About

Niekryty Krytyk (previously known as Macfra84) is an alias for Maciej Frączyk, a Polish YouTuber, writer and radio presenter most notably known for reviewing popular videos in a satirist manner. Since joining YouTube, Maciej slowly gained over 1 million subscribers and being the 7th most subscribed channel in Poland^[1].

Online History

Maciej joined YouTube in 9 December 2006 under the alias of Macfra84, not much known is about the channel activity until 2009 but the first video uploaded on the channel was a top 15 list of best horror movies from 2008^[2], uploaded on 12 July 2008, the video now holds over 600,000 views.
His second video was a review of a Polish movie called 'Akademia pana Kleksa' (lit: 'Mr. Klek's Academy') from 1984 – the video was split into two parts and was the first episode of 'Przemyślenia Niekrytego Krytyka' ('Niekryty Krytyk's Thoughts') which is the main series on the channel. The video gained over 800,000 and 600,000 views, respective to their part.

Spread

Maciej continued making episodes of Przemyślenia Niekrytego Krytyka throughout the years and slowly started branching out onto new forms of videos like reviewing video games and movies without the satire from Przemyślenia Niekrytego Krytyka. Maciej opened his website niekrytykrytyk.com on February 2011.
In October 13, Maciej was a radio presenter in Radio Zet^[4], a popular radio station in Poland for 4 weeks and uploaded the audio footage on to his channel.
In 2012, Maciej published a book titled 'Zeznania Niekrytego Krytyka' ('Niekryty Krytyk's Testimony') and later went to publish many other books^[3]. At the time Niekryty Krytyk was one of the best known YouTube celebrities in Poland.

Fandom

As of writing this, Niekryty Krytyk has over 1,200,700 subscribers and 185,900,160 views on his channel. Only 59 results for 'Niekryty Krytyk' come up on DeviantArt. Maciej usually features on his videos comments from other videos, mostly ones that insult him and/or have many grammatical errors.
There has been numerous shirts made, based on Niekryty Krytyk; like a shirt based on one of running gags from 'Niekryty Krytyk ocenia: Telezakupy' (Niekryty Krytyk reviews: Infomercials)^[5]

Joanna

Joanna, or 'Dżoana', is one of Maciej's characters featured on his channel; Joanna is a stereotypical blonde rich American girl who speaks both Polish and English with a stereotypical American accent and sometimes confuses both languages, she often makes sexual comments (sometimes from confusing the languages). She was first shown in 'Przemyślenia Niekrytego Krytyka: Zrób to Sam' ('Niekryty Krytyk's thoughts: Do it Yourself') where she replaced Maciej for the episode.

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