"Listen up here you fat cunt."
—Cowbelly/Graham The Christian in almost all of his videos
Standing at over 1 million subscribers, Cowbelly
(briefly known as Graham the Christian) is a YouTube user known for hilarity, frequent uploads, and crossing the line twice. Some of his series includes:
- Comment Awards, a Point-and-Laugh Show of the dumbest posts and texts the internet has to offer, all submitted through his Discord server.
- X Ruined, where he takes a well-known video game and utterly destroys it, starting with Club Penguin.
As of December 2017, Comment Awards is featured on its own channel.
Listen here for these tropes:
- Black Comedy: A handful of the Club Penguin Ruined skits involve death in some way.
- Broken Record: To raise money for charity, Graham would say a certain phrase several thousand times in a livestream for charity. We say "several thousand" because the number corresponded to how many views/likes/comments he received on a particular video:
- "wuss poppin jimbo" once for every like this video received (final count: 27,047 times)
- "ya like jazz" once for every 25 views this video received (final count: 31,232 times)
- "understandable have a great day" once for every comment this video received in 24 hours (final count: 124,496 times)
- "wuss poppin jimbo" once for every like this
- Catchphrase: "Listen here you fat cunt" and its derivatives.
- Fountain of Memes: Well, not so much the fountain as he is a guy who collects from the fountain.
- Lampshade Hanging: In the "Undertale
Ruined" video, he questions how Flowey can even exist in the Underground where there's no direct sunlight.- Then again, there does exist at least one species of flower capable of doing just that.
- Then again, there does exist at least one species of flower
- Rapid-Fire Comedy
- Running Gag: Some jokes from Comment Awards are constantly reused in new ways. It got to the point where some later videos started poking fun at it.
- Self-Deprecation: Graham is completely okay with putting memes that make fun of him into Comment Awards.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Bluntly put, the penguins can get away with a lot of foul language due to Club Penguin private servers and their laxer censorship rules.
- The Stoner: Most of the penguins in general, but it's most blatant in the very first skit:"ah here it is""the good kush""pass the blunt you fat orange fuck"
- Shout-Out: Since the images featured in Comment Awards are fan-submitted, they can contain references to absolutely anything; for example, "Can we listen to something else besides the Chicken Run (2000) original soundtrack"
- Surreal Humor: Given the offbeat antics of the penguins as well as whatever comes up in the Comment Awards submissions, this is something the channel lives on.
- Synthetic Voice Actor: One of his signature features.
- Take That!: In addition to some Comment Awards submissions, some videos of its ilk entirely feature Take Thats at one subject, such as United AirlinesExplanation , CNNExplanation , or Jake Paul.
