TierZoo

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TierZoo
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YouTube information
ChannelsTierZoo
Created byPatrick Lacey
Years active2017–present
Genres
Subscribers3.79 million
Total views444.6 million
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2017 [1]
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers2018 [1]
Last updated: December 4, 2024 [2]

TierZoo is an educational web series and YouTube channel created and hosted by Patrick "Patch" Lacey. [3] [4] The series launched on its eponymous YouTube channel in 2017; Lacey continues to upload TierZoo videos on YouTube, but the series streams on Nebula as well. [5]

Contents

The series features Lacey discussing animal-related topics such as wildlife ecology and evolutionary biology through a video gaming lens. In videos, Lacey heavily utilizes terminology and visuals that are prominent in video game culture and presents topics as if animals are players and the environments they live in are gaming servers. As of December 2024, Lacey's channel has amassed over 3 million subscribers and 466 million video views. [2]

Format

Many of Lacey's videos borrow terminology and visual themes found in video game culture. [6] [7] RuneScape , Overwatch , and Dark Souls are specific games which Lacey borrows text from, which he overlays on his videos. [8] He also utilizes music and visual effects from Super Smash Bros. , the Halo franchise, and Darkest Dungeon in his videos. [8] The core structure of Lacey's videos has him place animals in a "tier list", a concept designed to subjectively rank in-game elements (such as characters) based on their viability respective to the list. Fighting games are particularly associated with tier lists, [9] and Lacey credits the fighting game series Super Smash Bros. and its community with introducing him to the concept. [3] Tier lists became a phenomenon on Twitch and YouTube in the mid- and late-2010s. [9] Lacey also uses visuals from animal documentaries in his videos. [7]

History

Lacey attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he studied microbiology. [4] [10] He graduated in 2017 and shortly thereafter launched TierZoo on July 1. [3] Lacey initially ran TierZoo as a side project while working as a food scientist for about a year before fully committing to TierZoo due to the channel's early success. [3]

In April 2018, Kotaku covered TierZoo's "Earth's Worst Balance Patch" video which discussed dinosaurs and their extinction. [10] Later that year, Lacey and many other science and education YouTube creators attended ThinkerCon in Alabama. [11] In 2019, Lacey was featured in a PBS Eons video titled "Why Male Mammoths Lost the Game". [12] The following year, he narrated an episode of Did You Know Gaming? . [13] In October 2021, Lacey participated in the Team Seas fundraiser organized by MrBeast and Mark Rober. [14]

Despite finding success with his pivot to full-time content creation, Lacey was denied the ability to rent an apartment as the landlord did not see his TierZoo venture as legitimate. [15] [16] However, his online success with TierZoo allowed him to have a sponsorship deal with the Karat, a fintech credit card company, which issues credit cards exclusive to content creators. [17]

TierZoo won the Streamy Award in the "Learning and Education" category in 2023. [18]

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