Thinknoodles - Generational Trauma 

15:35 bastard my phone was on full volume at 3:22am

Hearing that ThinkNoodles is almost fifty years old has left me a broken man. I thought he was, like, twenty. I can't believe this

Imagine being a child, and dying the worst death possible and having your name being forever immortalized as a minecraft minion.

Lets just all be glad hes one of the few childhood RU-vidrs that didn't end up becoming a sexual predator

Thinknoodles is like that one old teacher at school who is really innocent and everyone makes fun of

I heard someone say "Thinknoodles was the first vtuber" and I genuinely believe that as fact now

Hearing MatPat say "We'll get around to me being impregnated-" and then get abruptly cut off has rendered me a chronic insomniac

He may be cringe to anyone above 9 but I’m sure he knows exactly what he’s doing, he just wants to put a smile on some kids faces and some money in his pockets, nothing wrong with that (and as far as I know there aren’t any major controversies tied to him)

When I was a little kid, I tweeted a bunch of RU-vidrs I watched asking if they wanted to be in a show I was supposedly making. Thinknoodles was one of them. He replied and said to DM him, to which I told him it wouldn't let me and asked if he could DM me first. ...he proceeded to follow me. I DMd him the (terrible) show idea and he left me on read. Then for the next like, 7 years or so, he was STILL following me, even though I changed that account into a parody account at one point. He never unfollowed until I deleted the account a couple years ago. Still one of the funniest memories I have.

Kinda insane how thinknoodles was way ahead of time, he walked so vtubers could run. Kinda insane to think hes the grandfather of the genre

I genuinely believe thinksnoodles irl face is whatever emoji he chose for that day

Thinknoodles is literally an enigma. A wrench in the flow of time perpetually stuck in place for all eternity.

He's 46 years old as of this comment, made a tweet about the 9/11 Memorial Pools resembling the Roblox logo and didn't know what a lesbian was until he played Undertale. Guy is an enigma

You recon after thinknoodles left the think lab all the minions had to cannibalise each other to survive

I think Thinknoodles will survive through the apocalypse.

It’s interesting how him and Dan had the opposite approach where Dan grew with his audience and uploads what he wants when he feels like it while think continued advertising to the same audience. I would assume think has to have some kind of passion behind what he does with how frequently he uploads considering he doesn’t really need the money as he is definitely wealthy by now and if I remember correctly I think his wife is a doctor

Thinknoodles helped me get a ton of medals in poptropica, I’ll always love him for that.

It genuinely could be worse. I think that he actually just enjoys making content targeted for younger kids, and I'm absolutely certain early on in his career playing games like Club Penguin and Poptropica were fun for him. I grew up with him, and being able to say that my childhood youtuber didn't end up behind bars or blacklisted is a pretty good feat. Sure it's garbage to older people with taste, but if a 50 year old man wants to react to skibidi toilet and play garten of banban with his furry facecam, by god who's to stop him.

Cant blame him for keeping the cat branding as his persona even in vlogs and stuff. The icon IS the brand. Look how things fell apart when Dream did his face reveal

i don’t get why he doesn’t just commission himself a proper vtuber at this point edit: i know the cat is iconic but i feel like he could just get someone to design him a yellow cat oc and merchandise the hell out of it. also to the people replying with something along the lines of "vtubers are cringe" like c'mon man, he essentially is one already

Thinknoodles was the man we needed all this time. He never changed into some dark guy, hes still the same happy go lucky game dude

Do you think there’s a small child out there who was initially exposed to Minions via ThinkNoodles and thought they were his original creation, only to see ads for the Minions movie and was severely disappointed when he watched it and ThinkNoodles was nowhere to be found

the actual pain of not being the target audience for these types of RU-vidrs anymore

Thinknoodles' Pixelmon and Pokemon Brick Bronze series were truly the peak of our time

I went through a majority of this video thinking Thinknoodles name was “Thicknoodles”

I think thinknoodles is a good representation of the evolution of kids content on youtube. Though im glad he didn't turn as bad as other minecraft youtubers (to my knowledge atleast)

God I remember watching ThinkNoodles when I was younger. Ended up losing track of him at some point. Am I glad I did because dear lord how the mighty have fallen.

