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Final Cluttered Dose: How to Cope with the End of Cow Chop

My favourite gaming Youtube aqueduct Cow Chop posted its concluding video on Tuesday…

The logo of Cow Chop, a Youtube aqueduct that features gaming playthroughs and comedy skits.

After 19 unique characters, three re-locations, and over 400,000,000 views totalled on their 1,459 videos, Youtube aqueduct Moo-cow Chop posted its last video on Tuesday.

It is an extremely bitter end to a project that was built on a collective appreciation for branch, role-play gaming and the complementing personalities of James Wilson (a.k.a Uberhaxornova) and Aleks Marchant (a.k.a ImmortalHD).

The final shot from Cow Chop's teaser video, featuring James Wilson (left) and Aleks Marchant (right) sitting on their infamous cow-patterned couch.

To celebrate and mourn the end of Cow Chop, I chronologically watched their uploads from start to end and linked my favourite videos to remind myself, fellow fans, and readers that don't even know what Cow Chop is, of the chaotic fix they provided me for the past 3 years.

The Twitch livestream where Aleks (left) and James (right) appear their departure from The Creatures and beginnings with Cow Chop.

Posting their first video in April 2016, Moo-cow Chop was brought to life when Wilson and Marchant took their go out from a prior Youtube gaming group called The Creatures. In a transparent Q&A livestream on Twitch, Wilson described the "creative tug-of-state of war", abiding shutdowns of their ideas, and increasingly business-like setting at The Creature Hub, causing the duo to seek their ain aqueduct.

With Brett Hundley and then-editors Trevor Shmidty, Aron and Joe, the duo announced their formal separation from The Creatures and new partnership with entertainment company Rooster Teeth, joining the Let's Play family of several American gaming groups.

After the split, they remained in Colorado just moved into their ain cul-de-sac house where they filmed and edited their content.

Filling a kiddie pool with sexual activity lubrication from Amazon, Moo-cow Chop members shot the liquid at each other in their backyard… in the middle of the nighttime: (from left to correct) Aleks, Joe and Brett.

The 'House Era' videos were naturally explicit and out-of-place in the elementary, suburban neighbourhood Cow Chop resided in: from waterboarding in their living room as punishment for losing in their Gang Beasts gameplay, to dumping 55 gallons of sex lube into a kiddie pool and playing in it, to covering each other in 100 layers of peanut butter and jelly, to nearly setting a tree on fire by releasing a wish lantern on Christmas, to shooting mysterious liquids into each others' mouths in card game Watch Ya Mouth , and so on.

A screenshot of a younger James (left) and Aleks (right) from a gaming livestream when they were still members of The Creatures in January 2014.

Marchant and Wilson's chemistry partly developed from similar role-playing and gaming duo livestreams that they produced for The Creatures. Their playthroughs were constantly accompanied by comedic performances, as shown in their early on video game series Shovel Knight , Dark Souls three , Pokemon Go , Overcooked and Heavy Rain .

A screenshot from Cow Chop serial Amazon Prime Time, in which Aleks (left) and James (right) trade products they discovered and ordered on the website.

Series like Wrong Side of Youtube , in which they reacted to random Youtube videos, Amazon Prime number Time , where they tested strange Amazon gifts for each other, Foreign Import and Retroactive, where they played multicultural and nostalgic videogames, were debuted at the House.

The milk incident that caused Cow Chop to exist evicted from their house.

The Cow Chop crew was somewhen evicted due to a viewer snitching to their landlord and citing a video in which Hundley punches a pigsty through a bathroom door, in flawless Shining manner. Other destructive activities include a video in which they set fireworks in their basement, and some other where they filled the house's bathtub with milk and cereal, thus leaking into their walls (I can't make this up). They used their inevitable eviction to unfold their plans of relocating to Los Angeles.

In this awkward transition, they resorted to filming some content in Wilson's home and played Toilet Trouble, a hot white potato-similar game that sprays an unlucky user with a select liquid (in their case, bleach… yes, seriously).

The opening shot of the barn used to picture and edit Moo-cow Chop content in early 2017, as they began to move toward Fifty.A.: (from left to right) Trevor, Aleks and James.

Later on that mini fever dream, the 'Befouled Era' began; the space was chosen due to being evicted from the Colorado Business firm, to foreshadow traveling to California, and equally a comedic correlation to the farm brute portion of the channel'southward name.

The Nintendo Switch was released at this time, so their video game content relied heavily on Marchant and Wilson'southward co-op gameplay of Snipperclips , 1–2-Switch , and Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild .

With the farmhouse space, the duo regularly tested a variety of drones and vehicles that they bought for each other on the recurring Amazon Prime number Fourth dimension, and made many stormy atmospheric condition and insulation jokes. Shortly afterward reaching their i year milestone as a channel, Moo-cow Chop finally moved to California.

The first episode of Cow Chop Television set, the grouping'southward bi-weekly podcast show that took a different location per video.

Due to their audience completing the Rooster Teeth First sign-upwards tiers, the group promised several reward videos to be recorded once they reach L.A., primarily the launch of their bi-weekly, multi-location podcast called CCTV.

The 'Warehouse Era' was the climax and denouement of Moo-cow Chop; their dream of migrating to Los Angeles in social club to increment their opportunities for public shenanigans and collaborations with Rooster Teeth partners like Carbohydrate Pine 7 , Funhaus , and Criken , came true.

Security-cam footage of the wrestling ring installed in the Warehouse for Wilson'south WWE 2K18 role-playing gameplay series: (from left to correct) Aleks, Anna, Jakob, James and Asher.

