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MunchingOrange
YouTuber Information
Profile	MunchingOrange
Style	Gaming
Date joined	October 18, 2008
Twitter / X	@munchingorange
Facebook	MunchingOrange
Other media	Instagram Twitch DeviantArt
Videos	2.8K+
Schedule	Unscheduled
Status	Active
Associates	AbdallahSmash026
Username	MunchingOrange
Personal information
Full name	Eriel Rivera
Nationality	Puerto Rican
Location	Chicago, Illinois, United States
Channel trailer
Pokémon Sword and Shield Beta LEAKED Mega Evolution and Cut Pokemon!?
Most viewed video
Pokémon X and Y - Episode 1 Welcome to Kalos!
First video
Amateur Surgeon Christmas Edition- Generic

Eriel Rivera (born: December 21, 1994 (1994-12-21)), better known online as MunchingOrange, Mose or just Mo, is a Puerto Rican YouTuber known for his Pokémon Let's Plays and for playing Pokémon fan games, rom hacks, and licensed Pokémon games.  Eriel will occasionally play other games by Nintendo, but mainly focuses on the Pokémon universe. He also sometimes makes vlogs. For a while he was the most subscribed non card oriented poketuber, but on October 13, 2020 MandJTV surpassed him in subscribers when he reached 1,250,000 before Mo. 

History

Mose started YouTube in November 2008. He currently uploads mostly Pokémon content, as well as branching out into the vlogging realm. His "MO Show" is a vlogging series that occurs on average bi-weekly, but doesn't necessarily have a schedule. This show is also on its second season.

Eriel has played over 20 Pokémon games in total. In 2015, Eriel teamed up with other Nintendo players and started a channel called The Lost Boys. In late 2015 and early 2016, he started playing Yo-kai Watch and Pokkén Tournament. In Feb 2016, Eriel teamed up with YouTuber aDrive and started the Pokémon X and Y Egglocke Cagelocke series. He played several rom hacks throughout 2015 which gave him a huge sub and popularity boost, due to no actual mainseries Pokémon games released that year. 

His channel peaked during 2016 withe the hype of Pokémon Sun & Moon and him overall continuing pumping out content regularly and growing his already large fanbase. 

Decline

Once the Sun & Moon hype started dying at the start of 2017, his viewership started dropping from around 400,000 views a video to less than 200,000 views on average and has slowly been dropping since, now falling under 100,000 views and following the trend of Pokémon Let's Play channels dying in 2017 (Nappy and ShadyPenguin). His subs gained slowed down after the spring but still grew until a hiatus in January 2018 causing his sub count to flatline.

Personal Life

Eriel Rivera was born in Puerto Rico and lived there with his mom and sister. He later moved to New York City, then Florida, and finally Chicago, Illinois.

Subscriber Milestones

• 100,000 subscribers: March 16, 2013
• 200,000 subscribers: September 9, 2013
• 300,000 subscribers: December 3, 2013
• 400,000 subscribers: May 5, 2014
• 500,000 subscribers: October 6, 2014
• 600,000 subscribers: February 14, 2015
• 700,000 subscribers: August 13, 2015
• 800,000 subscribers: March 9, 2016
• 900,000 subscribers (first time): June 12, 2016
• 900,000 subscribers (second time, due to a YouTube wide sub bot drop on June 28, 2016 he lost approximitely 18,000 subscribers):July 8, 2016
• 1 million subscribers: October 13, 2016
• 1.1 million subscribers: May 12, 2017
• 1.2 million subscribers(first time): April 19 , 2019
• 1.2 million subscribers(second time):June 14, 2019
• 1.3 million subscribers: March 11, 2023