page_title: Freddie Wong
section_title: 2011–present: Video Game High School, RocketJump, further success
hierarchical_section_title: Freddie Wong / Career / 2011–present: Video Game High School, RocketJump, further success
caption_attribution_description: Freddie Wong speaking at the 2014 VidCon at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
context_page_description: Freddie Wong is an American filmmaker, musician, VFX artist, podcaster, and competitive gamer. Wong participates in at least three YouTube channels; with RocketJump, his production company's main channel, supporting over 8 million subscribers; BrandonJLa, a secondary channel with behind the scenes videos and other content, which holds over 1.2 million subscribers; and Node, a gaming channel with over 2.4 million subscribers. He is also known for creating the web series Video Game High School.
context_section_description: In 2011, along with his partners Matt Arnold and Desmond "Dez" Dolly, Wong formed the production company RocketJump. Since then, they have worked on the web series Video Game High School, which began releasing episodes on May 11, 2012 and has since developed a following, amassing over 100 million views across various online platforms. The series is based on a concept by Will Campos and Chris Pappavaselio.
  The team was able to raise funding for the series through Kickstarter, 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.
  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 started working on a VR engine and game Boneworks.
  Since April 2017, Wong has co-hosted the podcast Story Break on the Maximum Fun network.  As described on the RocketJump website, the show features "[co-hosts] Will Campos, Matt Arnold, and Freddie Wong sit[ting] down in the RocketJump writer's room and attempt[ing] to 'break' a story for a ridiculous concept, property, or idea that [they] in NO way have any rights to."
  As of 2019 Wong is collaborating on a Dungeons and Dragons Live Play Podcast, called Dungeons and Daddies along with Will Campos, Anthony Burch, Matt Arnold, and Beth May. It’s a podcast about four dads from Earth that get lost in The Forgotten Realms, and go on a quest to search for their lost sons. Wong plays the character Glenn Close, with May playing Ron Stampler, Campos playing Henry Oak, Arnold playing Darryl Wilson, and Burch playing everyone else as the Dungeon Master. 
  In 2019, the podcast won two Audioverse Awards. The show as a whole won "Best New Improvised Production" and Anthony Burch won for "Player Direction of a New Production."
caption: Wong at VidCon 2014
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