Luke Lerdwichagul, best known by his online alias SuperMarioGlitchy4, or simply SMG4, is an Asian-Australian comedian and gamer. He is best known for his Super Mario 64 machinimas, where he makes and edits films usually starring himself and some other character, usually from another video game but sometimes from his personal life. Early life and YouTube career Lerdwichagul grew up in Australia. He began his YouTube career in 2011 with a video titled "the cake is a lie", parodying the popular saying from the video game Portal. In this blooper, Mario completes the game but comes back to Princess Peach's castle finding out there's no cake, which is true to the game that the blooper is parodying. SMG4's popularity explodes By 2012, SMG4's popularity had exploded. He obtained 1,000 subscribers in June of that year, and in May 2013 he had obtained 30,000 subscribers. As of November 2015 he had over 600,000 subscribers. He celebrates these occasions with videos titled "ssenmodnar" ("randomness" backwards), where he records unrelated scenes and then edits them together, usually overlaying music or other media over it. Today Today, SMG4 is one of the most subscribed machinimist channels on the Internet. He has opened his own T-shirt business named "smg4's candy van", where he sells shirts featuring themes from his videos (for example, a theme in some of his videos is Bowser saying "fabulous", and this is a theme on one of his shirts.) In his ALS Ice Bucket challenge video he revealed his face, and his name was released short after. He remains one of the most popular Australian YouTubers, along with HowToBasic. Inspiration In a Q and A video celebrating 400k subscribers, he reveals his inspirations to be of MegaMan765's videos.
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