In hiring several new members similar Lindsay Washburn and Jakob, and with the even larger warehouse space, the group managed to install 3 new properties sets, arrange a mini waterpark, 12-pes trampoline, mechanical bull, xvi-foot Christmas tree, built a hot tub and spa in the bathroom, filled the lobby with a foam cannon, and my personal favourite, assembled a wrestling ring for their annual Cow Chop employee WWE tournament.

The start episode of Moo-cow Chop's Food Lab and Examination Kitchen, which pits two terrible cooks against each other: (from left to right) James, Brett and Aleks.

New, recurring series were introduced, such as Photoshop Battles, in which two members artistically confront off according to a theme, Guinness Globe Records, where members attempt to potentially shell legitimate records (they never practice), and Food Lab and Test Kitchen, featuring two contestants who poorly melt a themed meal for a unique judge.

Co-op gameplays of A Way Out , Cuphead , Sea of Thieves , Human: Fall Flat, and Unravel ii consistently featured Marchant and Wilson's hilarious lack of synergy.

A screenshot from Cow Chop'due south role-playing serial Spyfall, in which the group must unmarried out a liar: (from left to right) Asher, Joe, James, Trevor, Anna and Aleks.

The Cow Chop coiffure increased their spontaneity in role-playing board game content, acting equally a colourful range of characters in Spyfall , I Dark Ultimate Werewolf , 2 Rooms and a Smash , Mafia , Salem 1692 , Right or Racist, and more.

A screenshot of the adventitious fire that Aleks began in an Amazon Prime Time episode. Cow Chop members had trouble containing it, leaving 1/three of the burrow burnt.

Their homage to Sean Evan's 'Hot Ones' in their annual (and horrific) Spice Gauntlet, the pretend gambling ring where they bet on Amiibos in Super Smash Bros., the improvised series aptly chosen Whoa! That's a Let's Play featuring Shmidty and Marchant playing Shadow of the Colossus in a moving RV, and Marchant setting the Moo-cow Chop couch on fire were only a small portion of the many haphazard moments and projects I could highlight in their outset year at the Warehouse.

A screenshot of James' divergence video that laid out the reasons that led upward to him leaving Cow Chop.

The channel began to spiral when Wilson had a workplace injury in Jan 2019 and Marchant appear Wilson'south withdrawal from the grouping on the Cow Chop Youtube channel. I remember skipping my lecture form to scout Wilson's personal video almost his reasons as to leaving Moo-cow Chop and sweating my eyes out in the university library'south quiet zone.

Alec Paul, an intern turned production assistant, began performing in a majority of videos with Marchant after Wilson dropped out; withal, Paul quit in October 2019.

The thumbnails of the concluding (THE FINAL INTERVIEW) and first (THE SUCCESS STORY) videos of Cow Chop, which are both parodies of beingness interviewed as a successful business.

The residual content was carried out because of Marchant's drive to consummate his Cow Chop duties and their incomplete Rooster Teeth partnership, sponsorship deals and awaiting warehouse charter, all of which ended on Tuesday. Symbolically, their final video paralleled their outset: parodies of Forbes and Fourth dimension interviewing Cow Chop as a professional business.

The Jackass-esque channel's unique playthroughs, public mischief and pranks total of viewer-discretion language and danger provided the right amount of chaos for a subscriber, like myself, to laugh at and experience vicariously. Marchant and Wilson's banter and poor teamwork, accompanied with goofy employees, face edits, video game glitches, and dangerous elements resulted in a non-finish stream of comical insanity. The gang and their cow-pare couch (which was absolutely replaced several times) endured likewise many video games playthroughs, comedy skits, livestreams, seasonal specials, and multiple medical and fire-related incidents before retiring.

A group photograph of early members of Cow Chop: (from left to right) Anna, Trevor, Aleks, Aron, Dexter Manning (a company at the time), Asher, Joe and James. The edit of Aleks being the simply fellow member in colour implies the fact that he is the just person in the photo that notwithstanding worked for Cow Chop.

With the unforeseen circumstances that caused the withdrawal of multiple members over 3 years of daily content, particularly the desperate motility from Colorado to California, Wilson's departure, and Youtube's 'Adpocalypse' changes in monetization, the aqueduct evolved in its bandage, humour, and video ideas over their crazy run.

A photograph of the final members of Moo-cow Chop: (from top left to right) Adri, Tony, Garrett, Jakob, (from bottom left to correct) Brett, John and Aleks.

Skimming Cow Chop'southward 'All Uploads' playlist and listing my favourite parts wasn't the most pleasant trip downward memory lane. But, after scrolling through explicitly honest tweets of gratitude and support with the hashtag #ThankYouCowChop on Tuesday, and speaking from a fanbase that carried over from Wilson and Marchant's years with The Creatures, I felt similar sharing my gratefulness as well. For a couple of gamers that only wanted to post videos on the Cyberspace to make people express joy, including 11-year one-time me in unproblematic schoolhouse and xx-year erstwhile me in university, they definitely made their branded mark with Moo-cow Chop. I can name exactly iii people in existent life that know of Cow Chop (one being my high schoolhouse ex, which doesn't count), so watching Marchant and Wilson'southward content has been a personal hobby of mine since 2011, and I don't feel like stopping here.

A screenshot of the consistent branding animation at the end of every Cow Chop video, featuring the group'due south moo-cow and pocketknife logo.

If this article made y'all a fan of Moo-cow Chop, you literally have iii years of Youtube content to take hold of upwards on. Otherwise, back up the guys as they mail on their personal channels and jumpstart their new ventures: Wilson posts videos and streams on Youtube and Twitch, alike to Marchant's Youtube and Twitch (though he will be taking a interruption at the showtime of 2020), Hundley'due south Muscle Gild (coming soon, so see updates on his Twitter), and Alec, Jakob and Garrett'due south similar project Offcanny, all of which are discussed in the final CCTV .

Thank you, Cow Chop. 🐮🔪

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