History WebVideo / Failboat

* HollywoodPsych: [[https://youtu.be/PWCkBL9uHHg While playing]] ''VideoGame/KirbyEpicYarn'', Fail plays therapist to help his live chat with their [[InsaneEqualsViolent insane and violent]] mindset and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Cloudcuckoolandish]] ways, which really just boils down to him saying vaguely therapeutic things, which none of it really works on the Chat. At one point he admits he's running out of therapist practices to say.

* LamePunReaction: [[https://youtu.be/SERo0V-o0T4?t=270 While playing around with the Hammer Jump glitch]] in ''Kirby and the Forgotten Land'', Fail manages to land on a large chain hanging from the celing. He then makes a ''VideoGame/LegendOfZelda'' quip off of it, before giving himself a Lame Pun Reaction.

** In the beginning of his Animal Crossing, Fail quips that K.K. Slider is [[Franchise/OnePiece a demon that attacked the village and one that Fail can call upon in his worst moment]]. One of his chat members confuses it for ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''.

Failboat streams regularly on [=YouTube=] on his channel. Most of his streams are uploaded to his [[https://www.youtube.com/@FailboatStreamStorage Stream Storage]] after they end. He recently created a second channel for less edited content called [[https://www.youtube.com/@FailboatsDinghy Failboat’s Dinghy]].

** In the beginning of his Animal Crossing, Fail quips that K.K. Slider is [[Franchise/OnePiece a demon that attacked the village and one that Fail can call upon in his worst moment]]. One of his chat members confuses it for ''Manga/Naruto''.

** Most of his ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' streams and videos are focused on playing with modded-in characters, levels, and more.

** More recently, Dan has been playing around mods for Kirby games, mainly ones that absolutely break the games they're in.

* TakeThat: Fail repeated throws shade at the UsefulNotes/WiiU, at point calling it a doorstopper.

** In his ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'' coinless challenge, he conducted a “streamer vs. Chat” challenge where they have to guess in a poll what Dan will die to the most. One of the options was “bear mauling” and someone mentioned that they paid for a bear to break in his house and presumably kill him.

** At the end of the video, he goes to answer the door and we hear noises of roaring, stuff breaking, and Dan freaking out.

* CheatersNeverProsper: [[https://youtu.be/WpVXFxLzf_o During Fail's Kirby and the Forgotten Land speedrun]], he implements a mod that [[SuperSpeed increases Kirby's speed]] exponentially in order to beat the world record. Later on, he brings back the "No Animations" mod from another stream to make himself go even faster. And when he's still behind the world record holder, he decides go to an already complete save file and skip to the final level from there. Finally, with two seconds on the clock, he ''pauses the timer'' and continues, despite explicitly saying seconds before that he wouldn't do that because "[[ILied he has honor]]". Despite all of this, he still fails the challenge.

-->'''Chat''': I will pay for you to not remove bear mauling as an option. It will win this time, I swear.\\
'''Fail''': What do you mean by that?\\
'''Chat''': I have already ordered the bear and it’s on its way. Please, don’t remove the option it was an expensive bear.

* BrickJoke: Lampshaded. When a glitch cause ''Animal Crossing'' characters to strip naked (see NakedPeopleAreFunny below), Fail remembers he made a joke when first starting the Happy Home Paradise DLC about being naked, realizing the gag has come full circle.

-->'''Fail:''' ''(changes color pallet)'' That's just Dedede- That is [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} King Dedede]]. ''(switches again)'' That's an [[VideoGame/{{Splatoon}} Octoling]]! That's an Octarian! ''(switches again)'' That's a paralysis demon.

-->'''Fail:''' It's all fun and games until the Koopas start criticising my content.

--->'''Fail:''' From them, they will learn many things, the thrill of adventure, the wiles of being an adult, but most importantly, how to kill someone under three second, using just breathing techniques.

** Twice while [[https://youtu.be/SjAJcy0GgTY designing Static's home]]:

--->(...)
--->'''Fail:''' From them, they will learn many things, the thrill of adventure, the wiles of being an adult, but most importantly, how to kill someone under three second, using just breathing techniques.

