EpicJohn

John Fiore, known online as EpicJohn (formerly EpicJohn Gaming and EpicJohn11), is an American YouTuber and Game Developer, whose YouTube videos revolve around Virtual Reality and PC Gaming, including games such as Rec Room, VRChat, and Garry's Mod.
John began receiving a lot of attention from thousands of users when he uploaded a video where he trolled other players in Gorilla Tag as one of it's most popular Ghost Urban Legends, Daisy09. That video and another, where he pretended to be a new player, got him lots of attention. After uploading the Daisy09 video, he hit a milestone of 1,000 Subscribers in over a month.
== About ==
John created his Channel originally to be a secondary and gaming channel in regards to his main channel, which uploaded Animation Videos.
His current videos usually consist of him playing Gorilla Tag, either taking part in mini-games with other players, trolling other players, or just producing news about the game and it's recent updates. He has also taken part in collaborations with other small content creators, which John has a playlist of all collaborations he's in.
He is also known to do multiple "Fan Lobbies" in Gorilla Tag, where he creates a private server in the game, and plays mini-games with his fans and friends. He also does "Late Night Fan Lobbies", which begin between 8-10PM.
== History ==
=== Early Years ===
John created his first channel which was titled at the time "TheAshtonBrothers", on May 13, 2017. He began to post videos of him at different events, or him doing every day things. He also posted occasional Roblox videos.
Sometime in 2019, his channel changed to EpicJohnPlays. But then switched to EpicJohn. At this time, he uploaded his first animation to the website, of his OC "Gumball" saying "Hello". Gumball was based off of JacknJellify's Web-Series, Battle for Dream Island. He would get a lot of attention and a mass growth in subscribers, when he uploaded a video of an alleged sunken plane in Lake Harriet, Minnesota.
=== Animation Phase and the Beginning of his Second Channel ===
In Early 2021, he began to start uploading animated videos of him and his friends, creating the web-series that would be known as "John's Animated Weirdness". He would continue this series for 5 more episodes.
When he wasn't uploading episodes of JAW, he would upload other shorts, that typically consisted of Animated versions of TikTok videos, Music, or clips from Video Games. Soon after, he was at 430 Subscribers and thought that if he got famous, it would make sense to create a second channel. So on May 26, 2021, John created his second account, calling it EpicJohn Gaming. Shortly after creating his channel, he would upload videos of him and his friends playing games, including Roblox, Half-Life 2, Garry's Mod, and Gun Raiders VR. This was around the time he had gotten a Meta Quest 2 VR Headset.
After getting the headset, his friends Alex and Noah, informed him about a game called Gorilla Tag. At first look and first play-through, John though it was "hilarious but stupid", and didn't think it would get him anywhere.
=== The Rise of EpicJohn ===
==== Daisy09 Video ====
John discovered an Urban Legend in Gorilla Tag, called "Daisy09", which was a Cyan-Skinned Gorilla, that would go into servers playing a version of "Daisy Bell" where a computer sang it, dating back to the 1960s. He filmed himself trolling as the Alleged Ghost, and uploaded it to YouTube. Days Later, the video went Viral reaching over 100,000 Views. He was mind-blown. After this, he began to gain a wide-mass of subscribers, reaching 1,000 only a month later.
Soon after, he began posting more Gorilla Tag videos, consisting of AI Trolling, Trolling as a new player, and many more videos where he would troll people.
==== Monke Drip Check ====
On August 31, 2022, John uploaded a video titled "Monke Drip Check", which was essentially a Gorilla Tag Fashion Show, where he got his fans to dress in their best combo or "drip", where John would rate them, and 1st place would earn a cash prize.
John got the idea when a fan by the name of "Eli the iPhone user" asked if he could do a GTAG Fashion Show, to where John replied "Bro...hell yeah!" John uploaded the video, not thinking of anything.
The video ultimately viral, which lead to John going from 4k to eventually hitting 6k Subscribers. This lead to him also getting recognized in-game more. He did a 2nd and ended the series at the 3rd, on September 24, 2022.
==== Trolling as Mickey Mouse ====
On October 9, 2022, John uploaded a video titled "Trolling as MICKEY MOUSE in Gorilla Tag!". In the video, he would enter a series of different Gorilla Tag Public Servers, and put on an impression of Walt Disney's Character, Mickey Mouse.
The video ended up blowing up multiple times, and is currently still blowing up.
As of October 8, 2023, the video has 669,299 views.
=== The End of Gorilla Tag ===
Sometime in July of 2023, John had got his Discord Account and Computer hacked. The hacker wiped his hard drive and got his account disabled. This moved him to quit posting and playing Gorilla Tag, and posted his final goodbye video on September 2nd, 2023, which had special guests such as Juan, Zerdy, and ThatGorillaGuy.
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2021