Cooper Castille (born: May 12, 1998), better known online as Coop, is an American YouTuber. The channel specializes in doing whatever comes out of Cooper's mind at the time. Recently, the channel is about game reviews, but this channel also has a few of Cooper's brickfilms made between 2010 and 2015 before Cooper made the switch to become a game reviewer.
luigifire101[]
Cooper made his start on YouTube as "luigifire101", a channel heavily inspired by "forrestfire101" since a lot of Cooper's videos were poorly made brickfilms. The channel was created on September 19, 2008, but nothing was uploaded until late December. Cooper's first videos were made using a low-res webcam and a cheap headset for a mic. Most of these videos do not exist, but the only remaining proof of their existence is on one of Cooper's cousin's channel (which is currently blocked, but can be viewed here).
While some original videos were made with two of his cousins, Cooper started to just remake popular YouTube videos into brickfilms (mainly Smosh). However, on April 9, 2009, "luigifire101" got terminated for violating YouTube's terms of service.
Other accounts[]
A month before "luigifire101" got removed, Cooper made an "alternate" channel of sorts called "LuigiFire7792" as a way of posting "extra content" of sorts. After luigifire101 got terminated, Cooper switched to using LuigiFire7792 as his main. He kept on making brickfilms and such but was often inactive due to Cooper getting caught up with school. Whenever he did post on there, he would continue recreating scenes from movies into LEGO. This time, he wouldn't take audio from the films, he would recreate them by providing his own voice-over, along with taking music from the films.
The two movies he tried to recreate were Child's Play (a film he never saw but still tried remaking) and John Carpenter's Halloween. These videos are long gone and no copies exist. Cooper kept using this channel for a good four months, but eventually decided to restart his YouTube channel and shut down "LuigiFire7792" on July 26, 2009.
On the same day he closed 7792, Cooper started up "LuigiFireFilms". Cooper tried to do more original stuff and created his own Halo series (that was a ripoff of Mackend17's series) where Cooper started to build more elaborate LEGO sets and also started customizing his own minifgures. Near the end of 2009, Cooper came across MasonBeiter's YouTube channel where he was holding auditions for his new "LEGO Space Police" series, which had several open parts for nameless officers. Cooper decided to audition for an open part and Mason gave him the role of "Officer Cooper", who appeared in both episodes Mason made.
While his videos started getting traction with the relatively popular MasonBeiter helping him get more views, Cooper grew very tired of the "luigifire" name. So on January 27, 2010, Cooper finally dropped the LuigiFireFilms name and closed the account for presumably the final time.
The start of "coopercastille"[]
The same day Cooper closed "LuigiFireFilms", Cooper decided to create a new YouTube account with the insanely simple title: "coopercastille". Cooper continued to create brickfilms and such. While Cooper did create new content, he also decided to reupload his LEGO Halo series. However, Cooper did not hold on to the original video files for LEGO Halo, so he decided to screen record them using zdsoft. As a result, the videos' framerate were much worse and the audio levels were obscenely loud. Cooper kept these screen recordings on YouTube for about half a year, until he decided removed since he thought they were incredibly unwatchable.
While Cooper was appearing in several different people's brickfilms, Cooper's own videos started getting lacking. Cooper was not the best when it came to scheduling and editing videos. His PC (at the time) ran very slow and would always be low on memory. Cooper also made an alternate account called "cooperAcastille", which was going to be Cooper's alternate channel for extra stuff. Cooper tried to make a series called "LEGO Heroes vs. Villains", which started a lot of his brickfilming friends. The series was going to be about a group of Superheroes from Marvel & DC having conflicts with one another. Really stock and generic stuff. Cooper also tried to make a series with another brickfilmer named "Emilio Aguliar", the series was called "Cooper&Emilio". The biggest success Cooper's channel managed to receive was "LEGO Toy Story Clip",.
Around 2011, Cooper could not balance doing school work and working on his YouTube channel, eventually, he started canceling several projects and almost gave up on brickfilming altogether. Near the end of 2011, Cooper (under embarrassment for almost all of his videos) removed almost all of his brickfilms. Initially, Cooper managed to upload about 50 to 70 videos, by the end of 2011 the number dropped to about 12. Cooper started losing interest in brickfilms. Around 2012, several brickfilmers started dropping out due to schooling or just lack of interest. Other times, personal conflicts would split brickfilmers apart.
During all this, Cooper had to make a new "alternate" channel since he forgot the password for "cooperAcastille". This time, he plainly calls it "coopercastille2", and would often post a few tutorials and even uploaded an episode of "Cooper&Emilio" called "Moving In", which remains the only surviving episode of Cooper&Emilio. Over the next few years, Cooper would try to find the videos he removed from his main channel just to re-upload them on his second channel so that they'd still be available in his domain.
