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442oons

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442oons
Born
Dean Stobbart

YouTube information
Channel
Years active2013–present
Genres
Subscribers4.62 million
Views4 billion
Last updated: 10 March 2026

442oons is an English-language YouTube channel set up by Dean Stobbart that focuses on animated parodies of various football topics. The channel has accumulated over 4.5 million subscribers and 4 billion views over its twelve years of activity.[1]

Stobbart has worked with OneFootball, Bundesliga, and many other footballing brands to make videos on their channels.[2][3]

History

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The channel's creator, Dean Stobbart, originally a teacher from Norton, County Durham, had in the past been a part-time voice actor who also did some animation for his lessons.[4][5] He said he saw a gap in the market that "no one had really done football cartoons before", so he made his first animated video, a parody of Uruguayan footballer Luis Suárez and then-Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger in a cartoon parody of a scene from The Silence of the Lambs in August 2013.[4] Since then, he has worked with organisations such as Talksport[6][7] and Sky Sports on animations. His videos have also been featured on Metro and the Spanish Marca.[8] He also has a Facebook account with 1.8 million followers, a TikTok account with 774.6 thousand followers and a Twitter account with 149.6 thousand followers.

Although Stobbart had originally created his videos by himself, he hired three animators, Sam Dunscombe, Mike Myler and James Williams.[citation needed] In 442oons' 3-million-subscribers video in July 2020, Sam confirmed his departure from the channel. Currently with 4 animators, Lauren Bagstaff and Karl Hargreaves are the additional two animators with Myler and Williams.[citation needed]

He also has been in partnership with the Bundesliga YouTube channel (English), OneFootball, The Football Republic (most notably the fictional tabloid talk show: 'The Roy Keane Show'), FREEbets and other YouTube channels.[citation needed]

Awards and nominations

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Football Content Awards

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Year Category Work Result Ref.
2015 Best Video Football Blog (Fans' Choice) 442oons Won [9]
2016 Won [10]
2018 Best Football Video Creator (Fans' Award) Won [11]

References

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  1. "442oons". YouTube. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
  2. "442oons Onefootball Show". YouTube. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
  3. "Animated Stars – Powered by 442oons". YouTube. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
  4. 1 2 Corking, Graham (23 August 2016). "This former teacher from Norton has 850,000 subscribers on YouTube". TeessideLive. Reach plc. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  5. Jones, Lauren (29 November 2019). "Meet the former teacher who now has 2.76m subscribers on YouTube channel 442oons". Wirral Globe. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
  6. talkSPORT (1 April 2015). "The best football April Fool of them all? 442oons sends up Bayern Munich stars". Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  7. Bloomfield, Craig (21 January 2015). "Mourinho v Sterling: The video footage YOU DIDN'T SEE from Liverpool v Chelsea!". Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  8. "The 4 conspiracy theories surrounding Gabi's 'penalty' – MARCA English". 14 April 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  9. "2015 Winners".
  10. "2016 Winners".
  11. "2018 Winners".