SomecallmeJohnny

Juan "Johnny" Ortiz (born: ), better known online as SomecallmeJohnny, is a Puerto Rican-American gaming YouTuber, who primarily makes gaming reviews. He currently resides in the United States. He began his channel in 2008 under the name the Super Gaming Bros. where him and his younger brother Elliot posted comedic game reviews. After the Super Gaming Bros. series ended in late-2010, Johnny went solo, rebranded the channel as SomecallmeJohnny and began the Johnny vs. series, which he continues to this day. He is also one of the main hosts of BrainScratch Commentaries.
==Past==
Johnny was born and raised by his parents. His mother is from Puerto Rico. When Johnny was a kid, he was a troublemaker. This made his mother upset and he eventually improved his behavior. At some point, one of his parents seemingly got divorced and eventually got remarried to either one of Elliot's parents. Elliot himself was very young when he first met Johnny. He even commented that he took care of Elliot "when he was in diapers". Johnny also mentions that he became friends with Matthew in high school.
==Personal life==
Outside of his videos, Johnny is a down-to-earth, caring person, who is willing to help a friend, and a very simple person. Despite this, he is very knowledgeable about multiple things, particularly video games, and is not willing to let nostalgia get in the way of his opinions and reviews, and is willing to accept other peoples opinions and preference. During his reviews, he holds a air of professional and calmness, but at the same time he can act sarcastic, witty, and, in rare cases, angry. He often critics games wisely, often praising them for their ups and telling them how to improve their downs. He is also likes to poke fun of the things at the in-game content and make sarcastic jokes at several things about the game in general. He is not afraid of putting his own opinion out there and making a statement of he generally feels about a game. He is also grateful to his fanbase, as he was willing to keep a game he dubbed dull and not fun to play, because it was donated to him, and at the end of his Donations Marathon, he went off-script and thanked every for donating the games to him, along with concluding most of his videos by thanking everyone for watching and wishing them a good night.
He was living with his mother ever since the beginning of his career on YouTube, but during his MGS Marathon, he informed his fans, in a vlog, this fact and that he was moving to his own residence, and is now living there, along side his brother/camera man, Mark.
In 2018 Johnny and Mark moved into a new house with a Cellar (Basement), this being more convenient for Johnny himself in terms of outside noise; seen in his Spotlight on the Nintendo Switch, there were outside sounds of cars driving by and kids coming out of school.
At the end of the Dark Souls review made at the end of the Donators Marathon, he introduced his viewers to the kitten Selene, an abandoned Kitten that Johnny took in.
==Series==
===Super Gaming Bros.===
Johnny and his brother Elliot started making review videos in 2008 and called themselves the Super Gaming Bros., starting with Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. Johnny's other brother Mark also made some appearances. The gameplays in the first seven videos were recorded with a camera as Johnny didn't own a capture card at the time. He later got a capture card the same year, and started using it during a review of the first two Mortal Kombat games. He also made 3D Sonic reviews which were removed, except Sonic Unleashed, as Johnny claims they were short reviews and he wanted to make full reviews on them and his opinions "dramatically" changing most notably Sonic Adventure 1 and 2. The last Super Gaming Bros. video was Sonic Colors for the Wii.
===Johnny Vs. Series===
Johnny began to go solo and created the Johnny Vs. Series. His first video in the Johnny Vs. Series was the original Super Mario Bros. and the other four videos were the sequels that included The Lost Levels. These first five videos of the Johnny Vs. videos were called Month of Mario, despite the reviews for Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World were released in May. After Month of Mario ended, he started making reviews for Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Big Rigs Over the Road Racing and Batman: Arkham Asylum. The original video of Big Rigs, however, was removed due to copyright issues, So Johnny remade the review with the return of Elliot. He then made videos for Castlevania called the "Castlevania Marathon". During that same year of 2011, he made videos where it countdown to the release date of Sonic Generations. Generations was finally released and Johnny reviewed the game. He later reviewed Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. He then made the "Pokemon Marathon" which he reviews Generation One, its two spin-offs on the N64, Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Snap and finally Generation Two. He reviewed Arkham City and then the Sonic Marathon started. Because his opinions changed over the years he decided to make full reviews on the 3D Sonic games. The last video in the Sonic Marathon was Sonic '06, which is the longest video Johnny has ever done. After various reviews, he held a stray poll for the next Marathon, with the Metal Gear franchise coming out on top, which then turned into his longest Marathon yet, covering the entirety of the chronology, most of the spin-offs, two Christmas fan games, and the current relationship and status of Hideo Kojima and Konami. He has now finished his Mother marathon, which has ironically turned out to be his shortest one yet, and includes Mother I or Earthbound: Beginnings, Mother II/Earthbound, and Mother III. He also did a bonus review of Undertale since the Mother marathon ended up being so short. He continued to review video games and still plans on reviewing even more games.
