Greg Renko

Gregory "Greg" Renko (born: ) is an American YouTuber known for his short comedic skits (with some being about video games) and vlogs. He owns a second channel named Greg Renko Gaming where he plays Call of Duty, Minecraft, and other games.
==About==
Greg Renko's channel mainly consists of short skits about video games, comedy, and personal vlogs of his life. He had a passion of creating videos since 2020, but he was passionate for sports, video games, and comedy for his entire life.
==Career==
His video making career started on TikTok in early 2020. He had been making short, 1 minute videos on TikTok for a while, and due to the support that he received there, he decided that he should continue uploading his videos on YouTube. Even though he launched his YouTube channel on February 8, 2014, he only started to upload there in mid-2020. Little did he know his TikTok account would grow rapidly to 500,000 followers in just 2 months. He thought that continuing his videos on YouTube would make him get a name of himself. He has succeeded on YouTube as well, given that he has gained hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
===Gaming Channel===
In 2021, Greg has discovered that his gaming skits were quite successful, given that they have received tens of millions of views. Inspired by the success of his skits, both on YouTube and TikTok, he decided to create a gaming channel named Greg Renko Gaming. On August 27, 2021, one day after he created the channel, Greg posted his first gaming video, which was him playing Call of Duty using a bad Kilo 141 loadout.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajNXJdJYY4o Having noticed the channel is a success, due to his gaming videos garnering over 100 thousand views, Greg continued to upload gaming videos on the channel. His most popular videos on the gaming channel are Call of Duty "bad loadout" challenges, with a couple having over 1 million views.https://www.youtube.com/@GregRenkoGaming/videos
===Call of Duty Ban===
On February 22, 2024, Greg Renko was wrongfully banned on Call of Duty Warzone, because the game thought he was using unauthorized software, and that he was manipulating data. He then sent an appeal to Activision to see if they would unban his account, seeing as he did nothing wrong. However, his appeal was rejected, and as a result, he is permanently banned on Call of Duty. He was banned shortly after he got a couple of good games while he was recording a gaming video. After he got banned, he finished the video and then made both a Twitter and a YouTube Community Post, letting his subscribers know that he was wrongfully banned and that "Ricochet is and continues to be a joke." 
Later, on March 4, 2024, Greg was officially unbanned on Call of Duty. After Greg got unbanned, he discovered that he was using his Call of Duty account on 2 different PC's, so Activision thought he was account sharing. Either way, though, Greg believes Activision should fix this issue on Ricochet.https://www.youtube.com/@GregRenkoGaming/community
==Series==
Greg Renko has created several series on his channel like The Laginator or when try to ground a gaming kid. Most of those series are quite minor, with only a few episodes in them. So, the most major and most popular series are listed.
#Call of Duty Weapon Customization: This series involves a player approaching the Call of Duty gunsmith, and trying to make the perfect weapon by asking the gunsmith for attachments to put on his weapons. However, the gunsmith discovers that the player's requests are very unorthodox, and as a result, the loadouts never work. There is a variety of different episodes, including one where the player asks for a bunch of sniper scopes to be placed on a pistolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch/H_YLY55nnDc, and also one where the gunsmith gets his "hacker friend" to give the player COD Points so he can buy an SMG loadout.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-bF8U4aSPw This series has 51 episodes.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfAIhxRGcgak4Z9wI-BjyhrumdHT3Mk_S
# Bad Call of Duty Players in Real Life: This series involves two players entering "a real life Warzone", but one of the players was not very good at Warzone. Because of this, he usually ends up dying, dragging his teammate down with him. This series has 9 episodes.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfAIhxRGcgam_JgRYZLlPfM1tOrccwtxb
#If life was like on of those TERRIBLE mobile game ads: This series revolves around a level 1 "Grunt" or "Noob". In this series, the Grunt comes across events that would typically be seen in one of those awful mobile ads for games. These include stumbling across a boss or other enemy that ends up leveling him down, only for him to level up and take revenge on them, or stumbling across the boss's wife and falling in love, and then managing to win her at the end of the episode. This series has 25 episodes, including Minecraft, Call of Duty Zombies, and stealth games spin-offs.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfAIhxRGcgamvGtOxdYQ74EFZx192piI9 
#How Call of Duty Balances Their Weapons: This series involves the Boss and the "In-game Scientists" conducting different tests to help them perfect Call of Duty Warzone. The scientists want to make the weapons balanced to help balance out the battle royale mode. However, the boss rules with an iron fist. When the test subjects shoot each other, the weapons are revealed to be balanced. However, the boss commands the scientists to either buff or nerf one of the weapons. In one of the episodes, the boss grows very tired of the weapons being incredibly overpowered, so he furiously commands the scientists to just nerf everything.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdd8gfut3E8 This series has 9 episodes.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfAIhxRGcgamDXSC7BuoYOgGajfhWIel3
#The Laginator A player name the "LAGinator" gets his wins in battle royale games with the help of his lag skills and poor internet connection
==Personal life==
Greg Renko was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on the April 5, 1996 and was raised in Maryland.
==Trivia==
*His channel trailer mostly features what he said in his "About" section.
*He was wrongfully banned on Call of Duty Warzone, because he was using his Call of Duty account on two separate PC's. Because of this, Activision thought he was account sharing. He has created both a Tweet and a Community Post regarding this incident.https://www.youtube.com/@GregRenko/communityhttps://twitter.com/GregRenkoYT Later on, however, his account was unbanned by Activision.
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