Jaltoid

Jaltoid is a YouTube duo consisting of American animators, artists, and voice actors Dalton Joyce (born: ) and Emily "Emi" Kuc (born: ). The couple are best known for animations on their main channel satirizing aspects of popular culture, such as gaming, social media, fandoms, and YouTubers.
They have a secondary channel named Jaltoid Media consisting of Let's Play series under Jaltoid Games and miscellaneous videos, and were former hosts of the short-lived LazyCast podcast alongside DoopieDoOver and Jess "KamenJess".
==History and career==
=== DeviantArt and Newgrounds ===
In 2010, Dalton met Emi through her profile on the website DeviantArt. Upon witnessing her voice acting, he requested for her to voice in a project he was producing. Overtime, the two became closer from their shared love of drawing and eventually met in person. Jaltoid originated from Dalton who is a former Newgrounds animator; however, the channel has become known for the efforts put forth by him and Emi.
Intended to be just for Dalton's use, the username Jaltoid evolved from his own name. As the two were unemployed, they focused on producing content for YouTube. Occasional live-action videos were inspired by The Tom Green Show, and YouTuber Nathan Barnett infamous for his character "Keith Apicary".
=== YouTube animations and popularity ===
In October 2012, the two began creating animated shorts on YouTube, Dalton being an Adobe Flash animator, and Emi honing her skills as a digital artist. They tested their collaborative skills with a seven-second video wishing their friend Clark a happy birthday. Dalton and Emi experimented with collaboration again through a short named Ded Oreo HDhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyFrUJqbMbU, featuring the first animated versions of the couple and a humorous story involving the accidental death of their cat. Animations and art featuring their animated personas soon became a consistent element on their social media profiles.
Throughout the 2010s, Dalton and Emi produced dozens of animated shorts for YouTube that met widespread acclaim and millions of views. Praised for their colorful artistry, quick turnaround, and commentary on then-popular topics like PewDiePie fans, prank channels, Overwatch, anime tropes, and gamer girls. 
They also gained subscribers for animations featuring cute character designs and absurd humor, such as Billy Bob The Gamer, Opinion is Fact, I'm Ugly (Facebook Parody), E-Fame Survival Guide, and Team Desu. These were produced under the label of "Jaltoid Cartoons".
In a video celebrating their five-year anniversary on the site, Dalton and Emi stated they were able to make animating on YouTube their full-time job. Dalton said he found this was a viable career option in March 2013, after a mere six months of uploading online cartoons.
=== Convention appearances and shifting focus ===
In 2015, the duo were invited to host a panel and artist alley booth at the pop culture convention PopCon Indy, also known as Indy PopCon, where they received a long line of fans trailing out the door. Dalton and Emi reflected on this experience, stating there was not enough staff to control their crowd.
As explained in a Tumblr FAQ,https://jaltoid.tumblr.com/faq both claimed they stopped making animations as a result of the YouTube climate, generally affecting independent web animation across the platform in favour of long-form content. As content creating was their main career, they couldn't justify putting in the work for something that was no longer sustainable, opting instead to focus on their Let's Play channel and Patreon support.
=== Jaltoid Games and Jaltoid Media ===
On July 19, 2013, Dalton and Emi uploaded JaltoidGames Video Introhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G4y--_zQAg, which initiated the start of Let's Plays produced alongside animations. Starting with Nintendo Land for Wii U on August 2, 2013, the two continued to upload even when taking a hiatus from their main channel after their five-year anniversary. Their Let's Plays became notorious for their cartoony and suggestive thumbnails, sometimes unique for each episode of a consecutive series, Dalton and Emi's comically vulgar banter, and running gags.
Highlighted gameplay series include the Senran Kagura franchise, Snipperclips, Hello Kitty Roller Rescue, Fisher Price ABC's, Spyro, Mario, Shantae, Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion, and a video in which they play a Jaltoid fangame developed by a viewer. 
