Jonathan Jafari
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Jonathan Aryan Jafari March 24, 1990 Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States |
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Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States |
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| Occupation | Comedian, reviewer, internet personality | ||||||||
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| Also known as | JonTron | ||||||||
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| Years active | 2010–present | ||||||||
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| Subscribers | 3.3 million | ||||||||
| Total views | 449.6 million | ||||||||
| Network | Polaris | ||||||||
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Jonathan Aryan "Jon" Jafari (born March 24, 1990), best known by his internet pseudonym JonTron, is an American comedian, reviewer, and internet personality. He is known for his YouTube web series JonTron, in which he reviews video games, movies, and television shows of varying genres in a retrospective and comedic manner. Jafari is also known as the co-creator and former co-host of the Let's Play webseries Game Grumps, and for co-creating the video game entertainment website NormalBoots. As of August 28, 2017, Jafari has amassed over 3.3 million subscribers and over 449 million views on his YouTube channel, JonTronShow.
Jafari was born and raised in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. He is of Hungarian-Croatian descent on his mother's side and Persian descent from his father's side. He attended Palos Verdes Peninsula High School from 2004 to 2008, where he participated in musical theatre. While attending high school, Jafari met future collaborator Jirard Khalil, actor Michael Barryte, and future Game Grumps editor Barry Kramer.
Jafari created a Newgrounds account under the name "BirdmanXZ6" in 2003, and uploaded five animations depicting anthropomorphic onions. In 2006, he made a YouTube account under the same name.
On August 31, 2010, Jafari created a YouTube channel called JonTronShow. He stated that he chose the name JonTron because it was "reminiscent of technology" à la Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, and that the show was originally going to be called JonTron 2.0. He then uploaded a two-part review of the Nintendo 64 version of the game Daikatana, the first installment in his JonTron series. In each episode of JonTron, Jafari reviews singular games as well as games of a particular theme or genre. He is usually accompanied by his green-cheeked parakeet, Jacques, who speaks with a robotic voice. Jafari usually incorporates elements of sketch comedy into these episodes to display his reactions to the video game that he is reviewing. Jafari has reviewed numerous video game adaptations of popular franchises such as Hercules, Barbie, Home Alone, and Conan the Barbarian. He has also reviewed various unlicensed games, particularly based on the Pokémon franchise as well as Disney films. In the latter, he observed China as being "farther away from U.S. jurisdiction and much better at Disney bootlegging" and also remarked on unofficial online games based on the company's movies. Jafari also occasionally uploads skits as well as movie reviews. His most popular video is his cover of Firework with over 17 million views.
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