TheCatOfObjectShows

Christian Howard (Better known as TheCatOfObjectShows, or TCOOS for short) is an animator, gamer, musician, and voice actor. He is best known for being in the Object Show Community as the creator of Objects At Gaming. He voices Red, the show's host, and 8 contestants: Blueprint, Dead Football, Grapey, Illuminati, Shelfy, Sombrero, Toilet Paper, and Wrenchy.

Concept
TCOOS has had the idea of creating a Youtube channel for a while. TCOOS first came up with the idea of making an object show since 2017, when the cast was first brainstormed, with surprisingly no rejected or unused contestants. TCOOS learned how to use Adobe Animate in July 2018 and later began testing his skills with older shorts. These shorts would give him an idea of how the visuals for Objects At Gaming would end up like.

Creation/OLO Auditions
When object show creator Wuggolo was holding auditions for the second season of Object Lockdown, titled Object Lockout, TCOOS wanted to make an audition for an animation role. When his audition was finished, the TCOOS channel officially launched on March 23rd, 2019, with the OLO audition uploaded. Alongside it was an older short titled "The Price" and the old intro for OAG that was featured in episodes 1 and 2. In September, TCOOS planned to make an improved audition for the show since it was announced Wuggle would reopen them after the release of her third episode. He would release it on October 16th, 2021, the day animation auditions opened, as TCOOS immediately spent those 6 hours to plan, look at the storyboard, animate thoroughly, and later post the final product and email Wuggle.

TCOOS got the email on December 16th, 2021 that he had officially been accepted as an animator and was invited to the OLO Crew on January 6th, 2022.

Objects At Gaming - First Third Era
The first episode of Objects At Gaming was officially released on March 7th, 2020, after two years of brainstorming and about 8 months of animating, including personal breaks. Though a small increase in fame for the channel, the second episode came out roughly two months later on May 16th, 2020. The episode saw a larger growth in popularity of the channel and series. The third episode gave the channel a larger growth. However, when the fourth episode came out, TCOOS had the quickest growth of 100 subscribers, only taking a week to get from 557 to 657. The fifth got him to similar positive growth, but also the earliest small batch of negative growth at the same time. Months later after the 16th Birthday celebration with episode 6, at the beginning of 2022 with 30 days of rigorous motivation, he got the animation stage of episode 7 completed in record time for a blessingly successful release. The episode has been well received by most viewers and so far has boosted the channel marginally in subscribers and views.

#TCOOS16thBirthday
TheCatOfObjectShows turned 16 years old on November 13th, 2021. As part of the festivities, a Q&A Vlog that he filmed at Disney (and Universal) was released on that day, and the sixth episode of OAG released on an unbirthday (11/7) before the vlog. The channel was also accurately predicted to get close to OR reach 1,000 subscribers if the two uploads perform well with viewers. He later began its official hashtag, #TCOOS16thBirthday. He reached 1K sometime before midnight while asleep on the 8th.

Just like in 2019 (James "Murr" Murray from Impractical Jokers), and 2020 (Rodger Bumpass as Squidward from Spongebob Squarepants), 2021 would bring a celebrity birthday wish for TCOOS. This year it was the star of TCOOS's favorite show both today, and from his childhood, DJ Lance Rock of Yo Gabba Gabba!

Personal Life, Autism Diagnosis, and His Other Worries
TheCatOfObjectShows has been very open about his autism diagnosis, at just 1 year old. Because of this, he learns and thinks differently than most other people. While he has agreed that it's a superpower, in some cases he thinks of his diagnosis as a small disadvantage at times, believing he's "too different" or "not a normal person". His most concerning trigger is the sound of crowd cheers (read below about how it negatively effects him).

It may not be the only thing he has. In May 2021, TCOOS noticed himself showing various symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder, but he doesn't know if he is diagnosed. There are two certain stock crowd cheer sound effects (usually found and recycled in too many pieces of media like movies and television series) that give TCOOS PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) having heard those sounds shortly after a near-death experience when he was 6, that too doesn't have a confirmed medical diagnosis but he experiences several common symptoms.

TCOOS is a strong cat person. So much so, he had to wait the first ELEVEN years of his life to adopt one due to some family members' allergies. On Christmas Eve 2016, he adopted his first cat named Maxwell (as seen on his profile picture), named after the Beatles song "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". Also, he has cynophobia, fear of dogs.

