| “ | Thank you guys for watching, and of course, fly on. | ” |
―Timeworks' Outro | ||
Nickolas "Nick" (born: June 29, 2001), better known online as Timeworks (formerly harrypotter6430), is a Norwegian-Canadian YouTuber who mostly uploads commentaries, statistics about other YouTubers, YouTube glitches, YouTube "Easter Eggs" and videos about YouTube itself. He also does videos with him playing some games like Minecraft and GTA V on his gaming channel. He runs a show called FROLiC FRiDAY, which he used to post on Friday, but as of late June 2022, the series has fallen behind and barely uploads on Fridays, he does say he will catch up eventually however. He discusses problems on YouTube, highlighting issues such as sub bots comment bots and glitches.
History[]
Timeworks' very first video ever on YouTube was a Lego stop motion uploaded to his first channel, harrypotter6430. His first video on Timeworks was The Luckless Marksman, which was a comedy video about a hitman that always fails.
He has done a lot of commentaries on the PewDiePie vs T-Series event, which started the growth of his channel.
He is also known for being rickrolled a lot of times, usually in Frolic Friday and Reddit videos.
His most popular video was "Does T-Series Use Sub Bots? (ANSWERED!)". It was uploaded on the October 6, 2018.
According to Timeworks, he made his first of many YouTube accounts on February 6, 2010 which is coincidentally Rick Astley's birthday. He has stated that Timeworks was originally made for vlogging and short films, but these videos have since been privated and he claims that he will bring them back “one day”.
On March 1, 2021, he opened Timeworks Shorts where he uploads short versions of his videos, which are also posted to his TikTok.
On March 31, 2021, he turned his old channel, which was called "TheChaka" into "Timeworks Gaming".
On June 13, 2021 he turned InfinityBricks into Timeworks Bricks and kept it secret until he fully released it on August 30, 2021..
Nick has rediscovered his old channels such as GreenDefenders and Lego Man, which he forgot existed.
He also created his main channel on October 3. 2016.
Secret YouTube channel[]
Timeworks is hiding his channel from most of his family, except for his brother, his cousin and his uncle. He has a contract for his brother which says that he can't say to the rest of his family that he has a YouTube channel. His uncle only knows that he's uploading videos to YouTube but he doesn't know that he has over 615K subscribers on YouTube. Timeworks says that if he gets 1 Million subscribers on YouTube, he will reveal his YouTube channel to the rest of his family. His family currently thinks that his job is on photoshop. He says his brother constantly Blackmails him for doing things or else he will reveal the channel to his family.
Secret YouTube Stuff[]
Since Timeworks has over 600K subscribers, he has a Silver Play Button. However, due to the fact that he does not wish to expose his second life as a YouTuber to his family, his play button is also kept secret from his family. His uncle once saw him with the Play Button in his hands but he claimed to his uncle that it was a book. His Play Button hangs on the wall but if one of his family members knocks on the door, he always hides his Play Button and YouTube cosmetics in his room away before opening the door. however he claims that he will reveal his channel to his family at 1 million subscribers.
Personal Life[]
Nick was born in Norway, but soon relocated to Canada at a young age. He has a lot of family members but he only shows three of them on his channel:
- Dan (brother)
- Neil (uncle)
- Unknown name (cousin)
Custom play buttons[]
- Red Diamond Play Button (he gave one of them to JackSucksAtLife)
- Bronze Play Button
- Rock Play Button
- Paper Play Button
- Crystal Play Button
- Sapphire Play Button
FROLiC FRiDAY[]
Nick hosts a subreddit series called FROLiC FRiDAY, or Frolic Friday, where he looks at the weekly top posts on his subreddit each Friday, then posts the video the week after. Since November 31, 2020, Frolic Friday no longer uses submissions from his discord server, because he closed his server to focus more on his videos and focus more on his real life. As of April 2022, the server was reopened and he looks at the posts in the discord and the subreddit now. In My NEW Comment Is About To Reach 100K Likes! (Never Gonna Give You Up) // FROLiC #59, a post of the top posters on the subreddit since January 1, 2021 was made, the top 5 were: u/gkay4321, u/progamer679, u/limcommentsstuffs, u/milkmankarlson424, and u/welderexpensive4939. Nick gets rickrolled more in this series than any other videos on his channel. However as of January 21, 2023 he is not doing the series as of much.
Short Films and Short Film Series[]
Timeworks made a bunch of short films and short film series in the Timeworks channel, before he made it into a commentary channel But since he has discountinued them.
Short Films[]
The Luckless Marksman[]
The Luckless Marksman is about a hitman (Dan) who is really unlucky, and ends up shooting everything except Felix (played by Nick), his target.
The Squid Dive[]
The Squid Dive is about two people (Nick and Dan) who go against each other over a squid in the middle of the pool.
The Protector[]
The Protector is similar to The Luckless Marksman. A man (Nick) is unknowingly chased by a bunch of armed soldiers that look the same (Dan).
