Editing Zoink (section)

==Trivia==
*Zoink has garnered over 1.3 million subscribers on his YouTube channel.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/@Zoink</ref>
**Zoink became the first top player ever to achieve 1 million subscribers.
**On his 400,000 subscriber milestone celebration, Zoink revisited Zodiac, his first-ever List Demon.
**Zoink has a second YouTube channel, [https://www.youtube.com/@ZoinkLive ZoinkLIVE], with over 215,000 subscribers, reserved for clips of varying lengths from his streams, uploaded in advance to his main YouTube channel.
*Zoink was the first guest of The Dasher Podcast.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3eYGTZJpsg</ref>
**Zoink later reappeared as 40th guest of The Dasher Podcast.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eNwXAMCmO4</ref>
**Zoink was also the first guest of the Secret Way interviews.<ref>https://open.spotify.com/episode/34Yw2QaeBB42nLv7pX41xd</ref>
*Zoink dethroned [[spaceuk]] on the [https://www.pointercrate.com/demonlist/statsviewer Pointercrate ''Individual Stats Viewer''] on 13 January 2023, holding the #1 spot until 11 June 2024, when Trick overtook him after a reign of 515 days.
**After Trick overtook Zoink, the two battled for the #1 spot for three months, overtaking each other back-to-back several times, but since 14 November 2024, Zoink has retained the #1 spot.
*On 24 April 2023, Zoink completed The Art of the Blade. With this completion, he became the second player in the history of Geometry Dash to complete every Top 75 Demon on the Demonlist.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NIKA_6Zvak</ref><ref>https://x.com/gdzoink/status/1650343096138211330</ref>
*After the verification and the placement of Nullscapes at #3 on the Demonlist and Avernus being moved from #5 to #2, Zoink held the title of verifying the entire Top 4 at the time: Tidal Wave, Avernus, Acheron, and Nullscapes.
**Zoink is the first player to verify four Top 1s on the Demonlist, those being Acheron, Avernus, Tidal Wave, and Thinking Space II.
*Zoink used to play with a 'lenny' cube.<ref name="Sonic Wave"/>
*On 19 September 2025, Thinking Space II was rated, followed by Defeated Circles on 27 September. The former is currently ranked Top 1, and the latter is currently placed above Slaughterhouse.
*Zoink's attempt count for Nullscapes (over 90,000) is the highest amount he has spent on any level, followed by Thinking Space II (83,913) and Slaughterhouse (76,004).
*Zoink verified a small buff-date of Acheron on 30 January 2023, adding slight buffs and fixes to the level.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06ADbkaBDz4</ref> However, [[Robert Topala|RobTop]] update-locked the level, so Zoink uploaded the updated version onto his account.
*Zoink did a run of 60-100% on Cold Sweat at 1.2x speed, which contains the infamous wave segment.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foFwVeZQLrI</ref>
*[[Codependence]], the hardest 2-player level in the game, has become a running joke among Zoink's fans due to him famously avoiding playing the level.
**Zoink is most likely waiting for Codependence to fall off the Main List of the Demonlist to complete its entirety for the second time.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/geometrydash/comments/1st4oyx/why_doesnt_zoink_play_2p/</ref>
***While Codependence fell off the Main List, another 2-player level cognitohazard was placed, so he is likely going to wait for cognitohazard to also fall of the list.
*On 24 December 2024, Zoink posted a 30-minute video on his YouTube channel, marking the beginning of a new era for his content, as many of the videos that followed would exceed two minutes.<ref name="Anathema" />
*On 2 January 2025, due to acquiring a new computer, all of his game statistics were reset. On 3 February 2025, Zoink tweeted that he had regained his game statistics.
*On 30 March 2025, Zoink beat Time Extreme within two hours of its verification by Vortrox.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDiQw1Eq2SM</ref>
*On 4 May 2025, while verifying Thinking Space II, Zoink failed at 95%, the same percentage at which his furthest Tidal Wave fail was located. He beat the level three weeks later.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PIz-7jHSys</ref>
**Zoink's fail occurred on the same day as wPopoff's 94% fail on Amethyst.
***Interestingly, both players completed their verification on the same day, 25 May 2025.
*On 13 July 2025, wPopoff reverified Amethyst to input a CBF blocker into the level. This reverification made Zoink, who used the CBF extension, lose all the progress he had made on the level.<ref>https://x.com/WpopoffW/status/1944598461992636854</ref><ref>https://x.com/gdzoink/status/1944337089476079940</ref>
**On 29 July 2025, Zoink attempted to beat Amethyst again and completed it swiftly on 1 August 2025.<ref name="Amethyst" />
***On his Geometry Dash account, Zoink called the level the 'worst top 1', and expressed his dissatisfaction about Thinking Space II still being unrated.
