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Freddie Wong (born September 13, 1985) is an American internet celebrity, , , , and competitive gamer. Wong has participated in at least three 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.


Early life
Wong was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. He graduated from Lakeside School in 2004 and later from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. Wong owns and manages Overcrank Media, a Los Angeles–based media production company specializing in feature film and online video content, having produced an independent film titled Bear. Wong met his future collaborator in college.


Career

2006–2010: Competitive gaming, YouTube breakthrough
Wong launched a channel in 2006, initially uploading gameplay footage to wide success, and competed in the World Series of Video Games in in July 2007. He won first prize in the Guitar Hero 2 competition, playing the song "Less Talk More Rokk" by . video of the second half of Freddie's winning performance World Series of Video Games - Freddiew's blog post dated July 16, 2007. It was around this time that he began uploading videos to YouTube and finding popularity with his comedic or video game-related content.

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 , Brozevelt performed at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York against Chicago-based Carrie Me Home.

In 2010, Wong helped , 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 ., 2011, 2011.


2011–2017: RocketJump shorts and Video Game High School
2014|left|198x198px]]In 2011, along with his partners Matt Arnold and Desmond "Dez" Dolly, Wong formed the production company RocketJump. They began work on the web series Video Game High School, which began releasing episodes on May 11, 2012, achieved over 100 million views across various online platforms. The series was based on a concept by Will Campos and Chris Pappavaselio. The team was able to raise funding for the series through , where they set a funding goal for $75,000 to be raised in a 30-day period. That amount was quickly pledged in less than 24 hours and continued to climb from there. On October 22, 2011, pledging came to a close, with $273,725 raised for the project from 5,661 backers. The series ran for three seasons, with the final season having a crowd funded budget of over $2.4 million. The final episode of the series was released November 17, 2014, on the RocketJump website and YouTube.

Wong's videos would sometimes feature celebrity cameos, with in a bathroom tie battle, appearing in a tribute video, appearing in a stunt, in a romantic gun action scene, Ray William Johnson in a troll infestation video, appearing in an action scene, featuring in his video based on Cowboys & Aliens, the glam metal band appearing in his video based on the Crossfire board game, and 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". 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 's 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 started working on a VR engine and game .

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 2017: Podcasting and feature film
From April 2017 to October 2021, Wong co-hosted the Story Break on the network. As described on the RocketJump website, the show features "co-hosts Will Campos, Matt Arnold, and Freddie Wong sitting down in the RocketJump writer's room and attempting to 'break' a story for a ridiculous concept, property, or idea that they in NO way have any rights to." The podcast concluded in 2021, both due to the hosts feeling creatively satisfied with the show and to allow them more time to work on upcoming projects.

Since January 2019, Wong has been a collaborator on a Dungeons & Dragons 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 (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 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.


Personal life
Wong is the older brother of actor and YouTuber , who co-starred in Video Game High School. His father is Chinese, from Canton, and his mother is of Chinese and Mongol ancestry. His uncle is , a film director and stunt choreographer.


Filmography
Anime Crimes Division || Producer ||>
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–presentDungeons & DaddiesGlenn Close, Taylor Swift, and others podcast; main role
2023Dan FucksActual play web series; 6 episodes
2024We're All Gonna DieDirectorFilm; co-director and co-writer


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