VideoGameDunkey

About

VideoGameDunkey is the online handle of Jason Gastrow, a YouTube gamer from Wisconsin, notable for joking around and making League of Legends videos, though he has since quit making videos on the game due to personal lack of enjoyment.

Online History

The VideoGameDunkey YouTube^[3] channel was launched by Jason Gastrow on October 24th, 2010, with a video titled "Battletoads, One Life Speedrun", which features Gastrow playing the video game Battletoads while commenting on his moves and strategy. As of August 2017, the video has gained over 800,000 views.

On July 6th, 2011, user V O X Populi submitted an entry for videogamedunkey on UrbanDictionary,^[5] defining it as:

"A semi-famous youtuber who has a mildly crude-- yet funny sense of humor, with the use of mild sarcasm and witty sentences."

As of August 2017, the channel's two most popular videos are "Ultimate Skyrim" (below left) which was uploaded on March 12nd, 2015, and "Overman" (below right) which was uploaded on June 13th, 2016. As of August 2017, the videos have gained 14.7 million views and 8.5 million views, respectively.

On August 28th, 2012, Redditor oldblindbob created the subreddit /r/videogamedunkey/^[4].

In addition to the videos featuring Gastrow playing video games, the show also features a series of videos celebrating the channel's subscriber milestones.

On September 4th, 2011, he uploaded a video to celebrate the channel reaching 20,000 subscribers in which he dances while on Chatroulette. On June 16th, 2014, he uploaded a video celebrating the channel reaching 1 million subscribers which featured him dancing with his friends and fans through Skype. In less than a month the video gained over 370,000 views.

Game Critics

On July 25th, 2018, YouTuber Animal Jayson uploaded a video "Dunkey is a Bad Critic" which reviewed Dunkey's critic on Octopath which Animal Jayson has admitted to not playing himself (shown below, left). The video has gained over 84,200 views, 1,200 likes and 8,100 dislikes in a year. On July 29th, 2019, VideoGameDunkey uploaded "Game Critics (Part 2)" in which he criticizes Animal Jayson for the video he uploaded a year prior (shown below, right). The video gained over 1.6 million views, 219,000 likes and 3,900 dislikes in two days.

Many of the viewers took to Twitter to express their frustration with Dunkey for critiquing a YouTuber with such a small subscriber count. On July 30th, @MercuryDjinn3^[6] tweeted, "All the people seriously defending Dunkey for his blatant ignorance, and pointing his visceral fan base in the direction of a far, FAR smaller YouTube channel are for the most part not even using actual arguments" (shown below, left). Many Dunkey fans defended him by stating that "Bunkey is a Bad Critic" was a horrible video anyways. The next day, Twitter user @Manga_Kamen^[7] tweeted that, "no creator is responsible for their fans actions, but when you name drop, show the guy's channel, videos, and go out of your way to make the guy look like an idiot… WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?! Like seriously, your fans are seriously going after this guy" (shown below, right). The tweet gained over 30 likes in a day.

Reputation

As of August VideoGameDunkey's YouTube channel has over 3 million subscribers. Its Facebook page^[1] has gained over 100,000 likes and its Twitter account^[2] has over 332K followers.

Related Memes

"I do not watch your videos because you are black."

In his THE JONTRON RANT (a parody of LeafyIsHere) video, Dunkey shows a comment left by Jontron, which states: "Fuck you dunkey, I do not watch your videos because you are black." This particular comment has become very popular among the youtube comment section, given how deep VideoGameDunkey's voice is. Numerous variation of that comment has since sprouted such as, "Fuck you black, I do not watch your videos because you are Dunkey".

Notable Examples

Search Interest

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