Glove and Boots

Glove and Boots is a Video Blog focusing on two puppets, Mario and Fafa the Groundhog. They often discuss things that are going on, in both their lives and in the world, from the Zombie Apocalypse to Time Travel to Twinkies.
==About==
The show was created by Damien Eckhardt-Jacobi (Mario) and Vincent Bova (Fafa), two street performers who used puppets to entertain people on the New York City subway. Met with variable success, they began posting videos in 2004 with a style that was reminiscent of a pastiche of early edutainment shows like Sesame Street and The Electric Company (1971), complete with some music videos. The show was on hiatus until 2010, at which time the format received some changes in technology and switched to a slightly older demographic, with more references to pop culture, Bento Box produced these with both Damien and Vincent. in The Pee wee Herman Blog video, there was a first appearance of Zach Glass, Zach appears in Product Testing videos and plays the character Johnny T, Jerkface, Thor, Santa Claus, Frankenstein's Monster and Blake Worthington.
==History==
In 2012, Glove and Boots won a Twitter Shorty Award for Best Videoblogger.https://blog.shortyawards.com/post/20015133735/shorty4winners
Underwent a minor overhaul in 2017, introducing a gaming channel and 4 new recurring segments:
*Paradoke (A karaoke parody series);
*"Don't be a Dummy" with Johnny T. (In which Johnny teaches viewers not to be a dummy);
*"Uncle Joe's Stories". In which Cool Uncle Joe the Squirrel tells funny stories of his life ;
* And a reboot of Mario's Word of the Week.
In late 2017, the channel ran into money troubles due to changes in the YouTube algorithm (mainly the site cracking down on anything their advertisers deem inappropriate for children, and Glove and Boots unfortunately tends to fall into the Animation Age Ghetto) and in video sharing on Facebook, and was forced to go on hiatus. After more than a year, they announced in December 2018 that they would start making new content focusing on appealing to a younger audience, The reboot focuses less on characters like Johnny T, Hanzi, etc. and instead focus on only Mario, Fafa, and Gorilla. The gorilla head no longer appears. Shows like Mario's Word Of The Week, Uncle Joe's Stories, and Don't be a Dummy were all discontinued. Instead, they introduced Let's Meet Some Interesting Characters, Forgotten Legends, No Script Day, and Nerd Chat. They started deleting some of their old videos, and re-uploading them on Vimeo (Glove and Boots Stash). Their "pivot," as they like to call it, was met with mixed reviews, some criticizing their poor decisions because of YouTube's algorithm, which caused their downfall. Instead of Bento Box, Glove and Boots is currently being produced by Moonbug Entertainment.
Their YouTube channel can be found here, and their (now inactive) gaming channel can be found here. Their posts are often on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and occasionally make it onto Reddit. They also have separate Twitter accounts for Mario and for Fafa. Videos up to Season 7 from both the main channel and gaming channel are also available on Vimeo, including some that were removed from YouTube to fit with the changes made in 2018 and 2019.
In May 2018, Glove and Boots won a Silver Telly Award.https://www.tellyawards.com/winners/2018/online/series-webseries-comedy/glove-and-boots-season-7/196067
As of December 2020, the channel along with all of its social media platforms are currently inactive, most likely because of YouTube's policy enforced by COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act), the global COVID-19 Pandemic, "The Ring-A-Tangs" YouTube Channel, and the departure of puppeteer, Vincent Bova who moved away from Brooklyn, New York (where the show was filmed) to Pennsylvania in August 2020.https://www.instagram.com/p/CD7eBQGhPWd/ Their most recent video was uploaded on December 30, 2019.
==Trivia==
*Glove and Boots was sometimes aired on Moonbug Kids.
*Glove and Boots made a collab with YouTube to make a video about the basics of YouTube’s copyright system.https://youtu.be/Cp1Jn4Q0j6E
==References==
Category:Comedy YouTubers
Category:Vlogging YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2007