| “ | hola me llamo martin | ” |
―Martin's channel description | ||
Martin Anthony Walls (born June 28, 2001),[1][2] also known as smiles_bunny on Twitter, is a Chilean YouTuber and artist, best known for his analog horror web series "The Walten Files", and bearing similarities to other YouTube channels such as LOCAL58TV - COMMUNITY TELEVISION, Battington, Squimpus McGrimpus (who would voice Pete the Hippo in BunnyFarm), Petscop, KrainaGrzybowTV, Day the Nyanmajo, and Marble Hornets.
History[]
Walls joined YouTube on October 10, 2014. He wouldn't start posting until August 2019, when he began to upload a series of videos. The videos contained each track from the score of his canceled Five Nights at Freddy's fangame titled "Welcome to Bon's Burgers". He would soon upload "Health Department PSA", a horror parody PSA covering ways of avoiding COVID-19.
On April 26, 2020, Walls uploaded a video titled "The Walten Files 1 - Company Introductory Tape", a spinoff for his canceled fangame. The video was a compilation of lost tapes by fictional company Bunny Smiles Incorporated that was found by Anthony, who would later appear in video descriptions in later episodes. The video would soon become well received and start to grow a community. Despite not intending to make further installments prior to the video's success, Walls uploaded a trailer for a sequel on June 2, 2020.
On June 28, 2020, Walls released the second episode of The Walten Files, "Relocate Project". This video would soon make Walls struck in popularity even more, gaining thousands of subscribers and viewers. Around the time of episode 2's success, Walls privatized or deleted videos predating The Walten Files 1. Reasons for this are unknown.
On March 19th, 2021, Walls released the third episode of The Walten Files, "BunnyFarm".
There are currently four main episodes of The Walten Files, further installments are expected to release.
Trivia[]
- Walls has stated that there will be 12 main episodes of The Walten Files. Spanning 2 seasons each with 6 episodes
- When The Walten Files started gaining traction, Eva, a close friend of Walls, would soon create a discord server for fans of the series.
- Despite "Health Department PSA" involving Bon, Walls justified that it has no significance of The Walten Files canon.
- "Health Department PSA" was a repurposed high school project according to Walls.