==The Super Gaming Bros. Channel==
The Super Gaming Bros. Channel is where Johnny and his brothers and his friend Matt, do Let's Play's. This channel was created in June 29, 2009.
On the 14th of January 2020, Johnny made a thread on his Twitter stating that the SuperGamingBros. Let's Play channel is coming to an end in 2020, noting that everyone involved are getting older and that they have other things they want to do (Johnny himself saying he'd want to do more for his own channel.) However it hasn't been said if he's leave the other channel BrainScratchComms.
The last Let's Plays that are being done for SGB is their way of saying that the channel "isn't going out with a whimper, but with a bang." With the last games being Final Fantasy VII, Banjo-Tooie, Dark Sould, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and a few Drunk Mario Party's.
The SGB channel was eventually revived after a Mario Party Superstars video was uploaded and it is currently on-going.
==Trivia==
*Ironically, currently most people, even people in his personal life such as family and friends, refer to Johnny as Johnny or John rather than Juan, meaning that a more accurate name would be "SomeCallMeJuan," something of which he has joked about in the past.
*Johnny has stated that his humor and style is a mix of Nostalgia Critic and the AngryVideoGameNerd which he had stated in his review of AVGN Adventures.
*Johnny has a multitude of running gags on his channel:
**Tails Doll: A demonic doll, that originally possessed a Sonic hat, that has attempted to kill Johnny and drive him insane on multiple occasions by forcing him to play bad or extremely difficult games, but was always stop by rather odd means, such as a falcon punch or being trapped in a TV for 3 whole years, before being unintentionally released after Paranoiasonik hijacked the TV. His last known appearance was in Johnny's Sonic Spin-Off Games video during the Sonic R portion of the video.
**"Screwattack!": An echoing shout that appears when Johnny says the word "Screwattack", much to his displeasure. He outright hates it, dubbing annoying, becoming extremely annoyed by it, and once even shooting it with a Nintendo Zapper. After the Metroid 3: Corruption review, it was never shown again in his reviews. In his 10th anniversary video, he explained the Screwattack joke being his love for the YouTube channel under the same name, in the mentioned Metroid review he felt it best to literally kill the joke as he didn't think it was funny anymore and decided to end it officially.
**"How's that phone by the way?": A joke made by Johnny on multiple occasions, mainly during Lets Play's, made towards his brother Elliot, who is prone to checking his phone, and was out-right asked by Johnny to his brother during their review of Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing.
**“WHAT AN ASSHOLE!”: A running gag originally from a celebrity roasting show on Comedy Central about David Hasselhoff, it shows Gilbert Gottfried saying that phrase after Johnny mentions about an in-game enemy being a jerk (mainly the Charging Chucks from Super Mario) or a very hard point in a game.
*Revealed during their Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 Let's Play, Elliot's last name is Cancel (Pronounced "Can-Sell" according to Elliot.) as he and Johnny are actually step brothers, though since they have been with each other almost all their lives, they consider themselves no less than blood brothers.
*Johnny has outright hatred to Super Mario Sunshine because of when he played it in the past as a child; he hates it to the point where he got drunk playing it, even if it was for comedic affect.
*During a 24-hour Sonic Charity Stream, Mike Pollock was in the stream where before he departed, he and Johnny re-enacted a scene from Castlevania: Symphony of the night; with Johnny playing a Bently the Turtle voice for Richter Belmont, and Mike Pollock as Dracula in a Dr. Eggman style voice.
