Bowblax

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> **"Some people don't know the struggle, of being fucking black"**
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**Josh**, better known by his alias **Bowblax**, is a Canadian commentator that primarily focuses on archiving and documenting tweets on his ongoing series called **Twitter VS**. He originally blew up due to Pokimane copystriking his video on her, which garnered the attention of many prominent commentators at the time such as AugieRFC and Turkey Tom, frequently appearing on the former's podcast, RFC After Hours, becoming the show's official co-host, appearing in almost every episode since his appearance, and becoming a big participator in the RFC Community.

## History

### Background

Before being known as Bowblax, he went by the alias **GamingJGuy**, frequently uploading poorly shot gaming videos on his original channel that he created on March 10th 2011, these videos would usually be about Pikmin. After posting his first video, he would start a collaboration channel with one of his first commenters called **LinkMan**, a combination of their two favorite franchises (Zelda and Pikmin). On this channel, the two would make separate videos on the games they were playing up until he decided to quit halfway.

Bowblax would unfortunately lose access to his original account, causing him to make a new channel to which he renamed himself to Bowblax, around this time Bowblax would try to grow his channel more, frequently uploading gaming videos, improving his editing skills, and even livestreaming, although the ladder didn't pan out too well due to the technological drawbacks at the time. He also started up a new collaboration channel with another small let's player at the time by the name of BossLetsPlayer and while the channel eventually failed, they still remained good friends up until they had a falling out in 2014.

Over the years, Bowblax gained a few viewers overtime, skyrocketing by just a bit after uploading a lets play of Pikmin 2 on his channel, although he did get bullied for it due to his autism. During his time as a lets player, he would start doing more and more collaborations with other lets players, with one of those collaborators ending up being one of his best friends, **Kaozbender**. His friendship with Kaozbender and later on, another small gaming channel, **Bobbery18**, would lead them to make frequent collaborations with each other, kickstarting his only successful collaboration channel, **The Trashy Trio**.

### Commentary Years

During this time, Bowblax was a frequent watcher and enjoyer of commentary channels, particularly Keemstar and Leafy, due to Bowblax liking the favoring Keem, his first commentary video was about defending Keemstar and criticizing Leafy's Keemstar Rant, with his main point surrounding people's lack of information surrounding the drama. This eventually lead Bowblax to archive drama content for the future, leading to the creation of his second channel. On this channel, he would create archives for certain controversies, particularly from twitter. This would unintentionally gain him some massive viewership and while not fully deciding to quit gaming completely, he was starting to focus more on commentary.

#### Original Feud with Pokimane

On November 2nd 2018, Bowblax uploaded an archive of a recent debacle Pokimane and Keemstar had on twitter regarding a SSSniperwolf fan. Nine days after the video's upload, it would go viral and gave Bowblax more than enough money to pay for his rent, which he was currently struggling with at that time. Unfortunately, the video would get copystriked by Pokimane, which completely took down the video and locked all the revenue the video would've given Bowblax.

Admist the controversy, Bowblax would gain the support and attention of many small commentators such as AugieRFC and other huge commentators at the time such as Memology 101 and Kavos, Bowblax would also try and experiment with commentating in his videos to avoid anymore copyright controversies. Luckily thanks to the help of other commentators, and fan backlash, the video would get reinstated and Bowblax's viewership would continue to rise.

One of the small commentators that originally covered the Pokimane controversy, AugieRFC, became acquainted with Bowblax after he found his video talking about the situation, quickly becoming friends shortly after. This friendship would continue to blossom as Bowblax decided to hopo on Augie's latest podcast at the time, RFC After Hours, to which he would become a co-host on.

Around the middle of 2019, Bowblax had an e-relationship with another person named Leslie. Eventually during the Slazo controversy Bowblax and Leslie had to research the controversy which eventually led up to Bowblax confronting ImAlexx about the allegations. Ever since then Bowblax and Leslie broke up and ended their e-relationship.

#### Copystriking BLM

Around September of 2020, Bowblax decided to copyright strike multiple reuploads of his BLM song it was later founded out that he had accidentally struck a criticism video including the BLM song. This ended up with Nick confronting Bowblax on a Mario Sunshine stream where he talked about the entire situation, this ended with Bowblax saying "LET ME SPEAK" when Nick was railing him with questions and not letting him speak.

## Quotes

> "No, that's not an apology, there's no apology, THAT'S AN EXPLANATION, **LET ME SPEAK**!" - Bowblax responding to Nick's accusation of him copyright striking a critical video on him.
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> "Let's get into the more juicy stuff, 'cause, yeah you had a heart attack or a panic attack whatever, that sucks man, but like let's move on." - Bowblax showing his apathy towards Raintism's situation.
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> "**STOP SPEAKING**" - Bowblax after getting unfairly framed in Among Us.
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> "SHUT THE FUCK UP, **MUTE THAT MOTHERFUCKER!** Mute That Motherfucker! I'm tired of him interjecting when I'm trying to explain two simple points!" - Bowblax after being interrupted by MrGirl in a live panel.
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## Trivia

* Bowblax has Autism and ADHD, which might explain his fascination with Sonic the Hedgehog.
* He is a member of the channel "The Trashy Trio".
* The name "Bowblax" originates from the combination of Bowser (Bow) and the Emperor Bulblax (Blax) from the Mario and Pikmin franchise respectively.
	+ During 2011, now defunct youtuber, DazzaClarke, was holding a contest for his audience to name his new gaming channel. At the time Bowblax (known as GamingJGuy) decided to send in the name "Bowblax" as a submission. DazzaClarke actually noticed the submission in his announcement video, misinterpreting the "Bow" part of his name as a reference to the Legend of Zelda. Despite not using the name and misinterpreting the pronunciation, Bowblax liked the way it sounded and ended up sticking with it.[1]

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDFSW7-3IKg
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.youtube.com/@TheTrashyTrio
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APdPzkrYc9s
4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=994JxmtXWBU
5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccvuosGmVl0
6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXK8j3-wM20
7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKW2eK0KZnQ