Quinton Kyle Hoover (born December 1996), known online primarily as Quinton Reviews, is an American

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. Hoover produces

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on various topics, usually pop culture. His best-known work includes his coverage of the ''

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'' franchise and a series of hours-long videos covering ''

iCarly ''iCarly'' is an American teen sitcom created by Dan Schneider, which originally aired on Nickelodeon from September 8, 2007, to November 23, 2012. The series tells the story of Carly Shay (Miranda Cosgrove), a teenager who creates and hosts ...

'' and its spin-offs.

YouTube career

Hoover began his career as a content creator in 2013, initially creating sketches and videos discussing TV shows; his first two videos spanned one minute and 48 seconds and nine seconds, respectively. In 2017, he uploaded a ''

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'' video analyzing the show's role in predicting meme culture, focusing on the "Ripped Pants" episode. From 2019 to 2020, Hoover published two videos detailing his discovery of archived copies of Jim Davis's past work ''Jon'', a precursor to ''

''. Hoover traveled to

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, in order to get scans of the historical strips, and published a video about his trip on the channel. Hoover garnered popularity through his lengthy videos discussing and analyzing

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sitcoms. In June 2021, Hoover published a five-hour video called "iBinged

", with a recap of the series with his own commentary. He also published a video with a discussion on the career and works of YouTuber

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, who starred in an episode of ''iCarly'', and a series of further videos on ''iCarly'' and its related series ''

Victorious ''Victorious'' (stylized as ''VICTORiOUS'') is an American sitcom created by Dan Schneider that originally aired on Nickelodeon, debuting on March 27, 2010, and concluding on February 2, 2013 after four seasons. The series revolves around aspi ...

'' and ''

Sam & Cat ''Sam & Cat'' is an American teen sitcom created by Dan Schneider that aired on Nickelodeon from June 8, 2013, to July 17, 2014. It is a spin-off of ''iCarly'' and ''Victorious'', two TV shows that Schneider also created. The series stars Jenne ...

''. Hoover's video essays – which he referred to as "breakdowns" – were credited among other content creators with ushering a trend of long-form essay content, and have garnered several million views. ''

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'' included Hoover's ''Victorious'' essay in a 2022 list of ten niche YouTube video essays. In April 2024, as a late April Fools' joke, he posted a 38-hour recap video of ''

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'' hosted by his father, Russ, who had experienced a serious car accident prior to recording the video. A week after it was published,

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issued a copyright claim on the video, and on April 11, Paramount Global Content Protection sent an email to Hoover disagreeing that the video qualified as

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, leading Hoover to take the video down to avoid risking a lawsuit. The video was re-edited with four hours of extra content and the copyrighted material edited out in time for April Fools' Day 2025.

References

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