In November 2023, Max started Relax With Max
, a series of livestreams hosted by him previously through Twitch, where he plays games and interacts with his audience, with visual flair and animated effects, such as an emotive avatar of Max himself. Streams take place every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
He also voices his disapproval of Eva.
The HotDiggedyDemon website can be found here.
Works by Max Gilardi with their own pages:
- Brain Dump
- Fazbear and Friends (Max Gilardi)
- INVADER ZIM LOST EPISODE (RARE!!!)
- Isabelle Ruins Everything
- Jerry
- The Northern Incident
- PONY.MOV
- Wacky Game Jokez, 4 Kidz!
The works of Max Gilardi provide examples of:
- Author Appeal: Garfield and Ren & Stimpy, especially the latter since his highly detailed and grotesque style seems to evoke John Kricfalusi's own. So much so that he even did a fan cartoon putting it to the test in "Stimpson Q. Cat".
- Deadpan Snarker / Jerkass: His specialty. Pretty much any character Max voices in his normal voice is a sullen sarcastic prick with nothing but snide remarks at the expense of the more wacky and eccentric characters and cynical commentary on the state of the world around them. Shining examples are Mickey the Dick, as well as his renditions of Mario, Spike the Dragon, Ethan Winters, and the Villager.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: As noted above, one of Max's signatures is this, likely due to his love of Ren & Stimpy and other cartoons/comics of the like, albeit never as extreme as John K. and Co. ever got. However, PONY.MOV certainly ramped it up more than his rest, even getting gory in some episodes.
- Man of a Thousand Voices: Max plays no fewer than thirteen characters, both male and female, in the PONY.MOV series. He also can do damn near accurate impressions of Ren and Stimpy.
- Mook Horror Show: Fazbear and Friends, which is a Perspective Flip on Five Nights at Freddy's.
- Riddled and Rattled: The animated short SANS.MP4 features Sans pulling out a machine gun and shooting Papyrus numerous times. Papyrus says, "Oh my goodness, oh my goodness, oh my goodness!" while jerking around and being riddled with bullet holes until he falls over.
- Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Most of his short tend to be in the cynical side, with only a couple of occassional idealistic moments.
