TJGvideos

Jay Waddington (born: ), better known online as J W, or TJGvideos, is an English YouTuber known for his videos relating to the CBeebies kids show, "Numberblocks", and currently, the Fangame series, "Jolly".
On November 19, 2020, Jay's first channel, J W was terminated for copyright infringement, forcing him to quit making Numberblocks videos and make another account to make up for it. His current channel is TJGvideos.
==History==
===Early Works===
Jay had reportedly been on the internet as early as November 2016, and would do all sorts of random things, with Scratch being one of them. He joined YouTube with his first account on April 3, 2017, called J W (which are the initials of his full name), where he would upload around ten random videos to his paper cut-outs, plush toys, and his (at the time crappy) editing skills. One of the videos was edited from an Alphablocks game (which was before Jay knew about Numberblocks' existence).
One day in May 2017, when Jay and some of his siblings were at a friend's house that had CBeebies on television, one advertisement for Numberblocks quickly caught his attention. Upon returning home, Jay remembered Numberblocks and began researching about the show, watching all the episodes that had released at the time and becoming invested in the show, designing fan-made characters based on numbers bigger than ten.
===Seventeen-Month Hiatus===
In the second half of 2017, the channel was practically dead, as no videos were being uploaded for 17 months due to Jay living in a rather controlling environment at the time. During this time, Jay would instead focus on making content about Numberblocks on the website Scratch as well as editing for the show's wiki and making a fanon wiki for people to post fan-made content on. 
The channel made an official return in December 2018, after Jay became more free to fulfil his animation skills.
===Numberblocks Career===
Starting in December 2018, the channel began posting fan-made Numberblocks videos, and Jay would later join a fan-made show based on it made by fellow user Arifmetix titled NumberFanagram on February 2019.
To Jay's surprise, he had received 1,000 subscribers on his channel in February 2019, and later on an impressive 10,000 subscribers on July 2019. Jay realised at around that time that Numberblocks was heavily beneficial for his channel due to its immense popularity, so he made sure to keep making content based on the show so it can stay that way. Jay would become extremely popular because of his Numberblocks content, as well as being in NumberFanagram, a Numberblocks fan show made by Arifmetix that has real people's personas appear as the show's roster.
Based on what content Jay was making at the time, he is trying to practice his animation skills on the platform. Despite some of the videos he made being pretty questionable (depicting the Numberblocks characters in unsafe scenarios), Jay's channel did very well in 2019 and very early 2020, and he got so popular because of Numberblocks that he became the third most subscribed fan-channel relating to the show at the time, behind Arifmetix and Custom Fun.
===Downfall===
During essentially the entirety of the year 2020, Jay experienced a massive downfall that would taint his original image. Essentially, because he had an extremely popular channel, Jay would become so absorbed in his own pride and ego that he began only caring about himself, and not how others feel.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Jay was forced to stay at home with little to no time elsewhere since he may catch the virus if he did. This caused Jay to slowly become more and more deteriorated as a person until he became his own worst enemy. This impacted his channel J W, as the videos he uploaded during this time were unnecessarily edgy, and depict a lot of violence.
He began getting along terribly with people, turning at the drop of a hat whenever they do something that he didn't like. It eventually got so bad that Jay leaked a character in NumberFanagram due to getting so angry over the show's first episode having its release date changed, which resulted in Jay being shunned from the show in July 2020 and getting called out by an associate of Arifmetix in September, leading most of the Numberblocks fandom to turn on him. Jay was ostracized away from the fandom soon afterwards, upset by what happened. During late-September and early-October 2020, Jay became a cynical wreck, proven by the tone of his voice in certain videos, especially during September where he sounded absolutely dishevelled and almost akin to an emo, a result of the call out against him taking a toll on his mental state.
All of this was also during the time in 2020 where Jay's content slowly began transitioning from Alphablocks and Numberblocks, to Five Nights at Freddy's and its fangames, which included his favourite fangame series in particular, JOLLY. Once Jay stopped doing Numberblocks content for good in November 2020, it essentially got rid of his audience, killing the channel.
