Jontron's Starcade

About

Starcade is a miniseries by ^[1] YouTuber Jontron where he reviews games about the hit movie ^[2] Star wars. The miniseries spans three episodes so far. The miniseries has spammed many websites with gifs and reaction images

Origin

On April 30th 2015 Jontron uploaded a video to channel called Jontron Whereabouts! In the video he tells the viewers that the reason for his absence was because he was working on a secret project. This was the first clue to Starcade and his first upload in two months

On May 4th 2015 Jontron uploaded a video called JonTron's StarCade – Official Trailer announcing the miniseries Starcade. the video showed clips from filmed Starcade episodes and some game footage from Star Wars games. It has also been pointed out by fans that the video was uploaded on National Star Wars day (May 4th). On May 9th the first episode of Starcade was uploaded to YouTube showing of Star wars Atari 2600 games. The plot is that JonTron finds himself on the Millennium Falcon forced to play Star Wars Games for Darth Vader.

Spread

The miniseries announcement first spread on Reddit on May 4th when Reddit user ^[3]coreygrandy uploaded the JonTron's StarCade – Official Trailer to a Subreddit dedicated to JonTron called /r/Jontron. As of July 2015 the post has gotten over 1,000 points and more than 300 comments.
On May 9th 2015 Reddit user ^[4] BlJohnFreeman posted The first episode of Starcade was uploaded to Reddit the video has gotten more points and comments than the first uploaded trailer at more than 1,700 points and 400 comments

Search interest

External References

^[1] Know your meme – Jontron

^[2] Know your meme – Star wars

^[3] Reddit – Coreygrady

^[4] Reddit – BlJohnFreeman