Austin Jones (musician)

Austin Jones
Personal information
Born Austin Jones
December 12, 1992 (age 24) [1]
Origin Bloomingdale, Illinois
Residence Bloomingdale, Illinois
YouTube information
Channel AusdudePro
Years active 2007–present
Genre Music (cover music, rock music, pop punk, metalcore)
Subscribers 541,000+
Total views 28.8 million+
Subscriber and view counts updated as of July 9, 2017.

Austin Jones is an American YouTuber and musician from Bloomingdale, Illinois.[2] On his YouTube account's about page, he describes himself as an "alternative pop vocalist."[3] After accumulating around 540,000 subscribers and over 20 million video views, Jones became more widely known due to his arrest related to sexual misconduct involving minors.[1][2][4]

Career

Jones began releasing music in 2007. In 2014, he released an EP titled We'll Fall Together, which ended up at number 12 on the iTunes pop chart. In 2016, Jones released a full-length album titled Pitch Imperfect.[5] Jones is also known for his acapella videos of song covers.[6][7][8]

Sexual misconduct controversies

On May 10, 2015, the music website PupFresh reported that Austin Jones had contacted multiple underage female fans online, each time persuading the girl to twerk on video for him, giving her directions how to do it.[9] There was a petition to deny him his planned participation in the Warped Tour because of this, but since there were slightly too few supporters of the petition, he could participate anyway. In a video he later posted he admitted the allegations and apologized, but said that it was nothing more, no nudity was involved.[10]

On June 12, 2017, Jones was arrested at Chicago O’Hare International Airport by agents of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on two counts of producing child pornography (once in 2016 and once in 2017). In each case he allegedly persuaded an underage female fan to make sexually explicit videos of herself, according to his directions.[11][2][12] At a June 15 court hearing, Jones was released from his arrest on home confinement in his mother's custody after posting a $100,000 bond, but was ordered to stay off the Internet, while he awaits trial.[13]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Sokmenseur, Harriet (June 15, 2017). "YouTube Star Austin Jones Allegedly Urged 14-Year-Old Fans to Send Him Sexual Videos". People. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 Seidel, Jon (13 June 2017). "YouTube star Austin Jones charged with child porn counts in Chicago". Chicago Sun-Times.
  3. ↑ "Austin Jones - YouTube about page". Austin Jones. YouTube. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Suburban Musician Arrested on Child Pornography Charges for Allegedly Enticing Underage Girls to Produce Sexually Explicit Videos". U.S. Attorney's Office — Northern District of Illinois. Department of Justice. June 13, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  5. ↑ Castro, Danilo (13 June 2017). "Austin Jones Arrested: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". Heavy.com.
  6. ↑ Wilson-Taylor, James (14 March 2017). "WATCH: Twenty One Pilots Fan Records Acapella Version Of Every 'Blurryface' Track". PopBuzz.
  7. ↑ Selleck, Cole (October 2016). "WATCH: Dude Covers "Welcome To The Black Parade" With JUST His Voice". WRDA.
  8. ↑ Jones, Austin (1 June 2016). "YouTuber Austin Jones’ cover of Bring Me The Horizon’s 'Drown' is going viral". Alternative Press.
  9. ↑ Beelek, William (Editor) (10 May 2015). "Austin Jones asking underage girls to twerk for him". PupFresh.
  10. ↑ Crane, Matt (18 May 2015). "Warped Tour YouTuber Austin Jones responds to accusations, apologizes". Alternative Press.
  11. ↑ https://www.scribd.com/document/351203585/Austin-Jones-Child-Porn-Complaint-WARNING-Disturbing-content
  12. ↑ Stutz, Colin (13 June 2017). "YouTube Star Austin Jones Arrested on 2 Counts of Child Pornography". Billboard.
  13. ↑ "YouTube Star Austin Jones Released on Bail, Ordered to Stay Offline After Child Porn Charges". Associated Press. Billboard. June 15, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
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