Charlie, better known online as diesel patches, is an American YouTuber that focuses mainly on commentary videos. On March 17, 2019 a second channel, weasel batches, was created, where Charlie reviews and commentates on movies.
About
Starting out as a channel uploading "cringe" compilations of different topics ranging from Weeaboos to Buzzfeed. the channel slowly turned towards commentary videos uploading his first commentary video on November 9, 2017 titled Why Lele Pons isn't funny. Diesel patches has criticized many YouTubers ranging from H3h3Productions for overusing his YouTube power to Morgz, showing his dislike for the channel's over exaggerated fake videos, sexualization of underage female cast members and ridiculous thumbnails. He has made multiple videos criticizing YouTubers Lele Pons and Lilly Singh for their lack of humor in their videos. Some have deemed diesel patches’ style of criticism as insulting and promoting hate towards the subject of the videos. He has stated that people should not look at in that manner and that the videos are him giving his personal opinion, not promoting hate while understanding that viewers may enjoy the subject he is discussing.
After announcing that his channel had been demonetized due to containing compilation videos, he stated they would be deleted. They were deleted on January 18, 2019.
After the announcement of his channel’s demonization, diesel patches started uploading videos to his newly created second channel, weasel batches. The channel focuses on him giving his thoughts and opinions on various movies and television shows, with the majority being comicbook movies.
On July 2, 2019 he announced that diesel patches had been remonetized.
On February 20, 2020 he announced that his Discord server had been deleted.
Channel Milestones
Subscriber Milestones
Note: The following dates are according to SocialBlade. Dates may vary by ~1 day (2 days if you live outside of North America) due to differences in time zones.
- 100,000 subscribers: October 14, 2018
- 200,000 subscribers: January 23, 2019
- 300,000 subscribers: November 23, 2019
- 400,000 subscribers: March 26, 2020
- 500,000 subscribers: June 25, 2020
- 600,000 subscribers: August 2, 2020
- 700,000 subscribers: September 5, 2020
Video Views Milestones
- 100 Million Views: August 13, 2020
Trivia
- Diesel’s fans use the meme “the big gay” when referencing him. The meme was created by YouTuber - Umparumphsta -‘s first video “Diesel Patches Exposed 2018 OMFG”.
- In a celebration video he stated that the channel name was created using an online name generator.
- Diesel patches had a channel in the past called Axel xXx, where he make videos commenting, rating and reviewing various Japanese anime and manga. His channel back then was most popular for his reviews and top ten strongest lists on an anime called Fairy Tail, which was met with a fair share of criticism. In July 2018, his channel was terminated for copyright infringement.
- He was also active on the now-defunct Google+ where he would frequently get into debates with people.
- It was accidentally revealed that his first name is Charlie on a Club Penguin Online livestream.
- He has a girlfriend that often joins him in his live-streams.
- He is an atheist
- On August 13, 2020, he has confirmed that he is 21 years old.
Quotes
- "I'm a Latina."
- "Besides 8 year olds, the sexiest thing in the world is probably pregnant dwarves. I don't know I just think it's hot when they roll around and the grass tickles their balls"
