TheUnfunnyGamer

## Summary

"TheUnfunnyGamer" was the original title of the Void Eon YouTube channel when John first manifested it during October 3rd 2016. A name quite innocent and childlike in comparison to the eccentrically ominous and slightly edgy name of Void Eon. This name was used characteristically in the first two Void Eon reviews as John tells terrible puns and generally incites an aura of unfunny-ness in regards to the name. It wasn't changed until the beginning of 2018 which John purposefully waited for in light of a brand new era, this was documented in 2017 when John expresses he's going change the name during the commentary of The Void is Away.

## Nickname Implication: "TUG"

If you take every capital letter from TheUnfunnyGamer what do you get? TUG. You get TUG. In 2017 John began labelling himself as this "TUG" alias to his friends and acquaintances at his school to the point where people began the habit of calling him TUG, even people who didn't watch his videos. Even after the name-change after all of these years people still call him TUG to this day.

### Allen variant: "WUG"

A guy named Allen has coined "WUG", which replaces the "T" for "The" with a "W" for "Wog". The Australian definition of "wog" can be defined as a foreigner or immigrant from southern Europe. This applies to John as he is an Australian citizen of Greek decent.

## Origin

"It's hard for me to recall just how "TheUnfunnyGamer" came about. It took me about a week to come up with Void Eon but it must've taken me around ten conscious seconds to come up with TUG. What I think I remember is that PeanutButterGamer was an inspiration, besides the obvious "Gamer" inclusion was the fact that these three words were mashed together and that the acronym of PBG was a cool enough concept for me to imitate. I'm pretty sure I must've gotten the idea of being unfunny rather quickly because I remember thinking of acronyms involving "unfunny" in the blink of an eye. I originally thought about something along the lines of "UFG" which would've been for "UnFunnyGamer", reminiscent of Unidentified Flying Objects. And then I suppose I just came up with TheUnfunnyGamer. And that was pretty much the whole thought-process behind that." - John (20/4/2020)

## Name-Change Controversy

The main reason John wanted to change the name was because "Void Eon" suited the more surrealistic approach John was going for during 2017. John's friend Josh was the most outraged and once went around to every student he could find before the name-change happened and asked them which name they thought was better. He also argued his opinions with a post on Reddit. On the 25th of June 2018 Josh further addressed his thoughts in the Void Eon Discord server: "I just mentioned your YouTube channel to my Mum and even she agrees to change it back to TheUnfunnyGamer."

During the 20th of April 2020 John contacted Josh to ask for his opinions at this point in time and his response was...

> "bruh
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> i was playing
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> but
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> TUG is actually cool
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> Void Eon is edgy"
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> - Josh
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## Trivia

* Besides the "TheUnfunnyGamer Video Game Review" the only time the name "TheUnfunnyGamer" is ever mentioned on the Void Eon channel was during the Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex review in which John makes a pun combining the words "bandicoot" and "cute". He then goes on to lament how bad his pun was and states "I might as well call myself "TheUnfunnyGamer"".