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ToddInTheShadows
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Real Name
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Todd Nathanson
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Channel Awesome, Team TGWTG
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Todd out of the shadows.
ToddInTheShadows has been a blogger on TGWTG.com and musical talent on Youtube until 2010. He was a fan of the site for a long time before deciding to become part of the Channel Awesome family. He found the site through 5 Second Movies before the site went live in April of 2008. He reviews current (usually bad) pop music and, starting in 2012, one-hit-wonders of the past. In addition, he occasionally reviews music-related movies.
In his videos, he plays the piano (having spent eleven years playing piano) and he wears a gray hoodie in order to keep his true identity secret. The reasons for this are unclear -- he has alternately claimed that he hides his face to protect his position as a Sunday school teacher, as a secret agent, and as White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. At other times, he has said that he doesn't want his face attached to the "hamburger incident." His image-consciousness led him to do his reviews in profile silhouette, which adds to his mysteriousness. When not 'in the shadows' such as during crossover videos and during the events of Suburban Knights, Todd wears a Zorro-esque bandana that covers everything above his mouth (though it is revealed in Surburban Knights that he can't even see out of his mask, to the point of mistaking a pole for one of the villians).
Todd claims that he didn't get into pop music until an incident in 2007 when the antenna came off of his car. Because he didn't have money to fix it, he listened to pop music over and over because that was the only station that came on, and eventually he got into it. He started to review the songs he heard over and over in his personal blog. He then started filming his reviews and posting them as blogs on TGWTG under the name "MBI"; two early reviews were chosen as Awesome Blogs of the Week, which greatly increased his popularity on Youtube. As he built his fanbase, he was invited to come on to Channel Awesome.
Specials
- Hannah Montana: The Movie (September 25th, 2010)
- Hannah Montana Guitar Game (October 15th, 2010)
- Commentary Eenie Menie/OMG (December 13th, 2010)
- MAGfest Vlog (January 22nd, 2011)
- Commentary Like a G6/Whip My Hair (April 18th, 2011)
- Glitter (July 29th, 2011)
- MTV VMAs 2011 Vlog (August 30th, 2011)
- Todd's Black Eyed Peas Experience (October 29th, 2011)
- VLOG - Some Quick Thoughts on the Grammys (February 14th, 2012)
- From Justin to Kelly (with Nostalgia Chick) (May 8th, 2012)
- Top Ten Groin Shots in Movies (June 29th, 2012)
- 2013 Grammy Awards Vlog (February 12th, 2013)
- Burlesque Movie Review (June 29th, 2013)
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