The brilliance in writing "Think, Think, think!" Is off the charts.

I loved thinknoodles' old content so much as kid, I don't go back to rewatch them but they hold a special place in my heart, especially the Minecraft and Pokemon brick bronze ones.

you know what, i can respect the guy. Sure, he creates trash, banal, brainrot, nothing, fast food content to shove down kid's throats, but managing to keep a succesful channel like that for so long AND WITHOUT CONTROVERSIES!? That's impressive. I just hope the guy takes care of his mental health. BTW, if it turns out this guy does or did something horrible, please tell me so i can edit this comment xd

14:27 Thinknoodles saying "is he racist?!?!?" has me dying chronically

thinknoodles is the kids version of markiplier when our parents were strict and they wouldnt let us watch him so we watched the funny cat man instead

Seeing him fall asleep to banban actually broke me, he isn’t even reading the cutscene lmao

"usually youtubers don't brand themselves based on their favorite food" pshh yeah

I’ve been wanting someone to talk about Thinknoodles for long time now, mainly for nostalgia bate

To put into perspective how long this guy has been relevant, I’m literally 20 years old and I used to watch his club penguin videos back in 2012 when I was 8 and 9

this video was hard for me to get through because thinknoodles was a staple in my childhood but i’m glad I watched to the end. I think Justin retiring soon would be awesome because he really deserves all the rest he can get. funny to think he started the butterfly effect for VTubers to exist.

I remember in 2013/2014 waking up at 9am and faking being too ill to go to school just to attend his club penguin meetups he was truly one of the youtubers of all time

Fun fact: as a kid i was such big thinknoodles fan i was gonna name our new dog kopi, after his, but they guy making the nametag thing missheard me and thought i said kobe so now my dog is named after a basketball player instead. I think i dodged a bullet honestly

This man is the antithesis to what dantdm is, they both went into the same direction then while dan evolved with his audience to try and maintain them, think did this and devolved into a content farm

Honestly i do respect ThinkNoodles by how he keeps his image and branding intact after all these years, unlike V-tubers this man can keep up his virtual character solid without drama whatsoever.

50? He's 50? Jesus I thought he was around 30. I remember when his Stranded Deep series was coming out. But by god, he seems to have a passion for this and who the fuck are we to stop him? So what if he likes childish things? He's dedicated, and I applaud him for that.

I have a fun story related to Thinknoodles! When I was a kid, I ADORED Poptropica but I SUCKED at figuring out the islands. So naturally, I went to RU-vid for answers and found Think's walkthroughs. I discovered his other content fairly quickly after that(Think's Lab became young me's favorite thing ever), and then... I bought a plushie. This is relevant because I didn't know what to name it(yes, I named my plushies, who didn't?). I called her Bubblegum for a few days, but it didn't feel fitting... Then I remembered Thinknoodles had a dog. And so, all these years later, I still have a stuffed animal named Kopi lol.

I have this vivid memory of finding this one moment in Think Lab funny where he finds this chihuahua that says "te quiero taco bell" so hilarious I saved it on my 3DS as a sound clip by recording it with the built in mic from my computer speakers. This man's RU-vid channel was one of my favorites as a kid next to a bunch of other popular roleplaying Minecraft RU-vidrs and honestly was one of the inspirations for my own silly creative stories I make today. His content now is definitely lower quality in my eyes and may fall in that "content farm" section but eh, I may be saying that because the new stuff is definitely not my demographic. He's getting that bag and isn't getting sent to jail for horrific crimes and I say that's a win.

