Kwebbelkop

Jordi Maxim van den Bussche (born: ), better known online as Kwebbelkop (also known as Kwellapaap), is a Dutch English-speaking YouTuber known for his gaming and reaction videos.
==Personal life==
Jordi was born on June 1, 1995, in the Netherlands to Brigittela and Ben. In Jordi's childhood, Brigittela and Ben got divorced. Jordi's father Ben passed away in February 2017. 
==YouTube career==
===2008–2013: Creation of Kwebbelkop===
Jordi made his channel Kwebbelkop in 2008 and uploading his first video on May 3, 2011. Around June 2013, Jordi started doing YouTube Full-Time. 
===2014–2019: Robust===
In February 2014, Jordi, his friend Jelly and Aquib created a YouTube group called Robust. The trio used to upload races together. Later on, Aquib left and few months later, British YouTuber Josh (Slogo) met Jelly and Jordi at Gamescom 2014. Josh then became a member of the group. After Josh joined the trio, the trio became widely popular and even became members of PewDiePie's short-lived YouTube network, Revelmode. In 2019, Kwebbelkop was eventually replaced by Crainer. He mentioned in a later video that he left Robust due to mental health issues.
===2019–present: Solo career and post-Robust collaborations===
Jordi filmed solo videos until he met Hassan in March 2020. He and Hassan started to make gaming videos and then in July 2020, Jordi made an account for his friend Hassan named "Tiger". 
In 2021 Jordi and his team created the channel and V-Tuber character named Bloo, which is an AI-powered channel featuring gaming content.https://www.wired.com/story/kwebbelkop-youtube-ai-clone/https://x.com/Kwebbelkop/status/1472279741323481089
==Other endeavors==
Aside from YouTube, Jordi co-invested in the Backbone controller accessory for iPhone, as well as in cryptocurrency and NFTs. He co-founded LaunchMyNFT, an NFT launchpad. In 2023, he announced that he was developing a new video game titled Hellskate. He is also developing AI content creation tools with his company, JVDBStudios.
== Pivot to AI ==
In December 2022, Jordi posted on his Twitter page that he wanted to clone himself in 2023 using AI.https://x.com/Kwebbelkop/status/1515227017251155968 He had already brought up AI previously in other posts, but he wanted to use it in his Youtube videos. In August 2023, he shared a video on Youtube of his AI clone playing Minecraft. The video was not well received and received a severe backlash. After a couple of videos and many hate comments, in September 2023, he uploaded an apology video to his Youtube channel and Twitter page.https://x.com/Kwebbelkop/status/1705475527522365695 That video was also made using AI, but more realistic, and hinted at the end of Kwebbelkop AI before mentioning he was in the process of creating a better "Kwebbelkop 2.0 model" replacement.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVAbb4fuamwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4pgc5SUeX4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBg1n_fGG8
==Channel milestones==
===Subscriber milestones===
*1 million subscribers: March 22, 2015
*2 million subscribers: August 9, 2015
*3 million subscribers: January 3, 2016
*4 million subscribers: April 24, 2016
*5 million subscribers: July 29, 2016
*6 million subscribers: December 24, 2016
*7 million subscribers: July 13, 2017
*8 million subscribers: March 8, 2018
*9 million subscribers: September 22, 2018
*10 million subscribers: February 16, 2019
*11 million subscribers: July 14, 2019
*12 million subscribers: February 18, 2020
*13 million subscribers: June 11, 2020
*14 million subscribers: December 28, 2020
*15 million subscribers: June 26, 2023
===Video view milestones===
*1 billion views: March 22, 2016
*2 billion views: January 10, 2017
*3 billion views: February 18, 2018
*4 billion views: April 30, 2019
*5 billion views: February 2, 2020
*6 billion views: January 10, 2021
==Trivia==
*Jordi is 6'2" (187. 96 centimeters) tall.
*Jordi call his fans "KOPS".
*Jordi's favorite color is Orange.
*Jordi met Slogo in 2014.
*Jordi left recording with Jelly and Slogo due to mental issues.
*"Kwebbelkop" roughly means "blabbering head" in Dutch.
==Gallery==
Robust.png|Kwebbelkop with Jelly and Slogo
Tiger and Kwebbelkop.jpeg|Jordi and Liger
Azzylandandkwebellkop.jpg|Jordi and his ex-girlfriend, AzzyLand
File:Kwebbelkop.jpg
File:Kwebbelkop Shorts.jpg
KwebbelkopOldestIcon.png|Oldest icon
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
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Category:Dutch YouTubers
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