SardineSmoothie

"I have Gordon Ramsay on my side. Therefore, we will prevail."

- Line taken from "We Played Poor Man's Fortnite"

SardineSmoothie (born: March 19, 2003), also known as Rick, Sardine, Dean, or Ricardo, is an American internet personality, YouTuber and Twitch streamer known for his Minecraft content, miscellaneous gaming videos and collaborations. He has been seen playing various games on his channel and on stream but is mainly known for Minecraft videos. SardineSmoothie was an active member of the Mechanum community, as he created and has owned that server since late 2019. He can be seen playing on servers like Mechanum and Hypixel, as well as messing around in miscellaneous multiplayer games like surviv.io and diep.io.

Personal life
SardineSmoothie was born in the United States on March 19, 2003. He currently resides somewhere in the Seattle area in Washington, US. He has said he has at least one smaller brother and no older siblings. He attended high school at Edmonds Heights K-12 and occasionally features some of his IRL friends in his videos. He regularly collaborates with his fellow friends and other small content creators such as Kakos Set.

Appearance
SardineSmoothie has almost never been on face cam. He says he does not plan to reveal his face until he reaches at least 100k subscribers. In late October of 2021, he accidentally left his face cam on for a full hour of streaming Minecraft survival gameplay. Fortunately for him, he had less than 5 views total on that stream and unlisted it shortly later, thus keeping his face and identity a secret until he sees fit. He has not said the reason he keeps his face hidden but speculation suggests it's for privacy reasons.

Personality
SardineSmoothie has talked regularly about how he's an openly weird person in general who enjoys making funny and silly videos.

History
SardineSmoothie created his channel on September 19, 2020. He uploaded his first video on September 20, 2020, a Minecraft command tutorial called "How to Get the ENDER DRAGON SPAWN EGG! Super Easy! No Mods!"

Channel Growth
SardineSmoothie very slowly gained subscribers over the coming months. His channel hovered at 50-100 subscribers over a year. Then, in December 2021, his channel experienced a rapid growth. His very first video "How to Get the ENDER DRAGON SPAWN EGG! Super Easy! No Mods!" was optimized by the YouTube algorithm and started pulling in hundreds of views a day, going from 2,000 views to 10,000 views over the course of a week. Around the same time, he also commented 10 minutes after OfflineTV's OFFLINETV ARCADE TEAM RACE ft. AleXa" came out. The comment got over 10K likes. With that comment and the Ender Dragon video giving him a large amount of exposure at the same time, he gained a bit over a hundred subscribers in just a week.

In early 2022, SardineSmoothie started SardineSmoothie's Lounge, the official discord server for fans of the channel. It gained over 20 members within two days, as many came from the Mechanum community.

Collaborators
SardineSmoothie has worked with multiple gamers in the past. Some are YouTubers themselves and the others are fellow Hypixel Minecrafters. Sardine's first collaboration video was uploaded on May 15, 2021. It was called " 'Destroying' Bedwars 4v4v4v4 with MaskedOverride, CaptchaWidget, and DoctorWhere13" and it featured three other Minecrafters, one of which is a YouTuber- MaskedOverride (Now the YouTube channel Kakos Set), CaptchaWidget (Now Pseudo_High), and DoctorWhere13 (Now DrWhere). His next video, "My Most Stressful Bedwars Solo Clutch" also featured those three collaborators, as well as two new ones. This video was his last video as "The Gadgetsmith Gaming" (more info below).

Other Channel Names and Identity Speculation
The channel and brand has been SardineSmoothie for over a year now, but as seen in his first video, Sardine's channel name and brand used to be "The Gadgetsmith Gaming". According to NameMC, his Minecraft IGN also used to be "TheGadgetsmith" instead of his current name "sardinesmoothie". When asked about his association with "The Gadgetsmith" he said:

"The Gadgetsmith is a relative and when I first created my yt channel I made it an extension of his channel for fun."

It is not revealed for sure what the association is between SardineSmoothie and TheGadgetsmith, as there is little evidence to make conclusions from.

Content Over Time
Sardine's content has gone all over the place over the years. He's gone from tutorials to Hypixel Let's Plays to comedic gameplay videos of miscellaneous games.


 * Command Tutorials: Sardine started his channel with a series of videos where he showed the audience how to do specific things in Minecraft with commands. Overall, these six videos has brought him the most amount of views, and it's a mystery why he decided to stop posting them.
 * He brought back command tutorials later on, but with a different theme and tone of videos.
 * Skywars/Bedwars Gameplay: Sardine then stopped posting command tutorials and started uploading a group of videos where he messed around and won Hypixel Skywars and Bedwars games in strange ways.
 * Hypixel Skyblock Videos: Other than Skywars and Bedwars, Sardine also used Hypixel Skyblock as a content source. He posted various gameplay videos where he toured his Skyblock islands and did various things around it. He unlisted most of them in late 2021 to clean his channel up.
 * Miscellaneous Comedy Gameplay videos: Starting in August 2021, Sardine seemed to change the style of his channel completely, and began publishing videos that were more funny than tactical. He currently continues to post these videos.

Streaming and Twitch
SardineSmoothie started streaming in mid 2021. He decided soon after to stop streaming as much as his computer couldn't handle the processing power. He unlisted his YouTube streams and left his Twitch channel offline until further notice. During his time streaming, he streamed various games all within Minecraft, such as Hypixel Skyblock gameplay as well as Bedwars.

Trivia

 * His favorite color is dark blue.
 * He is vegetarian and possibly vegan.
 * He has competed on a robotics competition at least once.
 * His favorite video games are Minecraft and Hollow Knight.
 * His favorite television show is The Office.
 * His Discord server is named "SardineSmoothie's Lounge".
 * Kakos Set and Psuedo High, during SardineSmoothie's surviv.io video, called him "Ricardo" multiple times with varying levels of seriousness. SardineSmoothie has admitted that his nickname IRL is Rick. However, he has refused to confirm or deny that "Ricardo" is his real name.
 * He was sponsored by Raycon on a video uploaded on January 2, 2022.
 * He has been playing Minecraft for around 5 years but never dreamed of having a possible career in gaming content creation until 2019.
 * He plays piano and enjoys writing music.

Quotes

 * We sucked at it. But they sucked more. we suck + they suck more = victory
 * Hypixel is such a happy and welcoming place. You see? That guy just swore at me.
 * I was gonna stream today but my computer detonated when I hit the start button.
 * Come and visit the SardineSmoothie smoothie bar!
 * Video games: when reality just isn't good enough for you.
 * I'm being chased by a giant red circle who also has a gun. Literally none of this makes sense.
 * Well. That's unfortunate.
 * Come over here. I promise I won't kill you immediately.
 * I'm GORDON RAMSAY, bro.
 * Well, since the last test didn't go exactly as planned, I'm gonna keep testing them. With civilians.
 * AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
 * ...these pee-stained zebra themed ice cubes. (Talking about bees) == Gallery ==