NEW FRED Loses His MIND

He did it. We should have seen it coming. Fred sold out. And REALLY sold out. Not even the iCarly, nickelodeon, Fred the Movie selling out stuff. He literally sold his channel. YouTube star Lucas Cruikshank sold his FRED YouTube channel with over 2 million subscribers to Yuksung Corporation, and if you’re thinking “that sounds Korean” I can assure you it is. I personally was introduced to FRED back when he uploaded his “FRED on Halloween” video. It only took me about 4 months to get sick of him, where some of his fans have been loyal and dedicated for YEARS. What ticks us off the most about all this is that Lucas didn’t announce or give an explanation regarding his decision. The channel was sold for a disclosed amount of money {rumored to be circa $60 million} and Cruikshank has avoided addressing the situation. There are rumors circulating about it all being a set up, but I’ll get to that later.

And now to review this new Fred. Well, the initial thought is that a small Korean child was abandoned by his parents and fed sugar and helium in order to appeal to the audience, but he quickly explains. The “new Fred” has a higher voice and more energy than the original Fred, because apparently kids love that shit. The episode quickly turns into an extremely similar scenario from an old Fred video, however with different dialogue and now sponsoring Korean cereal, because apparently kids love that shit. New Fred also quickly plugs his P.O.  box, which I’m sure, will be filled with death threats, anthrax, and lewd packages in a matter of weeks. New Fred quickly dances to American hip hop music that I’m sure he’s not familiar with, and continues to repeat the actions carried out by the original Fred in another video. But of course not without being called hilarious by the “new Judy” and being chased by the “New Kevin” because he’s “new” and everything is “new” and I shouldn’t insult new things because this blog is also “new”. *cough*. Anyways, new Fred returns home, sponsors some more cereal that no one outside of Korea can buy, and strikes a fierce pose before signing off. The most important part of this experience is the audience reaction. Which was far less than thrilled.

As well as a negative reaction, the comments are also circulating with rumors. Many believe the company was set up by Cruikshank in order for him to build up an epic comeback; however I’m not SO sure that’s the case. I think if Lucas were to do this, he would have made a bigger deal of selling it in order to attract more attention to it. Avoiding the situation could be to make the scenario more realistic, or it could just be a real situation. I guess we’ll wait to find out. Hopefully not too long because Fred, when your fans start to hit 40, you know you waited too long. When your fans star growing facial hair, you know you waited too long. When your fans lose all their baby teeth, you know you waited too long.

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