I think you really underestimate the influence ThinkNoodles had on the early Club Penguin community. Bro was a god among penguins

Honestly people like this deserve all the success in the world Playing Hello Neighbour is dedication and should be rewarded fr fr

omg i started watching thinknoodles when he did those Poptropica playthroughs, you legit just opened a hidden childhood memory lmao

honestly i gotta respect the hustle, at least he hasn't been outed as a pedo

I used to play Poptropica when I was younger, and Thinknoodles was the person whose walkthroughs I watched for some of the "harder" levels. Literally did not think he did anything else and I kinda wish it was that way. But I can say the 'obsession' brand thing with noodles is probably because the usernames in Poptropica are randomly generated, and that was his.

“The second someone introduces Skibidi Toilet into their life is the day that they turn to the dark side” Ghandi

My nephew watches this guy and when I heard you mention what decade he was born my jaw DROPPED 😮 His voice makes him sound so young…

Hearing the words "he was born in the 70s" was such a flashbang to my brain I genuinely can't believe he's that old, congrats to him for being successful on yt at his age but man thats way older than I thought.

8:29 bro really racially profiled freddy fazbear

I love how you analyze these youtubers genuinely infatuated by the insanity of them and sometimes even enjoying them instead of just saying "cringe" and moving on. Its so refreshing

I genuinely remember keeping up and watching his damn Minion Minecraft series and thinking it was literal cinema (I was dumb when I was younger ok) and the literal moment I saw him use those weird ass emoji face cam thing thankfully I jumped ship when I did and oh boy am I proud of that

I totally never knew thinknoodles ever existed before clicking on this video. But on 5:44 I realized I’ve watched this man my entire childhood. I was totally hit with crazy nostalgia and I had to pause the video just to process everything.

14:25the"is he racist?" made me almost bust a gut laughing

I love think, i grew up with him (from his poptropica vids, to club penguin to mc to roblox) and i'm glad to see he's not in major controversy. Im so glad to have one of his minion places and to have my fanmail read by him. He was a big part of my life growing up and i still to this day would love to meet him.

He really really cared about kopi (as evident by his twitter) and i think that took a big toll on him (understandably)

17:09 "can this Jester voice actor also follow me?" had me rolling off my chair.

For the longest time, I swore I only watched his Poptropica playthroughs, but I think my brain subconsciously blocked out any memory of those minions

*10:00* You will never create a better joke than “think think think” in your entire RU-vid career

laughing my ass off at Chazington losing his shit over ThinkNoodles falling asleep on cam

Thinknoodles is part of my childhood, he's one of my favorite. I grew up on him cuz his channel is Family-Friendly, he never swore, he never do that to the young fans. And Thinknoodles is still my fav YTuber til now.

I grew up with thinknoodles when I was around 9 and up. It’s kind of sad to see how his content is now, but honestly he seems like a geniune person from all ive seen of him. Though I do think he should retire, he deserves it

Think noodles is an icon in the realm of Garten of BanBan. He is building an army and we should all be terrified.

And this is why people like markiplier and dantdm are still reasonably popular: they make content towards a more mature audience

I really liked his old horror game age, it was genuinely interesting to me and seeing him play lots of those classic horror games just gives me nostalgia as I uses to play them with my friends, he still goes back to some of the old ones if they get updated. He does do the challenging modes so I dont think all of his content is just lazy, I think he knows what he doing. He's sort of catering to both generations of his viewers.

some people are damaged some people are really damaged some people are so damaged they lose the ability to think… noodles.

I didn't watch thinknoodles as a kid, but my brother(8) watches him now, and he's always so excited to update me about the next garten of banban update or whatever thinknoodles is doing. He watches it on our tv, and a couple times I've found myself trying not to laugh at the jokes that go right over my brother's head. Honestly, I'm just glad it's not Preston anymore.

That "ThinkNoodles is the bad guy?" joke absolutely destroyed me

8:28 a cop explaining their reason for emptying a whole mag on someone

This is such a niche topic to make a video about, but as someone who used to watch Think since way back when this is incredibly nostalgic.

