Brian David Gilbert

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Brian David Gilbert
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Gilbert in 2015
Personal information
Born1994 (age 29–30)
Maryland, United States
Education Johns Hopkins University (2012–2016)
Occupations
PartnerKaren Han (engaged 2022)
Website www.briandavidgilbert.com
YouTube information
Channel
Genres
Subscribers1.1 million [BDG 1]
(April 2024)
Total views124 million [BDG 1]
(January 2024)
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers2022 [BDG 2]

Brian David Gilbert (born 1994), also known by the initials BDG, [1] is an American writer, YouTuber, voice actor and musician. From 2017 to 2020, he worked as a video producer at Polygon, where he hosted the series Unraveled. Since leaving the publication, he has created comedy and horror YouTube videos. Gilbert has been the fact checker on Dropout's Um, Actually for season 9. He has had voice roles in animated shows and video games. He is engaged to his frequent collaborator Karen Han.

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Early life

Gilbert is from Baltimore. [2] He was born in 1994 and has two elder siblings, Patrick and Laura. [BDG 3] [BDG 4] He graduated from Johns Hopkins University's School of Arts and Sciences in 2016. [3]

Career

In 2017, Brian and Laura Gilbert and Jonah Scott released the comedy musical YouTube video Stranger Sings. It is a backing track that syncs up with Stranger Things in place of the show's audio. It depicts the characters as a boy band and replaces the Demogorgon with the "Jazzman". [4] [5]

Brian David Gilbert became a Polygon.com video producer in late 2017. He gained popularity for Unraveled, a series of comedic video game deep dives. [1] In one episode, he reviewed the 337 books that appear in Skyrim . [6] At Pax East 2019, he performed a version of the PokéRap from the Pokémon series that he rewrote to include all 819 Pokémon. [7]

Gilbert left Polygon in late 2020 to pursue writing and voice acting. He started a Patreon for his YouTube channel. [1] His popularity from Polygon enabled him to create his own content full-time. [8]

Gilbert began working with Karen Han when she was a film writer for Polygon. After leaving the publication, Han appeared in, filmed, and cowrote many sketches on Gilbert's YouTube channel. The two, along with Laura and Scott, hosted the podcast Let's Make a Music. [9] In October 2020, Gilbert and Han released a YouTube video titled Earn $20K EVERY MONTH by being your own boss. A review by The A.V. Club called it "one of the year's most unnerving horror movies". [10]

For Halloween 2021, Gilbert released a series of monster-themed ABBA covers under the name AAAH!BBA. The series was cowritten by Scott. It began with a cover of "Lay All Your Love on Me" as a vampire, singing "blood" instead of "love". [11] It was followed by "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" sung as Victor Frankenstein, "Money, Money, Money" as a mummy, "Under Attack" as an evil robot, and "S.O.S." as Captain Hook. [12] [13]

After a 2021 video in which he invented ice cream flavors, he collaborated with a Baltimore ice cream shop, The Charmery, on a limited-edition flavor. [2] In 2022, he released a 30-minute video explaining the American health insurance system. The video, titled A terrible guide to the terrible terminology of U.S. health insurance, was inspired by his experience losing health benefits from his Polygon job and continuing coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act until it expired. A podcast produced by Kaiser Health News called it "the best video about health insurance ever." The New York Times said it was "silly, but useful," contrasting it with Gilbert's usual "geeky sense of humor". [14]

Gilbert and Han announced their engagement in December 2022. At the time, they were writing a Netflix animated series and an Annapurna Interactive game. [9]

Gilbert appeared in the 2023 animated series Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake as the Winter King, an alternate version of the Ice King. [15] He voiced a non-playable character in the 2023 video game Honkai: Star Rail . [BDG 5] His role was uncredited, but fans recognized his voice. [1] In 2024, Gilbert joined the Dropout series Um, Actually as a regular cast member for the ninth season. He replaced Michael Saltzman as the fact checker, with Ify Nwadiwe as the new host. [16]

Style

Gilbert's work combines comedy, horror, and music. He told Johns Hopkins Magazine in 2023, "When you boil it down, horror and comedy are essentially the same thing. They both require you to have your expectations reversed at some point. And I've always loved music." [3] According to video game scholar Emma Vossen, Gilbert's videos about video games have invoked leftist themes akin to BreadTube, such as a video analyzing whether Mario is able to retire. [17]

Filmography

Television / Web series

YearTitleRoleNotesRef. [BDG 5]
2019 Dimension 20 HargisEpisode: "Fantasy High Live in Brooklyn"
2021 Asdfmovie Miscellaneous voiceEpisode 13
2021The FallLeafie, Dad
2022 Make Some Noise HimselfEpisode: "A Villain and Their Real Estate Agent Tour Volcano Lairs"
2023 Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake The Winter KingEpisode: "The Winter King" [15]
Very Important People Professor Avery GoodmanEpisode: "Professor Avery Goodman"
Dynamo DreamGeneral Caput
2024–presentUm, ActuallyHimself / Fact checker12 episodes [16]
2024 Game Changer Podium inspectorEpisode: "Deja Vu"

Video games

YearTitleVoice roleRef. [BDG 5]
2020 Fallout 76 Petersen [1]
Maneater Conspiracy Theorist
2021Kraken Academy!!Player character, Mr. Whistler
2023 Honkai: Star Rail Silvermane Guard
2023 Starfield Phil Hill
2024Duck Detective: The Secret SalamiFreddy Frederson [18]

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