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About

NicoB is a YouTube Let's Player and occasional livestreamer best known for his Let's Plays of the Danganronpa and Persona series of video games. He mainly plays Japanese games. He is 29 years old and prefers to keep his real name and location unknown. Since beginning his LP career in 2012, he has released over 1,500 videos and LPed over 100 games. As of 2017, his channel has amassed 100,000 subscribers. His main shtick is voice-acting the game characters himself if there isn't already voice-acting in the game, and he also has a knack for predicting important plot elements.. His fans are referred to as "Picky Penguins".

Origin

NicoB's username came from the character Niko Bellic from the game Grand Theft Auto IV, though he accidentally spelt it with a "c" instead of a "k". Before doing Let's Plays, he was an independent video game developer, where he spearheaded development for an RPG Maker game called Forever's End, which was positively received by the RPG Maker community. In 2012, he began making "Let's Trys", where he plays through and critiques other RPG Maker games, and posts them on his YouTube channel. He gained modest success early on with his LPs of Japanese horror games such as Ib and Corpse Party. Overtime, he slowly moved away from obsecure RPG Maker games and experimented with playing other kinds of games on his channel, and his first LP to breach 100,000 views was his LP of Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors. His next major LP, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, became one of his most popular LPs to date, having over 400,000 views as of 2017. It was these games that would go on to define the bulk of his LPing catalog.

Notable Memes

"Bagels"

In Episode 19 of his Danganronpa 2 LP, he ad-libs the character Nagito Komaeda spontaneously shouting "bagels" during a conversation, even going as far as changing the in-game textbox to say "BAGELS" while editing the video. It became a running gag throughout his Let's Play and was picked up as an inside joke by the Danganronpa fanbase. The meme is referenced frequently in his other LPs.

Search Interest