Gaming Channel[]
When Cooper lost interest in brickfilms, he decided to start doing gaming videos (despite the lack of a good capture device or decent computer). He announced on his main channel that he would no longer be making brickfilms and that he'd start doing gaming videos on a new channel called "CooperPlaysGames". Cooper's original channel had a good 700-800 subs, and after the announcement that brickfilms were cancelled, plenty of people unsubscribed from the channel and didn't go to CooperPlaysGames. The gaming channel didn't last that long. Cooper would often just upload standard playthroughs of games (mostly Sonic). This lasted for about two years.
Skype Commentaries Sonic 1 MegaMix PT5 - Starry Night
"Skype Commentaries", Cooper's failed attempt at making a commentary video.
At one point, Cooper just had three of his friends join a Skype call with him just so he could get more people in a video he was recording (with their permission). Cooper did this for three videos, all of which ended up being called "Skype Commentaries", where Cooper played a Sonic game and his friends would just talk about random stuff that had nothing to do with the game (especially since they couldn't see Cooper playing it).
Back to "coopercastille"[]
After spending two years on "CooperPlaysGames", Cooper decided to head back to his main channel and attempt to start making brickfilms again. Despite most of his friends being absent, Cooper still went out of his way to write a 15-page script called "Henri the Batman". A script revolving around Cooper's internet friend, Henrique, who become Batman and lets Cooper join his side as the "Robin". Cooper intended to make this his "big comeback" to brickfilms, but it was never finished. Cooper slowly lost interest in making the video. Eventually, after all the production problems, Cooper canceled video but did release the first completed 7 minutes on its own.
Cooper's Five Year Anniversary
Cooper's five-year anniversary video.
Even though "Henri the Batman" got canned, the fifth anniversary of "luigifire101" was approaching. So one day, Cooper and two of his friends, Jay and Chris (brickboy3000 / LazyBrickFilms) read out a few old scripts from videos Cooper scrapped years ago. One of them involved Cooper getting attacked by a "Copyright Ninja", to which Cooper decided to record them reading the script. Then in mid-September 2013, Cooper decided to make his audio recording into a brickfilm and titled the video "Cooper's Five Year Anniversary", which was uploaded on September 17, 2013 (two days before luigifire101's anniversary).
After the video "came out better than he expected", Cooper realized he should keep making videos based on stuff he knew he would enjoy making. After "Henri the Batman" was finished being written, Cooper and his cousin, Andrew, decided to write down a joke script in celebration. The script was put under the title, "That Cooper and Andrew! - THE RETURN", which was initially written as a parody of talk shows. The script went through several revisions and even had some writing done by Cooper's two internet friends, Jay and Jack.
That Cooper and Andrew Show! Episode 1 - The Return?!
TCAAS #1
Cooper, Andrew, Jay, Jack and briefly, Chris, did a Skype read of the joke script, which Cooper ended up recording. On December 28, 2013, Cooper put together another brickfilm using the Skype recording. The video was initially uploaded on Cooper's second channel, but Jay convinced him to reupload it 6 days later on his main channel, which he did so. After that, Cooper and Andrew started working on a second episode. This time, Cooper made the video using Garry's Mod instead of LEGO (thinking he would switch to using since brickfilms started declining in popularity).
The second episode, titled "THE BEGINNING PT. 1", was uploaded on January 19th. The next episode, "Episode 2.5 - THE BEGINNING PT. 2", started being made immediately afterwards. After getting the script done, Cooper used Garry's Mod again to make the video. Due to school getting in the way, Cooper couldn't get the video finished until 3 month later. Episode 2.5 video was finally uploaded on April 26, 2014. Cooper intended to keep using Garry's Mod for future videos, but his PC still wan't able to handle recording the game, which led to "That Cooper and Andrew Show! Episode 3™" to be delayed for several months.
Cooper decided to switch back to using LEGO so production on TCAAS3 could continue. The video was finally finished & uploaded on September 26, 2014 (exactly 5 months after TCAAS 2.5 was uploaded). Cooper & Andrew kept writing more episodes of TCAAS, but a script for a "fourth" episode (which involved Cooper & Andrew becoming detectives after seeing a movie) ended up getting scrapped due to creative differences (and just lack of interest). Despite that, a script for "TCAAS Episode V - The Search for IV" managed to get finished written, the episode was uploaded in November 2014. A script for a "TCAAS6" was started almost immediately, but Cooper and Andrew decided to write two short episodes centered around Thanksgiving and Christmas. Cooper wanted TCAAS6 to be the best episode they could make and delayed it for a few months until he got a better quality webcam. Cooper wrote an "Anniversary short" to commemorate the One Year Anniversary of TCAAS and intended to upload it on December 28th, 2014 (the anniversary of when the first episode was uploaded), but the short got delayed by a good 6 days later (being uploaded on the anniversary of the reupload).
That Cooper and Andrew Show! EPISODE 666.EXE.RAR.DOC.JPEG.GIF & KNUCKLES ORIGINS ©
TCAAS #6, the finale.