*Johnny has experienced Sonic '06 for four years, not only that, but it also took him four years to memorize the open world map in the game. Plus, he collected all the gold medals in the story mode when he played as Sonic.
*Johnny appears to have some sort of grudge or rivalry with Clementj642, or "The Great Clement", though this is only meant for comedic value. The rivalry itself started when the two were competing with each other trying to beat each others 30-second sprint times in Sonic Generations on Classic City Escape, with Johnny currently in the lead of Clement, as far as we're aware. This soon leads to Clement going insane and beating every other record Johnny had in the game, though it's argued whether or not it was worth it. Unfortunately these videos have been deleted, but they do touch upon this in the vs. Mega Man 3 & The Wily Wars video and ending it with Clement attempting once again to beat Johnny's record.
*Johnny once joined in with Hellfire Commentaries to commentate on Sonic Labyrinth, much to his displeasure. The commentary is uploaded onto both channels, on Hellfire's as an April Fools video, and on Johnny's channel under the title of "Johnny vs. The Meaning of Life". With the thumbnail being Johnny and a white "42" in a blue square.
*Johnny considers Sonic and the Secret Rings to be the worst home console Sonic game, rather than the popular arguments of either Sonic The Hedgehog (2006) or Shadow The Hedgehog.
*Johnny has gone to college to become an animator, and has created some animations for his reviews, his latest being for Tails Skypatrol & Adventure.
*Johnny developed a fear of large underwater areas in video games, due to playing Ecco the Dolphin in his youth.
*Johnny attends various gaming conventions yearly, such as PAX East and TooManyGames, some of which he's had his own panel at.
*Johnny made a flash game when he was in College; this was mentioned during the Brainscratchcomms playthrough of Sonic Unleashed; at the recent TooManyGames (2018). Johnny and his BrainScratchComms colleagues played the game being a collect-a-thon sidescroller with the music being from the Nighttime Stage of Arid Sands.
*During the SGB Smackdown Sunday of The Game of Life (PS1), it was confirmed by Johnny that he originally wanted to be a Teacher before going to College.
*In his Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) review, Johnny made "An extremely bold claim," when he stated that he thought Sonic's portion of Sonic the Hedgehog is much better experience than Shadow the Hedgehog as a whole.
*Johnny is a fan of the Dragon Ball franchise and has watched a few other animes.
**He also said that he doesn't really watch animes that much.
*He mentions that he liked SpongeBob Squarepants as a child (like most people). He previously thought it was going be a "bad" cartoon before it aired.
**He has seen other Nickelodeon shows such as Rocko's Modern Life and Rugrats.
*He is a fan of the Batman franchise and enjoys the Spider-Man franchise as well.
===SGB Trivia===
*Matt was first brought into the SGB Let's Plays with New Super Mario Bros. Wii, after that, Johnny and Elliot enjoyed his company and wanted to get him into more playthroughs after, thus making Matt a permanent addition to the SGB "family".
*Elliot and Sabrina got engaged on the 1st of November 2019 when Elliot proposed at the end of a livestream on their Twitch channel.
*Johnny used to do the editing for the Super Gaming Bros. channel, and considered it a little bit stressful doing content for three channels at once (Super Gaming Bros., Somecallmejohnny and Brainscratchcommentaries.), Elliot and Sabrina have started editing for the channel since 2015.
*Elliot has fallen asleep twice during Let's Play sessions, the first in the Resident Evil 0 Let's Play, and the second time during Metroid Prime.
*SGB did have a Twitch page that Elliot and Sabrina ran, it was originally called "SGBLikesToStream" which was a reference to the original name of the Let's Play channel being "SGBLikesToPlay." The two then decided to make it more of a Twich channel for themselves and named it "BoundByGames" in reference to how gaming brought them together as a couple.
*During a Silent Hill (PS1) Let's Play, Johnny fell asleep when Elliot was playing the game. Due to feeling exhausted from working.
*Johnny considers himself as an American due to being raised in the United States, although he knows that he's a member of a Puerto Rican family.
==References==
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