Angry Joe | ||||||||||
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Born | Jose Antonio Vargas June 18, 1984
Austin, Texas, U.S. | |||||||||
Occupation | YouTuber | |||||||||
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angryjoeshow | |||||||||
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Channels | AngryJoeShow | |||||||||
Years active | 2008–present | |||||||||
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Subscribers | 3.29 million | |||||||||
Total views | 1.6 billion | |||||||||
Network | Channel Awesome (2009–2018) [1] | |||||||||
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Last updated: February 1, 2024 |
Jose Antonio Vargas (born June 18, 1984) is an American media commentator and YouTuber. [2] He is notable for his portrayal of Angry Joe, the titular host of his media review-oriented YouTube channel AngryJoeShow. [3]
Vargas launched his YouTube channel AngryJoeShow on October 4, 2008 with the video "Shit that Pisses Me Off - Madden 2009 Hardcore Gamers". [4] The show features Vargas' character "AngryJoe" reviewing a video game with a scale from 1-10. These reviews typically use sketch comedy and clips from his streams on Twitch. The channel was well-received by the YouTube community; [5] as of April 2021, it has accrued over one billion views and amassed more than 3.2 million subscribers. [6] In addition to game reviews, Vargas produces movie reviews on his channel. Vargas and his channel have received mention in media covering YouTube, [3] [5] most notably for Vargas' opposition to copyright overreach on YouTube. [7] [8] [9] [10] Vargas' interest in copyright on YouTube stemmed from an incident in which Nintendo of America filed a copyright claim on a video of Joe playing Mario Party 10. [11] [7] [12]
Vargas was affiliated with Blistered Thumbs of the media production company Channel Awesome until April 2018. His departure was due to the then-ongoing controversy regarding Channel Awesome and many of its former producers, many of whom Vargas had previously known and affiliated with in the past. [1]
In April 2018, a Kickstarter project to create a board game featuring miniature-sized figures of licensed characters from the Street Fighter series of video games (in collaboration with Jasco Games) was launched by Vargas. [2] [13] The project's Kickstarter campaign raised $400,000 on its first day, an event which in turn attracted media coverage. [14] [15]
In January 2021, Street Fighter: The Miniatures Game began shipping to those that backed the Kickstarter project.
Vargas worked in another collaboration with Jasco Games on Mortal Kombat: The Miniatures Game based of the license of the same name. [16]
Year | Association | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2016 | The Game Awards | Trending Gamer | AngryJoeShow | Nominated | [17] |