| “ | Hello, everyone! My name is Bandi, and welcome back to the channel! Today we are gonna be playing/playing some more...] | ” |
―Bandi's intro | ||
Ethan David Best (born: April 29, 1998),[2] better known online as Bandi (or BandiRue/Bandirue), is an American YouTuber from Massachusetts who creates videos primarily based on the game Teardown, Minecraft, People Playground, and Roblox. Other than these, he creates videos on Human Fall Flat and many more.
He has a twin brother, Elijah Best, better known online as Sketch, which he was the editor of before he started making videos himself. Since then, Ethan has been featured in several of Elijah's videos. He also dated twitch streamer Amie Klammer for around 5+ years before the couple broke up in 2022/2023.
Ethan makes Minecraft packs as well as several games on Roblox, in which he is mainly a scripter. Along with his brother, he released his first popular game, Fish Game, in 2021 following the popularity of the Netflix series Squid Game. Notably, the experience has reached over 1.4 billion visits. Baller, Ethan's first self-made game, was released in late October of 2022. Based on a popular meme at the time, Baller became his second major release.
As a result of the popularity, DropKick and Ez Dev were released several months later in 2023. In total, Ethan's three self-made games have over 16.1 million visits as of late 2023.
Content[]
From June 2017, Ethan started his channel named Bandi. He mostly play Roblox which games he will play for his content, (example: Jailbreak), and mostly playing games like Gang Beast, Minecraft, People's Playground, and Human: Fall Flat, and playing game mods in some of his videos, and mostly react videos, and making vlogs together with his brother or himself, and mostly do TikTok videos. He also plays with Doni Bobes and his friends, and sometimes plays pranks or challenges with them.
Banzo[]
In 2018, Ethan created a second channel which is targeted towards teenagers and older. He kept his Bandi channel child and family-friendly whereas Banzo would be PG-13 mostly because of the language being used in his videos. He only played Fortnite with The Crew on the channel, and the channel has since been inactive.
Trivia[]
- Bandi met The Pals for the first time on July 21, 2017, which he recently uploaded a video called Meet The Pals!!!
- He also play Roblox games like Arsenal, Assassin!, Counter Blox, Jailbreak, Zombie Rush, Dragon Riders, and Garbage Day.
- He uploaded his first video on his YouTube channel and shows his montage for his upcoming first week of his gameplay.
- He also makes a video reaction from his first video called "THE LAST GUEST (Reaction) SAD STORY!".
- His first vlog with his brother, Sketch named "Annoying SKETCH┃Vlog".
- He runs a vlog and skit channel with Sketch called 'BestBois'.
- Like his brother Sketch, Bandi have to never using facecam again for only voicing the video for easier to record.
Subscriber milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to NoxInfluencer. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
Bandi[]
- 500,000 subscribers: November 5, 2018
- 600,000 subscribers: April 23, 2019
- 700,000 subscribers: November 29, 2019
- 800,000 subscribers: February 9, 2020
- 900,000 subscribers: March 26, 2020
- 1 million subscribers: June 16, 2020
Banzo[]
- 5,000 subscribers: July 4, 2018
- Below 5,000: Unknown Date