Editing Sdslayer

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{{Infobox Player
|title       = Sdslayer
|image       = Sdslayer.jpg
|nickname    = Sd, Sdslayer100, Josh (real name)
|country     = Chicago, Illinois, United States
|age         = 21 (June 16, 2003)
|levels      = 366 (1 rated, 2 CP)
|position    = 41,675
|nominations = 2
|awards      = 0
|youtube     = [http://youtube.com/@sdslayer100 Sdslayer]
|twitch      = [http://twitch.tv/realsdslayer realsdslayer]
|twitter     = [http://twitter.com/sdslayer100 @sdslayer100]
|gd          = [http://gdbrowser.com/u/sdslayer Sdslayer]
}}
'''Sdslayer''' ('''Sdslayer100''' on some sites, formerly '''TheRealSdslayer''') is an American player, YouTuber, and level creator in the ''Geometry Dash'' community with over 300,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel. He is generally associated with the level Fingerdash, which he has uploaded many videos about in the past. He usually uploads videos where he does challenges or builds layouts with some twist or restriction but also uploads occasional video essay-type videos that follow a more scripted structure. He occasionally beats Extreme Demons, having completed twenty-three as of May 2, 2025. His hardest completed level is Shutdown.

==History==
Sdslayer created his YouTube channel on July 23, 2010,<ref>http://youtube.com/@sdslayer100/about
</ref> but did not uploaded anything until four years later. In July 2014 he uploaded his oldest-known video, which was a one-hour loop of Back on Track by DJVI.<ref name=":0" /> In 2015, his channel seemed primarily focused on other one hour song loops and various level showcases by him or other creators (like Endgame by CreatorJR).

His videos stayed mostly the same, following a similar trend for the next couple of years until 2017. His first video to break 10,000 views that was not an hour song loop was a showcase of every level in ''Geometry Dash World'',<ref>https://youtu.be/N-q0It4vN_s</ref> followed by a tutorial on how to play the leaked version of Fingerdash found in the game's files.<ref>https://youtu.be/QYAzUkGnIbs</ref> He would then upload the leaked song remix<ref>https://youtu.be/RB8N4ihKZ-c</ref> and a showcase of the entire unreleased level.<ref>https://youtu.be/wguHTrXd_j0</ref> Fingerdash, from this point on, would be a recurring theme on his channel for quite some time.

His earliest public subscriber milestone video was at the 5,000 mark when he uploaded a video of him smashing an old phone on March 5, 2017.<ref>https://youtu.be/tAwFw9RENdg</ref>

His content from this point on followed in the theme of level showcases from his GDPS,<ref>https://youtu.be/a8ne_m83e8o</ref> one-hour versions of songs,<ref>https://youtu.be/1y61UXH2wBg</ref> and "___ but ___" videos,<ref>https://youtu.be/vEl6BNT0ypA</ref> which follow the style of showcasing a ''Geometry Dash'' level, with a twist that occurs every time a certain level element appears. His most popular video follows this format, starting with the level Fingerdash but swapping to a different level whenever the player hits an orb. This loops for all levels until they all finish. This same concept was remastered by him after he returned to YouTube in 2022.

In late 2017, his content noticeably shifted to a more comedy-sketch and scripted based style, with videos such as "Geometry Dash's Creation in a Nutshell"<ref>https://youtu.be/GPuUbQV8kJI</ref> and "Controversial Topics Portrayed by Geometry Dash".<ref>https://youtu.be/NBrN1Kxy0ZU</ref> He also began delving into the style of "GD animations", which were being popularized by other YouTubers at the time such as Juniper, Jaden, and Colon.

Upon the release of ''Geometry Dash SubZero'', he focused many of his videos on the levels in the game, using them as the subjects for his videos. It likely helped to boost him to 10,000 subscribers in January 2018.<ref>https://youtu.be/5UyhsOPNC0s</ref> Around this time, he also began a series called "Sdslayer Plays GD", which is where he focuses on a certain level theme or style and plays through some levels that fall into that genre, similar to some of his modern videos today.

In December 2018, he ran an event on his channel called "The 12 Days of Fingerdash", where he would upload a video every day for 12 days starting on Christmas Day, with Fingerdash being the subject or gimmick in some way.<ref>https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWM5WoEMuPgA4ulLWK2wjTjhUnwBDcgAf</ref> Strangely, the 7th video in this series is not public on his channel anymore, and it is unknown what the video was.

