Wafflepwn

wafflepwn is an American YouTube channel run by brothers Jack Ryan Quire (born: ) and Stephen Quire (born: ). They are best known for their Greatest freak out ever series.
The whole series contains Jack recording Stephen raging over random things for a random reason. In the first freak out video, Stephen was mad due to his World of Warcraft subscription being canceled by his mother. The footage of Stephen's temper tantrum made a viral hit and currently has over 100 million video views. 
On July 23, 2021, Jack announced that he will be streaming actively on Twitch. He shortly switched to streaming on YouTube, playing a variety of online games, and reacting to videos. Stephen would also volunteer joining live streams - playing video games, reacting to videos, create tier lists, subreddit meme reactions, and hosting call in shows.
==Controversies==
===Feud with Lunatic Dad===
A live stream from the wafflepwn YouTube channel was taken down on September 27, 2021, after watching a video from Lunatic Dad during their stream. This caused Stephen to rage uncontrollably off and on camera when Jack made another live stream titled "1st Copyright Strike", indicating that they received their first ever copyright strike in 12 years. 
Jack has stated that there will be no reaction videos from any future live streams and to encourage viewers to dislike Lunatic Dad videos. He also took down their recreated live stream after they got struck.
This led to a huge backlash with hate coming from Twitter after it happened. Although the incident happened on that day, an apology video was uploaded a day later on Lunatic Dad's channel apologizing to Jack for taking down their stream and retracted the copyright strike from them. The aforementioned live stream would later be re-uploaded as an unlisted video.
===X Account Suspension===
Wafflepwn's X account was suspended on August 21, 2023 for violating X's Media Policy. Jack created the account in August of 2021 and claimed that the profile picture of his account led to it getting suspended. It would later be reinstated one week later on August 29 after submitting an appeal to get the account back and posted an announcement that the live stream that was originally scheduled on that day would be postponed until Wednesday August 30.
=== Greatest Freak Out Ever take down ===
Sometime in the morning hours of April 1, 2024, the first ever Greatest Freak Out ever video was taken down for violating YouTube guidelines. Many fans originally took it as an April Fools joke or had theories of Jack unlisted or making it private to mess with everyone by pretending that YouTube took it down and then that showing it was not taken down while going live. However, it was taken down due to it allegedly showing child endangerment in which it was shown during the time Jack was live streaming. It resulted in a huge outrage due to it supposedly happening for no reason. During the stream where the outrage was mostly taking place, there were various descriptions of bizarre and obscene looking behavior accompanied by hysterical raging because of it. The situation got so bad that Lunatic Dad, who was once infamous for falsely copyright striking wafflepwn, uploaded a video to show support the Quire brothers. The video would be reuploaded 5 hours later on the same day when it was removed after submitting appeal to show proof that there was no child endangerment. This would be the second instance it has happened when the first Greatest Freak Out Ever video was taken down. The video was removed 6 years prior November 22, 2017, but the difference was that the reason may have unknown at the time and was reuploaded 9 days later after its removal.
=== Greatest Freakout Ever Aftermath take down ===
In early July 2024, the Greatest Freakout Ever Aftermath was taken down for violating YouTube's terms of service. It was stated that the video showed acts of cyberbullying and harassment according to an email Jack received at the time he was live streaming on July 8, 2024, which would also get taken down for unknown reasons after the live stream ended. It was likely assumed or speculated that Stephen saying the word "F--" in the video, was the possible or in fact the actual reasoning for its removal due to it being a derogatory word towards the LGTBQ+ community.
==Quotes==
*"I'M GONNA RUN AWAY AND NEVER COME BACK!!!"
*"STOP FREAKING BETRAYING ME!"
*"Stop calling me squirrel boy!"
*"Spider up the wall?"
*"Take your gay leotard and die!"
*"You're a B word and I just don't like you!"
*"What's your problem, MAN?!"
*"She wouldn't buy me the game so I broke the TV, she's unfair, you don't know, go away."
*"YOU'RE A FREAKING STALKER!"
