Jon Aryan Jafari, known popularly online as JonTron (and less popularly as BirdmanZX6,) is an online "celebrity" of sorts who rose to fame making reviews of video games and other media on the internet, and more recently, speaking out with some controversial opinions on race (more on this later)
JonTron didn't start out as a YouTube reviewer, though - his start was actually back in the year of 2005, on Newgrounds. Newgrounds was already the home to many a sperg. At the ripe young age of 15, BirdmanZX6 tried his hand at flash animation, creating 5 animations featuring onions with faces from August 2005 to August 2006. These animations, even for a shitty 15 year old, are probably above the artistic caliber of anything that should be posted publicly. This would be excusable if JonTron had a decent sense of humor. Unfortunately, he made this at the age of 15, so...
This wasn't the last we'd see of "BirdmanZX6", however, as Jon continued to use the alias into 2012, after the birth of his main channel (but before he became a popular feature on Game Grumps), where to this day you can find a movie clip with a face poorly edited over some portions, and some hot bonus Minecraft content.
On August 31st, 2010, JonTron posted his first ever gaming review video - the 2-part review of John Romero's Daikatana. His shitty videos, however, failed to excite viewers enough to bring in the sweet Youtube Bucks until his review of Dinocity, where, after being posted on reddit, the video blew up, and as a result, introducing him to the much more popular Egoraptor, who reached out to him.
Then, almost two years later, JonTron would play some video games with his buddy Egoraptor, record it, then have a friend edit the results, and then Game Grumps was born. Game Grumps would then go on to become one of the big Youtube game playing channels, with a semi-DSP strategy of posting multiple 10-minute videos a day, playing the Youtube algorithms like a fiddle. Jon would continue to ride this money train until 2013, when, in the face of the channel expanding,
would bekicked off the team replaced with a Jew part ways respectfully, leaving Game Grumps to "focus on his channel", which had notably been basically dead, posting a whopping 4 videos in the span of a year.
JonTron then moved literally across the country afterward, and he would only grow bigger afterward, and as his audience expanded and more youtube money came in, his production values would grow, eventually gaining access to a set at around the same time hesucked off Disney's big star wars boner for cash produced a quality Star Wars-centric series, known as Starcade.
It's also around this time that JonTron wouldget embarassed about how shitty some of the content he put out was prune some of the videos he was less fond of from his channel - including some gems such as "showing off his 'minecraft world'", making an idiot out of himself in public in a desperate attempt to try and copy what Mega64 had already been doing well for years, and just getting plastered on camera while trying to play a video game.
What Jon was getting less embarassed about, however, were his political beliefs. A firm supporter of Obama in 2012, JonTron saw a shift in viewpoints that went from voting a black man into the White House, to hating those damn dirty SJWs in a stream with alt-right guy Sargon, to the modern day, 2017, wherein he tries to imply that black people and Mexicans are just inherently more prone to crime by presenting either no or very shitty evidence, and that, whilst claiming that white people have become oppressed in America, claiming that if you believe that anybody is discriminated against, you're living in a fantasyland.
These quotes come from a 2 hour video ofJonTron getting played like a fiddle by Destiny a debate between Jon and Destiny, with Jon coming underprepared for an actual debate, and Destiny more than primed to pull the most controversial shit from Jon's mouth - managing to reveal to many that Jon didn't have a very fond opinion of the blacks, with one of the most noteworthy (and unsupported) quotes being that "wealthy blacks commit more crimes than the poorest whites". His source for this being reports for homicide - a crime that makes up for the smallest percentage of violent crime, let alone crime as a whole.
Here's the full video, if you want to watch JonTron make a fool of himself for 2 hours while a snide douchebag steers the conversation for him.
So aside from being shit at debates and easily trolled into handing out information, JonTron's also on twitter, where his tweets are mostly of the standard, harmless fare, aside from whenever he gets political, ever, wherein JonTron continues to put to 140 characters some stupid shit that, regardless of whether you agree with him or not, is a good way to go and shoot your career in the foot. Fortunately for him, r/thedonald, home of good samaritans and friendly folks, decided that they liked Jon after he said unflattering things about minorities, and their concerted efforts have made sure Jon barely feels a drop in subscribers.
JonTron's partnered with the same club that dropped Pewdiepie for making an off-color joke, let alone full blown non-ironic statements, so we'll see how long he continues to not feel the effects of his actions.