He reached 25,000 subscribers in January 2019, celebrating with a small ARG on his channel.<ref>https://youtu.be/KB6R3_LnZwQ</ref> He continued his regular content through early 2019, uploading some of his more popular videos of all-time, like "Spongebob Characters Saying Official GD Level Names".<ref>https://youtu.be/gcrrSskdwY4&t=8s</ref>

In June 2019, he hosted another event on his channel called "70 Layouts in 7 Days", inspired by DanZmeN's "10 Levels in 1 Week" challenge. In DanZmeN's case, he attempted to build 10 fully decorated levels in only a week. In Sdslayer's case, he attempted to build 70 full-length layouts, 1 minute or longer, in only a week since he cannot decorate very well. The event ran from June 9 to June 15.<ref>https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWM5WoEMuPgAN8SL72CFXExyHiVVpqTT7</ref>

On that day, which was also Sdslayer's 16th birthday, he uploaded one of his most popular videos to date, "ULTIMATE SYNC LAYOUT! (Verified With Eyes Closed)" as part of his "GD Challenges" series, where the goal was to make a level with so much click-sync that the level could be completed without even looking at the game, using only the audio as a guide.<ref>https://youtu.be/5JZtYFbhw88</ref> The video performed incredibly well, boosting his channel and netting him upwards of 500 subscribers per day for a couple of days.

After this, he continued making videos in the series but also explored other content styles. He made a video getting a discord server to sing Revenge,<ref>https://youtu.be/CTI9brufkF4&t=59s</ref> a popular meme at the time, as well as a video showcasing a group chat he was part of which claimed the world record for the longest Discord voice call.<ref>https://youtu.be/qD50Qm9qJmg</ref>

He reached 50,000 subscribers on December 9, 2019. He released his 50K sub special a little under two weeks later, which was a ''Geometry Dash'' related song parody of the song "lalala" by bbno$ and y2k, named "Mana-na",<ref>https://youtu.be/54DF8mvvF0s</ref> detailing the rise of a star grinder chasing stars, orbs, and coins to ascend the leaderboards.<ref>https://youtu.be/54DF8mvvF0s</ref>

In 2020, he ran a gimmick account on Twitter called "@fingerdash2020" which tweeted out the entire level of Fingerdash, one frame at a time in one year.<ref>https://twitter.com/fingerdash2020</ref> While this was running, he continued making regular scripted and challenge videos. However, the rate of videos began to slow in early/mid-2020. He uploaded a parody of his sync layout video on June 16, 2020,<ref>https://youtu.be/o9CxxzEJOt0</ref> followed by a compilation of unfinished layouts a month later,<ref>https://youtu.be/L1Lu6DP-CFk</ref> before a long period of inactivity followed.

On January 1, 2021, he posted the final video from the @fingerdash2020 Twitter account before following more inactivity.<ref>https://youtu.be/cKgLFk0T34c</ref> Throughout 2021, he uploaded some videos on the game ‘Friday Night Funkin', although they are all unlisted now and in a playlist on his channel.<ref>https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWM5WoEMuPgASZLQmyPAjaEEKznqIlx7g</ref> This trend continued, with minor ''Geometry Dash'' videos, memes, and showcases interspersed through.

During this period, he completed his first Extreme Demon, Allegiance, in February 2022.<ref>https://youtu.be/hLYNXg0t_Kc&t=34s</ref>

He began to tread back into the waters of ''Geometry Dash'' content in late 2022, uploading "Fingerdash LOWEST OBJECT COUNT!" in mid-August.<ref>https://youtu.be/LNPvA9P_iuI</ref> He made an official return on August 28, 2022, with his video "Fingedash but every orb swaps levels until they ALL finish [2022 REVAMPED]", which improves on the video with the same concept from years earlier by including every ''Geometry Dash'' level containing orbs, except for the ''Geometry Dash World'' levels.<ref>https://youtu.be/CcaZXHbwLP4&t=747s</ref> This video achieved popularity after a few days of inactivity, boosting his channel performance and making way for newer videos with more substance and personality.

He followed up with an analysis of the second 2.2 sneak peek for Explorers in September,<ref>https://youtu.be/7t4y8AEd5Sc</ref> a video where he tried to modernize the coins in RobTop levels in October,<ref>https://youtu.be/4zHqK8uh2Lg</ref> and a video where he determined how long it would take to get every achievement in the game in November.<ref>https://youtu.be/aWlsIVPopzw</ref>

In late December, he uploaded a video going through every hack in Mega Hack, determining how likely they were to be banned from [[Geometry Dash Demonlist|Demonlist]] completions.<ref>https://youtu.be/T5b2Z7JKmn8</ref> After this, he began uploading much more frequently, around one to two times per week, instead of one to two times per month. Since then, he has uploaded many videos, keeping to this schedule for the most part.

