Ethan

Ethan Nestor is a gaming YouTuber, vlogger and Twitch streamer. As of August 2020, he has amassed over 1 million subscribers on his YouTube channel CrankGameplays, and 175k followers on his Twitch channel also named CrankGameplays.

Alongside this, Ethan was half of the temporary YouTube channel Unus Annus and played the Unus persona in Unus Annus, until they deleted the channel. He also uploads some of his Twitch VODs to his side-channel CrankyVODs.

Career
Ethan started his first channel on August 29th, 2012, which is now named "Please go subscribe to my NEW channel!", though it was once also named CrankGameplays. He also used to upload to a channel named CrankyVlogs.

He started his current channel on December 1st, 2015, uploading mostly gaming videos, and the occasional vlog or skit. His most viewed videos contain a range of gaming videos, animated shorts, Reddit videos and vlogs. This channel hit 1 million subscribers in January 2020.

In Summer 2017, Ethan joined his friends Mark, Tyler, Bob, and Wade on a tour named Markiplier's You're Welcome Tour, a show made up of improvisational comedy and audience participation. The tour visited Australia, various countries in Europe, as well as several states across the USA.

In 2019, Ethan and his friend Markiplier started a channel called Unus Annus, where they uploaded daily for one year, before deleting the entire channel from YouTube at 12 am November 14th 2020.

Personal Life
Ethan Mark Nestor (né Nestor-Darling,) was born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. He was a dedicated gymnast during his childhood, winning medals in tournaments for his talents.

He started YouTube in 2012 with his friend, Andrew. His first video - named "Dirty Mic and the Boys-Happy Wheels Gameplay Numero Uno." - was uploaded on August 30th, 2012 to the original "CrankGamePlays." In this video, Ethan and Andrew play Happy Wheels. He later started another channel called "Cranky Vlogs" in May 2013.

In 2015, after his series of videos with his grandma became quite successful, he struggled to find an audience for videos that didn't feature her. He decided to create his new (a current) channel so that he could make the content he wanted and wasn't being pressured to exploit his grandmother for views. It was around this time that Ethan dyed his hair blue for charity. This blue hair became an iconic part of his look for a while following this until he dyed his hair back to brown.

He also graduated from CEHS (Cape Elizabeth High School) in 2015. After graduating, Ethan had a difficult decision to make between staying in gymnastics and going to college, which he had been involved in for most of his life, or to try to go somewhere on YouTube. So, he decided to move to Portland, Maine and take a gap year to focus on YouTube. He considered going to Full Sail University in Florida and living with his uncle, but never applied for college and ended up sticking to posting videos.

Ethan's pursuit of YouTube was inspired by several YouTubers, including the GameGrumps, Pewdiepie and Markiplier. He met Mark at a couple of conventions, being remembered as 'backflip dude' after backflipping for Mark at 2 different conventions. After this, the two kept in contact, becoming friends, until 2016 when Ethan agreed to move out to LA and become one of Mark's editors. He edited for Mark and collaborated with him in multiple videos until 2018 when Ethan became fully committed to his own channel instead.

Ethan currently owns a dog named Spencer. Spencer is 2 years old and he is an Aussie Cattle mix.

Aliveness
Though Ethan has not yet died, he has officially completed the mummification process as of December 3rd, 2019, thanks to events taking place on Unus Annus. Ethan was embalmed in garlic salt, CeraVe lotion, and generic brand toilet paper, as well as white duct tape bindings, while being affectionately remembered as 'backflip guy'.

Alter-Egos/ Personas
BlankGameplays or "Blank" is Ethan's "evil" persona in which first appeared in the video "Out of Time" a video to promote Ethan's 5 Year Anniversary posters where Blank makes an appearance by possessing Ethan's body and making him sign all the posters.

Blank's second appearance was in "HAPPY HALLOWEEN! | Reading Your Comments #27". In this video, we can see Blank appear at the very end of the video (13:56). Many fans have theorized that Blank is a personification of anxiety and nightmares in which Ethan goes into detail the video (10:52).

Blank may have made an appearance in some of Ethan's Doki-Doki Literature Club playthroughs. In "THINGS ARE NOT OKAY | Doki Doki Literature Club #4" (46:29) we hear Ethan's voice become distorted while reciting Yuri's poem and the same thing happens in "deleted...| Doki Doki Literature Club Ending" (36:23).

The last appearance of Blank was in "David Lynch Teaches Typing" (5:07).

Not much else is known about Blank but we sure hope to see more of him in the future!

Mad Mike, or an ice cream vendor, is a rather silly persona donned by Ethan in "A Date with Markiplier." He is a rather unknown character that not many acknowledge. He was last seen when Ethan Nestor had blue hair, but has not been talked about much since then, as he isn't quite "canon".

Unus, from multiple videos of the now lost channel Unus Annus, was an important ego during the channel's year of existence.

Also there is the briefly mentioned 'gØnGoOzLeR!' from a, now lost, video from Unus Annus.

Another recent notable ego is the Melon Man.

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Nicknames

 * Blue Bean/Coffee Bean
 * Etan/EEF/Evan/Eric/Arin/Eef'n/Ether
 * Unus
 * Backflip Boy/Backflip Dude
 * Egg Boi/Egg Bite/Egg
 * Gizmo Daddy
 * Lil’ Cranky Boi/Soft Boi
 * Dingus
 * Heapass
 * Dr. CrankyTits/GameCreamPies/CuntGamePlays

Random Fun Facts

 * He has a very severe peanut allergy and can die from 1/500th of a peanut!
 * The first Markiplier video he was in was Play 4-Way Air Hockey IN REAL LIFE!!, but he wasn't formally introduced until Mark's DON'T LAUGH CHALLENGE #4.
 * Ethan got the opportunity to be featured in Youtube Rewind 2016, despite not being personally invited.
 * He actually won the same PewDiePie Shoutout Competition that JackSepticEye did. He was one of the bonus winners and his channel was listed in the description.
 * Ethan has mentioned in a Q&A video that he would not consider himself bisexual but is also not 100% straight and that sexuality is on a  spectrum . https://youtu.be/PrF9rxx4zw4?t=262
 * You can see some iconic quotes from Ethan here!