Max Gilardi

Max Gilardi
Personal information
Born (1988-01-28) January 28, 1988
Massachusetts
Website hotdiggedydemon.com
YouTube information
Channel Hotdiggedydemon
Years active 2007–present
Genre Comedy
Subscribers 1 million
Total views 186 million
Network MakerGen (Maker Studios)
Subscriber and view counts updated as of July 5, 2017.

Max Gilardi (born January 28, 1988)[1][2] is an American animator, voice actor, and YouTuber. He is best known for his "PONY.MOV" web series, a parody of the popular children's animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

Early life and education

Gilardi was born in Massachusetts in 1988.[2][3] He attended the Art Institute of Boston briefly before dropping out.[4]

Career

Gilardi, under the name "HotDiggedyDemon", first started creating flash animations in the early 2000s on Newgrounds.com.[3] In 2007, he began uploading his work to his YouTube channel as well. That year, he created the "Jerry" series, a series of animations detailing the life of a man named Jerry.[2] In 2010, he created the "Wacky Game Jokez, 4 Kidz!" series, also known as "WGJ4K", featuring video game-based humor.

From 2011 to 2013, he gained notability for releasing his six-part video parody of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "PONY.MOV", an adult dark comedy animated web series in the art style of The Ren & Stimpy Show.[5][6] The series grew as a spin-off of Gilardi's Tumblr webcomic, "Ask Jappleack", and each video highlights a different character from the main cast of the television series. In addition to creating animations, he co-hosted the Wisenheimers podcast with fellow animator Yotam Perel from 2010 to 2012.[7]

Gilardi has over one million subscribers on YouTube.[8] The majority of his videos are self-made: written, animated, and voiced[4] by himself. In his more recent projects, he has experimented with 3D animation.[4][9] On September 2, 2016, Gilardi launched a new YouTube series titled "Brain Dump" in which he reviews movies, often satirically.[10]

References

  1. Max G [@hotdiggedydemon] (January 29, 2016). "Thanks for all the birthday drawings ..." (Tweet). Retrieved May 21, 2016 via Twitter.
  2. 1 2 3 "Gilardi Animates Jerry’s Daily Grind". Cold Hard Flash. June 27, 2007. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  3. 1 2 McCloud, Skye (May 5, 2004). "[ NG Mag ]- Max Gilardi". Newgrounds. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012.
  4. 1 2 3 "Hotdiggedydemon • Frequently Asked Questions!". Hotdiggedydemon.com. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
  5. Woerner, Meredith (June 26, 2012). "Incredibly messed-up short gives My Little Ponys's Pinkie Pie a sex tape". io9. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  6. Stohs-Krause, Hilary (December 26, 2013). "BEST OF 2013: 'Brony' fandom carves out space for young men to enjoy friendship ... and cartoon ponies". Netnebraska.org. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  7. "Wisenheimers by Wisenheimers on iTunes". iTunes. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  8. "hotdiggedydemon YouTube Stats, Channel Statistics". Socialblade.com. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  9. Person, Chris (August 19, 2013). "King of the Hill, In Eye-Popping 3D". Kotaku. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  10. Max G [@hotdiggedydemon] (September 2, 2016). "Please watch my new clickbate / movie review show, BRAIN DUMP! ..." (Tweet). Retrieved November 7, 2016 via Twitter.
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