Pretzel Lord | Destiny Drinker Matt

We're Going to Make Hollywood Shit Themselves.

This is your opportunity to make a lot of rich people really mad.

If you loved Iron Lung, it’s time to help Markiplier and his lovely amazing crew do the funniest thing possible: flip the bird to a film industry that said they didn't want them.

This is a little idealist, but there's enough of us. 38.6 million of us, and we could absolutely slam this. So VOTE:

Best Thriller: Iron Lung

Best Actor: Mark Fischbach

Best Actress: Caroline Kaplan

Best Supporting Actress: Elsie Lovelock

Best Director: Mark Fischbach

Best Producer: Jeff Guerrero & Will Hyde

Best Independent Film: Iron Lung

This could be yet another win for small artists, a win for indie filmmaking, and the ultimate "thank you" to Mark for doing it for the love of the game. He and his team went through hell to make something he deemed perfect enough for us; I mean, he basically built a damn jet engine in his bathroom for this movie simply for quality's sake. This feels like the least we can do in return.

Winners will be announced by the Academy on July 1st, 2026, in Central London.

1. borrowing misery from future

2. carrying grief of the past

Like I need people to understand the mental image here of a multimillionaire internet creator personally overseeing DVD production in his own house like he’s running an underground bootleg operation out of a basement in 2007.

It’s weirdly charming because there’s something very “old internet” about it, this energy of “I made a thing, and now I will physically hand it to people myself like an artisan at a craft fair.”

The man really said: “The future of cinema is me standing next to a humming disc burner at 2am”