| “ | i am the only person who makes videos | ” |
―Drew's channel description | ||
Drew Gooden (born: October 26, 1993) is an American YouTuber known for his comedic commentary-style videos. Before he joined YouTube, he was popular on the app Vine, and was best known for his "road work ahead" video.
History[]
Gooden originally began YouTube in 2006 on the channel PatheticHearts. The channel consisted of parodies of the Japanese version of the video game Kingdom Hearts 2 and had 25 videos in total.
Nine years later, in February 2015, Gooden joined Vine, gaining mainstream success two months later in April. After the closure of Vine in 2016, he switched to YouTube instead of Instagram as most Viners seem to have done during that time.
Video content and style[]
Commentary[]
Gooden mostly makes commentary and reaction-based videos, usually in response to other YouTubers or YouTube videos, TV shows, movies, TikToks, social trends, or celebrities. His takes are usually humorous, and often feature short skits starring himself in front of a green screen. His commentary is often very light-hearted, though a few videos have a bit of a serious edge to their commentary, when Gooden feels the topic raises an important question of justice, ethics, or morality. Gooden is very critical of scams and hustles, and celebrities and companies who exploit their base with manipulative tactics.
Product reviews[]
Gooden has made several product review videos, which most often feature him purchasing suspect products featured in social media advertisements of dubious quality and assessing the veracity of the sellers' claims. He has stated that these kinds of videos are "some of [his] favorite to make".[1] Gooden's product review series has sparked a running gag wherein Gooden berates the Moon Pod, a "zero-gravity bean bag for stress and anxiety", for being a terrible product and an expensive scam.
I Lived Like[]
Gooden has made videos wherein he follows a specific lifestyle for a set amount of time and assesses its effects on his health and well-being. He has eaten like Tom Brady for a month,[2] embarked on a dopamine fast because the internet told him to,[3] and followed a bunch of tutorials on how to get taller.[4] Gooden often affects a sarcastically naive attitude in the beginnings of these videos, stating that since he has culled advice from the internet, surely it must all be true.
Collaborators[]
Some of Gooden's videos feature his wife, Amanda Gooden (née Murphy), and the couple's pet cat, Bimbim. Murphy accompanied Gooden to a Jake Paul live show,[5] attempted to eat a box,[6] temporarily assumed control of the channel following popular outcry against Gooden's monopolizing of screen time,[7] and ate square chicken with comically large utensils.[8] Bimbim, who occasionally shares Gooden's office space, has been naked.[9]
Personal life[]
Drew Gooden was born in North Carolina on October 26, 1993, and moved to Orlando, Florida, when he was around two years old.[10] He grew up in a small suburb and played little league baseball growing up. He posted his first YouTube video when he was 13 years old; this was the beginning of his online presence. He then posted his first Vine at age 20.
Gooden met Murphy on Vine after she commented on one of his videos. They maintained a long-distance relationship for a year before Gooden proposed and Murphy moved to Florida.[11] The couple discussed their relationship on the inaugural episode of the Little Stinker Radio Hour podcast, Exploiting My Relationship For Content. Gooden and Murphy married on March 13, 2019. Many fans believed the two to be married already because Gooden referred to Murphy as his wife long before they officially tied the knot. Gooden's usually bi-weekly schedule was interrupted in mid-March 2019, corresponding with the time of his wedding.
Gooden continued to grow on YouTube after Vine fell, and is now a successful comedian, even gaining his own Wikipedia page.[12]
Collaborations[]
Gooden is good friends with fellow YouTuber and former Viner Danny Gonzalez. The two occasionally collab together on each others' channels such as in the videos The World's Hardest Flexer (with Drew Gooden) (2019), and Exploring FaceBook Marketplace with Drew Gooden (2018) on Gooden's channel.
Because of the similar nature of their content, it has been a running gag that Gooden and Gooden are the same person. In 2019 they went on tour (along with Kurtis Conner) to "disprove" this. The "Not the Same Person Tour" also featured the debut of Gooden and Gooden's single, "We Are Not the Same Person," which featured lyrics such as "we may have similar lives / we may have similar wives / but we are different nonetheless!"
