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Darknessthecurse
2006–present
Darkness1
YouTube profile

Joshua "Josh" Davis, better known as Darknessthecure, is a YouTube ranter and video game reviewer. He originally started off with an "angry reviewer" style but has since taken on a calmer style of reviewing. He is known for his multiple account closures over the years; since 2012, he uploads videos on the channel TheDarknessthecurse, which is his longest-lasting account.

History[]

2006–09: Darknessthecurse[]

Darkness joined YouTube on December 11, 2006. His first video was a review of F-15 Strike Eagle II; he later did a redux of this review in 2008. He at first primarily did game reviews, mostly on Sonic the Hedgehog games, and later branched out to rants on topics such as Fox News. In his old videos he screamed excessively, taking inspiration from the style of other "angry reviewers" that were popular at the time like the Angry Video Game Nerd, Armake21, and UrinatingTree. Darkness did not like to label himself but thought of himself as a goth more than anything, though he was also sympathetic to emos. He gained a decent level of popularity, and by the end of his first channel's tenure, he had roughly 11,000 subscribers.

Darkness was commonly associated with fellow YouTubers Rijno, JustKeepThatInMind, RandomDCE, Emer "Hellsing920" Prevost, BigAl2k6, and Lillylivers, who he regularly chatted with on Skype. He also did a rant with BigAl on Twilight to hide the fact that he's an actor in the movie. He was once recruited to be a member of GamingPalooza, but had a falling out with them and left (see below), and also worked with YouTubers such as MetroidJunkie2007, Cyberwolf087, Boomstick545, and JetDroidMonkey2007. Mr Montmorency was one of Darkness's early subscribers and supported him under an old account.

2007–08: GamingPalooza drama[]

In October 2007, Darknessthecurse was offered to join a group of gaming reviewers, Gaming Palooza Empire. The creator/leader of GamingPalooza, Aftershock, offered Darkness video editing software in order to help him out with his reviews. Darkness accepted the offer, and joined GamingPalooza alongside Aftershock and Wrestlevessel. While Aftershock and Wrestlevessel did their reviews on one computer, Darkness had his own computer to do reviews on and the privilege to upload reviews onto GamingPalooza with no restrictions.

Two weeks into Darkness's relation with GamingPalooza, Aftershock's computer broke down and neither him nor Wrestlevessel could do reviews. Wrestlevessel and Aftershock were scheduled to release a few reviews, but were unable to do so; therefore, Aftershock asked Darkness to announce to fans the technical difficulties they were facing, that his computer was down for two days and it would be back up. However, Darkness refused to say anything about it and proceeded to be defiant; some speculate this is because Aftershock did not make Darkness the GamingPalooza leader in an earlier debate. Others say the debate was sparked by Darkness posting his videos without a GamingPalooza title added.

After Darkness's relations with GamingPalooza ended, an e-war began between the two accounts, which lasted over a year. Darkness and GamingPalooza posted videos attacking eachother, as did their fans, and GamingPalooza tried to copyright Darkness's videos. At one point, the accounts of both Darknessthecurse and GamingPalooza were hacked. This drama eventually petered out and was forgotten. At one point, GamingPalooza re-edited and remixed clips of Darkness's reviews into a parody series called the Angry Sonic Nerd, but these videos have since been deleted.

2009–10: TheSaneRevelation[]

On July 30, 2009, Darkness decided to close his channel. Some of his old videos were recovered and archived to channels such as TheDarknessArchives (since closed) and DarknessGameReviews. Upon hearing of Darkness's account closure, drama and confusion erupted among his followers. Even more drama was generated when JustKeepThatInMind spread the false rumor that Josh was in the hospital after being horribly injured in a car accident; he purportedly lost his legs after getting his ponytail caught in his dad's car door that then sped off with Josh in tow. Darkness and some of his fans also created fake accounts in the interim such as Darkne55thecurse, Darknessthycurse, and notdarkness, which threw other fans off further.

After closing his first main account, Darkness set up a new main account called TheSaneRevelation a day later. Darkness said that he closed his old account as a social experiment to see how his fans would react to the matter. The ponytail story was also revealed to be a ruse, as the video covering it used Marshall Tucker Band music, which JKTIM would never use for anything serious. While this new account was in service, Mr. Sanity primarily used it as an outlet to comment on various topics, issues, and social injustices. Eventually, TheSaneRevelation chose to close his account again, saying he wished to continue on with his personal life; he had his farewell video uploaded by another channel, TheDarknessArchives.

2010–11: OhMyGodMyFriendLived[]

Soon after however, Darkness returned once more with the account OhMyGodMyFriendLived. This account was essentially a throwback to the original Darknessthecurse account, having been set up to make LPs and video game reviews. It would seem that Darkness had retracted from discussing political and social matters and reverted to his old instincts once more, albeit in a calmer reviewing style with less screaming. However, this new account added one new element to the Darknessthecurse formula by adding a permanent co-reviewer to the videos, that being Josh's friend Nick. Unfortunately, once more succumbing to the inescapable cycle of account deletion and creation, OhMyGodMyFriendLived was closed following a feud between Josh and Nick in which Nick deleted everything in a fit of rage.

2011–12: LittleRidleyStares[]

Shortly after Nick's temper tantrum subsided, Josh and him settled the conflict and returned to YouTube under the name LittleRidleyStares. This account added another co-reviewer to the mix, that being Darkness's friend David (JustKeepThatInMind). After Darkness moved to his new solo channel in 2012, JKTIM took over LittleRidleyStares and continued posting videos on the channel, but abandoned it in 2013 and moved to his own new solo channel, JustKeepThisInMind.

2012–present: TheDarknessthecurse[]

In 2012, Darkness returned to solo channels by opening the account TheDarknessthecurse. He continued to do game reviews (mostly of Sonic games), as well as comedy skits, Let's Plays of games, retrospectives on game franchises, and Fanfic Nightmares where he does dramatic readings of bad fanfictions. He uploads weekly and also livestreams via Twitch. He had a falling-out with JustKeepThatInMind in 2015, and they are no longer friends.

External links[]

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