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The '''Wooden Play Button''' is a fake award created by [[Draco]] that hangs in the [[Gatorbox]] set. It was carved | The '''Wooden Play Button''' is a fake award created by [[Draco]] that hangs in the [[Gatorbox]] set. It was carved in 2016 to recognize the channel surpassing 1,000 subscribers on YouTube. The wood used for the award was cut from a piece of discarded fence hand-picked by Draco for its gnarled appearance and prominent knot, the intent being to find the ugliest piece of wood possible. Creators on the YouTube platform receive a silver Play Button award for reaching 100,000 subscribers so Draco thought that making a joke one for 1,000 would make for an amusing sketch. The prop was intended to come inside of a replica shadowbox like the Play Button awards of the era, though this was never fabricated and the bare award instead just sits out on its own. | ||
Initially Draco had plans to do a proper unveiling/unboxing of the prop as if it were a real gift from YouTube complete with a passively insulting congratulation letter but these plans never came to fruition. The wooden Play Button instead just showed up on the set one day with Draco sometimes pointing it out in passing. | Initially, Draco had plans to do a proper unveiling/unboxing of the prop as if it were a real gift from YouTube complete with a passively insulting congratulation letter (written by [[Roastmaster]]) but these plans never came to fruition. The wooden Play Button instead just showed up on the set one day with Draco sometimes pointing it out in passing. The Play Button was one of the many props on the set damaged by [[Hurricane Harvey]] in 2017 and perhaps received the worst of the storm as it became heavily water damaged. Draco kept the prop and hung it back up when the set was rebuilt and stated that the damaged version of the prop was "even funnier" than the original because it looks worse and the whole point of the award was for it to look like a piece of junk. | ||
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Latest revision as of 11:50, 3 October 2024
The Wooden Play Button is a fake award created by Draco that hangs in the Gatorbox set. It was carved in 2016 to recognize the channel surpassing 1,000 subscribers on YouTube. The wood used for the award was cut from a piece of discarded fence hand-picked by Draco for its gnarled appearance and prominent knot, the intent being to find the ugliest piece of wood possible. Creators on the YouTube platform receive a silver Play Button award for reaching 100,000 subscribers so Draco thought that making a joke one for 1,000 would make for an amusing sketch. The prop was intended to come inside of a replica shadowbox like the Play Button awards of the era, though this was never fabricated and the bare award instead just sits out on its own.
Initially, Draco had plans to do a proper unveiling/unboxing of the prop as if it were a real gift from YouTube complete with a passively insulting congratulation letter (written by Roastmaster) but these plans never came to fruition. The wooden Play Button instead just showed up on the set one day with Draco sometimes pointing it out in passing. The Play Button was one of the many props on the set damaged by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and perhaps received the worst of the storm as it became heavily water damaged. Draco kept the prop and hung it back up when the set was rebuilt and stated that the damaged version of the prop was "even funnier" than the original because it looks worse and the whole point of the award was for it to look like a piece of junk.