{"id":893034,"date":"2026-03-20T02:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/site-news-please-welcome-mai-the-newest-member-of-our-youtube-team\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T02:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:27:21","slug":"site-news-please-welcome-mai-the-newest-member-of-our-youtube-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/site-news-please-welcome-mai-the-newest-member-of-our-youtube-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Site News: Please Welcome Mai, The Newest Member Of Our YouTube Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body\">\n<article id=\"article\">\n<header>\n<section>\n<p>A new era begins<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/61767\/avatar.jpg?v=1687185714\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Olliemar28\"><\/li>\n<li>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/authors\/Olliemar28\">Ollie Reynolds<\/a> <span><\/span> <time data-days=\"5\" datetime=\"2026-01-12T17:30:00+00:00\">Mon 12th Jan 2026<\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Yes that&#8217;s right, although we said a fond farewell to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a8-V27iLc3w\">Felix<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kI4hKbp64UI\">Zion<\/a> over the last few months, Alex has now been joined by a brand new face over on YouTube: please say hello to Mai Ladyman!<\/p>\n<p>Mai is no stranger to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@maireadthepirate\">making YouTube videos<\/a>, but she now joins Alex full-time as we storm into 2026. We&#8217;ve no doubt she will flourish as Nintendo ramps up its Switch 2 plans over the coming months and years.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Nintendo, Mai is particularly partial to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_legends_arceus\">Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Arceus<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-nintendo-switch-2-edition\">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a>. On other consoles (yes, they do exist!), Mai is fond of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/fallout-4-anniversary-edition\">Fallout 4<\/a> (hey, that&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/10\/fallout-4-anniversary-edition-brings-the-apocalypse-to-switch-2-in-2026\">coming to Switch 2<\/a>!), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/baldurs_gate_3\">Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3<\/a> (hey, that probably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/01\/larian-would-have-loved-baldurs-gate-3-on-switch-2-will-certainly-consider-divinity\">isn&#8217;t coming to Switch 2<\/a>!), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/last_of_us_part_ii\">The Last of Us Part II<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the team, Mai!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/61767\/photo\/0\/avatar.jpg?v=1677510039\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ollie Reynolds\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Nintendo Life\u2019s resident horror fanatic, when he\u2019s not knee-deep in Resident Evil and Silent Hill lore, Ollie likes to dive into a good horror book while nursing a lovely cup of tea. He also enjoys long walks and listens to everything from TOOL to Chuck Berry.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/authors\/Olliemar28\"><span><\/span> Author Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/ollie-nl.bsky.social\"><span><\/span> Bluesky<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a onclick=\"return replyTo('Olliemar28');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#\"> Reply<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/01\/site-news-please-welcome-mai-the-newest-member-of-our-youtube-team\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new era begins by Ollie Reynolds Mon 12th Jan 2026 Yes that&#8217;s right, although we said a fond farewell to Felix and Zion over the last few months, Alex has now been joined by a brand new face over on YouTube: please say hello to Mai Ladyman! Mai is no stranger to making YouTube [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":893035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4696,2167,104640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-please","category-welcome","category-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}