Eventually, in November, after a brutal two months, Jay managed to reconcile in private with many members from NumberFanagram, slowly fixing his relationship in the process.
===J W's Termination===
On November 19, 2020, at around 10:20 PM (22:20) in the UK's time zone, Jay's YouTube channel was terminated by Alphablocks Ltd, the creators of the official Alphablocks and Numberblocks characters, after he received three copyright strikes relating to more than 10 videos he uploaded about his Numberblocks Basics game series because they would potentially scare children. Because of this, Jay lost around 770 videos, more than 63,700 subscribers, over 60 million views, and around 3.5 years of work and history. The termination of J W caused his fans to go into an archive panic, with several of Jay's videos becoming lost to time (around 145 of the 770 videos from the channel are currently still available, while Jay has a lot more videos in his hard drive.)
===Starting Over===
On November 21, 2020, Jay created a new channel to replace the old one, and has entirely decided to move on from Numberblocks content altogether.
Throughout the 2020s decade, Jay has spent his time starting over from scratch, and as of now, he has brought back a fraction of his old channel's statistics. 
He has created legally-distinct replacements of the Alphablocks and Numberblocks characters, being his own characters called the Symbolics, who in canon, are artificially created, colourful humanoid mascots made by a machine to serve as the stars of a children's TV show before discovering the horrors of the real world and becoming washed up as a result.
In the FNaF side of things, Jay has created a series of games called JOLLY Paradox, and a movie called One Jolly Day: Alteration, which is based on his web series One Jolly Day. Even if Jay does still get into some serious situations every now and then, he is still currently in good standing, and owns up to his mistakes a lot of the time.
=== Symbolics Controversy ===
During the production of Jay's series Symbolics, he would end up in different controversies that mostly has to do with the fanbase acting downright aggressive towards how Jay wrote the series.
One of the more notable controversies involves a user who was known to harass people across a multitude of websites and communities. The user would begin to harass Jay and send him death threats because the series had dark moments and conflict. The controversy took place roughly after the 13th episode aired, however it would become much worse during the release of the series' second half, where the user would act extremely violent and aggressive, sending a multitude of death threats, nasty insults and even gore art towards Jay, his fans, and even the Symbolics series' voice actors, as well as forcing Jay to cancel Symbolics altogether, to which Jay rightfully did not listen and continued with the show without any issues.
=== Closing Comments ===
Unexpectedly, between May 7 and May 8, 2024, Jay closed the comment sections for all of his videos and community posts. He later made a community post on May 9, 2024, explaining why he did this, stating that it was because his mother found out about Jay getting bullied and harassed and came to the conclusion that Jay, a person with autism, should not be participating on the internet at all due to being an easy target for haters and trolls, but she did let Jay keep his channel under the condition that all comments on the channel are shut down to prevent the risk of Jay getting harassed.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKqFhDwoaSXBruCWmQkgbAw/community?lb=UgkxEv97OJHKU-k0eEpB6H2y5SgVfN_d5HFE
==List of Jay's Series==
=== 'J W' series ===
NOTE: Most of the J W series are lost to time and have become very obscure due to the channel which hosted most of these series being terminated, as well as Jay outright refusing to reupload his Numberblocks content to his new channel. The non-Numberblocks series are currently archived on his current channel, and are watchable, while a fraction of his Numberblocks series are archived onto various other channels.
*Cyrillic Battle (2017) - A two-episode series about 33 anthropomorphic letters from the Russian alphabet competing for a chance to win. This is not to be confused with Harrymations' Russian Alphabet Lore Reloaded.
*Next Gen Blocks (2018) - A series depicting what would happen if the Numberblocks had children. Note that this was made before it was officially confirmed that all the Numberblocks were related.
**Block Forces (2019) - A sequel to Next Gen Blocks.
**Next Gen Block Forces (2019-20) - A time-skip sequel where the Numberblocks' kids have families of their own.
*Chinese Educational Soup (2019) - A 5-episode segmented series that's meant to teach Chinese.
