| “ | Hey... what's going on, dudes; It's Mitch, or Bajan Canadian | ” |
―Bajan Canadian's Intro | ||
Mitchell Donnell-Ralph Hughes (born: March 3, 1994), more commonly known for his online alias, Bajan Canadian, is a Canadian YouTuber best known from his Minecraft gameplay videos, commonly praised for his skills on "Minecraft: Survival Games" and his ability to do parkour and give commentary at the same time.
He was part of the channel, Awesome Sauce Films, which he used to co-own with fellow friends and YouTubers Jerome (JeromeASF) and Matt (TheNoochM), and a former member of Team Crafted. He often plays with Robert (Mr. Woofless), Preston (TBNRfrags), (Lachlan), and Vikkstar123 (Vikkstar123).
Types of Videos
Mitch's content chiefly consisted of competitive Minecraft mini games, such as Survival Games (Hunger Games), Battledome, Parkour Speed Runs, Adventure Maps, and more. Several BajanCanadian videos include slangs sprouted out of his interest in food and "drank", the internet, video games, TV shows, and hip-hop and dubstep music, including his most well-known phrase "slap dat like button withchya forehead." His food and drank themes extend to the name of his former Minecraft server, "The Fridge." He combined it with Jerome and PeteZahHutt's server "The Hutt" to create The Nexus. He has posted videos concerning Roller Coaster Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon 2, and Pokémon, most of which have been unavailable to the public.
History
Mitch (left) and Connor (right), his little brother.
As Mitch describes, the name "BajanCanadian" comes from the fact that he was born in Canada and grew up on the small Caribbean island of Barbados (Natives of Barbados are known as Barbadians or Bajans, hence the first part of his username). He moved to America in the fourth grade, where he met Jerome and lived there for 4th, 5th, and 6th grade. He eventually moved back to Montreal, Canada, his assumed birth place.
Mitch and Kyleigh
He has one younger brother named Connor, and two sisters named Kyleigh, the youngest; and Marley, the oldest.
Pre-Minecraft days with Jerome
He closed his first YouTube channel after his parents complained for perceived inappropriate content, despite personal themes in the videos; one of them comprised him mocking "2 Girls 1 Cup." He now lives in Florida, sharing his house with his friend/fellow YouTuber JeromeASF.
AwesomeSauceFilms Era (2008-2012)
In the year 2008 Mitch joined a channel called AwesomeSauceFilms , which originated as a general gaming channel founded by Jerome (JeromeASF, which is what the "ASF" in his username stands for), which evolved to exclusively featuring content from the game Call of Duty . While he used to often make videos regarding Call of Duty and Halo, the ASF personnel did not believe they would be contracted producing videos for Machinima for over 2 years. Upon uploading the first episodes of their later-popular Secret Spots, they soon found the role of Machinima Respawn Director. Other popular series during the period include Clip of the Day, Zombies, and Master Quest. The latter received a 13-hour compilation.
Mitch and his girlfriend Jessica (Jess)
The channel entered hiatus in December 2012 because Mitch, Jerome, Zak and Mat got bored of Call of Duty, so the trio shifted focus to Minecraft. Despite promises to resurrect ASF and their fans tweeting "#ReviveASF" on Twitter, the channel has remained unused.
Mitch's yearbook photo and quote
In 2015, Mat attempted a revival of ASF, only to be stopped behind-the-scenes by Mitch and Jerome, who did not want to return to ASF. Mitch launched his now-most popular series Minecraft: Hunger Games on November 1st, almost 28 days before ASF's final video "Black Ops 2: Funtage #3 (Dolphin Dives, Secret Spots, and More!)" was posted. During the shift from general gaming to Minecraft, Mitch, especially Jerome, were frequently featured in SkyDoesMinecraft's videos, drawing an influx of young subscribers and generating criticism from older fans. Found by: @cassidyxwoods on Instagram, Mitch graduated from Beaconsfield High School in 2011. In his yearbook, his quote was chosen at random and was the famous quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow". In Minecraft videos uploaded before the 6th episode of Hunger Games, Mitch used a skin resembling Winnie the Pooh, referencing his favorite cartoon character as a kid. That skin was later changed to his current skin when he tweeted a picture of him in a red hoodie and asked his fans to make him a skin that looked like it and he would choose the best one.
