Ash Kabosu (formerly Cynic Snacks) is an English indie rock musician, animator and YouTuber and also the bassist in the band Lovejoy.
History[]
He started his channel with the goal of filming "at least one interesting and unique piece of footage every single day" as a personal self-reflection project. He uploaded his first video on July 1, 2021, which was a compilation of various moments from the previous month documenting his adventures, primarily with his band.
Cynic Snacks[]
On January 12, 2024, it was discovered that Ash had a previous internet presence under the name Cynic Snacks, including a YouTube channel with 189k subscribers. After problematic and questionable tweets were found on the Cynic Snacks twitter account, Ash deactivated the account and unlisted all the videos from his YouTube channel. On January 15, 2024, he made a post addressing and apologising for the tweets[1].
On the channel, Ash reviewed low-budget and bootleg movies, as well as adding his own animations in between movie commentary. He often reviews them through his persona of an animated anthropomorphic slice of pizza. Originally, this series of bad movie review was called Junk Film Review, with the first movie he reviewed being Alien: Contagion[2]. As well as review, he would also make analysis video on the fall of Hollywood[3], overused sound effects[4][5] and terrible movie adaptations of video games (however the video also praised the Sonic the Hedgehog movie for being a good adaptation)[6].
Trivia[]
- TommyInnit was his first subscriber.
- He helped out on the set of the music video for James Marriott's song Wake Up![7].
- As Cynic Snacks, he was also an editor for James Marriott[8].
Channel milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
Subscriber milestones[]
- 10,000 subscribers: July 3, 2021
- 20,000 subscribers: July 7, 2021
- 40,000 subscribers: August 2, 2021
- 50,000 subscribers: September 1, 2021
- 60,000 subscribers: September 3, 2021
- 70,000 subscribers: September 10, 2021
- 80,000 subscribers: October 2, 2021
- 90,000 subscribers: October 3, 2021
- 100,000 subscribers: October 17, 2021
- 200,000 subscribers: May 10, 2022
Video view milestones[]
- 300,000 views: September 15, 2021
- 400,000 views: October 3, 2021
- 500,000 views: October 9, 2021
- 600,000 views: October 29, 2021
- 700,000 views: November 1, 2021
- 800,000 views: December, 2021
- 1 million views: January, 2022
- 2 million views: April, 2022
- 2.5 million views: May 10, 2022
- 3 million views: July 5, 2022
References[]
- ↑ https://twitter.com/AshKabosu/status/1747043462342435151
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm9Me1xyJns
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMq9T61kNzQ
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c45xWMdPlAA
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ5xC-0TYWI
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9PzUpGOy1Y
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhO2m4vphww
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiJ_XaxvYMg