Max Gilardi

Max Gilardi (born January 28, 1988)[1][2] is an American animator, voice actor, artist, 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.

Max Gilardi
Gilardi at Animate Miami in 2014
Personal information
Born (1988-01-28) January 28, 1988
Massachusetts, U.S.
Websitehotdiggedydemon.com
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2007–present
GenreComedy
Subscribers1.57 million
Total views304.29 million
100,000 subscribers 2012
1,000,000 subscribers 2017
Updated June 26, 2020

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, an animated web series detailing the terrible 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. In addition to creating animations, he co-hosted the Wisenheimers podcast with fellow animator Yotam Perel from 2010 to 2012.[5]

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 animated dark comedy web series in the art style of John Kricfalusi and Spümcø's The Ren & Stimpy Show.[6][7] 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.

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] The series has since become the main series on Gilardi's channel.

References
  1. Max G [@hotdiggedydemon] (January 29, 2016). "Thanks for all the birthday drawings ..." (Tweet). Archived from the original on February 5, 2017. Retrieved May 21, 2016 – via Twitter.
  2. "Gilardi Animates Jerry's Daily Grind". Cold Hard Flash. June 27, 2007. Archived from the original on June 30, 2007. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  3. McCloud, Skye (May 5, 2004). "[ NG Mag ]- Max Gilardi". Newgrounds. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012.
  4. "Hotdiggedydemon • Frequently Asked Questions!". Hotdiggedydemon.com. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
  5. "Wisenheimers by Wisenheimers on iTunes". iTunes. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  6. Woerner, Meredith (June 26, 2012). "Incredibly messed-up short gives My Little Ponys's Pinkie Pie a sex tape". io9. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  7. 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.
  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). Archived from the original on February 6, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2016 – via Twitter.
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