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Nick Robinson (Babylonian)
YouTuber Information
Profile	Nick Robinson (Babylonian)
Style	Gaming
Date joined	December 25, 2005
Twitter / X	@babylonian @RustyBasteBlog @suppermikubroth
Instagram and Threads	@babylonian @babylonian
Other media	Tumblr Twitch Patreon TikTok
Videos	392+
Schedule	Monthly
Status	Active
Associates	Porter Robinson (brother) • Polygon (formerly)
Username	Nick Robinson (Babylonian)
Personal information
Full name	Nicolas Robinson
Nationality	American
Location	Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Pronouns	he/him
Channel trailer
The Nintendo DS game no one can play
Most viewed video
This Is What a "Second-Person" Video Game Would Look Like
First video
Epic tower built in Balance on Clubhouse Games

Nicolas "Nick" Robinson (born: 1989–1990 [age 35–36]), also known online as babylonian, is an American YouTuber, former journalist, and producer who creates investigative journalism style documentaries on subjects such as gaming and Japanese media.

History

Although Robinson has been uploading YouTube videos since October 16, 2006, he kicked off his personal career as a video producer at Polygon in February 2015. Amongst the two years he worked there, his most recognized role was as a co-host for the YouTube series titled "Car Boys", which revolved around him and fellow Polygon employee Griffin Mcelroy playing through a driving game called BeamNG.drive.

He parted ways with Polygon soon after he was accused of sexual harassment.

Before his departure from Polygon for in August 2017, Robinson had uploaded a few videos that sparked his YouTube channels popularity, such as "How to Beat a Walmart Security Tag" and "my apartment burnt down so i made a funny video about it". The first noteworthy video essay style content he had made that lead to the greater success of his channel was "The Domino's ad that vanished from YouTube", which gained 1.1 million views. After taking notice of the following he had gained from this format, his creations continued to expand upon it until slowly leading YouTube to becoming his full time job.

Nick Robinson is also known for debunking mysteries in video games. The mysteries he has solved include "The Nintendo character with zero Google results" where he figures out the mystery of Pappy van Poodle. Another was "How I solved Super Monkey Ball's biggest mystery" where he figures out who was the voice announcer in the original Super Monkey Ball games.

He often criticizes SEGA for ruining great games brand by repetitively making the same kind of levels without innovation and completely deplete the fresh fun of playing the game for the first time (e.g. Sonic the Hedgehog) while also decreasing the difficulty of the game thus making it far less challenging and interesting to play (e.g. Super Monkey Ball). He even once went To Japan to protest in the SEGA HQ by sticking a deep fried version of one of the Super Monkey Ball's main characters GonGon which actually violates the ToS of the game. There is no aftermath to this event. Nevertheless, he believes that SEGA will one day choose a great game development director and fix this issue for good.

He bought the lost McDonald’s ECDP training DS game at a Japanese auction and dumped the ROM to preserve it. The game was a training program for McDonalds employees in Japan to speed up training in the workplace. The game is incredibly rare and only a few copies are known to exist. Nick had to jump through a lot of hoops to bring the game from Japan to the United States due to the COVID-19 pandemic (as Japan not only did not allow shipping outside the country, but foreigners and locals were not allowed to go outside the get back in the country, although his friend who lived in Tokyo got the DS and the game outside the country as he was granted permission to leave the country) and getting a 3DS with video capture to showcase high quality footage of the game (from a retired 3DS modder). Another reason why he wanted to dump the ROM of the game was because the person who beat him to the race to be the 1st to play the game, Cody, had stated multiple times that he refused to dump the ROM of the game.

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.

• 1 million subscribers: June 22, 2021

Trivia

• His favorite type of the dairy treat known as cheese is a sharp cheddar preferably around 4 to 5 years of age, He has also mentioned an affinity for the pre sliced Cracker Barrel® variety, also claims that white cheddar is "fine".
• He is known for making an extensive number of trips to Japan for many different purposes.
• He left his silver play button in the office building of Domino's Pizza Japan Inc.
• One week, he decided to have a week where he would upload 5 videos. AIAI (That time Lil Uzi Vert rapped over Super Monkey Ball music), DOOM (How to cause (or fix) DOOM's texture glitch), CHAIR (How 28,000 strangers extended Reggie's lifespan), MIKU (The Mission to Save「Domino's App feat. Hatsune Miku」), and finally, LEAF (The genius of Call of Duty: Warzone).
• Presumably at around February 2018, his apartment burned down due to an electrical fire. A video was released three months later where he explores the remains of the apartment, comparing it to the house from the game Resident Evil 7.
• He is the older brother of Porter Robinson, a famous DJ and musician well-known for creating electro house and synth-pop music.
  • His other younger brothers are Robert "Rob" Robinson and Mark Robinson, who appear in his videos from time to time. Rob has assisted with filming in some videos, and even has a channel of his own.
• He previously lived in Los Angeles, California.
• He dated a woman named Samantha for a period beginning in 2021.
• He has often been able to interview somewhat well-known people in his videos, including former Domino's Japan CEO Scott Oelkers, voice actor Patrick Harlan, and video game developer Yukio Futatsugi.