Some of his more notable videos in this timeframe include a collaboration with Tride building a level hidden in the code in ''Geometry Dash'',<ref>https://youtu.be/kZ7nPzRIRu0&t=11s</ref> a video where his mom played the game,<ref>https://youtu.be/4nvuBR3r-Vo&t=397s</ref> a video featuring ideas for Update 2.3,<ref>https://youtu.be/S7bWzV62ZVc&t=243s</ref> a coin placing competition featuring [[Vortrox]], Moldy, Tride, and [[Wulzy]] as contestants, and [[Colon]] as the judge,<ref>https://youtu.be/gggbU7EyLD4</ref> and many others.

He reached 100,000 subscribers on June 11, 2023,<ref>https://youtu.be/xO1e4H912JI&t=1529s</ref> rounding out a four-day train of the same achievement, with [[Vortrox]] reaching the same milestone on June 8, SikKy on June 9, and [[Doggie]] on June 10. As part of this milestone celebration, he opened up a new Discord server called "The Fingerdashlands REBORN" as a nod to a previous server he owned of the same name.<ref>https://discord.gg/s9WdVyQRqp</ref> He was verified on YouTube a few days later.

==Nominations and awards==
''Received 2 nominations in the [[The Geometry Dash Awards]]''

=== Nominations ===
*Nominated in the 2024 Awards for ''Best YouTuber''
*Nominated in the 2024 Awards for ''Best Video'' with [http://youtu.be/uQDU3yW_gD0 How Well Do GD YouTubers Know The ROBTOP LEVELS?]

==Trivia==
*He has gathered over 300,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.<ref>http://youtube.com/@sdslayer100</ref>
*He has beaten 23 Extreme Demons, his first being Allegiance, his current hardest being Shutdown<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2zv-FZEunU</ref>.
**He has beaten Allegiance 41 times, with his latest (known) completion on November 22, 2024.
*As of September 2023, he has uploaded over 500 videos on his main YouTube account.
*He stopped regularly uploading ''Geometry Dash'' content in mid-2020, intermittently uploading any content with no theme afterward, returning to ''Geometry Dash'' videos in mid-2022.
*He has uploaded 102 videos featuring the Main level Fingerdash.
*His most popular video is currently "[https://youtu.be/9mAi1gSV5R0&t=342s Fingerdash but every orb swaps levels until they all finish]" with over 3 million views.
**His first video after his break in 2020-2022 was a remaster of this video.
*His oldest public video is "[https://youtu.be/7PFa5Unja5c Nyan Cat vs. Keyboard Cat - Which Is Better?]"
*His 50,000 subscriber video was a ''Geometry Dash''-themed parody of the song Lalala by Y2K and bbno$.<ref>https://youtu.be/54DF8mvvF0s</ref>
*In 2019, he did a building challenge where he created 70 layouts in a week.<ref>https://youtu.be/5U_5bDdya5I</ref>
*His YouTube channel was created in 2010, but he seemingly uploaded no videos until at least 2014. Although, all his public videos from this period are now private.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150518213151/https://www.youtube.com/user/sdslayer100</ref>
**His oldest recorded ''Geometry Dash'' video is a one-hour loop of Back On Track.<ref name=":0">https://web.archive.org/web/20160812032955/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLyg3eq5nnM</ref>
*He has a couple of other YouTube channels, two of which are mostly inactive now.
**[http://youtube.com/@sdslayer200 Sdslayer200] is a channel with over 3,000 subscribers that is themed around animations of hurricane seasons and his music.
**[http://youtube.com/@sdisalive sd] is a Minecraft-centered channel with over 7,000 subscribers.
**[https://www.youtube.com/@SdslayerClips SdslayerClips] is a channel with over 2,000 subscribers where he uploads live stream clips and level completions.
*He helped with [[Colon]]'s level "The World Machine".
*He has collaborated with many other ''Geometry Dash'' YouTubers such as Colon, [[Wulzy]], Moldy, Tride, [[Vortrox]],<ref>http://youtu.be/gggbU7EyLD4</ref> and [[Juniper]].<ref>http://youtu.be/Ohd1nN-zv0Q</ref>
**He has also featured in videos on Tride and Moldy.<ref>http://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWM5WoEMuPgD-chhwfHkcHd4CCFdM5ukP</ref>
*Before Update 2.1, he used the "Nice Shot!" icon with the same colors as now.

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