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Angry Joe
Joe Vargas at E3 2015
Vargas at E3 2015
Personal information
Born
Jose Antonio Vargas

(1984-06-18) June 18, 1984 (age 40)
OccupationYouTuber
Websiteangryjoeshow.com/ajsa
YouTube information
ChannelsAngryJoeShow
Years active2008–present
Genres
Subscribers3.28 million
Total views1.6 billion
NetworkChannel Awesome (2009–2018)[1]
Associated acts
100,000 subscribers2012
1,000,000 subscribers2013

Last updated: December 7, 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]

YouTube

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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. He 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] His 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]

Awards and nominations

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Year Association Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2016 The Game Awards Trending Gamer AngryJoeShow Nominated [17]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Joe Vargas on Twitter: After some recent events have been brought to my attention I've decided to leave Channel Awesome, effective immediately. Our videos will not be cross posted to the site". X (formerly Twitter). April 12, 2018. Retrieved April 23, 2019 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ a b Corrigan, Hope (April 6, 2018). "Street Fighter Board Game Announced on Kickstarter". IGN. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Star Wars Battlefront Developer Calls Out Critics For "Bending The Truth"". AOTF. October 19, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  4. ^ AngryJoeShow (October 4, 2008), Shit that Pisses Me Off - Madden 2009 Hardcore Gamers, retrieved May 10, 2018
  5. ^ a b Jackson, Gita. "Angry Joe's Fans Can't Deal With Him Taking A Vacation From YouTube". Kotaku. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  6. ^ "AngryJoeShow". YouTube. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  7. ^ a b Thier, Dave. "Major YouTuber 'Angry Joe' Gives Up On Nintendo, Calling Them 'Anti-Gamer'". Forbes. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  8. ^ "Opinion: Why YouTube's ad algorithm is killing your favourite creators". Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  9. ^ "Nintendo Might Not Be Behind All Copyright Takedowns". CGMagazine. August 5, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  10. ^ Good, Owen. "YouTube's Copyright Crackdown: Everything You Need To Know". Kotaku. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  11. ^ Good, Owen. "Game Critic Says YouTube Copyright Policy Threatens His Livelihood [Update]". Kotaku. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  12. ^ "Bigtime YouTuber says enough is enough; he won't do any more Nintendo videos (Update)". Polygon. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  13. ^ "Angry Joe details his Street Fighter: The Miniatures Game". destructoid. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  14. ^ "Kickstarter for Angry Joe's Street Fighter: The Miniatures Game pops over $400,000 in one day". destructoid. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  15. ^ "A Street Fighter Board Game Is On the Way and It Looks Beyond Rad". pastemagazine.com. Archived from the original on February 4, 2020. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  16. ^ "Mortal Kombat: The Miniatures Game". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved November 27, 2022.
  17. ^ "Robert Luxmoore Student Travel Awards". CSA News. 60 (6): 37. June 2015. Bibcode:2015CSAN...60f..37.. doi:10.2134/csa2015-60-6-17. ISSN 1529-9163.
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