Christopher Luke O'Neill (born 21 November 1990), also known by his Internet

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web series ''OneyPlays.'' He is also the owner of the video game production company OneyWare.

Career

O'Neill began his online career on the American entertainment website

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, creating an account on March 28, 2006. He created a YouTube channel at age 17, and by 2013, it was ranked as

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's most successful YouTube channel with a total of 240 million views. The channel's content includes animated music videos, video game parodies, and original series, such as ''Leo and Satan'' and ''Hellbenders'', the latter of which was made with fellow Newgrounds animator

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. In 2014, O’Neill began posting Let's Play video content to the ''Oney's Video Hole'' channel, later renamed ''OneyPlays''. The channel became prominent in 2017 for starting the

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based on a common sound-effect from the classic

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series, spawning many song parodies and animations, including one where Crash is inserted into the anime ''

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''. The meme also reappeared as an

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in the 2020 video-game '' Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time''. The channel initially included the duo Ding Dong & Julian Marcel, but later included other internet personalities such as Zach Hadel, Joshua Tomar, and Lyle Rath. The channel would also have guests, such as Matt Watson of ''SuperMega'', Mick Lauer, and

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. YouTuber Jason Gastrow, known online as ''videogamedunkey'', mentioned in a 2015

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thread that O'Neill designed his YouTube channel profile picture. O'Neill would later make appearances on Gastrow's channel. In 2019, O'Neill created the game studio OneyWare. A gameplay trailer for ''Bowlbo: The Quest for Bing Bing'', an upcoming video game developed by OneyWare in collaboration with AlbinoMoose, was released in March 2019. O'Neill collaborated again with Hadel when he and animator Michael Cusack created the

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''. In 2020, O'Neill created the ending credit music for the pilot episode of the series as well as 3D modeling and animation. He later also voiced multiple background characters when the show was picked up for a full season.

Filmography

Television

Web

References

External links

OneyNG

OneyPlays

Chris O'Neill
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{{DEFAULTSORT:ONeill, Chris 1990 births Flash artists 21st-century Irish comedians Irish animators Irish expatriates in the United States Irish male voice actors Irish surrealist artists Irish YouTubers Irish video game actors Irish video game designers Comedy YouTubers Let's Players Living people People from Wexford, County Wexford Web series producers YouTube animators YouTube channels launched in 2008 Video game writers Newgrounds people