Team Crafted Era (2013-2014)
Mitch's Current Minecraft Skin
Soon after Mitch and Jerome began recording with SkyDoesMinecraft and his crew, they joined Team Crafted. Team Crafted was a group of Minecraft YouTubers who would record often with each other and help each other grow in the YouTube community. Mitch instantly gained a large subscriber base and became Team Crafted's most popular member, despite not being the most subscribed. All of Team Crafted would grow and prosper, but a downfall began, beginning around June and July 2013. Dawn, Sky's fiance, broke up with him, and soon after, a falling out occurred between Kermit and the group, leading Kermit to leave Team Crafted.
In August, after feeling that Seto wasn't interested in what the group had planned and did not want to go to community or business events, Mitch proposed kicking Seto from the group.
Mitch's "Team Crafted" Logo/Icon
Seto was kicked and, feeling betrayed, disappeared from the public eye. Over the next few months, they planned the launch of their new channel and brand. 1 hour after releasing the TeamCrafted Hub channel video, Seto released his own video after being inactive for months. In it he explained his side of the story. This released a bombshell against the group, mostly against Mitch and Adam. Everyone in Team Crafted's views dropped significantly. They pressed on, but several months later, two days after adding their newest member Ryan to the group, Team Crafted lost 4 of its members in a single night. Over the next two weeks two more members left. There has been no mention of Team Crafted since its only private event. Adam seems to have had a fallout with Mitch, and neither mention each other anymore.
Mitch and Jerome are in a well-known ship called "Merome".
Team Crafted 2013
Merome is the most famous ship in TeamCrafted (second famous being Skylox, which is a shipping between SkyDoesMinecraft and Deadlox). On Mitch and Jerome's 10 hour livestream, #Merome trended 4th place on Twitter and remained on the top trends list for 3 days. On Instagram, #Merome has over 5300+ posts, gaining 5000 after their livestream. (Merome was previously called ASFCanadian, but the two YouTubers have changed it to Merome.)
The Pack Era (Late 2014-Present)
Sometime in late 2014, Mitch, Jerome, Preston, Rob, Lachlan, and Vikk formed a group dubbed "The Pack" which sometimes makes videos together. They have done some charity things together, namely Pink Lucky Blocks For Boobs Videos. However, other Minecraft YouTubers (Such as NoochM and PeteZahHutt) have been excluded from joining, causing a drop in their popularity as "The Pack" became more well-known.
Unlike Team Crafted, many feel The Pack will live on much longer as all of the guys are seemingly close friends. However, like Team Crafted, The Pack is a business organization, founded solely for the purpose of making more money. Being in this group has encouraged Mitch to expand his horizons, including launching a second channel and testing a roleplaying series called Minecraft Toys. Although it failed, he found that he can maintain his fan base without relying solely on Minecraft Hunger Games, the original source of his Internet fame. He joined H2M (How To Minecraft) for Season Two and has uploaded somewhat regularly. He still plans to eventually release his PvP challenge series in which he goes on PvP servers and does not leave until he wins a game. Although he has tried to set up a consistent livestream schedule, he has not been able to keep to a regular timetable and as such uploads at irregular intervals. For a time, he lived with Lachlan in order to do crazy funny challenge videos in order to gain popularity on their respective channels.
Present Day (March 2018)
On March 3rd, Mitch recorded a video titled "I'm Quitting." He said how he was moving on from Minecraft because he thought about the "interest from fans" and "catering too much of what Youtube may like to see from me." He ended up on having a talk show on his channel now.