Nomophobia: The Story of Phone Addiction[]
Nomophobia: The Story of Phone Addiction Is about a man with a phone addiction (Nick), that spends all his time on his phone, and keeps saying he's busy over the phone when he's not.
Short Film Series[]
I Have A Feeling[]
I Have A Feeling is about Ben (Nick), a person who can see the world differently, and depends on his instincts. He secretly helps two people using his instincts.
The Life of a Big Boy[]
The Life of a Big Boy is about Aaron (Nick) trying to become a stereotypical adult because he turned 18.
Parallels[]
Parallels is about Tripp (Nick), who invented a device that can have him travel through parallel dimensions[1], accidentally activates it, and he has to go back to his home dimension by using his invention.
Life Hack[]
Life Hack is about Wilson (Nick), who's life was fine until Grey the Hacker (Dan) started controlling his life. Wilson has to find the great wizard 不具合 (Neil) in order to stop him.
Aurors of Shadow Town[]
Aurors of Shadow Town is about Haldor Varg (Nick) and Gavriil Spyro (Niel) stopping a newly formed gang called the Murdistos, and their leader, Caesar, from taking over Shadow Town.
Games played[]
Minecraft[]
Nick loves playing Minecraft and he has been playing since 2012. He first started playing with Java Edition. He loves mostly the building aspect of the game, he stated in Doing the BEST THING in Minecraft! At the start of the game, his first thing to look for is not wood or dirt but a dog. And when he finds a dog, he will do anything to make it his own. Although he doesn't really like naming them, he loves and treats all dogs in Minecraft like real life dogs. Although many do not like his Java skin, Nick personally liked it because of the outfit which was his favorite coat.
Aside from Java, Nick also has a Bedrock Edition of Minecraft. In Playing Minecraft Bedrock For The FIRST TIME! he plays the Bedrock version of Minecraft, and a popular bedrock server called The Hive which appears to be his favorite server. Nick spends the time mostly with SkyWars and Just Build, his least played game is Survival Games and Deathrun. His pet-peeves throughout the game are hackers and camping. Overall, he is neutral and loves Java and Bedrock the same amount, but because of the amount of hours he spend with Bedrock, he considers to like Bedrock more.
Other games[]
Nick also likes playing Grand Theft Auto with his friends and considers Spyro on his PS2 as his childhood game. He also loves Super Mario World on the SNES for nostalgia reasons.
Likes and dislikes[]
Likes[]
- Minecraft - loves the building aspect of the game.
- David Tennant - his favorite actor.
- Coldplay - his favorite musical band.
- Beach House - his favorite musical duo.
- Doctor Who - his favorite show.
- Heaven Sent - his favorite Doctor Who episode.
- The 12th Doctor - his favorite character.
- Harry Potter - his favorite novel and film series.
- South Park - his favorite cartoon.
- Trapped in the Closet - his favorite South Park episode
- Dogs - his favorite animal.
- Photoshop
- Editing videos - his favorite hobby.
- Fish and chips - his favorite food.
- Swiss Army Man - his favorite movie.
- PPP by Beach House - his favorite song.
- Lego
Dislikes[]
- Basketball - his least favorite sport.
- Gaming Hackers - his number 1 pet peeve.
- Gaming Campers - he finds campers annoying as they prolong the game.
- Dolores Umbridge
- Peanuts - he is allergic to peanuts.
- Rickrolls
- Pineapples
- Lepin (fake Lego)
- Everything in his Cringe Book
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
- sweden
Channel milestones[]
Subscriber milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
- 100,000 subscribers: August 14, 2019[1]
- 200,000 subscribers: July 12, 2020[2]
- 300,000 subscribers: December 24, 2020[3]
- 400,000 subscribers: March 5, 2021[4]
- 500,000 subscribers: July 12, 2021[5]
- 600,000 subscribers: April 28, 2022
Video view milestones[]
- 10 million views: April 25, 2019
- 20 million views: May 5, 2020
- 30 million views: September 19, 2020
- 40 million views: December 16, 2020
- 50 million views: January 25, 2021
- 60 million views: March 20, 2021
- 70 million views: May 12, 2021
- 80 million views: July 21, 2021
Trivia[]
- Nick made several accounts since 2010 before Timeworks, which were called harrypotter6430, Chaka Corporation (now Timeworks Studios), InfinityBricks (now Timeworks Bricks), TheChaka (now Timeworks Gaming), TheLegoReviews2012, LEGO Man, Nutroz, Jimbob Numberdew, and GreenDefenders.
- Nick leaves a TW- number in his description which indicates the video number.
- Nick lives in Canada but was born in Norway.
- Nick has the 8th most liked comment on YouTube.
- Nick wanted to start his channel as a Lego Review YouTube channel when he was young.
- Nick is of Norwegian descent on his father's side.
- Nick calls his new profile pictures and banners "waves".
- He is currently on Wave 11 as of December 13, 2021.
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