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Fred Figglehorn
Frederick "Fred" Figglehorn is a character who appears in the YouTube web series Fred (stylized as "FЯED") created by American Internet personality Lucas Cruikshank from 2006 to 2014 and revived from 2020 to 2021. The characters' initial popularity yielded other spin-off series and a media franchise with Nickelodeon, including three feature films and a television series.
Lucas Cruikshank introduced the Fred character in a video on JKL Productions, a channel he started on YouTube with his cousins, Jon and Katie Smet on June 11, 2006. Cruikshank uploaded several videos testing out different characters. The first Fred video was uploaded on October 30, 2006, and a few more videos were uploaded throughout 2007. On April 30, 2008, these videos were moved to the Fred (often stylized as FЯED) channel, and on May 1 the first official video of the series, titled "Fred on May Day" was released. By April 2009, it became the first YouTube channel to have over one million subscribers.
Zipit Wireless Messenger (Z2) sponsored the first season of Fred, with several product placements. Walden Media hired Cruikshank to promote the film City of Ember, along with the sci-fi novel it was based on, cameos from the film's star Tim Robbins in Fred episodes, and a mock movie trailer.
Cruikshank made a cameo appearance as both Fred and himself on Nickelodeon's iCarly in "iMeet Fred", which originally aired on February 16, 2009. The episode has iCarly facing a huge loss of popularity after Freddie Benson criticizes Fred on-air, resulting in Cruikshank pretending to cancel his own show, and the characters organizing a crossover episode between the two web shows to regain popularity.
In December 2009, Cruikshank filmed Fred: The Movie, which aired on Nickelodeon on September 18, 2010. Nickelodeon created a franchise surrounding the character, with the sequel, Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred, airing on October 22, 2011. In 2012, Fred: The Show aired, consisting of 24 11-minute episodes; a third movie, Fred 3: Camp Fred, premiered that year.
In June 2010, Fred appeared on the Annoying Orange web series. In October and November 2011, Ari Gold cameos in Fred as Power, from the film Adventures of Power. Fred also made a crossover video with Annoying Orange called "Fred Goes Grocery Shopping feat. Annoying Orange" in June 2010, which has gotten over 96 million views as of March 2026. However, the grocery store the Fred went to in the video (Joe and Al's Your Family Grocery) closed down sometime in 2011, and now the local store is mostly known due to the viral YouTube video.
Leading up to the second films' release, a new series Figgle Chat premiered on the channel in which Fred interviewed various stars such as Alphacat, Wilmer Valderrama, and iJustine among others. Additionally, an animated series titled, It's Fred!, joined the channel. Each episode followed Fred's various schemes to win Judy's affection while attending School. While unrelated to the film series, Jake Weary reprised his role as Kevin. Both series ended in 2011 and 2012 respectively.
The last video in the Fred franchise was an appearance by Cruikshank in the video “Lucas Defeats Yuksung”, an episode of “The New Fred”. Cruikshank made one final appearance in a promo for the new era of the channel in which users could send in their own videos before selling off the channel, making few appearances from then on. The channel made its final upload in 2015.
Fred Figglehorn
Frederick "Fred" Figglehorn is a character who appears in the YouTube web series Fred (stylized as "FЯED") created by American Internet personality Lucas Cruikshank from 2006 to 2014 and revived from 2020 to 2021. The characters' initial popularity yielded other spin-off series and a media franchise with Nickelodeon, including three feature films and a television series.
Lucas Cruikshank introduced the Fred character in a video on JKL Productions, a channel he started on YouTube with his cousins, Jon and Katie Smet on June 11, 2006. Cruikshank uploaded several videos testing out different characters. The first Fred video was uploaded on October 30, 2006, and a few more videos were uploaded throughout 2007. On April 30, 2008, these videos were moved to the Fred (often stylized as FЯED) channel, and on May 1 the first official video of the series, titled "Fred on May Day" was released. By April 2009, it became the first YouTube channel to have over one million subscribers.
Zipit Wireless Messenger (Z2) sponsored the first season of Fred, with several product placements. Walden Media hired Cruikshank to promote the film City of Ember, along with the sci-fi novel it was based on, cameos from the film's star Tim Robbins in Fred episodes, and a mock movie trailer.
Cruikshank made a cameo appearance as both Fred and himself on Nickelodeon's iCarly in "iMeet Fred", which originally aired on February 16, 2009. The episode has iCarly facing a huge loss of popularity after Freddie Benson criticizes Fred on-air, resulting in Cruikshank pretending to cancel his own show, and the characters organizing a crossover episode between the two web shows to regain popularity.
In December 2009, Cruikshank filmed Fred: The Movie, which aired on Nickelodeon on September 18, 2010. Nickelodeon created a franchise surrounding the character, with the sequel, Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred, airing on October 22, 2011. In 2012, Fred: The Show aired, consisting of 24 11-minute episodes; a third movie, Fred 3: Camp Fred, premiered that year.
In June 2010, Fred appeared on the Annoying Orange web series. In October and November 2011, Ari Gold cameos in Fred as Power, from the film Adventures of Power. Fred also made a crossover video with Annoying Orange called "Fred Goes Grocery Shopping feat. Annoying Orange" in June 2010, which has gotten over 96 million views as of March 2026. However, the grocery store the Fred went to in the video (Joe and Al's Your Family Grocery) closed down sometime in 2011, and now the local store is mostly known due to the viral YouTube video.
Leading up to the second films' release, a new series Figgle Chat premiered on the channel in which Fred interviewed various stars such as Alphacat, Wilmer Valderrama, and iJustine among others. Additionally, an animated series titled, It's Fred!, joined the channel. Each episode followed Fred's various schemes to win Judy's affection while attending School. While unrelated to the film series, Jake Weary reprised his role as Kevin. Both series ended in 2011 and 2012 respectively.
The last video in the Fred franchise was an appearance by Cruikshank in the video “Lucas Defeats Yuksung”, an episode of “The New Fred”. Cruikshank made one final appearance in a promo for the new era of the channel in which users could send in their own videos before selling off the channel, making few appearances from then on. The channel made its final upload in 2015.