Sexual Lobster

About

Sexual Lobster is the online handle of Australian Flash animator Chris Voigt. Since 2005, Voigt has maintained popularity on both Newgrounds and YouTube for his absurdist humor and memorable recurring characters.

Online Presence

Voigt uploaded his first animation to Newgrounds, Great Weed Drought of ’03, on June 20, 2005, where it won Daily Feature and Weekly 4th Place.^[1] On September 27, Voigt registered the domain name Greasymoose.com, where he would post the webcomic House of Squid.^[2] A compilation of several animated strips was uploaded to Newgrounds on November 4, 2006, which earned him his first Review Crew Pick.^[3]

Voigt created the SexuaLobster YouTube channel on May 23, 2006.^[4] In 2008, Voigt released several episodes of the Angry Dog series, which, over the course of its seven episodes, earned Voigt a streak of Daily Features.^[5] In 2010, Voigt uploaded Dance of the Manwhore to Newgrounds and YouTube, which over the next five years was jointly viewed over 3,500,000 times. Later videos in the of the Manwhore series have gained similar popualrity.

In 2013, Voigt teamed up with Machinima’s Happy Hour channel to produce several animated series such as Space Adventure Legend Quest, Ragemelon, and Raw Latex. On June 21, Voigt uploaded the animation Wrong Number to his YouTube and Newgrounds pages, where it became one of his most popular non-Manwhore animations with over one million views. In 2014, Voigt began the series Manwhore Industries, which features several of his recurring characters in an office setting.

Characters

Voigt’s animations are known for their many recurring characters. Older comics and animations notably featured the Mongoose Man, a scantily-dressed superhero with the powers of a mongoose, and Todd, a news anchor with a penchant for sexually harassing his female co-anchors as well as for wearing women’s underwear. More recent projects have notably featured Fernando the Manwhore, Gooseman, who often acts as a sort of straight man, and Randy, an unpassable transgender woman. Other recurring characters include Raptor Jesus, a washed-up version of of the superhero Captain Planet, and an animated version of Voigt himself.

Fernando

Fernando the Manwhore is possibly Voigt’s most popular character, who appears as a flirtatious man with various interests, most notably sex and yogurt. He is often seen carrying a spear or riding a goat. Although Fernando appeared as early as 2005 in Great Weed Drought of ’03, his popularity rose with that of the of the Manwhore series.

Search Interest

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