Gooden and Gooden's close friendship has led to the production of several works of lurid fanfiction within their shared fanbases, one of which the two read together in a video on Gooden's channel. The story featured the two friends as lovers trying to be kept apart by the Paul brothers and Gooden being impregnated by one of them.
Quotes[]
- “Hey, Guy.”
- "Hey, Little Stinkers!"
- "Go ahead. Sit on your throne and claim your title as the 'Ice Cream Queen'!"
- "Boy, I am sure having a fun time on the Drew Gooden YouTube channel!"
- "I DON'T HAVE NIPPLES ON MY ANKLES!"
- "None of you are special."
- "These guys love slime!"
- "What's up Greg, its me, Drew "
- "Hello everyone, welcome back to youtube.com, a website I created..."[13]
- "No Kidz, no Bop."
- "I dice my bagels, and I eat them like M&Ms"
- "'Road Work Ahead'?! Uh, yeah, I sure hope it does!"[14]
- "No matter how hard your life gets, you can always find a way to make it harder."
- "So, I had started marching up the stairs, ready to discipline my sweet boy."
- "Hey guy, welcome back to the newest cycle of my blue hair evolution, I currently look like Sully from Monsters Inc. let me borrow a patch of fur."
- “Bold strategy. Let’s see if it pays off.” (after seeing) “It’s not. It’s not paying off.”[15]
- Date Drew: “Where did you get those spoons?” Australian Drew: “Out me bum.”[16]
Trivia[]
- Gooden encouraged viewers who didn't brush their tongues to comment "I'm a Little Stinker" on a video as a way to shame them. Due to an overwhelming response, 'Little Stinkers' became the official name of his fanbase for a while.
- Gooden is a member of Jake Paul's Team 1000, though Team 1000 was never actually created.
- Gooden is a big fan of professional football and basketball. His favorite football team are the Miami Dolphins, and his favorite basketball team the Orlando Magic.
- Gooden purchased a peanut costume in November 2012, believing it a wise financial investment as he could wear it for next year's Halloween. However, the first time he wore it was 6 years after its purchase in the video Halloween vs. Christmas. He wore it for the second time on his channel in Recreating My Favorite Bad Tik Toks.[17]
- Gooden admitted that he had a crush on Demi Lovato when he was young.[18]
- Gooden has only seen one Marvel movie, which is The Avengers.
- There is a joke that Gooden and the former basketball player of the same name are the same person.
- It is a running gag on Gooden's channel that he created YouTube, and is, in fact, the only channel on YouTube.
- In the video "The Dumbest Stuff I've Seen This Month"(2019), Gooden discusses a Twitter user's comment on how he has never seen Star Wars and doesn't intend on doing so because he feels he doesn't have to since he lives such a luxurious lifestyle. Though Gooden does not mention the user by name, current viewers may recognize the Twitter user as none other than AnDrew Tate, before he attained his present notoriety.[19]
- Gooden is a player of RuneScape, an online MMORPG game.[20]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZteAovHJllk&ab_channel=DrewGooden
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x43XZudPuEQ&ab_channel=DrewGooden
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CRD9pmqa7s&ab_channel=DrewGooden
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJRTM36jANc&ab_channel=DrewGooden
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMNxgi_0eKA&ab_channel=DrewGooden
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAPMoJf-wR0&ab_channel=DrewGooden
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV2oBnfrXz0&ab_channel=DrewGooden
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws_YyegWGKY&ab_channel=DrewGooden
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbAuL4fg5LI&list=PLPO0-ajjA2w_drrvX6vtwYlFaHW2vLiHE&index=4&ab_channel=DrewGooden
- ↑ We Are All The Same Person (w/ Drew Gooden). Sad Boyz Podcast (September 9, 2020). Retrieved on September 17, 2022. “Yeah, I was born in North Carolina, but we moved here when I was, like, two, so-”
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Strwla1ELdA&ab_channel=DrewGooden
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Gooden_(comedian)
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKgSvAyPFlU&ab_channel=DrewGooden
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AYv6rV3NXE
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKgSvAyPFlU&ab_channel=DrewGooden
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG4Ox2sTrKU&ab_channel=DrewGooden
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxEP47T77NQ
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s3CmyepjMc
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8ZHRur8LYQ
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KOJ62vfK2E&ab_channel=SadBoyz
