Poke Vault

Internet degenerate Sean is a newer face on the scene, but his Poke Vault channel has already hit over 80k subscribers in about two years. And boy is it refreshing stuff, in a genre that’s primarily focused on being family friendly. Poke Vault is definitely aimed at older viewers, not least because of Sean’s obsession with identifying which Pokémon are stoned off their faces. (With a special rage saved for Paras, the “bug-eyed freak” who’s “high on his own supply.”)

The mix of recorded videos and live streams have a lot of overlap, in their frequent use of cutaway video stings, and Sean’s unique gift for inserting himself into other videos via green-screen. Even live. This invariably involves a loose form of “dancing,” usually to calm himself down after a big pull.

His live streams open with acted sequences that border on the surreal, while his love for a clip in which a peculiar woman farts into a microphone perhaps sets the tone for most of the content. It ends up feeling much looser, more outrageous than other channels, and a pleasure for it.

Sean’s secret sauce is cunningly making friends with many of the big names in the industry, frequently popping up in videos with Deep Pocket Monster, or sending abuse in YouTube chat to PokeRev during the latter’s live streams. The result is a cheerfully silly antidote to the majority of these channels, with a genuinely funny man at the helm, who cuts across the celebrity of those bigger names and spreads his degeneracy like a disease. Because this is a man who recently uttered the words, “I got a degenerate tingle right in the floopus area.”