Jon: I have a lot of regrets in life, a lot of bad mistakes I've made, a lot of times I've lost my cool, etc. Q8: Before we move on from talking about your career to more about your life off the internet, do you have any regrets, or anything you would change that you have done, or are you satisfied with everything that has happened? Jon: My luck's actually not THAT bad in real life, but when it comes to games of chance, or anything recording wise, it always seems to be abysmal. Are you normally that unlucky, or is there some sort of curse on you only when you deal with TRG stuff? Q7: One thing that has been a running theme in TRG videos is your fortune, or rather the lack of. I'd say the first day of Colosseum, seeing this whole plan come together and be so successful, will always stick with me no matter what. Jon: Since TRG's been around for so long, there's a ton of good and bad moments that stick out. Q6: With The Runaway Guys being a decade old now, do you have any moments that stick out to you, be it from recorded content, Thrown Controllers, Colosseum, or even behind the scenes? NCS didn't join the project until right before MAG as a potential 3rd player. This discussion probably started around October 2010, and by December, we had flights booked to MAGfest 2011.
So we decided maybe we could meet in person at a con, then the idea of making it its own channel came from that. Chugga wanted to do some multiplayer Mario Party videos on his channel and we were going to play some games online with N64 emulators, but back then they didn't run the best and desynched a lot. Jon: Originally, it wasn't supposed to be a channel. Q5: The Runaway Guys has always been the brainchild of yourself, Chugga, and NCS, but how did the idea come to be? How long before it was launched did you guys plan the channel? We have maybe 20 or so alts that show up on the regular in art blocks, but we have over 500 alts made by various artists from the community. This started the running gag of "Bigger" in our community and created RosaJon, but it also marked the start of other artists in the community creating their own alternate versions of me, and a number of them have been accepted by the community and are drawn on the regular. An artist named Jumney drew me in Rosalina's outfit, and as a throw away joke, I said that if I was a girl, I'd be bustier than that. So, twice in the past, artists in the community drew genderbent versions of myself (known now as Electron Jen and Pon Pon), but the third time this happened was different. How did this all start, and how many versions of you are out there? Q4: During your Twitch streams, you have gained a plethora of alternate versions of yourself such as Buffton Jon, Jontae, and of course RosaJon. It's helped me work on my improvisational skills a lot.
The trade off that live content has though, is you have an audience you can play off of. With live content, whatever happens, happens. With Youtube videos, you can pre-plan things, fix mistakes, what have you. Jon: Live content has a completely different energy than prerecorded Youtube videos. Were there any challenges early on by focusing solely on a live medium? Q3: Early on in the lifespan of Twitch, you made the jump to focus more on that platform, as opposed to splitting your focus between that and YouTube like many of your peers.
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This becoming my full time job was a pure accident. When I was making videos, I was in University studying Computer Science and getting my Bachelor's Degree, so I was focused on figuring out what I was gonna do with the rest of my life.
Hell, it took years before you could actually earn ad revenue on Youtube with gaming videos. Back then, full time Youtube gaming wasn't possible. Q2: Did you ever think back when you were first getting started with content production, that this would be what you’d be doing all these years later? If you weren’t doing live streaming and gaming content, where would you be right now? It was a wild west situation back then where pretty much anything could be posted as people were figuring out what to do with the medium. Jon: I started doing Let's Play videos back in 2007 on the Something Awful Let's Play Subforum back when they were first starting as a medium, and started by posting them on Google Video. Q1: So a lot of people may know you for your YouTube and Twitch content that you produce, but you actually got started with online gaming content much earlier before that, can you tell us about that?
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