Michael Huang

Michael Huang
Gender	Male
Pronouns	He/Him
Date of birth	March 18, 1997
Age	28
Occupation	Animator, voice actor, writer, producer, composer (as of BFB), editor, YouTuber, director
Social media
YouTube	Michael H, ozgq, YOYLE CAKE Michael, notverlis, ShrillOtter
Twitter	@fernozzle
DeviantArt	fernozzle
Reddit	fernozzle
Wikia account	Fotoshop
Instagram	shrillotter

"Michael" redirects here. For the voice actor of jack russell terrier dog, see Michael Gregory.

Michael Yiming Huang, often stylized as Michæl, (born March 18, 1997) is an American YouTuber, animator, voice actor, writer, director, producer, composer, and editor. He is the twin brother of Cary Huang and the son of Yu Joe Huang and Teresa Chow. With his brother, he created and produced the animated web series Battle for Dream Island. He is younger than Cary by two minutes. He also has a second YouTube channel named fernozzle. He released his BFDI music in the 2024 music album Battle for BFDI (Original Soundtrack).

Characters played by Michael Huang

Current Characters

Michael currently plays as the following characters, or voiced them during their most recent appearance:

Blocky

Book (pitched up 3 semitones)

Bubble (pitched up 3 semitones)

Cloudy

Coiny

Donut (pitched up 7 semitones^{[citation needed]})

Eraser (pitched down 1 semitone)

Firey (pitched up 1 semitone)

Flower (pitched up 3 semitones)

Fries (pitched up 2 semitones)

Golf Ball (pitched up 2 semitones)

Leafy (pitched up 3 semitones)

Loser

Pen (pitched up ~1 semitone)

Pencil (pitched up 2 semitones)

Puffball (vocoded, pitched up 3 semitones^{[citation needed]})

Robot Flower (auto-tuned, pitched up 3 semitones)

Snowball (pitched down 2 semitones^{[citation needed]})

Woody

Yellow Face (pitched down ~2 semitones)

Four (pitched up 3 semitones)

Firey Speaker Box

Flower Speaker Box (pitched up 3 semitones^{[citation needed]})

Puffball Speaker Box (vocoded, pitched up 3 semitones^{[citation needed]})

Cheese Orb

Firey Speaker Box's Clone

Hexagon Speaker Box

Triangle Speaker Box

Purple Round Speaker

Three

Radio Announcer

Boombox

"The Thing" VHS Narrator

Reused/Edited Lines

Jack Frew

David

Former

Michael no longer voices these characters, but has done so at some point:

Basketball (BFDI 17)

Bomby (BFDI 11-BFDIA 5e)

Clock (BFDI 17-18)

Fanny (BFDI 17)

Firey Jr. (The Loser Plush is here!)

Marker (BFDI 17-18)

Needle (swapped voice with Coiny, BFDIA 9-10)

Remote (BFDI 13)

Ruby (BFDI 17-BFDIA 5a-c, BFDIA 5e, IDFB 1)

Spongy (BFDI 9, 15-18, 20-23, BFDIA 3, 5a, 5c, BFB 12, 15)

Tennis Ball (BFDI 1-3, pitched up 3 semitones^{[citation needed]})

Tree (BFDI 18)

TV (BFDIA, edited clips)

One (X Finds Out His Value)

Eight (X Finds Out His Value)

Spike Ball Speaker Box (BFDI 23)

Animation credits

BFDI

• "Take the Plunge"
• "Barriers and Pitfalls"
• "Are You Smarter Than a Snowball?"
• "Sweet Tooth"
• "Bridge Crossing"
• "Power of Three"
• "Puzzling Mysteries"
• "Cycle of Life"
• "Insectophobe's Nightmare"
• "Crybaby!"
• "Lofty"
• "A Leg Up in the Race"
• "Don't Lose Your Marbles"
• "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None"
• "The Reveal"
• "Reveal Novum"
• "Rescission"
• "Gardening Hero"
• "The Glistening"
• "Don't Pierce My Flesh"
• "Hurtful!"

BFDIA

• "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know"
• "Get Digging"
• "Insectophobe's Nightmare 3"
• "Zeeky Boogy Doog"
• "Get in the Van"
• "No More Snow!"
• "It's a Monster"
• "The Long-lost Yoyle City"
• "PointyPointyPointy ♫"
• "Spore Day"

IDFB

• "Welcome Back"

BFB

• "Getting Teardrop to Talk"
• "Lick Your Way to Freedom"
• "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset"
• "Today's Very Special Episode"
• "Fortunate Ben"
• "Four Goes Too Far"
• "The Liar Ball You Don't Want"
• "Questions Answered"
• "Return of the Rocket Ship"
• "Don't Dig Straight Down"
• "The Escape from Four"
• "Take the Tower"
• "How Loe Can You Grow?"
• "A Taste of Space"
• "Who Stole Donut's Diary?"
• "Uprooting Everything"

TPOT

• "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life"
• "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters"
• "Category One"

