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|country = {{Flag|us|United States}} | |country = {{Flag|us|United States}} | ||
|levels = | |modstatus = [[File:Moderator.png|x35px]] Moderator | ||
|rated = | |levels = 60 | ||
|creatorpoints = | |rated = 15 | ||
|creatorpoints = 25 | |||
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|youtube = [https://www.youtube.com/@Vortrox Vortrox | |youtube = [https://www.youtube.com/@Vortrox Vortrox] | ||
|twitch = [https://www.twitch.tv/vortrox Vortrox] | |twitch = [https://www.twitch.tv/vortrox Vortrox] | ||
|twitter = [https://x.com/vortroxx @vortroxx] | |twitter = [https://x.com/vortroxx @vortroxx] | ||
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'''Vortrox''' is an American player, level creator, and | '''Vortrox''' is an American player, level creator, [[Moderators|moderator]], and YouTube content creator. He is known for the 'Superbuffing' series on his YouTube channel, where he increases the difficulty of main levels, such as [[Stereo Extremeness]], Buff on Track, Buff After Buff, and Time Extreme. | ||
Vortrox's hardest completion is | Vortrox's hardest completion is Time Extreme, which he verified on 30 March 2025, taking 47,993 attempts.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/gzqeoJK_UvM</ref> He is currently streaming the verification of his latest super-buffed main level, Cycles X, which is stated to be his next hardest completion; his best record is 93%. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
Vortrox usually creates [[Geometry Dash]] entertainment videos on his YouTube channels, such as nerfing levels, buffing levels, and completing challenges. He has produced nine videos for his buffing series, which have collectively garnered over | Vortrox usually creates [[Geometry Dash]] entertainment videos on his YouTube channels, such as nerfing levels, buffing levels, and completing challenges. He has produced nine videos for his buffing series, which have collectively garnered over 49.5 million views. He has also collaborated with faces of the Geometry Dash community, such as [[EricVanWilderman]], [[Zoink]], TCD, [[KingSammelot]], and many more amazing content creators. He is the creator or verifier of some popular levels, including Stereo Extremeness, Time Extreme, and Welcome to GD News. | ||
Vortrox | Vortrox is currently attempting to verify his own creation, Cycles X, a super-buffed version of [[Cycles]]. | ||
==Levels== | ==Levels== | ||
;Unrated levels | ;Unrated levels | ||
*''(unnamed level)'' | |||
*2 player Fun | *2 player Fun | ||
*Akasha Layout | *Akasha Layout | ||
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*Glitch Robot | *Glitch Robot | ||
*Hardest Challenge | *Hardest Challenge | ||
*Jumper X - A super-buffed version of [[Jumper]]. | *Jumper X - A super-buffed version of [[Jumper]]. | ||
*Layout Feedback | *Layout Feedback | ||
*Nerfaclysm | |||
*Nerfaclysm | *Nerfarus | ||
*Nerfarus | *Nerfbath | ||
*Nerfbath | *Nerf Corridor | ||
*Nerf Corridor | *Nerferhouse | ||
*Nerferhouse | |||
*PorbleVapor | *PorbleVapor | ||
*RobTop Approved | *RobTop Approved | ||
*Sakupen Nerfles | *Sakupen Nerfles | ||
*Silent Nerfstep | *Silent Nerfstep | ||
*Spike Decorations | *Spike Decorations | ||
*Spongebob | *Spongebob | ||
*Stereo Craziness | *Stereo Craziness | ||
*Tester Fast | *Tester Fast | ||
*Ultimate Destruction | *Ultimate Destruction | ||
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*Vortrox Ship Trials | *Vortrox Ship Trials | ||
*Vortrox Wave Trials | *Vortrox Wave Trials | ||
*Wave Challenge | *Wave Challenge | ||
*Zoink Challenge XVII | *Zoink Challenge XVII | ||
;Easy levels | ;Easy levels | ||
*Night Show ( | *Night Show (featured) | ||
*Pocket Infinity ( | *Pocket Infinity (featured) | ||
;Normal levels | ;Normal levels | ||
*Liquid Sovereignty ( | *Liquid Sovereignty (featured) | ||
;Hard levels | ;Hard levels | ||
*Momentary ( | *Momentary (featured) | ||
;Harder levels | ;Harder levels | ||
*Boombox ( | *Boombox (starred) | ||
*In the Night ( | *In the Night (featured) | ||
*Momentz ( | *Momentz (starred) | ||
;Insane levels | ;Insane levels | ||
*Grunge ( | *Grunge (starred) | ||
*Malice ( | *Malice (featured) | ||
*Marigold ( | *Marigold (featured) | ||
*VortroXmas ( | *VortroXmas (starred) | ||
;Medium Demon levels | ;Medium Demon levels | ||
*Hello Fitzgerald ( | *Hello Fitzgerald (starred) | ||
;Extreme Demon levels | ;Extreme Demon levels | ||
*Stereo Extremeness (featured) - A super-buffed version of [[Stereo Madness]]. | |||