Even tho bro makes content that feels like a acid trip, I can lowkey respect the hustle of his channel still going AND NO CONTROVERSIES????? Slayyyy💅

i am horrendously ill with food poisoning at the moment and i swear to god there was a clip of you in full flawless neighbour cosplay for like 2 seconds but i can't find it while scrolling back through the video so now i'm wondering i'm at death's door and hallucinating

I was one of the OG 9 year olds that followed his poptropica and club penguin tutorials before he even had a voice and he was called something else. I even followed his minecraft stuff from minions to SMP. Dude was my fave. I'm in college now, it's crazy how he evolved. I gotta respect it. This guy is a genius when it comes to children's content. Edit: Sad that I can't enjoy him no more. Part of me wishes he took a path of more mature content I could still enjoy. Though he's still getting the bag and have no controversy so I'm happy for him he deserves it. Seems like a genuinely good guy that just wants to make content.

I found Thinknoodles in like 4th grade from his Poptropica walkthroughs, and I and my brother stayed for his Think's Lab series. He's the guy that practically made my childhood, and I still look at his channel at least once a year to see how he's doing. He'll always have a special place in my heart and I'd never forget him, no matter how unhinged his content gets lmao

15:35 Holy shit I wasn't expecting that lmao

this editing is absolutely FANTASTIC. definitely hit my all my🔥🔥🔥funny bones🔥🔥🔥and now i wanna edit more like this

the fact 9:15 is the most replied of the video and was the minecraft mod/roleplay with the lab and minions says something, those episodes/series was a real treat and the effort he used to put back into it was something.

Holy shit, this man is the reason I got through like 90% of the Poptropica islands... now he's doing skibidi toilet videos...

Crazy to think that Thinknoodles has stuck around for as long as he has so far. I first found out about him from Club Penguin (he was one of the bigger channels for the game). He moved to Minecraft around the same time as most other huge Club Penguin RU-vidrs (and actually found success, unlike most of them). Haven't really watched him since, but I do see his name pop up every now and then.

18:43 someone should make a cut of breaking bad where walt is just a thinknoodles ai model while the rest are pitched up to sound like the minions, gonna be shown in the museum of modern art

Who dis nobody hating on peaknoodles 🙏😭

If ThinkNoodles can still make slightly amusing and enjoyable content uploading let’s plays while in his 40s-50s, then maybe I can do the same.

20:38 He has no face. To get this far, he had to sell both his soul and his face.

As a person with ADD the "Do you have ADD or something?" joke made my jaw drop ☠

The last video I saw of him was the last episode of his Subnautica series where he just... kills himself. Also, the clip of him being confused by Alphys and Undyne being girlfriends resurfaced a while back and that was funny.

14:16 the dude probably not racist as they might had seen her hands were white but her face was back and went like “oh no… she’s wearing blackface.”

12:55 bro hes like 60 let him get his sleep 😭😭🙏

I see so many people who watched him from his poptropica era and then his lab era but no one is really talking about his basic minecraft let’s play. There was never really a script it was just the next project on a minecraft world. It was nice peaceful and simple. And now…. dear god.

12:30 this should not have been as funny as it is 🤣🤣

“Think Think, think”is in the top 100 jokes of all time

Gotta say you have a really unique video editing style, and it’s really entertaining.

14:55 LowtierThink

2:33 I need to know which video he mentions this in.

13:46 I cannot believe you used my Lego Movie Hello Neighbor meme I sent you on Twitter. It's truly an honor to have something I made in your video.

You know when I was a kid I never even questioned why his minecraft roleplay series had fucking minions in it but now looking back on it the minion thing was a super weird gimmick and I can’t believe he actually stuck with it for the entire series

14:22 NAH THIS WAS CRAZY 💀💀💀

i just found this channel and you are (so far) the only youtuber to casually reference that handsome devil for 2 seconds and then go back to what you were doing thank you chazington