| “ | If I look up into the night sky and see a McDonald's ad, I'm becoming a terrorist. | ” |
―Wendigoon | ||
Isaiah Mark Nichols[1] (born: June 2, 1999), better known online as Wendigoon, is an American YouTuber known for his horror-, conspiracy theory-, and true crime-themed videos. He is perhaps best known for his "iceberg explained" videos, in which he explains subscriber-created "iceberg diagrams" of various topics.
Content[]
Career[]
Wendigoon's channel was created on July 19th, 2019, and his first video was uploaded on May 7th, 2020, named "The Warden of the Woods" (now taken down), which covered the Wendigo from Native American mythology. He then made a tier list of gun-oriented YouTubers as well as a gameplay video of Call of Duty: Black Ops.
His channel first started with analyses of movies such as The Lighthouse and The Devil All The Time. His first video covering a horror-related topic was an analysis of the analog horror series/ARG LOCAL58TV. Soon after, he launched a Patreon. On October 25th, 2020, Wendigoon began a new series entitled "Sunday Studies" which summarizes Christian biblical stories.
In March 2021 he reached 100,000 subscribers, which he celebrated with a Q&A.
Iceberg Explained Series[]
Wendigoon's iceberg videos are his most popular videos and can be credited for his massive rise in popularity. He is most known for his 22-part Conspiracy Theory Iceberg Explained series, the first of which was uploaded on November 20th, 2020. A majority of his uploads would cover icebergs mainly focusing on conspiracy theories, but there are stand-alone icebergs covering Star Wars and SCPs.
Other Content[]
Wendigoon has also uploaded 2 sample episodes of Tree Talk, his Patreon-exclusive podcast. Wendigoon has also uploaded an analysis of The Black Parade, a My Chemical Romance album. Wendigoon has playlists named "Whiteboard" and "Deeper Dive" which contain specific rundowns of conspiracy and true crime topics. Wendigoon has uploaded videos of himself playing horror and non-horror video games. He stopped uploading gameplay videos and has since been moved to his second channel, Wendigames.
Collaborations & associates[]
- Blameitonjorge was going to make a video about the conspiracy theory iceberg, but Wendigoon beat him to it.[2]
- He has also praised Paper Will's video Entertainment made by cults.[3]
- Wendigoon's most viewed video as of July 8th, 2022, is his Disturbing Movie Iceberg Explained. For this video he collaborated with a large amount of other YouTubers, most notably SpookyRice. He has also collaborated with Mista GG, another YouTuber who specializes in horror/disturbing movie reviews.
- He has appeared as a guest on the podcast, SomeOrdinaryPodcast, hosted by SomeOrdinaryGamers, Oompaville, and Nux Taku.
- He was the face and voice of Floyd Collins in Internet Historian's video Man in Cave, a documentary on Collin's entrapment in Sand Cave.
- He is also friends with MeatCanyon and has appeared in some reaction videos on his second channel, Papa Meat. He currently is co-hosting a podcast with MeatCanyon called CreepCast.
- He also did voice acting for layer 4 of the YouTube's Darkest Iceberg video, made by Nick Crowley and Alexo773, alongside other cameo YouTubers Blameitonjorge and Cadaber. He has also made a cameo voice appearance in Huggbees' video on the Lawnchair Larry flight.
- He appeared in Brandon Herrera's Testing the Assassination of MLK Jr video to support the conspiracy involving the assassination. This was also in reference to Wendigoon's own The Conspiracy Behind MLK’s Assassination video.
- He is currently co-hosting a podcast with Oompaville and Zealotonpc called The Red Thread
Other channels[]
Following consideration, Wendigoon decided to create a gaming channel as he felt that gaming content wouldn't fit the nature and theme of his videos, His first gameplay video was of the horror game Little Nightmares. He would later rename the channel from Wendigames to Wendigang.
Personal life[]
Isaiah Mark Nichols was born in Kentucky on June 2, 1999 and resides in Tennessee.[4] Growing up in the Appalachia region, his parents would tell him stories about mountain monsters to scare him into staying indoors. Whenever he went outside with his father, he would learn about the nature around him and grew up with a deep appreciation for the natural world. Aside from YouTube, he is a full-time biology student and previously a Sunday School teacher. Wendigoon mentioned he's of Cherokee descent from his grandfather's side.[5]
He was inspired by other YouTubers like Markiplier and I Hate Everything to begin his YouTube journey. On Twitter he has stated that he was also inspired by Shoe0nHead, Turkey Tom, J aubrey, Internet Historian, Mutahar, Whang! and The Right Opinion and expressed desire to collaborate with them.[6]
The name for his YouTube channel comes from the Wendigo, which represents his love, fear and respect for nature, as well as his propensity towards oral storytelling. He is a Christian and married to Kayla Garret.[7][8]
He is 6'1" in height.[9]
Subscriber milestones[]
- 100,000 subscribers: March 8, 2021
- 200,000 subscribers: April 3, 2021
- 300,000 subscribers: May 24, 2021
- 400,000 subscribers: June 20, 2021
- 500,000 subscribers: July 28, 2021
- 600,000 subscribers: September 18, 2021
- 700,000 subscribers: October 20, 2021
- 800,000 subscribers: November 11, 2021
- 900,000 subscribers: December 20, 2021
- 1 million subscribers: January 19, 2022
- 2 million subscribers: November 14, 2022
- 3 million subscribers: September 17, 2023
Trivia[]
- His favourite video of his is his analysis of The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance.[10]
- He has one "lost" video from his channel that a certain "memer" has possession of. They may release it if asked nicely.
- He suffers from thalassophobia (fear of the ocean).
- Wendigoon is a fan of Travis Scott, owning a vinyl of the album Astroworld after him and a friend stayed up all night waiting for its release.
- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is his favourite Kanye West album, with Yeezus being a close second.
- His favourite horror game is Resident Evil 7.
- He is also known for making short stories.[11][12][13]
- He reacted to fake version MDPOPE 5 (Most Disturbed Person on Planet Earth).
- Wendigoon's official merchandise plushes glow in the dark. (Out of Stock)
- Wendigoon Merch Store (Tees, Hoodies and Posters)
- He played the role of Floyd Collins in the video "Man In Cave" made by Internet Historian, alongside Ordinary Things, SumitoMedia, ManyKudos, and Rusty Cage.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Wendigoon8/status/1753825792717443334
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Wendigoon8/status/1365865974256271363
- ↑ https://64.media.tumblr.com/1a74d08492290e2d304314d8a23cba34/5b7acbe1935e18ef-56/s640x960/fe96ad5af37b293ef84b4c3e393131be94b69f69.pnj
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Wendigoon8/status/1465066949927477266
- ↑ https://youtu.be/4T6mwZd1T9M?t=1396
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Wendigoon8/status/1441255072978010118
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Wendigoon8/status/1711550211955290616
- ↑ https://twitter.com/DrKaylaGarrett
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Wendigoon8/status/1377913105984946177
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Wendigoon8/status/1366597118098612224
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Wendigoon8/status/1322372470037426176
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Wendigoon8/status/1322091090401501184
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Wendigoon8/status/1322095016873963520