREK/Minions Crossover is a Bad Idea!, and so on. Andrei also owns a real-life Wilfur plushie, which he brought to the Streamys, and can also be seen often on Andrei's Instagram.
Wilfur also has his own Instagram and Twitter accounts, @wilfur and @WilfurTheGoose.
Wilfur plushies were also once sold, and there are only a limited amount of 1000 plushies. Andrei mentioned this in his video once, and proceed to make a joke about Wilfur clones and also choose a Wilfur clone instead of the real Wilfur as his companion/partner in the video.
The Wilfur saga[]
Wilfur was shot on December 8, 2018 on Why T-SERIES Is Good For YouTube by Skipper Dipper whilst he was tying to escape the dungeon along with Haytor and Michael Mouse as part of an on-going side story series at the end of his videos which would later be titled "The Wilfur Saga".
The Dungeon
Starting on November 30, 2018 on "Why The SHREK/Minions Crossover is a Bad Idea!", Wilfur was later replaced in the following video as a gravestone in the outro, reading, "R.i.P Wilfur 2014–2018." Wilfur was later revived in the finale, titled, The Christmas Finale, through the power of all the other Wilfurs across the globe, as tribute to everyone who purchased Wilfur plushies. Wilfur proceeded to start punching Andrei as soon as he was brought back to life, before enjoying a wholesome Christmas together.
The PewDiePie vs T-Series saga[]
Andrei animated a video called "The Other Side Of The War On T-Series" the video is all about what will happen if T-Series won and everyone do their part, including Andrei to stop T-Series. And he urging his fans and subscribers to subscribe to PewDiePie so they will defend him against T-series. All the way to "Why PewDiePie reached 100 million Play button".
Filmography[]
- Andrei and Wilfur(2013-PRESENT)-Creator and Actor(As Himself and Wilfur)
- SourceFedNERD(2015-2016)-Animator
- Star Wars: Echoes Of The Past(2016)-Creator, Actor(As Luke Skywalker)
- SMOSH(2016)-Animator
- Shrek Retold- Animator
- Stepping On Toes(2019) -Actor(Himself) and Special Thanks
Trivia[]
- Andrei created a majority of the videos for the series Smosh Animated.
- Andrei and iDubbbzTV once collaborated on Andrei's YouTube channel.[1]
- Andrei was nominated for "Creator of Year" and "Animator" for the 8th Streamy Awards but lost to Shane Dawson and Storybooth respectively.[2]
- Andrei Terbea said that he is reserved and introvert in nature in one of his videos. He also said that he likes his personal space out of anyone’s attention.
- On November 20th he launched a Youtooz which he had teased in January of that same year.
- In addition to the aforementioned iDubbbz collab, Andrei has collaborated with many other YouTubers and Creators on multiple occasions. These creators include, but not limited to, Alex Clark, H3H3, and among many others. He was also featured in the crowdsourced remake of Shrek by 3GI Industries As an Animator.
- Andrei is colorblind, as revealed in How I Become An Animator.
Subscriber milestones[]
- 1 million subscribers: August 25, 2018
- 2 million subscribers: October 20, 2019
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