Evan Fong better known through his YouTube videos as VanossGaming (or simply Vanoss), is a Canadian video game commentator and internet personality. He produces content on YouTube centered on playing popular video games with other YouTube collaborators. As of April 2018, Fong's channel has over 9.1 billion video views and 22.9 million subscribers on YouTube, making it the 23rd most subscribed channel on YouTube.
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YouTube channel
Format
The majority of VanossGaming videos take the format of a montage or compilation, featuring various clips from a particular game session, usually featuring other video game commentators. The Canadian Press described "a typical Vanoss video" by claiming that it features "Vanoss and a group of friends chatting, laughing and making jokes over gameplay from popular titles such as Grand Theft Auto V or Call of Duty: World at War".
History
Fong created the VanossGaming channel on YouTube on September 15, 2011. The name "Vanoss" comes from VANOS, a variable valve timing system produced by German automobile company BMW; Fong's father used the alias "vanoss62" on the PlayStation 3, which his son later adopted for his own.
Fong has been known to do work with other popular YouTubers such as H2O Delirious, IAMWILDCAT, Adam "SeaNanners" Montoya and Tom "Syndicate" Cassell. Fong first appeared on camera in July 2013, in a video celebrating one million subscribers.
In January 2015, Fong began to receive mainstream media attention as he approached 11 million subscribers and a ranking within the top 25 most subscribed channels on YouTube, with commentators identifying him as a central figure in the growing video game commentary subculture. Speaking at the time, he suggested that his success could be credited to the fact that "Viewers really like the authentic type of content from regular people just playing games because they can relate to that". In March 2015 he appeared on his first gaming convention panel, the "YouTube Gaming Evolution" panel at PAX East in Boston, Massachusetts, alongside collaborators I Am Wildcat, Lui Calibre, and Mini Ladd.
On April 30, 2015, Fong announced on Twitter that he had signed with Jetpak, a multi-channel network founded by Adam "SeaNanners" Montoya and Tom "Syndicate" Cassell.
On November 26, 2015, Fong announced that he was releasing a new logo for the VanossGaming brand. He released the logo later that day along with limited edition merchandise released the day after. The logo was a white minimalistic design of an owl on a black background. There is also a diagonal cut through the design, creating a black letter "V". The owl design represented the owl mask on Fong's character model in Grand Theft Auto Online.
On August 25, 2017, Fong released a remix of U-RITE by hip-hop group THEY under the name Rynx. It was used in the outro of several videos until the release of his debut single "Want You" featuring Miranda Glory on December 12, 2017. As of March 2018, the video of "Want You" has 4.8 million views on Youtube. On April 18, 2018, Fong released the official music video for "Want You".
Awards
Maps VanossGaming
Other projects
On July 25, 2015, Fong announced that he had been working on a game called Dead Realm for "the last six or seven months" as a creative director, alongside other YouTube collaborators such as Daithi De Nogla, Terroriser, MiniLadd,TheSyndicateProject and EdglessEight05. It was released via Steam as an early release on July 30, 2015.
On November 2, 2016, Fong, Adam Montoya and Scott Robinson, announced that a computer-animated series of videos entitled Paranormal Action Squad starring the three and written by Michael Rowe will be aired on YouTube Red, beginning on November 24
Fong also has established a channel for music called Rynx, part of the songs on the channel are now played at the end of his videos.
Personal life
Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Fong is of Asian descent, his mother being Korean, and father Chinese.
Fong graduated from Richmond Hill High School.
Fong claims that he was not introduced to video games at a young age, but that he played games "here and there" which included children's adventure and puzzle titles such as Freddi Fish and Pajama Sam.
After attending high school, Fong studied economics in college, but later dropped out in his second year to focus on his YouTube channel as a full-time commitment. Fong claims that his parents were initially concerned that he was neglecting his studies in favor of producing content for his YouTube channel, admitting that "Even though there's a lot of potential for somebody starting a YouTube channel it's obviously not a guaranteed path".
Outside of his YouTube career, Fong continues to play ice hockey recreationally, and also plays the guitar as another hobby.
References
External links
- VanossGaming's channel on YouTube
- Rynx's channel on YouTube
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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