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

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Oney () or OneyNG, is an Irish

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, animator, cartoonist, video game designer, musician, and voice actor. He is known for his Flash animations and being the founder and host of the YouTube

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

Early life and education

O'Neill is from Killinick in

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, and attended St Peter's College. He later enrolled in

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, but dropped out after a year of study.

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, live-action sketches and original series such as ''Leo and Satan'' and ''Hellbenders'', the latter of which was made with fellow Newgrounds animator Zach Hadel (psychicpebbles). 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

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series. The meme was referenced in an

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in the 2020 video-game '' Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time''. The channel features regular appearances from other personalities, such as Zach Hadel, Joshua Tomar, Lyle Rath, and Cory Beck (Spazkid), after having featured Julian Marcel and the pseudonymous Ding Dong as co-hosts before they left the show in 2018. Guest appearances have included Matt Watson and Ryan Magee of ''SuperMega'', as well as fellow Newgrounds

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including Mick Lauer (Ricepirate), Jeff Bandelin, David Brown (PhantomArcade), and Harry Partridge. 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 initially planned to release in March 2019, but as of 2025 has yet to be given a release date. In 2020, O'Neill collaborated again with Hadel when he and animator Michael Cusack created the

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animated show '' Smiling Friends''. O'Neill created the ending credit music for the pilot episode of the series as well as providing 3D modeling and animation. He later also voiced some minor background characters when ''Smiling Friends'' was picked up for a full season. In 2023, alongside animation director Adam Paloian, O'Neill collaborated with Pinreel Inc. to create the music video for

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" song. The video has over 45 million views as of 9 June 2025.

Selected works

Television

Web

Video games

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 expatriate male actors in the United States Irish male voice actors Irish surrealist artists Irish YouTubers Irish video game actors Irish video game designers Irish 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 Actors from County Wexford Mass media people from County Wexford