TL;DR
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/user/JonTronShow
https://www.youtube.com/user/BirdmanXz6
http://birdmanxz6.newgrounds.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/JonTron/comments/4n2odf/jontron_unlistedremoved_videos_complete_list/ Deleted Videos
https://web.archive.org/web/2017031...ts/5z69gh/35_quote_compilation_of_the_debate/ if you don't wanna watch the debate
JonTron didn't start out as a YouTube reviewer, though - his start was actually back in the year of 2005, on Newgrounds. Newgrounds was already the home to many a sperg. At the ripe young age of 15, BirdmanZX6 tried his hand at flash animation, creating 5 animations featuring onions with faces from August 2005 to August 2006. These animations, even for a shitty 15 year old, are probably above the artistic caliber of anything that should be posted publicly. This would be excusable if JonTron had a decent sense of humor. Unfortunately, he made this at the age of 15, so...
This wasn't the last we'd see of "BirdmanZX6", however, as Jon continued to use the alias into 2012, after the birth of his main channel (but before he became a popular feature on Game Grumps), where to this day you can find a movie clip with a face poorly edited over some portions, and some hot bonus Minecraft content.
On August 31st, 2010, JonTron posted his first ever gaming review video - the 2-part review of John Romero's Daikatana. His shitty videos, however, failed to excite viewers enough to bring in the sweet Youtube Bucks until his review of Dinocity, where, after being posted on reddit, the video blew up, and as a result, introducing him to the much more popular Egoraptor, who reached out to him.
Then, almost two years later, JonTron would play some video games with his buddy Egoraptor, record it, then have a friend edit the results, and then Game Grumps was born. Game Grumps would then go on to become one of the big Youtube game playing channels, with a semi-DSP strategy of posting multiple 10-minute videos a day, playing the Youtube algorithms like a fiddle. Jon would continue to ride this money train until 2013, when, in the face of the channel expanding,
would be
JonTron then moved literally across the country afterward, and he would only grow bigger afterward, and as his audience expanded and more youtube money came in, his production values would grow, eventually gaining access to a set at around the same time he
It's also around this time that JonTron would
What Jon was getting less embarassed about, however, were his political beliefs. A firm supporter of Obama in 2012, JonTron saw a shift in viewpoints that went from voting a black man into the White House, to hating those damn dirty SJWs in a stream with alt-right guy Sargon, to the modern day, 2017, wherein he tries to imply that black people and Mexicans are just inherently more prone to crime by presenting either no or very shitty evidence, and that, whilst claiming that white people have become oppressed in America, claiming that if you believe that anybody is discriminated against, you're living in a fantasyland.
These quotes come from a 2 hour video of
Here's the full video, if you want to watch JonTron make a fool of himself for 2 hours while a snide douchebag steers the conversation for him.
So aside from being shit at debates and easily trolled into handing out information, JonTron's also on twitter, where his tweets are mostly of the standard, harmless fare, aside from whenever he gets political, ever, wherein JonTron continues to put to 140 characters some stupid shit that, regardless of whether you agree with him or not, is a good way to go and shoot your career in the foot. Fortunately for him, r/thedonald, home of good samaritans and friendly folks, decided that they liked Jon after he said unflattering things about minorities, and their concerted efforts have made sure Jon barely feels a drop in subscribers.
JonTron's partnered with the same club that dropped Pewdiepie for making an off-color joke, let alone full blown non-ironic statements, so we'll see how long he continues to not feel the effects of his actions.
TL;DR
- JonTron used to be BirdmanZX6 and used to make shitty flash animations.
- JonTron got popular by making unfunny reviews of obscure and usually bad video games, like thousands of youtube people before and after.
- JonTron was kicked off of Game Grumps and replaced after being an unfunny retard, pissing off the guy who actually runs the channel, and forgetting that he even had his own channel in the first place.
- JonTron continued to be unfunny on his own channel, and pulled in a lot of that sweet youtube cash money while he did.
- JonTron got trolled by Destiny, and ended up saying some really retarded shit as a result.
- JonTron's partnered with the Disney subsidiary that's not only downsizing, but already dropped Pewdiepie, and the retarded shit he said is in line with what got Pewdiepie kicked.
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/user/JonTronShow
https://www.youtube.com/user/BirdmanXz6
http://birdmanxz6.newgrounds.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/JonTron/comments/4n2odf/jontron_unlistedremoved_videos_complete_list/ Deleted Videos
https://web.archive.org/web/2017031...ts/5z69gh/35_quote_compilation_of_the_debate/ if you don't wanna watch the debate
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