Although I've never met Cruikshank in person, I did receive special recognition from him for one of my videos, which was called Fred's a Tree (embedded above). Fred listed it as his one and only favorite video on his channel page for two weeks during November and December of 2008. As a result, the video received over 20,000 views in a very short time. Apparently Cruikshank has a pretty good sense of humor, although judging by some of the comments left in response to my "Fred's a Tree" video, not all of his fans have his ability to appreciate comedy.

I posted a few response videos to Fred's videos over the course of 2007 and 2008. Other YouTube celebrities that I made response videos for include Nalts, Lisa Nova, Neil Cicierega, Travis and Jonathan (Red State Update), and a few others. However, it was exceptionally easy to make responses to Fred's videos and the payoff in terms of views tended to be especially good. Another response video that received lots of views was "Fred Gets Detention" with over seventeen thousand views. Two other relatively successful response videos were "Wearing Women's Clothes" (response to a Nalts video), which received over twenty-four thousand views, and "Sloppy Drunk Lisa" (response to a Lisa Nova video), which received about nine thousand views. Although I did response videos to YouTube celebrities on my blackturtleus channel, I don't make them any longer on my blackturtleshow channel since now I try to produce entirely original material.