Simon Lane is a very popular British YouTube star. Like most people who have come to prominence through their activities on the video-sharing platform, Lane has become popular by posting funny comments about video games, especially Minecraft. On a more professional basis, Simon Lane is the creative director of Yogscast, a channel he created with his friend Lewis Brindley. Thanks to their break from Minecraft videos, Yogscast was incorporated in May 2011. With over 3 billion views and 7 million subscribers, the channel remains the largest in the UK. Here’s how Lane became part of groundbreaking The Yogscast Ltd.
Meet Simon Lane – The founding member of Yogscast
Yogscast fans would prefer to refer to Lane by his alias “Honeydew”. The channel’s funny and witty creative director makes silly research very enjoyable. However, before the comic started messing around in front of the cameras, including playing the role of a dwarf at every opportunity, he had another life.
Upon his birth on March 17, 1978, he was given the full name Simon Charles Lane. The only known facts about Lane’s family and early life are the ones he jokingly talks about in random videos. For example, in an episode of YoGPoD (Yogscast podcast founded in 2009), Lane, in his usual comedic style, revealed that his father’s name was Alan. He also mentioned having a brother he was raised with.
At school, a guidance counselor advised Lane that Insurance would be the ideal career path for him, however, he went on to study astrophysics at Cardiff University. He failed a course and then dropped out. Afterwards, he started working in a retirement home as a security guard.
Simon Lane is proudly an atheist. An animal lover, he once had a dog named Ollie and owned two cats named Fuckface and Wankchops, one female and one male, respectively.
How he met Lewis Brindley
Simon Lane has always loved video games and one of the first he played was Jet Set Willy. It was while playing the online game World of Warcraft that he met future business partner Lewis Brindley. Wowed by Lane’s sense of humor, Brindley bonded with him and introduced him to his community of World of Warcraft gamers, marking the start of what would become a lasting bromance.
In June 2008, soon after they met, they launched his first YouTube channel, “BlueXephos” and started uploading videos of themselves playing World of Warcraft. They then formed the “Yogscast” channel, a name taken from the first letters of their World of Warcraft clan, “Ye Olde Goone Squade”.
His role on Yogscast
Simon Lane’s contribution to Yogscast is simply unmatched and partly thanks to him he has become such a big name in the online gaming world. They got their big break after they started posting comments about the Minecraft game.
In addition to his Minecraft game, Lane has also released other types of videos, including the Simon Sings series and Simons Plays. In the first, he posts musical interludes with a vocal impression of a cat’s voice, while in the second, he plays numerous console and computer games.
Simon Lane, alongside Brindley, hosts Yosgcast’s first YoGPoD podcast which launched in February 2009 and continues to run. During his time at Yogscast, Simon Lane had to take a break several times.
The first came in March 2015 when he posted a video in which he said he would be taking time off due to an unspecified medical issue that caused him to take an unexpected trip to the hospital. A few months later, in September, Lane returned to posting videos. Since returning from the first hiatus, Lane’s activity on Yogscast has gradually declined, although he maintains some level of activity.
Other trivial facts
• Simon Lane used to smoke but later quit and started taking nicotine capsules.
• The YouTube personality has poor eyesight and one of his eyes is worse than the other. So, he has a different strength of lenses on his glasses, while one of his eyes looks bigger than the other.
• Simon Lane has revealed he has a special place in his heart for Olivia Wilde and Katy Perry.
• Along with a number of Yogscast members, Lane took the ice bucket challenge. He donated to ALS.
• The PC version of the Sega All-Star Racing Transformed video game has one of its characters named “Yogscast”, designed in the likeness of Simon Lane.
• In Cardiff, Simon Lane was banned from a radio show for cursing a presenter for interrupting an Alanis Morissette song.