Seth2rock

""Seth2rock is an Algodoo marble racing Youtuber based in the Philippines. He makes marble race videos with 5,500 and counting currently subscribed to his channel.

Before YouTube
Seth was already obsessed with marble racing before he started his channel. He vividly remembers having his "daily doses" of marble races back in the days of 2017, filled to the brim with videos from channels that started before his. One summer of 2018, Seth decided to install Algodoo - it was free so why not. That's when Seth made his own marble races: conceptualized by him, made by him... only to be seen by him. He didn't have any intentions for anyone to see his marble races, and most of his creations just ended up in the Recycling Bin. Nevertheless, he enjoyed making races and watching them. In this period, nothing really happened - Seth just went on with his normal life and continued to enjoy the marble races he saw on YouTube, and a few ones he's made himself.

Avoid the Laser
The Avoid the Laser (ATL) series marked seth2rock's beginning in the YouTube industry. His channel was established on the 12th of April 2020 as a product of boredom and the thought process of "I make all these races and they all just go to waste. Why not upload them on YouTube, what's the worst that can happen?". His very first video was also uploaded on the same day, "Avoid the Laser - Introduction".

The way it worked is self-explanatory. Marbles tried their hardest to avoid the laser, which will reduce the marbles' health when hit. At the very beginning of the series, marbles are randomized into 4 groups of four. Marbles from the same group would then be put in the "arena" and would try to outlive the other marbles by dodging the laser. A marble needed to be in the top 2 to advance in the bracket, but being the sole survivor also granted the marble an advantage in the next stage; as for the marbles that ended in the bottom half of the group, they won't get to advance any further and their journey in the series ends. This cycle repeats until the group of 16 is whittled down to 4, where the finalists were put through different challenges, with the last surviving marble being crowned the winner of ATL.

This was a rough beginning for seth2rock, as the quality of the videos aren't exactly on it's peak with mistakes left and right (some bigger than others, ranging from misspelling marble in the introduction to the wave counter jumping waves) and with a screen recorder that isn't all that great. It didn't help that Seth tried to be original too, and that there wasn't "marble race" in the title, which made for zero traffic flowing into his videos.