Freddie Wong (born September 13, 1985) is an American internet celebrity, filmmaker, Visual effects, podcaster, and competitive gamer. Wong has participated in at least three YouTube channels; with RocketJump, his production company's main channel, sporting over 9 million subscribers;Statistics retrieved on March 18, 2016, at . BrandonJLa, a channel including behind the scenes videos and other content, which holds over 1.1 million subscribers;Statistics retrieved on March 18, 2016, at . and Node, a gaming channel with over 3.2 million subscribers.Statistics retrieved on October 16, 2016, at . He is also known for creating the web series Video Game High School.
During MTV's "Gamer's Week" celebration in November 2007, Freddie appeared as a guest on Total Request Live. Participating in the program with his newly formed band Hellanor Brozevelt, Wong was part of a country-wide search to find the best Rock Band ensemble. After receiving tutelage from well-known rockers Good Charlotte, Brozevelt performed at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York against Chicago-based Carrie Me Home.
In 2010, Wong helped Joe Penna, known as MysteryGuitarMan on YouTube, shoot a commercial for McDonald's, Freddie Wong Twitter Update – Twitter, 2011. and assisted Wong Fu Productions in actions scenes of Agents of Secret Stuff. In 2011 Wong produced, co-directed, and acted in a TV commercial for Battlefield 3 at the request of Electronic Arts., 2011, 2011.
Wong's videos would sometimes feature celebrity cameos, with Jimmy Kimmel in a bathroom tie battle, Andy Whitfield appearing in a Time Crisis tribute video, Kevin Pollak appearing in a Hypnotism stunt, Shenae Grimes in a romantic gun action scene, Ray William Johnson in a troll infestation video, Eliza Dushku appearing in an action scene, Jon Favreau featuring in his video based on Cowboys & Aliens, the glam metal band Steel Panther appearing in his video based on the Crossfire board game, and Smosh appearing in his video "Huge Guns (with Smosh)".
In late 2013, Wong's channel, freddiew was renamed to " Rocketjump", and freddiew2 was renamed to " BrandonJLa". Brandon Laatsch also announced that he and Wong would no longer work together on projects, and any short videos or "shorts" would be posted on either NODE (a gaming channel run by Laatsch and Corridor Digital's Niko Pueringer and Sam Gorski) or BrandonJLa. This was done because they wanted to work on separate projects, as Wong was busy with Video Game High School, and Brandon Laatsch started working on a VR engine and game Boneworks.
In 2017, Wong announced that RocketJump would be pivoting away from regular shorts, in favor of other projects. RocketJump stopped uploading videos altogether in 2018, after the second season of Anime Crimes Division.
Since January 2019, Wong has been a collaborator on a Dungeons & Dragons actual play podcast called Dungeons & Daddies, along with Will Campos, Anthony Burch, Matt Arnold, and Beth May. The podcast is about four dads from Earth that are transported to the Forgotten Realms (one of the official settings for Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition) and go on a quest to search for their lost sons. Wong edits the show and is one of the four players, with Burch as the Dungeon Master for the first two seasons.
On October 21, 2021, RocketJump revealed on Facebook that they were beginning work on their first feature film. Shooting took place in late 2021 in Southern California and Utah. The film, We're All Gonna Die, premiered at South by Southwest in March 2024. Wong co-wrote and co-directed the film with his Dungeons & Daddies co-star Matt Arnold.
In 2023, Wong appeared in Dimension 20's sidequest Mentopolis, where he played the character Dan Fucks, the personification of sexual pleasure inside the mind of a scientist.
TV series; guest appearance in "Chuck Versus the Hack Off" | |||
Web series; also co-creator, co-director, story writer, executive producer | |||
TV series; episode: "Ghosts!!!" | |||
Web Series; episode: “Donut” | |||
TV series; guest appearance in episode 3.07 | |||
Web series; season 2 regular | |||
TV series; episode: "Fully Uploaded" | |||
Film | |||
Also co-creator, co-director, writer, executive producer, editor | |||
Guest writer and director of "The #1 Movie in the Galaxy: 3" episode | |||
Director ("Impulse") and executive producer | |||
Director and co-creator | |||
2019–present | Dungeons & Daddies | Glenn Close, Taylor Swift, and others | Actual play podcast; main role |
2023 | Dan Fucks | Actual play web series; 6 episodes | |
2024 | We're All Gonna Die | Director | Film; co-director and co-writer |
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