Mental State
TCOOS has been depressed since January 2020, describing his quarantine self as "extremely lonely". He got his first Pfizer vaccine on May 28th, 2021 and later his second on June 18th, exactly three weeks later. Begging his parents for the vaccine since it's official FDA approval for adolescents ages 12-15 (TCOOS is 15 at the time), he says that it's the "only ticket to freedom and seeing my friends and other family again, in an almost normal fashion. I'm a social butterfly and am dying to hug my friends again". He would fall into another COVID-related depression once the variants started worrying him, delaying his euphoric song "Finally Free" until further notice. The song would instead be the closing track of an upcoming Blueprint rock opera album, mainly written about TCOOS's life while stuck indoors.

TCOOS began his booster vaccine trek on December 29th, 2021. Since he got the Pfizer vaccine, which allowed boosters for teens at least 16 instead of strictly for adults at 18, and it was 6 months since his mandatory second shot, TCOOS became eligible for a booster.

TCOOS's depression would again resurface in late 2021 after the release of episode 6. He's felt less and less proud of himself and his morale for his channel had been steadily declining, despite having reached 1,000 subscribers and being eligible for monetization. This is probably because of a clip that spread on Discord and how it got several users to lambast his writing, in which TCOOS reflected and it looks like he agrees. He now describes himself as "the most godawful writer in the history of the OSC". However, this could change with episode 8, as he has a lot of show-changing scenes that have been planned for several years now, but until then, he is stuck in a sea of hopelessness.

Appearance
While he has taken and sent two selfies of himself on his Discord server after each vaccine, TCOOS revealed his distinct online persona, shown wearing dark sunglasses (with the lens noticeably marked over even further) and a cat mask, as he is uncomfortable being on camera and especially uncomfortable revealing his face on the internet. This appearance takes direct inspiration from one of his favorite internet personalities, Ranboo, who has worn a similar persona during facecam streams.

He revealed his "appearance" on YouTube on September 3rd, 2021, in which the glasses would be incorporated with the mask in his birthday Q&A.

Music Career
TCOOS loves listening to and even creating music, with his favorite decades of music coming from the good ol' days of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. His preferable genres of music are rock, classic rock, punk rock, and alternative rock. He also likes classical music and Mario OSTs.

TCOOS describes his singing range as "baritenor," which the word is a portmanteau of the words "baritone" and "tenor" and a merge of the two common ranges. He says he is a baritone who can reach tenor notes and has a wide falsetto, and compares himself to Green Day's lead singer, Billie Joe Armstrong.

TCOOS's speaking range may be deep, but in terms of singing, his chest vocal range goes from E2 to most comfortably up to around A4, but can falsetto an entire octave higher, up to A5.

He can play piano and drums, and is learning electric guitar after he just got one after graduating 9th grade.

Camps
Although TCOOS signed up for BIAS 2, the second season of the sequel camp to TROC (both created by Xanyleaves), as Scream Canister, he ultimately didn't get in. He is planning on signing up as a different Monsters, Inc. related object, just Energy Canister, once sign ups begin for BIAS 3. He is considering going as Energy Canister instead because of the canonical transition from scream power to laugh power at the end of the first film and its midquel Disney+ series Monsters At Work. He will merge both traits of scream and laugh, but at the same time, too much energy can make him go crazy, and can be a positive or negative outcome depending on the INITIAL thing that triggers the energy inside him to rise.

However, he ultimately did not sign up for BIAS 3 and currently has no more plans to sign up for any object camp at the moment.

TCOOS's Favorites List:
Color: Red

Foods: Cheese pizza, fries, chicken nuggets/tenders/fingers/strips (whatever type of those are on the menu at restaurants he'll order)

Books: To Kill A Mockingbird, The Princess Bride

Animal: Cat (Obviously)

TV series: Yo Gabba Gabba, Blue's Clues, Impractical Jokers, The Office

Live action movies: Sonic The Hedgehog, The Princess Bride, Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle

Animated movies: Ralph Breaks The Internet, Toy Story (all four films), Monsters, Inc.

Songs: Crocodile Rock (Elton John), Don't Stop Me Now (Queen)

Music group: GREEN DAY, The Beatles

Sports/Activities: Football, Soccer, Bowling, Golf

Video games: Minecraft, Fall Guys

Video game franchises: Sonic, Mario, Pac-Man, Banjo-Kazooie, Crash Bandicoot

Holiday: Christmas

Season: Summer

YouTubers and Streamers: MrBeast, TommyInnit, Dream (to name a few)