-->'''Fail:''' He's just a Wifi Steve main who builds dirty L's on people whenever he takes a stock. He's also a wanted felon for theft and murder, but that's like a whole other thing.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlFFKU7apY4 Hat in Time but its a cinematic movie experience]], Daniel plays a [[VideoGame/AHatInTime Hat in Time]] mod called "Hat Kid Steals the Declaration of Independence". In it, the Conductor uses the document to become an all-powerful (or "[[PerfectlyCromulentWord Omnipresent]]" as he says it) being that breaks the fourth wall and edit the very mod itself. Failboat in editing takes this one step further and the Conductor starts ''editing the very video itself'', restarting it and even switching to other Failboat videos. If you look in the description, he even got the hashtags!

* BreakingTheFourthWall: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlFFKU7apY4 Hat in Time but its a cinematic movie experience]], Daniel plays a [[VideoGame/AHatInTime Hat in Time]] mod called "Hat Kid Steals the Declaration of Independence". In it, the Conductor uses the document to become an all-powerful (or "Omnipresent" as he says it) being that breaks the fourth wall and edit the very mod itself. Failboat in editing takes this one step further and the Conductor starts ''editing the very video itself''.

Daniel Michaud, also known as [[https://www.youtube.com/@failboat Failboat]] or simply Fail, is a [[Website/YouTube YouTuber]] known for making content of [[LetsPlay Let’s Plays]] that was originally just ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' videos, but has since to other games, mostly Let’s Plays of Creator/{{Nintendo}} games, such as ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'', ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'', and ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'', all of which is coupled with humorous commentary and often chaotic moments on the side.

* ChromaKey: Dan uses a green screen for his streams. However, during his playthrough of ''Pokémon Legends: Arceus'', he uses one to make it appear like he's playing the game in first person, [[https://youtu.be/LEpFnWsOLTE
with incredibly hilarious results]].

* ChromaKey: Dan uses a green screen for his streams. However, during his playthrough of ''Pokémon Legends: Arceus'', he uses one to make it appear like he's playing the game in first person, with incredibly hilarious results. [[https://youtu.be/LEpFnWsOLTE It really has to be seen to understand.]]
* CircleOfShame: Invoked in "[[https://youtu.be/uPFIwVpAHHA Splatoon 3 but my Live Chat can talk]]", where every time Fail dies during a VideoGame/Splatoon3 level, a bunch of gifs appear on his stream and laugh at him, and he has to add another one each time. It gets to the point where he ask ''his parents'' for a photo of them laughing and they get in on the action.

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* TakeThatAudience: Daniel' also no stranger to throwing out some light-hearted jabs at his live chat or his audience in general. [[https://youtu.be/86UFlTs2pZY?t=362 Here's a good one]] from his ''Bowsers Fury'' Let's Play:

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Twice while [[https://youtu.be/SjAJcy0GgTY designing Static's home]]:
-->'''Fail:''' We have them, we have the room, we have the nice house, we have their mother. ''(places a pile of bones on the floor)''
-->(...)
-->'''Fail:''' From them, they will learn many things, the thrill of adventure, the wiles of being an adult, but most importantly, how to kill someone under three second, using just breathing techniques.

* ASimplePlan: Dan rigged up his stream to allow his live chat to control Mario in ''Super Mario 64''. Their goal was to get the first star in Bob-Omb Battlefield. Easy, right? It took nearly three hours, Dan changing the controls multiple times, [[ItMakesSenseInContext multiple clowns halting their progress, the introduction of poop emojis to combat the clowns]], and Fail ''breaking the rules of the stream'' and [[ClusterFBomb swearing up a storm]] to encourage them, but they eventually did it. Later, Dan call it "the worst stream he's ever done".

** Ever since his playthrough of ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}, Fail's chat keeps being called a Cat [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Furry]], much to his annoyance. It's gotten to the point where if a Cat Suit is equipable, Fail has to put it on his in-game avatar.

* ShoutOut: Fail named his [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons Animal Crossing]] island "Denny's".

* BystanderSyndrome: PlayedForLaughs. While playing ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'', Fail comes across a Pianta that on fire. Instead of spraying him off with the F.L.U.D.D., he stands there watching the poor guy run out aflame while he drinks a glass of water before splashing on himself.