Henry McFadden

Henry Lipkin McFadden (born: September September 24, 1989) is an American YouTuber and Wiki User, gamer-commentator, actor, and comedian. Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, UK, he began his career in Piqua, Ohio, and is currently based in Fort Worth.

As of December 1, 2020, his channel has over 14222 video views and over 1 million subscribers. McFadden specializes in Let's Play videos, commonly of survival horror video games.

Personal life
McFadden has an older brother, Brian Nicholas McFadden (also known as Nicholas McFadden) who is an artist; he mostly stays away from allowing his face to be filmed for his own privacy. He is known for creating a webcomic series called

YouTube career
McFadden is primarily known for his playthroughs of indie and horror games, including the Five Nights at Freddy's series, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and its sequel, Garry's Mod, Happy Wheels, Surgeon Simulator 2013, SCP – Containment Breach and Slender: The Eight Pages, among others.

McFadden has collaborated on sketch comedy and gaming videos with a number of fellow YouTubers, including Crankgameplays, Jacksepticeye, LordMinion777, Muyskerm, PewDiePie, Matthias, Cyndago, Yamimash, Jacksfilms, CaptainSparklez, Egoraptor and LixianTV, who currently works as his editor. He has also collaborated with celebrities such as Jack Black and Jimmy Kimmel.

A recurring staple of McFadden's channel are charity livestreams, during which he plays games while campaigning for and collecting donations for various charities, including Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, and Best Friends Animal Society. According to McFadden, he and his viewers have raised a total of $3,000,000+ as of April 2018.

Early years and growth (2006–2013)
McFadden first joined YouTube on June 17, 2006, creating a channel under the username "Tomuchcake", and uploaded his first video on June 23, 2006. McFadden's original intent for the channel was sketch comedy, where he would be portraying all of the characters in the sketches. This led to the creation of the name "Tomuchcake", which is a portmanteau of Henry and multiplayer. In November 4, 2006, He started his TV show "Tomuchcake Plays" that new episodes premieres every Saturdays at 4:00 am to 4:30 am (episodes rated TV-PG and TV-14).

Channel growth and move to Fort Worth (2014)
In 2014, the Tomuchcake channel was listed on NewMediaRockstars Top 100 Channels, ranked at number 61. That year, McFadden announced he was planning to move to Fort Worth, to be able to be closer to other resources for his channel, such as the YouTube Space and other content creators. McFadden and fellow YouTuber Jenna Mae appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in September 2015 following backlash that Kimmel received regarding jokes he had made about YouTube and Let's Play videos. In 2015, he was rated sixth in a list of the twenty most influential celebrities among teenagers in the United States.

Hiatus and breaking 10 million subscribers (2015)
Beginning in 2015, Tomuchcake lived with fellow YouTubers Daniel Kyre and Ryan Magee, who created and ran the YouTube sketch comedy and music channel Cyndago. Matt Watson from Kids W/ Problems later joined Cyndago after they moved to Fort Worth. Their work was noted for having unexpected endings and dark, often disturbing, humor. Cyndago was disbanded following the death of Daniel Kyre. At the time of their disbandment, the group had done forty sketches and fourteen original songs, many of them featuring McFadden. After the death of Daniel Kyre and disbandment of Cyndago, McFadden temporarily halted uploads and went on hiatus from September 17, 2015 to October 5, 2015. He returned and reached 10 million subscribers on October 15, 2015. Watson and Magee moved on to create a gaming channel called SuperMega.

2015–present
McFadden co-hosted the 2015 South by Southwest (SXSW) Gaming Awards with The Legend of Korra voice actor Janet Varney, and was featured in YouTube's year-end special YouTube Rewind.

In January 2016, McFadden signed to Revelmode, a subnetwork to Maker Studios, along with other YouTubers such as Jacksepticeye and PewDiePie. Revelmode was disbanded in early 2017 as a result of PewDiePie being cut from Maker Studios. He subsequently signed to another Maker Studios sub-network, Polaris.

Throughout 2016, McFadden moved some of his focus to comedy sketches, showing his aspiration of improvisational theatre. In 2017, McFadden posted an interactive Choose Your Own Adventure-style video titled "A Date With Tomuchcake", which was well received by fans.

Since 2018, McFadden has hosted a podcast with LordMinion777 and Muyskern on Twitch, called "3 Peens in a Pod" (originally "The Bonercast", referencing a running joke in the Prop Hunt series of let's plays).

In 2017 through 2018, Tomuchcake has Joined Fandom.

In October 2019, McFadden announced a new Choose Your Own Adventure story similar to 2017's A Date With Tomuchcake, a YouTube Originals production titled A Heist With Tomuchcake. Produced by McFadden and Rooster Teeth, this series contains 31 possible endings and stars other large YouTube creators such as Rosanna Pansino & Matthew Patrick.

On November 15, 2019, McFadden launched a new channel with fellow YouTuber Ethan Nestor called Unus Annus (Latin for 'one year'), a channel that plans to post a single video every day for one year before being deleted along with all of the videos on the channel, with no reuploads of the channel from two of them. The channel shot to early success, gaining 1 million subscribers in its first 5 days and over 11.5 million video views in its first week.

Other ventures
McFadden joined the board of comic book publisher Red Giant Entertainment in November 2014. In June of that year at the San Diego Comic-Con, he had cohosted a panel with figures from the company including CEO Benny R. Powell, and writers David Campiti, Mort Castle, David Lawrence, and Brian Augustyn. In 2016, it was announced that he would appear in his own line of comics.

McFadden signed with William Morris Endeavor in late 2016, having expressed interest in branching out from YouTube content.

In 2018, McFadden announced the launch of a new fashion brand called Cloak, in a joint venture with Jacksepticeye.