Creator / The Huang Twins

Michael (left) and Cary (right).

Cary and Michael Huang (born March 18, 1997) are a pair of Chinese-American web creators best known for the animated series Battle for Dream Island, which invented the Object Show genre.

Their website can be found here, while their YouTube channel can be found here. Cary's own channel, which features much of his solo content, can be found here.

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Videos and animations

• I Can Make A Difference (2008; originally made 2007)
• X Finds Out His Value (2008)
• The Math Machine (circa 2009)
• The Super Short Stick Figure Show (circa 2009)
• When Video Games Malfunction (2009)
• The Last Balloon (2009)
• Battle for Dream Island (2010–present)
  • Battle for Dream Island Again (2012–2013, 2023–present)
  • BAGUETTE (2012–2013)
  • Ten Words of Wisdom (2015–2022)
  • IDFB (2016)
  • Battle for BFDI (2017–2021)
  • BFDI Mini (2020–2021, 2023–present)
  • Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two (2021–present)
  • Eleven Words of Wisdom (2023–present)
• The Ball (2010)
• The Amazing Marble Race (2011–present)
• Algicosathlon (2012–2015; includes its predecessor Algodecathlon)
• Camcorder Tapes (2012–2015; originally made 2005–2008)

Games and other interactive media

• Get To The Top Although There Is No Top (2009)
• Balloon Minigame Pack (2009)
• No Walking No Problem (2009)
• The Scale Of The Universe (2010–2012)
• Racing Extreme (2010)
• Tidepool (2010)
• Cube Roll (2010)
• Goime 500 (2011)
• Carys Stagecast Stuff (unreleased; partially published in video form 2016–2017; originally made 2004–2009)
• Icy Mountain (2016; originally made 2010)
• Z Time (2016; originally made 2010)
• Chompster (2016; originally made 2009–2013)
• Elemental (2016; originally made 2011–2016)
• Hex Chess (2016; originally made 2011)
• Timed Minesweeper (2016)
• Metasquares (2017; originally made 2010)
• Game Of Life And Death (2017)
• Loopover (2018)
• Wordle Edit (2022)
• Rising Shrinking Rainbow (2023; originally made 2012–2020; also known as Rise Guys)

For the game Battle for Dream Island Again 5b (2013), see Battle For Dream Island S2 E5b BFDIA 5b.

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Tropes present in the Huang Twins' works include:

• Animation Bump: Their art styles are rather crude, but this is made up for by their animation styles having very strong attention to detail and fluidity.
• Arc Number: 2,763. According to Michael on Discord, the reason as to why this number was chosen is because of the amount of siblings per lineage in their family tree by male child. (I.E. 2 siblings in Cary & Michael's lineage, 7 siblings in their father's lineage, 6 siblings in their grandfather's lineage, and 3 siblings in their great-grandfather's lineage)
• Asian and Nerdy: Beyond their Chinese heritage, most of their content besides Battle for Dream Island is dedicated to technical expertise, with Michael's content focusing on music composition, and Cary's content focusing on coding and software programming.
• Author Appeal:
  • Both of them are proficient in mathematics, geometry, and coding, to the point that they'll often incorporate mathematical topics into their scripts.
  • Both of them are fans of K-pop music, and a lot of Michael's music takes major influence from K-pop. In particular, "evolekaf" is done In the Style of BTS, and is titled after "FAKE LOVE" spelt backwards.
• Expospeak Gag: Their scripts often have them or their characters speaking in snippets of Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness before returning to normal dialogue. An example from Battle for Dream Island:
  Pencil: Thanks an octadecillion, Match! Now our stupid tests are stupidly on stupid fire!
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: They often incorporate details in the background that only pop up for a few frames at most.
• Helium Speech: While their characters were voiced naturally at the start, as they got older, their characters' voices were mostly retained through pitch shifting, although some characters still use their natural pitches doing voice acting.
• Perfectly Cromulent Word: Many of their works include words that would never be used in regular conversation and are only applicable to their work's setting.
• Scenery Porn: Wide shots in their works are usually held onto for about half a minute in order to show off all the details added.
• Stock Audio Clip: They use a lot of audio clips from their older projects, often edited to be higher-quality or overlapped to make one whole audio clip.

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