Best Youtuber: SIDEMEN vs SIMON TOFIELD

The Sidemen are a British YouTube group consisting of KSI, Miniminter, Zerkaa, TBJZL, Behzinga, Vikkstar123 and W2S. The group is best known for its various YouTube channels, which have a combined total of around 20 million subscribers, as of April 2021. Some of the members knew each other before the group was formed. Bradley and Brown both attended Bexley Grammar School in London and KSI and Minter both attended Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire. The group originates from a Rockstar Games Social Club group made on 19 October 2013 in Grand Theft Auto Online, called "The Ultimate Sidemen", which included all the members except for Lewis. In January 2014, Bradley met Lewis while at a FIFA gaming event in New York City and invited him to join the group. Describing the group name, Minter said in a video that "A sideman is basically someone's bitch who just follows them around I was basically JJ's bitch that followed him around." In February 2014, KSI, Minter, Bradley, and Barn moved into a house together near London, which they referred to as the "Sidemen House", which allowed them to collaborate more often. On 1 December 2020, the group's eponymous YouTube channel surpassed 10 million subscribers. Each member of the group was awarded their own Diamond Play Button by YouTube to mark the milestone.

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Simon's Cat is an animated web cartoon and book series by the British animator Simon Tofield featuring a hungry cat who uses increasingly heavy-handed tactics to get his owner to feed him. In January 2009, it was announced that Simon's Cat would be published in book format after the success of the first early films. Canongate released the title on 1 October 2009 in the United Kingdom. It was later released in many other countries and additional titles in the series were subsequently published. In June 2012, Walt Disney Animation Studios began releasing specially-made shorts of Simon's Cat, while a Simon's Cat newspaper strip ran in the Daily Mirror from 2011 to 2013. In August 2015, it was announced that Endemol UK had acquired a stake on Simon's Cat. In May 2016, Simon's Cat partnered with Sesame Street as part of their Love to Learn campaign. In June 2017, the game Simon's Cat: Crunch Time premiered. It is currently available on Facebook and on Facebook Gameroom. In February 2018, the game Simon's Cat Dash premiered. Tofield, who has had around 13 years of experience with animating commercials for companies such as Marmite and Tesco, initially came up with the idea of the first short film as a way of teaching himself of how to animate using Adobe Flash. He also further revealed that inspiration for the series came from experiences with his four cats — Teddy, Hugh, Jess and Maisie, with Hugh being the primary inspiration.

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