Quotes
- “Hey doods, it's Mitch or BajanCanadian here!”
- “Hey, dood.”
- “Oi Fish Fish.”
- “What da fudge?”
- “Hey, biggums.”
- “Hokeyp.” (said in the hunger games)
- “Slap dat like button witchya forehead! Take care and goodbye.” (2016 outro)
- “Boom, shaka laka. It's dang-a-lang time!”
- “I'm on a boat, mudda-trucka!”
- “*loud slurp into microphone*”
- “No, please! I fan!”
- “To the left, to the left.”
- “Darren Sharper, puttin' da team on my back!”
- “Deez nuts!”
- “El boost, biggums! El booooost!”
- “On da way! Bum-bum-bum-bum, on da way!”
- “Dat determination dough!”
- “I make dat booty go mm da da mm da da.”
- “Nah/Yeah G.”
- “Talkin 'bout all that goooood sh——t!”
- “Big Booty Baccas.”
- “No hetero.”
- “Dat booty dough!”
- “Hey Biggums, I GOT BETTY!”
- “Ooh babyy!”
- “You best be steppin'!”
- “What you jumba willis?”
- “Mah Gawd!”
- “Katniss! Katniss Baby!”
- “Disco Party! Disco Party!”
- “Jerome, I got dat axe dough!”
- ""Let me axe you a question! (Har har har)""
- “We be playin da Hunga Deens/Games.”
- “You like dat?”
- “Jerome, I won da Hunga Deens/Games!”
- “GG!”
- “We gonna bash some skulls!”
- “You can't stop me!”
- “Yo what up, dawgs!”
- “Got 'eeem!”
- “You're a dirty, stinkin' bacca!” (usually followed by fake crying)
- “You're a monster!”
- “This guy's done”
- “DIAMONDS‽”
- “RUUUUUUUUN!!!”
- (Jokingly) “Poshlifeclothing.com.”
- “Join me and Jerome on the battlefield.”
- “Oh no! He's back! He's back! Butcher!” (when the King arrives)
- “Hey, you know what'd be really cool? Splash potion of— f——k. I'm dead.”
- “Feed the hungry Bacca!”
- “Be freeeeeeee!”
- "Bum!" (x14) (When he is coming to help or attack someone).
- "HAVE A NICE FLIGHT!!" (Money/Egg Wars)
- "Stay Guav"
Popular Series on the Channel
- Hunger Games (hates new PvP on the nexus with fishing rods) (ended series)
- Factions (ended series)
- Lucky Blocks
- Music Videos
- Nexus Server Mini-games- SWAT (ended series)
- BattleDome
- H2M (ended series) (How to Minecraft)
- Agar.io (ended series)
- Parkour Challenge
- Challenge Videos
- Who's Your Daddy?
- Money Wars (Egg Wars) (Minecraft Minigame)
- How To Minecraft S3 (Ended)
- How 4 Minecraft (ended)
- Benja vids
Vocabulary
- Diamond Axe - Betty
- Diamond Sword - Big Bertha (does not use)
- Gold - Chicken Nugget Butter
- Cooked fish - Vile Creature
- Chestplate - Boobs/Boobplate
- Boots - Booties
- Bow - Katniss, sometimes Legolas
- Leather Boots - Boots with the fur
- Chainmail - Sexy Lingerie
- Enchanted Items - Shiny (item)
- Lapis Lazuli - Blue Pickels (Called "Blue Sh*t" until late 2013)
- Iron Axe - Fredrick
- Gold Axe - Sylvia
- Enchanted Gold Axe - Sacrificial Axe
- Enchanted Stick - Mr. Betty (Rarely spoken)
- Stone Axe - Dat Axe
- Diamond Shovel - Pete's Spade
- Cocoa Beans - Deer Poop
- Ink Sac - Blooper Egg
- Pumpkin Pie - Pumpkin Pie made by NoochM's Mom
- Snorlax - Hodor
- Fishing Rod-Spec Cannon
- Rotten Flesh - Wet Noodle
Trivia
- Mitch is 6 days older than Jerome. *He, Jordan Maron (CaptainSparklez), and Ashley (AshleyMarieeGaming) had a panel about Minecraft and YouTube at PAX East 2014 that was later posted on the Polaris channel.