*Angry Birds World (2019) - A plush series made by Jay. It has three sequel series listed below.
**Angry Birds 2020 (2020)
**Angry Birds Redless (2021)
**Angry Birds Forever (2023)
*Monthly Intermissions (2019-20) - A series of more than 12 episodes depicting the Monthblocks, who are blocks based on the 12 months.
*A Numberblocks Story (2019) - A lore-heavy series of 10 stories based on Numberblocks.
*Slenderblocks (2019-20) - A lore-heavy series of 4 chapters based on Alphablocks.
*Numberblocks Basics (2018-20) - A series of approx. 30 FNaF fangames based on Numberblocks.
=== 'TJGvideos' series ===
*JOLLY Paradox (2020-present) - A bunch of fangames based on FNaF fangame series JOLLY. The games went through 2-3 different iterations with different titles before setting with the current JOLLY Paradox in 2023.
**JOLLY Fanmade (2020-21) - The first, original iteration of JOLLY Paradox which features only the first two games, Project J-0114 and Curse of Mikhail, which are a prequel and sequel to the original JOLLY game. Being the earliest iteration of the series, the games weren't all that great in quality.
**JOLLY Horrors (2021-22) - The second iteration of JOLLY Paradox which features updated versions of the original two games, but with four additional sequels (Apiphobia, Georgiger's, Robotic LIFE and The Grand Finale). This earlier version of JOLLY Paradox is arguably the most well-known version of the series, as it includes the infamous Georgiger's, a game that received tons of backlash and ridicule during Winter 2022 as well as an irritating child following.
**The JOLLY Chronicles - A scrapped version which was supposed to be a massive reboot to the series, meant to show the games being changed to fit more well with the official JOLLY's canon. It was cancelled since Jay felt the concept of The JOLLY Chronicles felt boring and soulless with the clear intent of being forced to please the JOLLY 4 developers, compared to JOLLY Horrors which he enjoyed doing but was hated by older JOLLY fans. It was replaced by JOLLY Paradox.
**JOLLY Paradox (2022-23) - The third, current and canon iteration which features complete overhauls of the two original games plus Apiphobia, with the other three sequels not being included due to the backlash they received and due to canon issues. Instead, there is a game called Ultimate JOLLY Night, with all the animatronics from the official 4 JOLLY games being in one game. 
***Ultimate JOLLY Night: Legacy Edition (2024) - While not necessarily part of JOLLY Paradox, this game's story is linked to it the most, being the sequel to Ultimate JOLLY Night and featuring Jay's FNaF persona, Buzzy, facing against a roster of threats while stopping a greater evil, who was responsible for all the bad things that happened in most of Jay's series.
***Mashed Up (TBA) - While it too isn't really part of JOLLY Paradox, it serves as the aftermath of Ultimate JOLLY Night: Legacy Edition. It involves an unknown main character defending themselves against Jay's FNaF persona, Buzzy, as well as the other personas of Jay's friend group.
*Time Lords (2021) - A novel series that's currently in process of being rebooted into an animated series. It depicts 12 heroic robot humanoids based on the 12 months. The original 2021 novel series was reportedly on limbo because Jay had literally no idea what to do with the characters, and it was cancelled at the end of 2021, while the reboot version is planned to be made in the future.
*One Jolly Day (2021-22) - A series that's loosely based on FNaF fangame series JOLLY. It has a movie remake called One Jolly Day: Alteration that released in 2023 and isn't canon, and it is getting an upcoming series reboot called One Jolly Day: Alteration Revision that IS canon. It is confirmed through an official compilation of the original 10 episodes, that the original One Jolly Day is a nightmare that the main Jolly from One Jolly Day: Alteration Revision had, meaning the original series isn't real.
*Symbolics (2023-24) - A passion project series that depicts an in-universe scrapped series depicting the titular humanoid letter characters, who were designed to resemble mascot costumes. The first 13 episodes premiered between August and November 2023, while the other 13 episodes are currently airing between April and June 2024.