After the channel was renamed Jaltoid Media, the two uploaded alternate videos featuring blind bag openings, drawing fans' profile pictures from a distance, "speedpaints" of art and thumbnails, and examining the Flash files of their old animations.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7HS5oaS6T4
=== LazyCast ===
On October 16, 2016, Dalton and Emi launched a weekly comedy podcast named LazyCast, also known as the LazyCast Podcast, with their friends and subsequent couple Danielle "DoopieDoOver" Willow, known for her former association as an artist and host on the Planet Dolan and Super Planet Dolan channels, and Jess "KamenJess", both whom for a time were living with Jaltoid. LazyCast was uploaded weekly, uncensored, and hosted on its own YouTube channel. The podcast covered a range of topics, including the group's first impressions of Overwatch, childhood stories, convention experiences and artist alleys, cartoons, anime, and general life. LazyCast ran from October 2016 to November 2017.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kPL2i6oeSw
The podcast had its own Patreon in which names of supporters would be read at the end of every episode, also offering a CD of the first season and exclusive AfterCast episodes, a couple of which were uploaded publicly in place of a new episode. One-off guests would be featured, including Dolan and Hellbent from Planet Dolan, SiIvaGunner, and Ross O'Donovan from Game Grumps and RubberNinja.
LazyCast ended abruptly with its one-year anniversary on November 9, 2017, before being removed from several hosts. A sect of its episodes are considered lost media, including those that were exclusive to Patreon members, and most other videos featuring both Danielle and Jess.https://lostmediawiki.com/Jaltoid_Collaborations_(partially_found_Jaltoid_Media_videos_and_LazyCast_Podcast_episodes;_mid-2010s) Their Twitter accounts hinted at a fallout with Jaltoid behind the scenes.https://youtu.be/l1Exhyp8mFE DoopieDoOver also announced on Twitter that she and Jess had broken up in September of 2022, no longer in a relationship.
=== Present and future ===
After posting a video to their Jaltoid Media channel on October 28, 2021, where they explore obscure anti-Pokémon websites, and becoming absent from Twitter in 2022, Dalton and Emi went inactive from their accounts across Jaltoid and their YouTube channels at large.
==== Aliases ====
Continuing into 2023, Dalton and Emi posted under the artist username of plushpon on Tumblr, DeviantArt, Instagram, and Toyhouse.https://www.deviantart.com/plushpon On their accounts under plushpon, Dalton and Emi acquired new nicknames, Bun and Pawmie. The couple draw and auction off characters known as "adopts", being bought by other online users.
They also previously went by the username YourNewWaifu where they produced NSFW and pin-up content, including short NSFW animations aided by a Patreon. The YourNewWaifu accounts have not been updated since July of 2021.
=== Return ===
In January 2024, the Jaltoid Twitter account (on X) became active, posting old clips and art. A new video was posted to Jaltoid Media in April 2024, where Dalton and Emi explain their absence from YouTube in the 2020s, including Dalton dealing with a tumor in his jaw that left it difficult to communicate. However, new gameplay videos and clips from their 2010s animations in the form of "YouTube shorts" were uploaded to their main Jaltoid channel.
On May 25, 2024, Dalton and Emi started, "That Animated Podcast" a series of videos, discussing art, design, and other general topics, including modern YouTube. Featuring avatars that represent Dalton and Emi, set inside a virtual podcast studio.
==Trivia==
*Dalton is native to Newgrounds where he contributed to his account for 5 years, he decided to move to DeviantArt in 2011 before leaving in 2012.
*Emi is native to deviantArt, she had contributed to her accounts for 6 years before leaving.
*The two had left the DeviantArt platform due to disagreements with the staff.
*Dalton created a character named Raj, also known as supercodplayer1995, who made humourous claims that he was "better than PewDiePie" and that "PewDiePie stole all of his subscribers". First appearing in the animation "Girl" Gamerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44AmqL5tWCM, he acquired his own spin-off channel and made appearances on Jaltoid Media and LazyCast.
==Gallery==
File:Old Jaltoid.png|Jaltoid profile picture circa 2013
File:Emi & Dalton.jpg|Dalton & Emi in real life
==References==
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:Art YouTubers
Category:Anime YouTubers
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2012