Thirteeniverse
Thirteeniverse (also known as Picklesverse and later Shakeverse) is the name of a channel operated by a collective of users who began making Barney Bunch videos around 2021, alongside other miscellaneous videos. Their videos, titled The Drew Pickles Show, quickly won over the Speakonia Community due to their fast pace and editing, along with the immeasurable high quality much akin to users like SwellFusion and the Foot Fetish Community. Their success would unfortunately be halted following the tragic death of one of their members, but they would slowly start to return in mid 2022, where they were active in small spurts, though their channel has been inactive for months due to some drama. Members of the channel are still active on Discord. Eventually, they gave The Drew Pickles Show to someone else, and the channel would have a revival in early 2023.
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History
Early Years
The Thirteeniverse channel we're familiar with first began on YouTube on August 10, 2014, originally being a test upload account belonging to Maestro Keegan (originally under the username xomdjl_), later repurposed as this channel. In addition to The Drew Pickles Show, the channel also had a Vyond-made series titled "Jumbah", which Neon Krome, Keegan, and Samuel all worked on together. This webseries is about the psychotic misadventures of Jumbah (the blue "Boohbah"), and his gay ass boyfriend 13 (sourced from Zimmer Twins). There was also an earlier incarnation of Thirteeniverse during when the concept of Jumbah was fresh, but the channel closed down shortly after. After Gary garnished success in the friend group with his Drew Pickles videos, Keegan gave up one of his many test channels and made it into a Google Business channel with multiple managers, which would eventually become the 2nd incarnation of Thirteeniverse.
Success of The Drew Pickles Show and Hiatus
Thirteeniverse would officially start making Speakonia content on January 26, 2021, with the upload of Drew Pickles Goes To the Netherlands, the first entry to The Drew Pickles Show. What followed was a string of extremely high quality Barney Bunch videos, which quickly caught the attention of IronYoshi1212 and many other members of the Speakonia Community, for their breakneck pacing, sharp editing, and for evolving the Goes To format further than it has ever gone before. On November 12, Thirteeniverse uploaded their first Blood-style video, Riff is a friend!, branching out into more video styles. Despite this newfound fame and success, tragedy would strike the channel.
On January 27, 2022, Gary21115 (also known as WaRnEr), the member responsible for crafting The Drew Pickles Show, died in a murder-suicide. News of the tragic event hit the Speakonia Community Discord server, and the community mourned his loss. Following Gary21115's passing, updates to the Thirteeniverse channel would slow down significantly. Then, on March 26, an update video was released regarding the current state of the channel, as well as where The Drew Pickles Show will go following the tragic events of Gary21115's passing. The series would now be helmed by Earthsam, one of the channel's admins, and on April 13, the channel hosted a stream in memory of Gary21115, along with their first new Speakonia video in over 4 months, a Blood-style video titled 4KIDS DIARREHA ORGY FOXBOX XXX RECTAL RAMPAGE. Unfortunately, on April 20, the Thirteeniverse channel would be terminated from YouTube, forcing the creators to seek refuge on alternative sites where the community had been stationed, including VidLii and Tracle. The VidLii channel only has one upload, while the Tracle channel had most of the episodes of The Drew Pickles Show and other miscellaneous Speakonia videos (though a few were noticeably missing). All of the members would end up joining the Speakonia Community Discord server, though Neon would end up leaving in July.
Revival and Rebranding
For quite some time, the fate of The Drew Pickles Show was uncertain until another group, the Worldwide Filmmakers' Union (which had a few Thirteeniverse members in it), decided to start running it in December 2022. Not too long after the first episode premiered, Keegan made peace with a few select members of the Speakonia Community and debunked most of the drama and allegations surrounding him while owing up to the stuff that was true, also after proving that Neon did in fact forgive him and give him permission to be a showrunner post-Gary's passing. Most previous episodes of this show were done using VEGAS Pro 13, but these episodes are being done using both DaVinci Resolve Studio 18 and VEGAS Pro 20 now. Keegan has managed to mimic some of Gary's editing style aspects pretty spot-on, making things better. The "Season 2" episodes are usually simultaneously posted on YouTube, Tracle (until their mass-ban of Barney Bunch content went into effect in early 2023), and VidLii.
In early 2023, Keegan would announce that the Thirteeniverse channel would be revived, with many of the original members coming back with assistance from ZeroStar. It was revealed that the channel would return to YouTube as well as set up on Odysee and Rumble, which some members of the community have decided to set up after the Tracle ban. Keegan also moved all the Drew Pickles Show episodes over from his personal channel to that channel. The Thirteeniverse staff would work very closely with the WWFMU. After a very brief retirement of the channel, Keegan would state that Thirteeniverse would be brought back again after conversing with Neon, with The Drew Pickles Show, which was going to end after its third season, continuing on afterwards. They would also rename the channel as well to distance themselves from their past work, going from Picklesverse and later Shakeverse.
Members
Thirteeniverse is unique in that it is one of the few Speakonia channels that has multiple users operating it. Below are the users who maintain the channel.
- Maestro Keegan
Originally known as xomdjl_, Maestro Keegan was one of the founders of the Thirteeniverse channel, and was part of it until mid 2021, where he would be kicked from the team after allegations of him treating Neon poorly came to light. He would eventually reconcile with her and the rest of the crew, and be let back on the channel in 2023, where he now currently runs The Drew Pickles Show following Gary21115's passing, in addition to currently running the Worldwide Filmmakers' Union.
- Neon Krome
Neon Krome is the main admin for the channel.
- Gary21115
Also known as WaRnEr, Gary21115 was the primary user behind the channel's Speakonia videos, in particular The Drew Pickles Show, until his tragic passing in 2022. Originally staring out in the YouTube Poop community, his Barney Bunch videos helped the channel gain traction among the Speakonia Community. He was also the first member of the Thirteeniverse crew to join the Speakonia Community Discord server.
- Earthsam
Earthsam is one of the channel's admins, and he was poised to be one of the showrunners for The Drew Pickles Show following the passing of Gary21115 before Maestro Keegan took on that position.
- YuviToons
- Garrehandro