Jafari's video helped create notability on this subject, and lead to thousands of signatures on a petition. Jafari mostly criticized the shutdown of one of the most popular private servers, Nostalrius, which was a copy of the 1.12 version of the game. This occurred most recently in 2016, with a video made in response to Blizzard Entertainment shutting down private servers of their popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft. Jafari occasionally uploads videos in which he comments on matters that he finds important, which are usually related to gaming.
The series was produced by Maker Studios, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, and concluded in December 2015 after nine episodes. The webseries included cameos from numerous other Internet personalities and actors, such as Egoraptor, Markiplier, Nathan Barnatt, Ross O'Donovan, and Kyle Hebert. In May 2015, Jafari released a spin-off web series on his YouTube channel titled JonTron's StarCade (often referred to simply as StarCade), in which he reviews games based on the Star Wars franchise. JonTronShow reached 1 million subscribers in May 2014. Both channels have fewer than 25,000 subscribers. The second channel, "JonTronLoL", has four videos of Jafari playing the MOBA game League of Legends. The first, "JonTronStarcraft", has two videos of Jafari playing Blizzard Entertainment's popular RTS game StarCraft. In 2011, Jafari created two now-defunct spin-off Let's Play channels. Īccording to Jafari in an episode of gaming webseries Game Grumps, JonTron began achieving notability after a post on Reddit featuring Jafari's review of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game DinoCity reached #1 on the website. His most popular video was his review of the advertisement for the adhesive tape Flex Tape titled "Waterproofing My Life With FLEX TAPE" with 41 million views as of June 2019.
Jafari also occasionally uploads skits as well as movie reviews. jurisdiction and much better at Disney bootlegging" and also remarked on unofficial online games based on the company's movies. In the latter, he observed China as being "farther away from U.S. He has also reviewed various unlicensed games, particularly based on the Pokémon franchise as well as Disney films. Jafari has reviewed numerous video game adaptations of popular franchises such as Hercules, Barbie, Home Alone and Conan the Barbarian. According to Jafari in an episode of the Internet gaming webseries Game Grumps, Jacques was originally to speak in a stereotypical jive voice, with Jafari's mouth being super-imposed onto the character's face rather than his eyes glowing red whenever he talked. Jafari usually incorporates elements of sketch comedy into these episodes to display his reactions to the video game that he is reviewing. He is usually accompanied by his green-cheeked parakeet, Jacques, who speaks with a robotic voice. In each episode of JonTron, Jafari reviews singular games as well as games of a particular theme or genre. He then uploaded a two-part review of the Nintendo 64 version of the game Daikatana, the first installment in his JonTron series. He stated that he chose the name JonTron because it was "reminiscent of technology" à la Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, and that the show was originally going to be called JonTron 2.0. On August 31, 2010, Jafari created a YouTube channel called JonTronShow. In 2006, he made a YouTube account under the same name. Jafari created a Newgrounds account under the name "BirdmanXZ6" in 2003, and uploaded five animations depicting anthropomorphic onions. He attended Palos Verdes Peninsula High School from 2004 to 2008. He is of Hungarian descent on his mother's side and Persian descent from his father's side. Jafari was born and raised in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Shortly after the backlash to these statements, he stepped down as an active member of Normal Boots. Jafari's comments were characterized by news commentators as aligning with far-right or alt-right politics. In early 2017, Jafari faced backlash from media outlets and fans after making public comments on race and immigration. As of October 2019, his YouTube channel JonTronShow has 5.82 million subscribers and 863 million views. Jafari was co-creator and former co-host of the Let's Play webseries Game Grumps, and co-created the video game entertainment website Normal Boots. He reviews video games, movies, and television shows of varying genres in a retrospective and comedic manner in his YouTube web series JonTron. Jonathan Aryan Jafari ( / ɑː r ˈ j æ n /) (born March 26, 1990), known by his internet pseudonym JonTron, is an American comedian, reviewer, and internet personality.