About

Somecallmejohnny, or Juan "Johnny" Ortiz, is a Peurto Rican gamer who reviews various games, ranging from Sonic, Mario, and Metroid. His reviews are best known for their impartiality and indifference to the bandwagon. His style is typically that of the dry deadpan genre. As of 2015 he has over 148,000 subscribers.
From time to time he will invite various friends or other reviewers to co-review with him including his younger step-brother Elliot Cancell, or his best friend Matt Metelli. He also has made guest appearances on popular LP channels including "Sonic's Channel" and "Cobanermani456".

History

In 2008, the channel originally began as a duo review series, known as SGB Reviews (SGB standing for Super Gaming Brothers), as they were reviewed by both Johnny and his aforementioned brother Elliot.

However, eventually Elliot left, presumably due to the business of school and Johnny took over, renaming the series as Johnny vs. The World. However Elliot still makes guest appearances from time to time.

Videos

Reviews

While most of his videos are isolated reviews, from time to time he'll do a series of reviews from a given franchise including, these being "Month of Metroid", "Month of Mario" (of which there have been two), or "Month of Sonic" (of which there have been three of, the latest being dubbed the Sonic Marathon as it did not fit into a month).

Along with these are series reviews for Indie games or donated games by fans.

Brainscratch Commentaries

Johnny is also a member of the LP group known as Brainscratchcomms, along with Nayrman214 (Ryan Malis), SolarisParadox (Lewis Medeiros), and ExandShadow (Ted Weisen). The channel was originally conceived in 2009 by Ryan, who then pitched the idea to Lewis, who then invited John to come along, and much later Ted.

The commentary group as of 2015 has 56K subscribers.

SGBLikesToPlay

Although Elliot no longer participates majorly on the reviews, he still takes full part on John's personal LP channel, SGBLIkesToPlay. Playthroughs on this channel typically involve co-op LPs or competition games. Johnny's aforementioned best friend Matt also is prominent on this channel, along with John's second younger brother Mark.

Animations

Johnny also seldom makes animations featuring Sonic the Hedgehog. ranging from parody interviews or voice overs.