SAD-ist (born: September 24, 2002), also known as Big S (by TommyInnit) and Ate SAD-ist (by her Filipino fans), is a Filipino animation YouTuber known for her animation videos revolving around Minecraft content creators from the Dream SMP.
About[]
SAD-ist is primarily known for her movie-trailer style animations of the Dream SMP - Dream SMP War, The Fall, Dawn of the 16th, and Hog Hunt, all of which have surpassed 10 million views. Her videos have reached trending multiple times as well, most notably Hog Hunt and Dawn of the Sixteenth which reached #1 on trending after their releases. 2WEI, the creator of the music SAD-ist uses for these animations, has also shown support for her work, and even created music/sound design specifically for Hog Hunt.
She has also made an animation based on the highly anticipated Technoblade vs Dream $100,000 duel sponsored by MrBeast, and animated a clip from Dream's Minecraft Manhunt series featuring GeorgeNotFound, Sapnap and BadBoyHalo. These videos have reached 17 million views and over 21 million views, respectively.
Before animating for Minecraft YouTube, she made multiple animations based on the video game Hollow Knight, including Escapism and RPG meme, which have gained traction in the Hollow Knight community.
She is also known for creating speedpaints, animations, and animatics for the video game Undertale, the musical Hamilton, and several other fandoms.
Trivia[]
- SAD-ist has been animating for approximately 7 years.[citation needed]
- Her favorite colors are pink and green combinations, such as strawberries.[citation needed]
- She used to animate using only her phone and finger, but was able to purchase a drawing tablet in August 2020.[1] Her first animation made with the tablet was The Fall.
- Currently, she uses ToonBoom Harmony to animate; however, all of her animations before Dream vs Technoblade were done in Flipaclip.
- She had aspirations to work for Disney.[citation needed]
- Her favorite music genres are J-pop and electro swing.[citation needed]
- Her favorite song is "Kilmaa" covered by Miy-Yuu.[citation needed]
- Her channel was verified on November 10, 2020.[citation needed]
- Her name "SAD-ist" and her character's frown face mask was a result of her teenage "emo phase", and decided to have a frown face mask instead of a smile masks as she thought smile masks were overrated.[citation needed]
- She graduated high school on July 16, 2021.[2]
- She can speak Bisaya and English.[citation needed]
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: October 1, 2019
- 200,000 subscribers: August 12, 2020
- 300,000 subscribers: August 25, 2020
- 400,000 subscribers: September 29, 2020
- 500,000 subscribers: October 8, 2020
- 600,000 subscribers: November 1, 2020
- 700,000 subscribers: November 6, 2020
- 800,000 subscribers: November 18, 2020
- 900,000 subscribers: December 8, 2020
- 1 million subscribers: December 31, 2020
- 2 million subscribers: April 26, 2021
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