Max Gilardi

Max Gilardi (born January 28, 1988) is an American animator, voice actor, and YouTuber. He is best known for his "PONY.MOV" web series, a parody of the popular children's animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

Gilardi was born in Massachusetts in 1988. He attended the Art Institute of Boston briefly before dropping out.

Gilardi, under the name "HotDiggedyDemon", first started creating flash animations in the early 2000s on Newgrounds.com. In 2007, he began uploading his work to his YouTube channel as well. That year, he created the "Jerry" series, a series of animations detailing the life of a man named Jerry. In 2010, he created the "Wacky Game Jokez, 4 Kidz!" series, also known as "WGJ4K", featuring video game-based humor.

From 2011 to 2013, he gained notability for releasing his six-part video parody of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "PONY.MOV", an adult dark comedy animated web series in the art style of The Ren & Stimpy Show. The series grew as a spin-off of Gilardi's Tumblr webcomic, "Ask Jappleack", and each video highlights a different character from the main cast of the television series. In addition to creating animations, he co-hosted the Wisenheimers podcast with fellow animator Yotam Perel from 2010 to 2012.

Gilardi has over 900,000 subscribers on YouTube. The majority of his videos are self-made: written, animated, and voiced by Gilardi. In his more recent projects, he has experimented with 3D animation. In January 2016, he uploaded an Animal Crossing parody entitled "Isabelle Ruins Everything". He uploaded a parody of the video game Undertale three months later. On September 2, 2016, Gilardi launched a new YouTube series titled "Brain Dump" in which he reviews movies.