*"Manicotti with cream chicken and artichokes."
*"See you make toast, I make art. I am smart, you're retarded."
*"YOU'RE OLD!"
*"I'm like a cat and a rat right now, and you did!"
*"STOP TOUCHING ME!"
*"DO YOU WANT TO SEE A FREAKOUT?!"
==Trivia==
*American actor made a parody of the first Greatest Freak Out video. However, Stephen said that he didn't like it.
**In response, he invited the family backstage on Ghetto Klown where Stephen freaked out whenever he touched him.
*Stephen has a wife and two children.
*Stephen built his own Batmobile from the Batman 1966 show. Jack said on a live stream that it's in storage and is not working anymore.
*The original video of Greatest freak out ever 6 that consisted Jack tying a rope to a banister all the way up to the door handle of Stephen's room as a way to mess Stephen was once originally deleted from the channel due to Stephen finding out about Jack's secret YouTube channel at the time and claimed that he deleted all of the freakout videos but in reality only deleted the 6th video in a video he made in which was somehow archived and uploaded to a knockoff version of the channel.
*There have been numerous of parodies that mimic the original Greatest freak out ever video.
*Greatest freak out ever 3 and 6 are the only videos of the Greatest freak out ever series to make appearances on live TV from a realtity TV series called "Most Daring" on Tru TV in 2010.
*Stephen was interviewed on Tosh.0 in order to determine if the Greatest freak out ever videos were real or fake
*The episode "Stephen meets John Leguizamo" was filmed in a theater in Downtown Chicago.
*It's unknown what kind of content what Jack captured during a confrontation in his vacation to Los Angeles with his family during its existence on the channel before getting deleted in what was at the time called "Greatest Freak Out Ever / LA Fight". It's shown that Stephen breaks Jack's camera at the end and therefore ending the video.
*After the damages caused by Stephen's wreckage in the studio of "thehappiestcompany.com" in Greatest freakout ever 13, the founder of The Happiest Company was imprisoned on multiple charges and the company shut down their website and went out of business a day after the video was uploaded.
*Jack originally started live streaming on Twitch before switching to live streaming on YouTube 5 days after his announcement video.
*The channel prior to Greatest freak out ever 39 being uploaded, had at one point all live streams being uploaded along side with the older freakout videos before being archived to a playlist where all of the live streams would be published as unlisted videos.
*"The Milk Challenge" as a part of the Greatest Freak Out Ever series' special episodes, would be the wafflepwn channel's only age-restricted video due to graphic content shown. Mostly consisting of Stephen vomiting
*In 2021, Stephen ran as town council against his opponent, Gary.
*What Up Ninja and McJuggerNuggets would be the only Youtubers to have appeared in the Greatest Freak Out Ever series
*Wafflepwn clips was a secondary channel that started out from clipping parts of the main channel's live streams before it used to make edited videos of the live streams and remains inactive since its last upload in January 2022.
*There have been only 2 live streams that have been deleted due to explicit content that was shown on stream.
*Greatest freak out ever 47 is the only video of the Greatest freak out ever series that includes a music video known as "Welcome to Nineveh" before the climax in the end.
*Wafflepwn's X account was initially suspended after almost 2 years since its creation before being reinstated 6 days later in late August 2023.
*"Low Hanging Fruit At The Woodline" was the first ever live stream to get age-restricted.
*The first Greatest Freak Out Ever video is one of the only two videos from the Greatest Freak Out Ever series to get taken down by YouTube or have it happen more than once, the first occurence in November 2017 and then a second occurrence in April 2024 for violating community guidelines due to allegedly showing child endangerment.
*The wafflepwn channel was revealed to have a copyright strike at one point from watching a video that is said to no longer exist when searching along the lines of "Woman walks into her apartment, then a strange man shows up at her door!" from a live stream done in October 2022.
*The Greatest Freakout Ever Aftermath is the only video from the Greatest Freakout Ever series to get taken down by YouTube for harassment and cyberbullying in early July 2024 
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