Known as JonTron, Jonathan Aryan Jafari is an American comedian, critic and internet personality. His videos mostly consist of humorous reviews of poorly received games. He also reviews movies and TV shows from different genres on his YouTube channel JonTronShow, which has over 4.9 million subscribers and nearly 690 million views as of December 2018. People asked him what had happened to him. Discover them together.
Who is Jontron?
YouTuber was born Jonathan Aryan Jafari on March 24, 1990, in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States. He is of mixed ancestry, as he was born to a mother of Hungarian-Croatian descent and a father of Persian descent.
Jafari attended the Palos Verdes Peninsula High School where he was an active member of a musical theater group. During his studies, his future began to take shape when he met some of his partners with whom he would later collaborate. He met Jirard Khalil, actor Michael Barryte and future Game Grumps host Barry Kramer.
In 2003, Jontron created a Newgrounds account, named BirdmanXZ6. There, he posted 5 animations depicting anthropomorphic onions. Three years later, he created a YouTube channel of the same name. Then on August 31, 2010, he created his YouTube channel named JonTronShow, which begins with a review of the game Daikatana. On his new channel, he also hosts a channel that provides standard reviews for single games and games of a particular theme or genre in each episode.
Also, he co-founded NormalBoots with Austin (PeanutButterGamer) Hargrave in late 2010. That’s not all, Jontron launched a game channel called Game Grumps, a Let’s Play series, on July 10, 2012, featuring Egoraptor , host and voice actor. However, he left the show a year later to return to his JonTronShow. Acknowledging the efforts of his audience on platforms such as Reddit, Jontron has incorporated comedic sketches into his reviews of classic games. It also reviews major video game adaptations of franchises such as Barbie and Conan the Barbarian. He later added episodes of sketches and film reviews which saw his channel witness a boom. He reached the milestone of one million subscribers in 2014.
Having found his niche and his audience preferences, he kept on his feet to give them more than they asked for. JonTron has taken his channel to a whole new level by releasing web series such as JonTron’s StarCade, which reviews games based on the Star Wars franchise. In doing so, he collaborated with other internet personalities and actors such as Egoraptor and Markiplier. He has also collaborated with other YouTube channels including h3h3 Tin and Hila Klein Productions, Satchbag’s Goods and ProJared.
JonTron continued to grow in fame and expand his business, adding vocal works to his plethora of accomplishments. He did a voiceover for Did You Know The Game? and also covered the Star Wars spin-off series on the YouTube channel, The Movie Theorists. With his ever-growing resume repertoire, insane gaming skills, comedic commentary and skits, it’s no surprise that his channel now caters to all gaming and movie enthusiasts.
Net value
With a growing number of subscribers on his JonTronShow channel, the YouTuber has earned himself a lot of fame and wealth. In 2018, his net worth was pegged at $1 million. Many would easily say that he would be richer if he hadn’t gotten involved in discussions on political issues in 2017.
His girlfriend
Jon met Nicole Rodriguez, a New York animator. She is also known as Shnikkles and created Game Grumps Animated Get only mages! . The pair broke up a long time ago and JonTron doesn’t seem to be in a rush as he seems to be focused on his career and growing his fan base.
What happened to JonTron?
On January 17, 2017, JonTron was caught up in an online controversy as he headed into national politics during a live stream hosted by Sargon of Akkad. Two months later, he posted a tweet defending a quote from Steve King (Iowa Rep) about US immigration policy. His racist tweet was one thing, but his live debate with YouTuber Destiny exacerbated the problem. Despite being outspoken in his opinions, it didn’t stop him from getting a lot of hate, as many people didn’t agree with him.
At that time, he faced a big backlash within his fanbase and some of his over 3 million subscribers at the time, thought they weren’t watching his videos anymore. Also, he lost many sponsors, and on May 18, 2017, NormalBoots announced that while JonTron remained one of the band’s founders, he would no longer operate as an active member as a result of his comments.
He posted two videos (but now deleted); an in response to the whole incident on a podcast with h3h3productions. In it, he said he had no racist views, but refused to retract his statement. He also wanted people to be able to talk about issues without chasing each other. The second was a Q&A session where he mentioned he would be taking a break for a few months. However, he ended his YouTube hiatus by uploading a sequel to his most popular video, Flex Tape II: The Flex on December 2, 2018.
Where is he now?
5’10” comedic height movie review and movie review is a lot around. He is still making videos and has no plans to slow down. JonTron hopes to grow its subscriber base in the coming years and has plans to look into other interests.