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brewstewfilms' Michael marathon becomes a memorial for viewers

A September collection of childhood stories is drawing renewed attention after Tyler's farewell to the friend behind the cartoons.

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Brewstew - 2 Hours Of 'Michael' Stories

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1:16Michael moves into the neighborhood, beginning the childhood friendship at the center of the collection.
3:30A backyard campout involves croutons, Guess Who? and an unexpected animal in the trash.
26:04Tyler divides his childhood arguments with Michael into three recurring stages.
45:02Neighborhood bicycle gangs organize a race on Burton Avenue.
49:50Michael's exaggerated retelling casts him as the bicycle-riding hero "Tomahawk."

brewstewfilms put these Michael stories together in September, long before the farewell. Viewers are now returning to the collection to remember the childhood neighbor they came to know through Tyler's animation.

"Brewstew - 2 Hours Of 'Michael' Stories" added roughly 83,000 views in a day, about seven times its usual daily pace, taking it past a million views. In the comments, people describe putting it on as a tribute. Some reflect on the strange closeness of knowing someone through years of stories without ever meeting them.

As we reported here, Tyler has said goodbye to Michael in "My Friend Michael." This older compilation isn't a newly assembled memorial: it preserves the storytelling that made Michael such a familiar presence on the channel.

There is the backyard campout with croutons and Guess Who?, interrupted by a possum Michael mistakes for a wolverine. Elsewhere, Tyler breaks their childhood arguments into recurring stages, from improbable claims to disputes about whose dad could win a fight.

The collection also gives Michael his own exaggerated version of a neighborhood bicycle race. In that telling, he gets to be "Tomahawk," the hero of the adventure rather than simply the subject of Tyler's account.

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