*Stereo Extremeness ( | *Time Extreme (featured) - A super-buffed version of [[Time Machine]]. | ||
*Time Extreme ( | *Welcome to GD News (featured) - A mega-collaboration hosted by Vortrox dedicated to his 'GD News' series. It was verified by [[Technical]] on 25 December 2022. | ||
*Welcome to GD News ( | |||
;Collaborations participated in | ;Collaborations participated in | ||
*Eao - A Harder 6 | *Eao - A Harder 6* collaboration level with TaBu2711. | ||
*CARTI COLLAB - A Medium Demon collaboration with Doops, HHyper, TotoTie, Ivashka, and 16lord. | *CARTI COLLAB - A Medium Demon collaboration with Doops, HHyper, TotoTie, Ivashka, and 16lord. | ||
{{Togglebox | {{Togglebox | ||
|header = Achievements | |header = Achievements | ||
|body = Vortrox completed a total of | |body = Vortrox completed a total of 33 Extreme Demons on camera. The following is a list of Extreme Demons that Vortrox has completed or verified. | ||
;Completed levels | ;Completed levels | ||
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*Rebeat Stereo Extremeness, 6 November 2024, 6,126 attempts. | *Rebeat Stereo Extremeness, 6 November 2024, 6,126 attempts. | ||
*[[Red World Rebirth]], 8 November 2024, 2,135 attempts. | *[[Red World Rebirth]], 8 November 2024, 2,135 attempts. | ||
* | *Quantum Processing, 19 May 2025, 17,973 attempts. | ||
*[[Yatagarasu]], 1 October 2025, 27,551 attempts. | *[[Yatagarasu]], 1 October 2025, 27,551 attempts. | ||
*Low Death, 7 November 2025, 7,132 attempts. He fluked from 56%. | *Low Death, 7 November 2025, 7,132 attempts. He fluked from 56%. | ||
*[[Athanatos]], 16 December 2025, 5,743 attempts. | *[[Athanatos]], 16 December 2025, 5,743 attempts. | ||
*[[Erebus]], 29 December 2025, 8,925 attempts. | *[[Erebus]], 29 December 2025, 8,925 attempts. | ||
*Sweater Weather, 29 March 2025, 1,682 attempts. This is the fewest attempts Vortrox has spent | *Sweater Weather, 29 March 2025, 1,682 attempts. This is the fewest attempts Vortrox has spent on an Extreme Demon | ||
;Verified levels | ;Verified levels | ||
*Stereo Extremeness, 27 October 2023, 55,129 attempts. This is the most attempts that Vortrox has spent | *Stereo Extremeness, 27 October 2023, 55,129 attempts. This is the most attempts that Vortrox has spent on an Extreme Demon. | ||
*Time Extreme, 30 March 2025, 47,993 attempts. | *Time Extreme, 30 March 2025, 47,993 attempts. | ||
*Fallen Horizon, 22 October 2025, 1,703 attempts. | *Fallen Horizon, 22 October 2025, 1,703 attempts. | ||
}} | }} | ||
==Nominations and awards== | ==Nominations and awards== | ||
''Received 5 nominations and 1 award in [[The Geometry Dash Awards]]'' | ''Received 5 nominations and 1 award in the [[The Geometry Dash Awards]]'' | ||
;Nominations | ;Nominations | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*Vortrox has garnered over 1. | *Vortrox has garnered over 1.2 million subscribers on his main YouTube channel.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/@Vortrox</ref> | ||
**Vortrox's YouTube channel amassed over | **Vortrox's YouTube channel amassed over 390 million views. | ||
**Vortrox's second YouTube channel, VortroxTwo, amassed over | **Vortrox's second YouTube channel, VortroxTwo, amassed over 320,000 subscribers.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/@VortroxTwo</ref> | ||
*Vortrox gained [[Moderators|moderator]] status in-game on 26 July 2021. | |||
*Vortrox once made a challenge level for the highly skilled player Zoink to beat, who managed to do so in 30 minutes. It is currently Vortrox's most-viewed video, with over 26 million views as of 21 March 2026.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-062PWH0vo</ref> | |||
**Vortrox made another three challenge levels for Zoink, [[Trick]] and [[Doggie]], where the three players raced to see who could complete all three challenges first.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC5Sn3RLSXc</ref> | |||
*Vortrox gained [[Moderators| | *Vortrox has had unfortunate deaths of 92% three times and 93% on Stereo Extremeness, 95% on [[Bloodbath]], 92% on [[Phobos]], 96% on [[Artificial Ascent]], 92% and 96% on [[Yatagarasu]], and his worst one being 96% on Time Extreme due to a lag spike. | ||
**Speaking of which, Vortrox's repeated fails at 92% on several Extreme Demons (also including Allegiance, Welcome to GD News, excluding the end-screen, Yatagarasu, and most notably Phobos) caused the 92% percentage to become a widespread meme among his fans. It became an apparent symbol of bad luck. | |||
*Vortrox once made a challenge level for the highly skilled player Zoink to beat, who managed to do so in 30 minutes. It is currently Vortrox's most-viewed video, with over | |||
