VideoGameDunkey

In 2010, Jason launched his current YouTube channel, videogamedunkey, with a clip of him playing the 1991 video game Battletoads in a timed-out state. “Battletoads, One Life Speedrun” is the oldest video available on Jason’s channel. He plays Battletoads in the video and tries to finish the game without losing a life.

Jason had a channel before videogamedunkey and Gastrow recalled that while playing Left 4 Dead with a friend, the name “videogamedunkey” came to him. Gastrow has pages on Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter, in addition to being active on YouTube. He and his wife Leah also manage the online store Dunkey’s Castle.

On his channel, Jason focuses primarily on video games, posting reviews, playthroughs, video essays, and montages. He has also written reviews for movies like The Shining. Gastrow gained popularity for his coverage of the 2009 multiplayer online battle arena game League of Legends during the early years of his channel.

Jason “had a special place in the League of Legends universe for consistently producing some of the best, and definitely the funniest, material in the game’s massive community”, according to Yannick LeJacq of Kotaku. However, he stopped producing League videos in September 2015 after being banned for engaging in “toxic” behaviour, such as repeatedly insulting teammates in-game.

Jason published a video in December 2020 in which he announced he would stop creating “good videos” and instead adopt a daily schedule. After that, he regularly released shorter videos with clickbait titles and satire of his own plans.

For instance, in a fictitious Minecraft video, Jason appeared as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s standard Steve character. His wife claims that he changed the format of the content because he was “feeling frustrations about the current YouTube landscape and worried about the future”, where past curated content from his and other channels has been “overshadowed by the latest trends and low effort stuff” from larger channels.

According to Jason, he would sometimes creates a script for a video and records voice-overs afterwards, and other times he records as he performs. Jason’s videos depicting League of Legends and Overwatch (2016) are examples of the latter; he stated in an interview that he “would try to cut out the funniest parts.”

As per various sources, Jason has a net worth of $5 million as of July 2022. Every day, there are approximately 951.46 thousand views on the videogamedunkey YouTube channel. Per a thousand video views, YouTube channels can make anywhere from $3 to $7. According to Net Worth Spot, videogamedunkey makes $114,18,000 per month or $1.71 million annually.

Jason Gastrow was born on January 30, 1991 and he has resided in Wisconsin's Milwaukee and Madison. Gastrow wed Leah Bee, a fellow YouTuber, in September 2019. Jason's race is a frequent misunderstanding and running joke on the channel, which Bee attributes to his voice and the fact that he hardly ever shows his face in videos.

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Jason is followed by millions of people on the different platforms he’s active on. He has 945k followers on Twitch, where he streams various games, including WWE crush hour, Alan Wake, Cuphead and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s revenge. He has 1.3 million followers on Twitter, where he gets several likes and retweets.

Jason has a variety of content on YouTube. He has 7.61 million followers and over 3 billion views. His content includes reviewing games, satirical reviews of games, a compilation of parts of games, and commentary videos on different aspects of video games. Some of his most famous series are Dunkey’s greatest hits, League Vids, More Bunkey and Demo Disc.

Jason plays several different mods of Skyrim.

Jason plays several different parts of the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the wild.

Jason plays Undertale and gives satirical commentary over it.

Jason makes a funny compilation of Dark Souls 3.

1. Gene Park of The Washington Post described Jason as one of the most influential critics on YouTube, noting he has inspired a number of imitators and called him the Lester Bangs of video games.
2. He has criticised Microsoft for its business practices, including the termination of their Summer of Arcade deal, and Nintendo for demonetising his review of Super Mario Odyssey (2017) on the grounds of copyright.
3. When Kanye West's album Donda was released in August 2021, the track "Remote Control" contained an exact sample from the animated short film Strawinsky and the Mysterious House (2012), leading fans to speculate that West's team had seen Jason's live stream in August 2021.

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Q. What happened between VideoGameDunkey and Machinima?

A. When Jason first signed his contract, Machinima, Inc. took a sizable chunk of his advertising revenue. After seeing a decline in revenue in 2013, Jason became more and more anxious because he had just agreed to a pricey apartment lease. As a result, he produced as many videos as he could. He changed from Machinima to Maker Studios, which made the lease payment promise but never followed through and took more money than Machinima.

Q. What happened between VideoGameDunkey and Microsoft?

A. In exchange for Jason creating four videos for Xbox Live's Summer of Arcade, Microsoft offered to pay for the first two months of his lease. Microsoft removed the video and cancelled the deal soon after Jason posted the first video, in which he berated the game he was playing.