==Trivia== 
*Jay was one of the two main people to kickstart the popularity of the show Numberblocks. The other being Arifmetix.
*A lot of people seem to associate the FNAF fangame character Jolly with him, especially after his current channel was made.
** During this time, people would unironically think that Jay's actual name was Jolly which initially confused him.
*Jay is known to be very easily irritated and often takes everything way too seriously, which often leads him to get stressed out a lot. 
**Being an adult, the only people in Jay's fandom who he gets along with very well are other adults and sometimes teenagers between the ages of 15 and 17 who share the same interests as him. Jay does not get along with children younger than 13 years old because they easily annoy and pester him.
**The children of Jay's fandom have proven to be so irritating to him, that one of them even made false information edits to this very page. One of these false edits even gaslighted a wiki admin since it claimed that the J W channel was on hiatus instead of being terminated.
*TJGvideos had 6,370 subscribers on Jay's 17th birthday, which is a tenth of 63,700, the number of subscribers J W had prior to termination.
*Jay is not a fan of the "I'm leaving YouTube" prank videos that pop up every April Fool's Day, mostly due to how repetitive they are. He has reportedly become more and more tired of seeing them every year due to how increasingly easier it is for him to recognise them as cashing in on the fact it's April Fool's Day. He still enjoys the more creative April Fool's pranks, however.https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxn9yjdM4ZHe-lbg6fwM7q8vOF6kAm1I_S
*Jay went on record saying that DogDay from Poppy Playtime: Chapter 3 scared him so much due to him missing the lower half of his body as well as the scene of the Mini Smiling Critters devouring him from the inside, that he suffered from extreme distress and discomfort for 4 days.https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxm3S6G-6L7TMmHaRxiCFfrXz7Aw07_rka
*Jay's own wiki was briefly featured in a video by MagicMush in May 2024, titled The Weirdest Wikis On the Web Get Even Weirderhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3DEwWMHf7o&t, with the specific page of the wiki shown in question being the gallery page for all of the jumpscares for his game titled Ultimate JOLLY Night. 
**When Jay found out about this, he reacted with sheer embarrassment.https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxNTxEjyQ3mNQJWUQk_VGKGj-cM-d67-ct It has even resulted in Jay completely abandoning the wiki entirely, and it was reported that Jay had a 2-hour long panic attack upon seeing the wiki's inclusion in the video for the first time.
**The wiki's home page was later edited by Jay, mentioning MagicMush's video and stating that despite the wiki's inclusion in his video, Jay outright refuses to see the wiki as weird.
==Channel milestones ==
===Subscriber milestones===
====J W====
*1,000 subscribers: February 27, 2019
*2,000 subscribers: March 18, 2019
*3,000 subscribers: April 4, 2019
* 4,000 subscribers: May 3, 2019
*5,000 subscribers: May 19, 2019
*6,000 subscribers: June 4, 2019
*7,000 subscribers: June 18, 2019
*8,000 subscribers: June 26, 2019
*9,000 subscribers: July 5, 2019
*10,000 subscribers: July 11, 2019
*20,000 subscribers: October 11, 2019
*30,000 subscribers: January 19, 2020
*40,000 subscribers: April 18, 2020
*50,000 subscribers: July 14, 2020
*60,000 subscribers: October 10, 2020
====TJGvideos====
*1,000 subscribers: March 16, 2021
*2,000 subscribers: April 18, 2021
*3,000 subscribers: May 8, 2021
*4,000 subscribers: May 23, 2021
*5,000 subscribers: June 9, 2021
*6,000 subscribers: July 28, 2021
*7,000 subscribers: August 28, 2021
*8,000 subscribers: October 15, 2021
*9,000 subscribers: December 7, 2021
*10,000 subscribers: February 6, 2022
*20,000 subscribers: May 22, 2024
==References==
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:English YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2017
Category:Terminated YouTubers