With Avidan as the co-host, the series expanded to include Hanson’s wife, Suzy Berhow (who also owns 3 YouTube channels bordering on make-up artistry, fashion, and animation) and Barry Kramer as manager and editor respectively. He was succeeded by Dan Avidan, the lead vocalist of the comedic music band, Ninja Sex Party. As stated earlier, he left to effectively focus on the creation of his own YouTube Channel. The very first host to exit the channel was one of its originators, Jon Jafari. Game Grumps enjoyed a steady stream influx prior to the departure of its co-host The very first video of the channel was posted on the 10th of July 2012, it was based on the Kirby Super Star – the same game that led to the argument that birthed the idea of the channel.
The podcast eventually evolved into the Game Grumps web series. Īs it happened, Ross O’Donovan pointed out to the duo how grumpy they were at each other a comment that light a bulb in Hanson’s mind and made him suggest they make a podcast out of it. The subject of the argument was whether the character, Wolf , was a clone of another character (Fox) from another fighting game, Super Smash Bros this was due to their similar fighting techniques. It all began when Jon Jafari and Arin Hanson argued over Super Nintendo game, Kirby Super Star. Over time, the channel has scaled up its hosts by including more internet personalities including Australian animator and voice actor, Ross O’Donovan among others. The Game Grumps Channel was part of American multi-channel network, Polaris for the first 3 years of its airing but has been absorbed by gaming network, JETPAK, which is owned by the game commentator, Adam Montoya aka Seananners. After Jon Jafari left the YouTube series in 2013 to focus on creating his own series, he was replaced by comedian and Sex Ninja music band member, Dan Avidan. The series which was originally co-hosted by Jonathan Jon Tron Aryan Jafari and Arin Egoraptor Hanson is centered mostly on gamers playing a video game picked by fans and making funny comments about their experience on the game.
Its influence in the social media is equally amazing with over 1.5 million following on Twitter and 360,000 followership on Facebook. In six years of its existence, the channel has raked 4 million subscribers and more than 3.4 billion views. The Let’s Play series was created in 2012 and celebrated its fifth anniversary on July 18th, 2017. One of the most popular up-coming gaming YouTube channels is Game Grumps. Gaming is becoming incredibly popular on YouTube these days with game vloggers make millions of dollars out of them yearly.