Tye Hiser

Tye Hiser is an Internet artist and creator of the Somari Adventures series, better known online by his username Felixman128. He is mostly known for his cartoons, as well as making comedic videos, often satirical in nature. Felixman128 is also known to make numerous appearances on the YouTube channel Lounge Chair. He is the creator of this wiki and the main writer of the wiki's articles. He is the most recognized voice actor of Somari and the creator of other projects such as Frank the Clown and Trainny the Train. He first joined Butterfly: Inchworm Animation II in spring of 2017 and created his first major hit with Somari Adventures. In 2021 he created a SoundCloud account. He sometimes goes by his parody alter-ego Whale McFly.

Early Life
Tye grew up in a small town trailer park for a majority of his childhood, listening to classic rock and roll and country music. He also watched many vintage cartoons and played video games on his Nintendo 2DS (most notably Mario & Luigi: Dream Team.) His dream was to own an animation company called Hiser Co., and this lead to the first drawings of some of his characters, including Somari, which at the time was simply a cartoon version of himself.

At age 8, Tye was diagnosed with type 1 Diabetes.

Later on in life he would join the Internet and discover other games, movies, music genres, and content from various creators which would go on to inspire him to further pursue his creations online.

As H.Games
Tye would start his time on Butterfly under the username "h.games" (short for Hiser Games), and would start his creation of "butterfly games", small interactive animations made for use in the Butterfly animation editor. Some time later, he would introduce Somari Adventures (2017), which would become a decent hit, and eventually his magnum opus as the series grew years later. As h.games, Tye would start a butterfly game series based on Somari Adventures known as Somari GO! beginning with ''Somari GO! (2001) shortly after The Somari Movie'' 's release.

Sometime in 2018, the h.games account was abandoned, but Tye did not quit Butterfly. Later that year, Tye had all content on the account removed.

As Somari_Official
After leaving for a bit in 2018, Tye made his return in 2019 with his account @somari_official on Butterfly Animation. Despite the focus on Somari, there was a severe lack of animations in 2019. This was because Tye was battling untreated anxiety. Eventually, Tye restored all the deleted posts from his h.games account onto somari_official with the help of the admin, before leaving the somari_official account as well.

As Felixman128
After leaving his somari_official account, Tye started a new account known as Felixman128. He dropped the Somari moniker due to (at the time) giving the "rights" to Somari to Schmoe. This, however, was eventually reversed. Felixman128 is now the current account for Somari and his creator. The name is based on Felix the Cat, a major inspiration for Somari, and Super Mario 128, an infamously cancelled game for the Nintendo Gamecube. For a short while during this period Tye went under the alias of Felix "TH" Berlin on Butterfly and YouTube. Tye still currently uses the account and the username on most websites he is present on.

With Lounge Chair
In recent years, Tye has worked in collaboration with best friend Lounge Chair, also known as LoungeChairVEVO, on various projects and group channels such as Diet Dr. Mario and Beats by Dr. Luigi. Diet Dr. Mario, a skit channel, features Tye, Lounge Chair, Nash Moss (under Nash Clark), and Nick Moss doing various skits, while Beats by Dr. Luigi features parody music videos by Tye and Lounge Chair of well known songs while using poor quality voice impressions of the character Luigi from the Super Mario series. Diet Dr. Mario was founded by Lounge Chair based on the fictional drink from the Somari Adventures series, while both Tye and Lounge Chair co-founded Beats by Dr. Luigi.

Frank the Clown
Based on the design of a HOMCO wall hanging in his family's home, Frank the Clown is a cartoon series created by Tye based on the golden age of animation. The two shorts of the series, Duel at the Smoke House and Man Down feature Frank and his best friend "Bob the Buffoon" as they get into wacky antics in pen-and-paper cartoon style. Although only two shorts have been made so far, many have been storyboarded, including new characters such as Phillip the Crooked Clown. Just like Somari, the series had concepts run all the way back into the early 2010's.

Trainny the Train
Another cartoon series featuring short subjects based on the golden age of animation is Trainny the Train. Based on a toy made by Tek Nek Toys International in 2004, Trainny the Train stars an anthropomorphic steam train and the crazy antics he gets into. The series gained decent success despite its short run. The stylization itself was based on an animated short created by the Walt Disney Company in 1952 about a little blue car. Just like Somari, the series had concepts run all the way back into the early 2010's.

Trivia

 * Somari was originally just the Internet persona of Tye.
 * This was changed so that Tye could "do more individual things with Somari."
 * In the Somari Adventures (2017) episode "Truth or Dare", Jayden refers to Somari as "Tye" in one instance.


 * Tye contributed to the Operation Wikipedia article when he was 12, adding the line "this could be a reference to classic cartoons, where ill characters' noses turn red." Despite not having a source linked to the claim, it has not been removed since.


 * Tye's favorite color is green. his favorite song is Ocean Man, and his favorite movie is The Spongebob Squarepants Movie.
 * Tye admits to having more past accounts than he can accurately count.