- PewDiePie follows him on Twitter.
- Mitch seems to have had a fallout with most of his former friends, namely Zak (HippoHIH), Adam (SkyDoesMinecraft), Ashley (ashleymarieegaming), and Mat (NoochM).
- Mitch finally owns a house in Florida and lets Lachlan and Jerome live with him, and he lives very close to his other best friend Ryan.
- Mitch was banned from MCSG for using Better Sprint Mod.
- Mitch has a girlfriend named Jessica Pietroniro and is slowly starting to put her into his videos.
- Sky has reached out to Mitch to mend their friendship saying on twitter "Now prep yourself @Bajan_Canadian I'm coming for you next. Fuck the past. I miss you homie. Coming for that booty." Mitch has not responded and but does now follow Adam on Twitter.
- Mitch is taking part in Super League Gaming, in which you sign up and go to a theater and play Minecraft. Mitch is one of the first YouTubers taking part in this, along with Jerome and Captain Sparklez.
- During Mitch's video where he Googles himself, he stated that he is non-religious in response to the Google search "Is bajancanadian a Christian".
- Although Sky Does Minecraft confirmed that Team Crafted "its own thing" in the Team Crafted Cops and Robbers, the original members of Team Crafted seem to have let go of their tension.
Music Videos
As of 2018, Mitch has directed, created, and hosted eight Minecraft parodies starting from 2013 and ending in 2017.
Mitch directed a music video, a dubstep parody of Decisions by Borgore, called "Hunger Games Song". The video has a stunning 92.8 million views, making it the most popular video on his channel as of July 29, 2017. The second most popular video on his channel only has 5.3 million views. Vocals: Jake and John Cardiff (CardiffNation) Instrumental: Metiri (Metiridubstep) Animation: Jayden Bev (AtomicMonkeyPro).
♪ "Hunger Games Song" - A Minecraft Parody of Decisions by Borgore (Music Video)
TheBajanCanadian's most popular video.
On the anniversary of Mitch's hunger games parody, he uploaded his parody of "Moondust" by James Young. The song itself is named "Endstone", but the video title is "Remember Our Love". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_u3ql2gvBo.
There are also three other songs that Mitch hosted on his channel, "Bajan Canadian Song", it's a parody of "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons, "Little Square Face" & "Diamond Sword". "Little Square Face" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etiazPJrgrg & "Diamond Sword" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY2II6N1b0I. Original songs by MinecraftJams. All three videos were made by MinecraftJams https://www.youtube.com/MinecraftJams and thanks to https://twitter.com/inkbyteart. the video has 33.4 million views as of July 29, 2017.
♪ "Bajan Canadian Song" - A Minecraft Parody Song (Music Video)
♪ "Diamond Sword" Minecraft Animation (Music Video) Minecraft Song
A third parody called "Creeper Fear" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0YhXDZAmQw was made, it's a parody of Show Me by Kid Ink & Paranoid by Ty Dolla $ign. It has 5.8 million views as of July 29, 2017.
His final minecraft parodies were "Black Beatles" by Rae Sremmurd, "War vs Herobrine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ0M19Iy1EI and "I Took a Pill in Ibiza" by Mike Posner, "The Warzone" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I6hK_ySZdI. They were published on June 25, 2017. As of July 29, 2017, it has 453K views.
🎵 "War vs Herobrine" - A Minecraft Music Video Song Parody
🎵 "WARZONE" - NEW Minecraft Music Video Song Parody
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