![]() ![]() Gastrow is also known for popularizing jokes about Knack (2013) and its sequel Knack II (2017), titles for the PlayStation 4, to the point that the games "became the internet's favorite punchline". However, he quit making League videos in September 2015, after he was banned for "toxic" behavior, such as repeatedly insulting other players on his team in the in-game chat. According to Yannick LeJacq of Kotaku, Gastrow "had a special place in the League of Legends universe for consistently producing some of the best, and definitely the funniest, material in the game's massive community". During his channel's initial years, Gastrow was primarily known for his coverage of the 2009 multiplayer online battle arena game League of Legends. He has also reviewed films, such as The Shining. This includes posting reviews, playthroughs, video essays, and montages. Gastrow primarily covers video games on his channel. He and his wife Leah also run Dunkey's Castle, an online merchandise shop. ![]() Outside of YouTube, Gastrow is active on Twitter and has pages on Facebook and Reddit. ![]() Gastrow's videos have collectively generated over three billion views. By September 2015, the videogamedunkey channel had 1.8 million subscribers. In a 2015 Reddit thread, Gastrow mentioned that his channel's profile picture was designed by Newgrounds animator and YouTuber Chris O'Neill. He "told him to pet a donkey or something," and after trapping his friend in the game, told him he would release him if he said "go go magic dunk". Gastrow recalled that the name "videogamedunkey" came about when he was playing Left 4 Dead with a friend. Gastrow started his current YouTube channel, videogamedunkey, in 2010, with a video of him performing a speedrun of the 1991 game Battletoads. Examples include "Great Yoshi Migration", his first video, and a parody of the Village People song " Y.M.C.A." called "F.U.C.K." On the H3h3 Podcast, Gastrow said he wanted to be an animator when he was young. Initially, he created Flash animations that he uploaded on the website Newgrounds under the username "MeatwadSprite". Gastrow has been publishing videos online since 2003. As of March 2023, Gastrow's YouTube channel has seven million subscribers, and he has accumulated over three billion views. Jason Gastrow (born January 30, 1991), known online as videogamedunkey or simply dunkey, is an American YouTuber known for his YouTube skits and video essays that blend crude humor with video game criticism. ![]()
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