The final title for TCAAS6 ended up being "That Cooper and Andrew Show! #EPISODE 666.EXE.RAR.DOC.JPEG.GIF & KNUCKLES: ORIGINS ©", and was meant to be the "finale" of the series. Cooper wrote most of the script, but couldn't exactly find out how to end it. He wanted to make the episode feel grand and epic, but once he told Jay and Andrew that he couldn't figure out a way to finish it, both of them decided to write the ending for the episode (which spoiler alert: involved the planet being blown up). School once again caught up with Cooper, though he still tried to finish getting TCAAS6 filmed, but the episode still got delayed by a few months. After school was no longer a problem for Cooper, he finally managed to get the video finished and uploaded on June 17, 2015, ending That Cooper and Andrew Show.
Podcasting & Final brickfilms[]
LEGO Toy Story Clip 3
"LEGO Toy Story Clip 3", which as of 2015, remains Cooper's last brickfilm.
Cooper had no intent to end TCAAS at #6, but also didn't have that many interesting ideas for Episode 7. Not knowing what else to do on his channel, Jay came up with the idea to start doing podcasts. Almost a month after TCAAS6 was uploaded, Cooper, Andrew and Jay recorded their first podcast, which they decided to name "TC&AS Podcast". The second podcast they did included another friend of Cooper's and Jay's, Jack, who became a regular for most podcasts. In their fourth and fifth podcast, the four of them read old scripts from 2010-2011 that Cooper never got made. The script reads went so well and so hilarious that Cooper decided to make three of the brickfilms from the unused scripts using the audio from their podcast. Two months after Cooper made the Animated Podcast videos, he decided to make a "LEGO Toy Story Clip 3" to celebrate Toy Story's 20th anniversary. This would end up being Cooper's last brickfilm since 2015.
TC&AS Podcast lasted from July to September 2015, but due to the podcast receiving little attention, Jay recommended changing the name of the podcast. After going through several names, the group landed on the new name, "Take 2 Podcast", and decided to end "TC&AS" Podcast" on September 19, 2015 (luigifire101's Sixth Year Anniversary). "Take 2 Podcast" begun a day later and lasted 18 episodes, ending in May 2017. Cooper tried to do Take 2 Podcast monthly, So much so that him, Jay and Jack rushed out a podcast in the last few days of January 2016, joking about how "we're well rehearsed" when it came to uploading on time. Jay and Jack even recorded a podcast by themselves for Cooper since he was getting to caught up with other projects.
None of the episodes for both podcasts are publicly available due to privacy concerns from Cooper and other parties, however, the three "Podcast Animated" videos have been re-uploaded on coopercastille2.
Game Reviews[]
Around the time Take 2 Podcast was getting started, Cooper desperately wanted to start working on movie/game reviews. He proposed and advertised that he would end up doing a review of the Back to the Future trilogy. The furthest Cooper got with the review was a completed, 13-page script and a 4-minute preview that Cooper managed to upload. While Cooper was excited to get the review out between October-November, he slowly lost interest with making the review as a result of not getting all his audio commentary recorded, plus his lack of experience with reviews also got in the way. Near the end of 2015, Cooper decided to scrap the whole review and uploaded about 4 minutes of the review he managed to put together.
The Back to the Future Trilogy (Cooper's Perspective) Demo; CANCELLED
All that remains of Cooper's proposed BTTF trilogy review.
Cooper figured he would start out by doing game reviews to avoid copyright issues that get in the way of several film reviewers on YouTube, he also decided he'd review games he already owned. After uploaded a brief update video for his few subscribers, Cooper decided to review the Midway Games release, "Ed Edd n Eddy: The Mis-Edventures" for the GameCube, getting the review out on February 27, 2010. Since he was still a Senior in high school, Cooper decided that he'd only try to get just ONE review out a month, and managed to keep doing so until he graduated in May 2016.
At the end of his Wii Sports review (uploaded in May as his fourth overall review), Cooper announced that the next game he'd be review would actually be an entire gaming series, Sonic the Hedgehog. Since Cooper was personally done with the stress school brought to him, he decided to do Cooper's Perspective full-time and switched his upload schedule to get at least TWO reviews out every month. From June to October, Cooper managed to get at least two Sonic reviews out a month apart. Over time, however, Cooper's Sonic reviews would end up becoming longer and longer which caused way more stress for Cooper.
The final straw came once Cooper reached the infamous "SONIC THE HEDGEHOG (2006)", otherwise known as "Sonic '06". Cooper's review was meant to come out on November 14th, that game's tenth anniversary. However, both the scripting & editing processes were what Cooper described as a "total nightmare" which made him unable to get the review out on the 14th, and the review wouldn't get finished until a whole month later on December 14th, 2016 (exactly 1 month late).
Sonic Unleashed is PHENOMENAL (Cooper's Perspective)
"Sonic Unleashed is PHENOMENAL", to date, Cooper's longest game review.
Cooper's next game review, Sonic Unleashed, would not get released until February 7th, 2017. Running at 110 minutes, "Sonic Unleashed is PHENOMENAL" still stands as the longest review Cooper's ever put out, and it also became Cooper's most viewed review for several months.