**Vortrox made three | |||
*Vortrox has had unfortunate | |||
**Speaking of which, Vortrox's repeated fails at 92% on several Extreme Demons (also including | |||
**Many of his fans have changed their YouTube usernames to one of the 92% fails he has achieved, most notably Phobos 92% and Allegiance 92%. | **Many of his fans have changed their YouTube usernames to one of the 92% fails he has achieved, most notably Phobos 92% and Allegiance 92%. | ||
*In his '100 Days of Extreme Demons' challenge that started | *In his '100 Days of Extreme Demons' challenge that started from 1 August 2024 to 8 November 2024, Vortrox has beaten 22 Extreme Demons (including Stereo Extremeness). | ||
*Vortrox owns two Discord servers called 'Caboose' and '[https://discord.gg/gd-news-center-1070475116703645696 GD News Center]'. He has uploaded a video about the 'GD News Center', his newest and most active Discord server for news about Demons, updates, the community, and more. Vortrox also sells merch. | *Vortrox owns two Discord servers called 'Caboose' and '[https://discord.gg/gd-news-center-1070475116703645696 GD News Center]'. He has uploaded a video about the 'GD News Center', his newest and most active Discord server for news about Demons, updates, the community, and more. Vortrox also sells merch. | ||
*GD News was a series on Vortrox's channel where he talked about news happening in the community, such as verified and released levels, update announcements, etc. The phrase 'Welcome to GD News!' was a familiar one that originated from his videos. | *GD News was a series on Vortrox's channel where he talked about news happening in the community, such as verified and released levels, update announcements, etc. The phrase 'Welcome to GD News!' was a familiar one that originated from his videos. | ||
*Vortrox has his own website, on which, for example, he sells various Geometry Dash-related merchandise.<ref>https://vortrox.com</ref> | *Vortrox has his own website, on which, for example, he sells various Geometry Dash-related merchandise.<ref>https://vortrox.com</ref> | ||
*The reason why Technical received the verification rights for Welcome To GD News is due to Technical's roommate knowing Vortrox personally. Vortrox would show up | *The reason why Technical received the verification rights for Welcome To GD News is due to Technical's roommate knowing Vortrox personally. Vortrox would show up in Technical's apartment to discuss passing the level's verification to him, an offer Technical accepted.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=/ISrpkzBsei4</ref> | ||
*Vortrox's level Time Extreme was ranked as the worst Extreme Demon of 2025 by the AREDL.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fNC4C3zL-s</ref> | *On 17 March 2026, Vortrox published a video on his second YouTube channel,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaQBN6uyYeo</ref> in which he reacted to Ender's video about the story of the former hacker [[spaceuk]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBwM_Cd71QQ</ref> While the video's reception has been mostly positive, a few criticised Vortrox for talking about spaceuk in an insulting way, e.g., sociopath and d**khead. | ||
**A large portion of people who watch Vortrox's video are minors, so his use of these derogatory terms might influence them to do the same. | |||
**Some people pointed out the changed title and thumbnail of the video. Initially, it said 'This is the saddest video I've reacted to' with the word 'Evil' in the thumbnail, but then the title was changed to 'SpaceUK Is Worse Than I Thought...' and now the thumbnail says 'Loser'. | |||
***The popular Geometry Dash content creator Vernosis interviewed Vortrox, asking him why he acted this way towards spaceuk. He replied that he had already been tired of people in his live-stream chat talking about spaceuk beating [[Acheron]] and coming back. Vortrox and Vernosis both agreed that spaceuk destroyed the possible career of a Top 1 player for RG, [[Crisis]], and possibly other players.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOUt7U4Awtc</ref> | |||
*Vortrox's level Time Extreme was ranked as the worst Extreme Demon of 2025 by the AREDL (All Rated Extreme Demons List).<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fNC4C3zL-s</ref> | |||
*Vortrox's biggest fluke on a Demon is on the Insane Demon level Death Note by Ruf, fluking from 2%. | *Vortrox's biggest fluke on a Demon is on the Insane Demon level Death Note by Ruf, fluking from 2%. | ||