Writing credits

BFDIA

• "PointyPointyPointy ♫"
• "Spore Day"
• "Start the Shift"

BFB

• “Getting Teardrop to Talk”
• ”Lick Your Way to Freedom”
• ”Why Would You Do This on a Swingset”
• ”Today’s Very Special Episode”
• ”Fortunate Ben”
• ”The Liar Ball You Don’t Want”
• ”Take the Tower”
• ”How Loe Can You Grow?”
• ”A Taste of Space”

TPOT

• “Out Of The Blue”

Directed by credits

BFDIA

• "Well Rested"
• "Intruder Alert"
• "Meaty"
• "Catch These Hands"
• "Taste The Sweetness"
• "Lots Of Mud"
• "Insectophobe's Nightmare 4"
• "PointyPointyPointy ♫"
• "Spore Day"
• "Start the Shift"

TPOT

• "Getting Puffball to Think About Rollercoasters"
• "Gardening Zero"
• "Fishes and Dishes"
• "The Great Goikian Bake-Off"
• "The Seven Wonders of Goiky"
• "Balancing P.A.C.T."
• "Outbreak At Stake"
• "Oneirophobe's Nightmare"
• "Out Of The Blue"
• "What's Up Bell's String?"
• "Category One"
• "I SAID CAREFUL!!!"
• "The Power of Four"

Editing credits

BFDI

• Michael edited every episode of the first season.

BFDIA

• "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know"
• "Get Digging"
• "Insectophobe's Nightmare 3"
• "Zeeky Boogy Doog"
• "Get in the Van"
• "No More Snow!"
• "It's a Monster"
• "The Long-lost Yoyle City"

BFB

• "Getting Teardrop to Talk"
• "Lick Your Way to Freedom"
• "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset"
• "Today's Very Special Episode"
• "Fortunate Ben"
• "Four Goes Too Far"
• "The Liar Ball You Don't Want"
• "Questions Answered"
• "Don't Dig Straight Down"
• "The Four is Lava"
• "X Marks the Spot"
• "How Loe Can You Grow?"
• "A Taste of Space"
• "Let's Raid The Warehouse"
• "Who Stole Donut's Diary?"
• "The Game Has Changed"
• "B.F.B. = Back From Beginning"
• "SOS (Save Our Show)"
• "Chapter Complete"

TPOT

• "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters"
• "Gardening Zero"
• "Fishes and Dishes"
• "The Great Goikian Bake-Off"
• "The Seven Wonders of Goiky"
• "Balancing P.A.C.T."
• "Outbreak At Stake"
• "Oneirophobe's Nightmare"
• "Out Of The Blue"
• "What's Up Bell's String?"

Prop and background credits

BFDIA

• "Well Rested"
• "Meaty"
• "Start the Shift"

TPOT

• "Seasonal Shift"

Storyboarding credits

BFB

• "Getting Teardrop to Talk"
• "Lick Your Way to Freedom"
• "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset"
• "Today's Very Special Episode"
• "Fortunate Ben"
• "The Liar Ball You Don't Want"
• "Take the Tower"

BFDIA

• "Start the Shift"

Episode appearances

• Battle for Dream Island Again
  • "PointyPointyPointy ♫" (appearance in credits; in-universe debut; non-canon)
  • "Spore Day" (appearance in credits; non-canon)
• Battle for BFDI
  • "The Four is Lava" (appearance in credits; non-canon)
  • "The Escape from Four" (appearance in credits; non-canon)
• Battle for BFB
  • "X Marks the Spot" (appearance in credits; non-canon)
  • "How Loe Can You Grow?" (appearance in credits; non-canon)
  • "A Taste of Space" (appearance in credits; non-canon)
  • "Fashion For Your Face!" (appearance in credits; non-canon)
  • "The Game Has Changed" (appearance in credits; non-canon)
  • "The Tweested Temple" (appearance in credits; non-canon)
  • "The Hidden Contestant" (appearance in credits; non-canon)
  • "Uprooting Everything" (appearance in credits; non-canon)
  • "B.F.B. = Back From Beginning" (appearance in credits; non-canon)
  • "Chapter Complete" (appearance in credits; non-canon)
• Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two
  • "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters" (appearance in credits; non-canon)
  • "The Great Goikian Bake-Off" (appearance in credits; non-canon)
  • "Category One" (appearance in credits; non-canon)
  • "Seasonal Shift" (appearance in credits; non-canon)

• Extras
  • When you bake a cake (ft. TWO PLUSH)

