Jon Jafari

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Jon Jafari

Jafari reviewing Nightshade, along with his sidekick, Jacques.
Born Jonathan Jafari
(1990-03-24) March 24, 1990
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Residence New York City, New York
Nationality American
Alma mater California State University Fullerton
Occupation Internet personality
Years active 2010 - present
Website
www.youtube.com/JonTronShow

Jonathan "Jon" Jafari (born March 24, 1990), more prominently known by his internet pseudonym, JonTron, is an American internet personality. He is known for his webseries of the same name,[1] in which he comedically reviews games of notable negative reception, and sometimes participates in sketch comedy.[2] He is also known for, previously, being the co-star of popular YouTube Let's Play webseries, Game Grumps.[3]

Early life

Jafari was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He attended Palos Verdes Peninsula High School in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. He also attended California State University Fullerton.

Career

Logo representing the new season of JonTron.

JonTron & NormalBoots

Jafari first joined YouTube on August 31, 2010, creating a channel under the name of "JonTronShow". As a pilot episode for his newly created show, JonTron, he immediately uploaded a two parter review of Daikatana, a first-person shooter video game. Soon after, he rose to internet stardom after a fan posted his Dino City review[4] on Reddit, with the description "After watching this, video game reviews aren't really the same anymore."[5] Since then, he has refined his videos, as well as upgraded production value.

Jafari is also the co-creator of the NormalBoots.com website. NormalBoots hosts the content of several closely related YouTube channels, including JonTronShow, PeanutButterGamer,[6] Continue?,[7] The Completionist,[8] Indie Games Searchlight,[9] and DYKGaming.[10] It was eventually closed down in early 2013, and was brought back January 2014, adding several new YouTube channels, including Satchbag[11] and ProJared.[12][13]

In 2011, he briefly contributed to Channel Awesome, working on subdivisions That Guy with the Glasses[14] and Blistered Thumbs.[15]

He is also a member of The Game Station,[16] now re-branded as Polaris, a vertical company run by multi-channel network Maker Studios.[17]

As of January 13, 2014, JonTronShow has over 800,000 subscribers, and more than 70,000,000 total views.[1]

The Game Grumps logo.

Game Grumps

In late July 2012[18] Jafari and his colleague Arin "Egoraptor" Hanson,[19] known for creating the Awesome Series[20] and co-creating the musical comedy group Starbomb,[21] started a joint YouTube channel called "GameGrumps", hosting a show of the same name, Game Grumps. On this show, both Jafari and Hanson played video games that were typically retro or nostalgic in style.[22] This new channel was instantly widely acclaimed by fans of both Jafari's original channel, and Hanson's animation channel, garnering over 100,000 subscribers in the first 48 hours.[citation needed] However, in late June 2013, just under a year after the show's inception, Jafari left Game Grumps under ambiguous circumstances.[23] In response to his departure, a tribute video was posted on the Game Grumps YouTube channel.[24] Soon after Jafari left, he was replaced by Leigh "Danny" Avidan, also known as "Danny Sexbang" of the musical comedy duo Ninja Sex Party.[25]

Jafari has stated he does not plan to return to the show.[26]

Other work

Jafari has appeared many times as a narrator on the popular internet show Did You Know Gaming?.[27] He also provides the voice of the character Sniperwheel from TOME: Terrain of Magical Expertise,[28] a Flash-animated webseries about a futuristic virtual reality game.

Popularity

In the video game DLC Quest, in the episode "Live Freemium or Die", a reference to one of Jafari's quotes can be found on a gravestone, reading "Here Lies: Villager Jon (???-2013) Killed by the Creatures. Real Talk? He Wasn't Paying Attention."[29]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "JonTronShow". YouTube. Retrieved December 23, 2013. 
  2. ↑ Ponce, Tony (2013-25-09). "JonTron died and on the third day rose again". Destructoid. Retrieved 2014-11-01. 
  3. ↑ Amini, Tina (2013-03-01). "Watch This Silly Source Filmmaker Re-Creation Of Two YouTubers Absolutely Losing It". Kotaku. Retrieved 2013-12-26. 
  4. ↑ "DinoCity BRO!!!". JonTron. YouTube. Retrieved December 23, 2013. 
  5. ↑ JackSheet. "After watching this, video game reviews aren't really the same anymore.". Reddit. Retrieved December 23, 2013. 
  6. ↑ "PeanutButterGamer". YouTube. Retrieved December 23, 2013. 
  7. ↑ "Continue?". YouTube. Retrieved December 23, 2013. 
  8. ↑ "TheCompletionist". YouTube. Retrieved December 23, 2013. 
  9. ↑ "Indie Games Searchlight". YouTube. Retrieved December 23, 2013. 
  10. ↑ "Did You Know Gaming - Zelda (ft. JonTron)". DYKGamng. YouTube. Retrieved December 26, 2013. 
  11. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/satchbags
  12. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/user/DMJared
  13. ↑ "NormalBoots Returns!". ScrewAttack. 2014-25-01. Retrieved 2014-26-01. 
  14. ↑ "That Guy With The Glasses". Channel Awesome. Retrieved December 23, 2013. 
  15. ↑ "Blistered Thumbs". Channel Awesome. Retrieved December 23, 2013. 
  16. ↑ "TheGameStation". YouTube. Retrieved December 23, 2013. 
  17. ↑ "Polaris". YouTube. Retrieved December 23, 2013. 
  18. ↑ "Game Grumps Announcement". Egoraptor. YouTube. Retrieved December 23, 2013. 
  19. ↑ "Egoraptor". YouTube. Retrieved December 23, 2013. 
  20. ↑ "The Awesome Series". YouTube. Retrieved January 19, 2014. 
  21. ↑ "Starbomb Is Here". Destructoid. Retrieved December 26, 2013. 
  22. ↑ Ponce, Tony (2012-07-18). "Egoraptor & JonTron twiddle their sticks, play some games". Destructoid. Retrieved 2013-12-26. 
  23. ↑ "Egoraptor's Response to Jon Leaving". reddit. Retrieved 2014-19-01. 
  24. ↑ "Ode to Jon". Game Grumps. YouTube. Retrieved December 23, 2013. 
  25. ↑ Amini, Tina (2013-06-26). "Fans Are Upset Over YouTube Duo 'Game Grumps' Break-Up". Kotaku. Retrieved 2013-12-25. 
  26. ↑ Jafari, Jon. "Jafari states he won't return to Game Grumps on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2013-12-26. 
  27. ↑ Ponce, Tony (08-04-2013). "Nintendo bred a new flower to market Pikmin on GameCube!?". Destructoid. Retrieved 2013-12-19. 
  28. ↑ "TOME Cast Listing". iMDB. Retrieved December 23, 2013. 
  29. ↑ "DLC Quest". VGFacts. Retrieved 2014-19-01. 

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