Wade Nixon

Wade Leslie Nixon (born January 1, 1990), known online as DankPods is an Australian YouTuber and musician who became popular with comedy technology showcases and reviews on his YouTube channel. Based in Adelaide, his channel mainly reviews and showcases consumer-based technology devices with a heavy focus on old low-end portable media players and headphone reviews. Originally the channel was dedicated exclusively to content around iPods, hence the name. However, it has since expanded to more general technology videos.

Known for his witty and impromptu humour, fan-favourite catchphrases such as "Dingus" and off the cuff chaotic style, Wade has since amassed 1.84 million subscribers and 507.5 million views on the DankPods channel as of July 2026. He has also created several other YouTube channels in the same vein as DankPods such as Garbage Time, a car channel with a more vlogger-esque style, and The Drum Thing, which is his drum thing.

Background Wade Nixon was born in 1990 in Adelaide, South Australia, though was raised in the country outside the metropolis with his siblings. Around the age of 8, Nixon wanted to play the drums after being impressed by a friends' playing ability, and began to study the instrument. Nixon also developed a passion for cars and motorbikes growing up in the country. He worked various jobs as a teenager including as a farm-hand and concreter. Nixon was surprised at how largely forgotten and cheap iPods had become, and wanted to bring them back into the public's attention, guided by nostalgia. He had used iPods heavily during his university studying days. The name is a combination of Dank and iPods and was a callback to his previous channel Dankmus. Nixon had been planning the channel for months prior to its first upload, perfecting its visuals, style, pacing and editing as well as writing around 70 videos. Nixon's grandfather had earlier passed away and left behind an inheritance which Nixon used to purchase a computer to make online content.

In an interview with The Verge, Nixon stated that he only had "manky MP3 players" in his childhood and that he's "nostalgic for them, but they’re pieces of junk." Due to this, as well as the poor support service, Nixon left Twitch and instead moved to the paywalled independent content and streaming platform Floatplane in 2022. In May 2022, Nixon featured on the Australian news television program A Current Affair in a story about the iPod's discontinuation. In July 2023, Nixon announced he was going on hiatus for 3 weeks.

Garbage Time

Nixon began the YouTube channel Garbage Time in March 2021 as a secondary vlog-style miscellaneous channel about cars, drums, video games and his pet snake Frank. He had begun renting a warehouse in an industrial zone around that time with the intention of being able to make content about cars and drums without disturbing his neighbours. However, since November 2022, the channel became exclusively dedicated to car content. In July 2022, Nixon moved to another warehouse due to airplane noise from the nearby Parafield Airport. He is also a fan of racing sports such as Formula One, and is a supporter of the Cleveland Browns in the NFL.

In 2015 while purchasing paint for a car, Nixon adopted a Murray Darling Carpet python from a reptile shop next door which he named Frank. where he attended that years LTX Expo in Vancouver. Nixon has been heavily vocal and critical of "enshittification" in his videos, and has frequently repeated phrases such as "Big companies always make the worst junk" and "Modern parts suck". Nixon is non-religious.