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Josh Strider (PhantomStrider) is an Australian and Canadian YouTuber who runs a YouTube channel, focusing on top 5-10 lists. He generally presents in a friendly, welcoming manner. Josh’s focus is on offering easy listening and a calm respite to whoever is interested in spongebob, Lego, food, gaming, kids shows, and cartoons. His main YouTube channel is PhantomStrider, and his secondary, casual channel is LiveStrider.

Videos

In the past, the majority of Josh's videos were about some form of animation. In more recent years he has begun to talk about food, restaurants, lego, supermarkets, theme parks, gaming and even emojis. Common topics include Fast Food, SpongeBob SquarePants and Lego.

Personal life

Josh is married to Nin and likes to hang out with her every day. Josh runs obsessively in his spare time and has done 23 marathons (42km) and 5 ultra marathons (56km and 67km) so far. He also likes to do commentaries and small videos with his wife such as building gingerbread houses or mailbox answering vids on his smaller LiveStrider channel. His favorite fruits are bananas and apples. His absolute favorite sandwich is peanut butter and banana.

He really enjoys nature and running/hiking out in the forest and mountains.

Josh has worked a lot of odd jobs over the years. This included pizza delivery, KFC, Subway, service station attendant, store clerk, hotel receptionist, car shuffler, dressing up as superheroes for birthday parties, and a gas station (which black marked him for being late). He also served briefly as a signal intelligence officer in the Navy. He enjoys playing villains in community theater performances.

Family:

Josh's wife is Nin, who is a regular second host on the channel. She regularlyhelps withs researching/writing scripts and will often read the comments and speeches of people in a video. She has a tendency to wear silly hats while doing this. She and Josh are planning to get married in July 2024.

Beliefs

Josh identifies as a secular humanist. A humanist typically rejects the idea of a supernatural being but puts a focus on kindness, with a base of science for answers to life, origin, etc. Humanists try to base their ethical decisions on reason, empathy, and compassion for others.

He also practices regular mindfulness meditation. He tries to practice some of the values of Buddhism. He also runs a group called the "Humanist Club of Friends" aimed at promoting fellow human kindness, meaning, and togetherness without the requirement of a religion or a supernatural belief.

Mental health work

Josh has Asperger's syndrome (on the autism spectrum) and sometimes teaches coping techniques and tips for mental health challenges in his "Anxiety Tips" mini-series. These videos focus on using cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance commitment therapy, exercise, mindfulness, and meditation to live more comfortably with Asperger's, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Although he is not English, his accent is often mistaken for British. Some of the closer channel community speculates that his Asperger's bends his accent towards this speech style.

On February 12, 2017, Josh ran a live-streamed marathon for the public in order to raise money for the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention. He did another live stream on September 26 to once again raise money for the AFSP. This time he did a 100% playthrough of Sonic Mania with his brother Raz. He did a third livestream later that year by dancing non-stop on Just Dance for 5 hours.

Josh did a similar live-streamed dancing charity on March 16, 2019 to raise money for AFSP. Josh is helped by his brother Raz whenever he does these.

Timeline

Strider began his videos in 2014, occasionally showing himself in a maroon-colored shirt. He was almost always at his computer in a very bare, minimalist room. His first appearance for more than 2 seconds was when giving out hotline numbers during Worst Family Guy Episodes. Strider began to appear more often, doing silly things like dancing to sitcom songs such as "Jessie."

The first person to appear alongside Strider in a review was his brother Raz during Worst Games Ever Made, who helped him talk about Sonic the Hedgehog 2006. This was later followed by a guest appearance from his friend Animetist when they reviewed the most popular films in the world.

Strider did not appear for more than 5–10 seconds on camera until July 2016, when he began doing Top 5 lists on his smaller channel, LiveStrider, that he narrated on camera. Josh's on-camera movements were often described as over-exaturated and strange. He eventually attempted to counter this by tying himself up to stop his arms from moving, with minimal success. These videos led to the mini-series "Cartoons from Around the World," wherein Strider looked at good and bad cartoons from various countries.

At the beginning of 2017, Nostalgia Critic was briefly introduced in Worst Movies of All Time, revealing a "shared universe" between the two critics. Robyn from Anime America was later introduced as Strider's go-to expert for whenever he needed help discussing anime. Dennis (AKA: HoodoHoodlumsRevenge) was introduced as Strider's friend who helped with discussing Creepypastas. BlameitonJorge was also introduced during the Creepiest Kids Show Characters, who gave Strider a second opinion in discussing uncanny kids show mascots. LuigiFan00001 (AKA: Matt) was mistakenly called during Top 5 Anime I Hate That Everyone Likes. and offered his help in the future with any Nintendo-themed lists. Various other critics, such as Alpha Jay, have been introduced since then for guest star appearances.

By 2017, Strider was doing on-camera video reviews frequently on green screen, allowing him to point out problems and frustrations with cartoons directly. It also offered him a new creative outlet and a way to "travel" to different countries.

Strider moved houses again in September 2019, picturing this as due to Korean Leader Kim Jong-un bombing his house for making fun of his drawing in Worst Korean Cartoons.

In 2020, Strider met his now-wife Nin. He has continued doing frequent videos, moving more into the category of topics outside of cartoons such as fast foods, with the exception of Spongebob and some kids shows

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LiveStrider

Strider in a 2017 Review

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