Fred's a Tree!
November 29, 2009
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Many people are familiar with the Fred Figglehorn character on YouTube. The character is played by a teenager from Nebraska named Lucas Cruikshank. The Fred YouTube channel was the first channel on YouTube to accumulate over one million subscribers. According to the WikiPedia page on Fred Figglehorn, Fred videos have received an excess of 380 million views. Without a doubt Lucas Cruikshank is one of the most famous YouTube celebrities in existence. Additionally, he has appeared on television shows such as Nickelodeon's iCarly, The Tyra Banks Show, and the hit Disney series, Hannah Montana. He's so famous that shirts featuring his likeness are available at popular stores that specialize in apparel that appeals to pre-teens and teens.

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.

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