*On 26 July 2025, Zoink travelled to New York, celebrating the creation of the TCD YouTube channel, along with wPopoff and all TCD members. A live stream and three shorts were uploaded to the channel.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNCUXjfV25c</ref>
*Zoink's completion of Penumbral, on which he took about 6,300 attempts, is almost eight times lower than the first victor's and over four times lower than the second's.
*In early 2025, Zoink stated that his final Top 1 verification might be the currently work-in-progress project, Tsunami by OniLink, a sequel to Tidal Wave. However, it is not certain whether he has since changed his mind, especially given his unexpected decision to pick up Heliopolis.
*On 18 August 2025, Zoink's profile was completely removed from the Pointercrate Stats Viewer page during a Discord call due to [[Cursed]] banning him as a joke, causing all of Zoink's records to be removed, which then had to be manually accepted one by one.<ref>https://x.com/nehhb67762/status/1957297327468589472</ref>
*On 24 March 2026, during a stream of doing one attempt on every Extreme Demon he has beaten, Zoink would be hacked on Pointercrate alongside wPopoff. His Pointercrate name would be changed several times to 'Tripple T zoink', 'hi zoink', and 'nah, it's a vuln', as well as 'When Exasperation? Shoutout GD BEAN NEWS', while his nationality was changed to North Korean. These changes would ultimately be reverted.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCkp_dhYoSY</ref>
*During his live-stream on 12 September 2025, Zoink did a face reveal.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3tdItfzY1c</ref>
*On 27 September 2025, Zoink's live-stream of the level Swing Swing got viewbotted, giving him over 13,000 fake viewers at one point. His subscriber count was also botched, showing over 501,000 subscribers.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeUAwUcESWs</ref> The next day, his subscriber count was briefly back to normal before the same thing occurred on his next stream, with the stream's fake viewer count peaking at over 113,000.
*Zoink's YouTube completion video of Pagoda was unlisted and made public over a year later. One user in the video's comments said, 'Randomly unlisting the pagoda completion over a year later is such a zoink move.'<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjYA8109rz8</ref>
*On 16 May 2022, Zoink changed his in-game name from Z01nk to zZoink.<ref>https://x.com/gdzoink/status/1526044485817344000</ref>
**On 23 January 2026, Zoink changed his name again from zZoink to Zoink.
***On 15 February 2026, Zoink's in-game account got leaderboard-banned. He thinks it is due to the latest name change.
*Zoink is estimated to earn anywhere between $20,000 and $40,000 per month in YouTube ad revenue, donations, and other ways of receiving income online.
*The 'The Geometry Dash Awards 2025: Winners' video on RobTop's YouTube channel, in which Zoink was awarded the best player, premiered on the same day as his birthday.
*EtherGD made a video covering Zoink's history and quick domination of the game.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMFm9D40QdE</ref>
*Vortrox reacted to Zoink's announcement of verifying Heliopolis, mentioning the drama coming from it, calling out people who were making unintelligent accusations, and generally supporting Zoink's decision of doing what he wants to do, as long as it is fun for him.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWtZLq9lOto</ref>
*Zoink's verification of Heliopolis (provided he beats the level) differs from his other Top 1 verifications, as MindCap prohibited anyone from changing anything in the level, as it is an open verification.
**Zoink thinks it is a good thing, because his click pattern can become substantially more refined and he could therefore potentially take less time to beat the level.
*Zoink has a Heliopolis poster on his room's wall.
*Zoink's verifications are known for taking a very long time to receive a rate, which has led to a joke within the community that RobTop dislikes Zoink.
**Zoink is also infamous for severely underestimating the levels he verifies. One of the most egregious examples is The Bloop, which he estimated to be in the Top 20-75 on the Demonlist but actually placed at #10.
*One of Zoink's old in-game names was awmenewq.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMmxfQTlZzM</ref>
*Zoink's verification of Artemis 13 sparked criticism for being a 'slop' level, with people saying its gameplay and decoration are generally bland, boring, and repetitive, and that it was made only to place high on the Demonlist. The popular Geometry Dash YouTube Shorts creator Mr. Happy Junior uploaded a video in which he concurred with this sentiment, calling Artemis 13, before its nerf, the worst Top 1 in the game's history.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeBScsG35ZA</ref>
**Zoink reacted to the video, saying the level's gameplay is not that bad, and it was atrocious when he first laid his hands on it. Zoink also explained that the level looks mostly the same throughout because it was made by only four creators: suffixpoint, STARhack, CerrunoGMD, and Hexy. Zoink added that as long as the level maintains consistent quality throughout, it can look similar from beginning to end, and there is essentially nothing wrong with it.
*Zoink verified Artemis 13 exactly three years after verifying Tidal Wave.