Trivia

• Why We've Had to Stop Animating on YouTube is the first video where Michael shows his face. In the video, he discusses YouTube shutting down the monetization of numerous channels, including their own, after two years of keeping it in secret. Because of this, their incomes were blocked, leaving them penniless, and unable to make videos. However, their AdSense got reinstated June 14th, 2016 and they were able to start making videos again.
• He is around 5'10-6'3.
• Michael has a Nintendo Switch, and his friend code is SW-2196-6671-3613. As of now, his friend list is open for friend requests.
• He voices the most characters in the series, voicing 28.
• He is the only voice actor who voices at least one character on all eight teams of Battle for BFDI.
  • The same can be said for the three teams in Battle for BFB.
• Death P.A.C.T. Again is the first team in BFDI history with no contestants that he currently voices.
• Out of the contestants making their competitive debut in "Battle for BFDI", Michael only voices Robot Flower, Loser, and Cloudy.
• Michael confirmed in one of his videos that Loser was his favorite character in BFB.
  • However, in his BFB 11 reaction, he states that Lollipop was his favorite character in BFB.
• His username for Minecraft, the Nintendo Switch and Roblox is Michael as of January 29, 2021 (formerly Fuchsiania).
• He bleached his hair on June 20th, 2018.
• His favorite animal is the otter, as mentioned in his stream where he builds an IKEA desk and his new (now old) Soundcloud username, Shrill Otter.
• He appears in Battle for Dream Island: Official Character Guide. In the intro, he is mentioned and appears in a photo with Cary.
• He made the course Object Animator's Toolbox on Graphy.
• The music program Reason was his childhood when making music.
  • He also made a lot of music around the year 2012 (which was also the year he uploaded videos on his channel).
  • Michael has an old music channel called notverlis, created in 2013, which he doesn't use anymore now having moved to YOYLECAKE Michael.
• He animated the first four minutes of BFDI 1a.
• OZGQ doesn't stand for anything.
• Michael helped design Suitcase in "Inanimate Insanity II".
• He crashed his car while streaming on an alt during the BFB 13 hiatus.
• Michael animated all the parts in BFDI-IDFB that had smoother positions.
• Since 2017, Michael uses a Wacom Cintiq 16 Pro (2016) for drawing, before that he used what appears to be a Graphire 3 which he used from 2007 until 2017 when he upgraded. The reason why he jumped from a low-end pad-tablet from 2003 to a higher-end display tablet from 2016 instead opting for a mid-range pad-tablet is currently unknown but he could've upgraded for 2 main reasons:
  • He became more experienced at Flash animation, thus he had to upgrade from a lower-end tablet.
  • He upgraded to an iMac Pro (2017 with an Intel Xeon) which made his Graphire 3 incompatible with newer versions of macOS since the last driver released for his Graphire 3 was released in 2012 for macOS, and Mac OS is notorious for breaking compatibility with old software, which includes Wacom tablet driver 5.2.6-5 (the last supported driver for the Graphire 3). Though he could've downloaded unofficial drivers, he probably didn't want to struggle with using unofficial drivers, especially when he's using an OS that has a smaller user base compared to Windows and breaks compatibility more often than Windows.
• Loser is the hardest character for him to voice.^{[citation needed]}
• He dyed his hair brown as of September 18, 2023, and probably will not dye his hair.
• Besides BFDI, he has voiced a few characters in other people's videos.
  • He voiced Tyler Bombard in Inanimate Insanity Invitational episodes 16–19.
  • He voiced the friendly cop in ONE Investigations: Garrett Dennis by Cheesy Hfj.
  • He voiced Pan’s cousin in Paper Puppets Take 2 by YellowAngiru.
  • He voiced Four, Pen and Eraser in a Sacri video.
  • He voiced Right Square Bracket Key in "IT'S TIME FOR THE" by Derpadon.
• Michael, along with Cary, competed in the object camp "Barely Involves Any Stress", hosted by Niall Burns. Michael played as a character named Cow Box, who placed 15th.
• He dyed his hair pink in 2019 as seen in this video.
• He made a whole BFB Soundtrack Playlist on June 14, 2024.
• He had a channel called Shrill Otter in 2018-2019 but he deleted all the streams/vlogs because he thought it was 'cringe', but they are a few archives of his vlogs and streams found when you search up "Shrill Otter".
• Michael has 2 individual Twitter accounts, fernozzle and shrillotter.
• Michael's favorite character is Four, as stated in What the "BFDI & II Tour" in NYC Was Like.

Gallery

Michael in Seattle, Washington during the BFDI X II Tour 2024

Michael in 2024

Michael in Late 2023

Michael, Xander, Chris, and Niall at Vidcon 2023

Michael and Cary at the 2023 Crossover Experience

Michael in October 2023

Michael before the 2023 BFDI x II meetup

Michael (top) with brown hair

Michael with a Woody plush in 2020

Michael Huang in Spring 2020

Michael with a Firey plush

Michael Huang in 2019

Michael and Cary with Adam Katz.

Michael animating the Twinkle of Contagion.

Michael T-Posing

Michael Plays Become Woody JNJ 400k Stream Highlight

Michael playing Roblox in the 400K stream

Bleached Michael

Michael looking behind himself in the mirror.

Michael with Cary (2017)

Michael with Pokey.

Michael next to the BFDI poster

Michael selfie in 2016

Michael Huang (right) in 7th grade

Michael and Cary in Hawaii (November 2009)

Michael and family (Christmas 2008)

Michael Huang at his computer (2007-2008)

Michael Huang around 2005

Cow Box, Michael's contestant in BIAS 7.