About

Bradette refers to a joke among PewDiePie fans that YouTuber Aloona Larionova looks like a female version of PewDiePie's former editor, Brad, dubbing her, "Bradette."

Origin

On December 23rd, 2018, Reddit user Yard15^[2] posted a posted a picture of PewDiePie's former editor Brad getting the Super Crown and turning into "Bradette," which is actually YouTuber Aloona. The picture gained over 21,000 points (shown below).

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On January 3rd, 2019, Reddit user Blackgoategg posted a similar picture of Brad turning into Aloona, gaining over 4,000 points^[1] (shown below).

Over the following week, more users of /r/PewDiePie created jokes around the character "Bradette." Examples include a Drakeposting edit by balki98 that gained over 26,000 points (shown below, left). On January 27th, user xxricsonxx posted a Preaching to the Mob edit about Bradette to /r/showthistoaloona, gaining over 400 points (shown below, right).

On October 1st, PewDiePie featured a Bradette meme in a video that gained over 7.8 million views (shown below, left). The same day, Loona posted a video reacting to her inclusion, gaining over 114,000 views (shown below, right).

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