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Angry Joe

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Joe Vargas
Joe Vargas at E3 2015
Vargas at E3 2015
Personal information
BornJoseph Antonio Vargas
(1984-06-18) June 18, 1984 (age 38)
Austin, Texas, U.S.
OccupationYouTuber
Websiteangryjoeshow.com/ajsa
YouTube information
ChannelsAngryJoeShow
Years active2008–present
Genre
Subscribers3.3 million
Total views1.52 billion
NetworkChannel Awesome (2009–2018)[1]
Associated acts
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg 100,000 subscribers 2012
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg 1,000,000 subscribers 2013
Last updated: January 27, 2023

Jose Antonio Vargas (born June 18, 1984) is an American media commentator and YouTuber.[2] He is notable for his portrayal of the character AngryJoe and for his production of the AngryJoeShow, a video game and movie review channel.[3]

YouTube

Vargas launched his YouTube channel AngryJoeShow on October 4, 2008 with the video "Shit that Pisses Me Off - Madden 2009 Hardcore Gamers".[4] The show features Vargas's character "AngryJoe" reviewing a video game with a scale from 1-10. These reviews typically use sketch comedy and clips from his streams on Twitch. The channel was well received by the YouTube community;[5] as of April 2021, the channel has accrued over one billion views and has amassed more than 3,200,000 subscribers.[6] In addition to game reviews, Vargas produces movie reviews on his channel. Vargas and his channel have received mention in media covering YouTube,[3][5] most notably for Vargas's opposition to copyright overreach on YouTube.[7][8][9][10] Vargas's interest in copyright on YouTube stemmed from an incident in which Nintendo of America filed a copyright claim on a video of Joe playing Mario Party 10.[11][7][12]

Vargas was affiliated with Blistered Thumbs of the media production company Channel Awesome until April 2018. His departure was due to the then-ongoing controversy regarding Channel Awesome and many of its former producers, many of whom Vargas had previously known and affiliated with in the past.[1]

Street Fighter: The Miniatures Game

In April 2018, a Kickstarter project to create a board game featuring miniature-sized figures of licensed characters from the Street Fighter series of video games (in collaboration with Jasco Games) was launched by Vargas.[2][13] The project's Kickstarter campaign raised $400,000 on its first day, an event which in turn attracted media coverage.[14][15]

In January 2021, Street Fighter: The Miniatures Game began shipping to those that backed the Kickstarter project.

Vargas worked in another collaboration with Jasco Games on Mortal Kombat: The Miniatures Game based of the license of the same name. [16]

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YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is an American global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google and is the second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users, who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute.

Twitch (service)

Twitch (service)

Twitch is an American video live streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions, in addition to offering music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams. Twitch is operated by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. It was introduced in June 2011 as a spin-off of the general-interest streaming platform Justin.tv. Content on the site can be viewed either live or via video on demand. The games shown on Twitch's current homepage are listed according to audience preference and include genres such as real-time strategy games (RTS), fighting games, racing games, and first-person shooters.

Mario Party 10

Mario Party 10

Mario Party 10 is a 2015 party video game. It was developed by NDcube and published by Nintendo for the Wii U. It was the only game in the series released for the Wii U, and was followed by Super Mario Party for the Nintendo Switch in 2018. Mario Party 10 received mixed reviews from critics. Critics praised the Bowser Party mode, the minigames, and utilization of the Wii U GamePad, but the decision to keep the gameplay changes first introduced in Mario Party 9 was criticized.

Channel Awesome

Channel Awesome

Channel Awesome, Inc. is an American online media production company based in Lombard, Illinois. The company was created in 2008 by Mike Michaud, Mike Ellis, and Bhargav Dronamraju. Channel Awesome operated the That Guy with the Glasses website until late 2014, when it was phased into the Channel Awesome website. The site is best known for the comedic film review series Nostalgia Critic, starring Doug Walker.

Kickstarter

Kickstarter

Kickstarter is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of February 2023, Kickstarter has received $7 billion in pledges from 21.7 million backers to fund 233,626 projects, such as films, music, stage shows, comics, journalism, video games, board games, technology, publishing, and food-related projects.

Street Fighter

Street Fighter

Street Fighter, commonly abbreviated as SF or スト (Suto), is a Japanese media franchise centered on a series of fighting video and arcade games developed and published by Capcom. The first game in the series was released in 1987, followed by six other main series games, various spin-offs and crossovers, and numerous appearances in other media. Its best-selling 1991 release Street Fighter II established many of the conventions of the one-on-one fighting genre.

Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat is an American media franchise centered on a series of video games originally developed by Midway Games in 1992. The development of the first game was originally based on an idea that Ed Boon and John Tobias had of making a video game starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, but when that idea fell through, a science fantasy-themed fighting game was created instead. Still, the developers paid homage to him with Johnny Cage, a fictional film star whose personal style resembles Van Damme's.

Awards and nominations

Year Association Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2016 The Game Awards Trending Gamer AngryJoeShow Nominated [17]

Source: "Angry Joe", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 8th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_Joe.

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References
  1. ^ a b "Joe Vargas on Twitter: After some recent events have been brought to my attention I've decided to leave Channel Awesome, effective immediately. Our videos will not be cross posted to the site". April 12, 2018. Retrieved April 23, 2019 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ a b Corrigan, Hope (April 6, 2018). "Street Fighter Board Game Announced on Kickstarter". IGN. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Star Wars Battlefront Developer Calls Out Critics For "Bending The Truth"". AOTF. October 19, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  4. ^ AngryJoeShow (October 4, 2008), Shit that Pisses Me Off - Madden 2009 Hardcore Gamers, retrieved May 10, 2018
  5. ^ a b Jackson, Gita. "Angry Joe's Fans Can't Deal With Him Taking A Vacation From YouTube". Kotaku. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  6. ^ "AngryJoeShow". YouTube. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  7. ^ a b Thier, Dave. "Major YouTuber 'Angry Joe' Gives Up On Nintendo, Calling Them 'Anti-Gamer'". Forbes. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  8. ^ "Opinion: Why YouTube's ad algorithm is killing your favourite creators". Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  9. ^ "Nintendo Might Not Be Behind All Copyright Takedowns". CGMagazine. August 5, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  10. ^ Good, Owen. "YouTube's Copyright Crackdown: Everything You Need To Know". Kotaku. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  11. ^ Good, Owen. "Game Critic Says YouTube Copyright Policy Threatens His Livelihood [Update]". Kotaku. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  12. ^ "Bigtime YouTuber says enough is enough; he won't do any more Nintendo videos (Update)". Polygon. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  13. ^ "Angry Joe details his Street Fighter: The Miniatures Game". destructoid. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  14. ^ "Kickstarter for Angry Joe's Street Fighter: The Miniatures Game pops over $400,000 in one day". destructoid. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  15. ^ "A Street Fighter Board Game Is On the Way and It Looks Beyond Rad". pastemagazine.com. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  16. ^ "Mortal Kombat: The Miniatures Game". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved November 27, 2022.
  17. ^ "Robert Luxmoore Student Travel Awards". CSA News. 60 (6): 37. June 2015. doi:10.2134/csa2015-60-6-17. ISSN 1529-9163.
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