JStu team

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The **JStu team** is the team behind JStu and JStuStudios. The team was founded by Justin Stuart and Andrew Scites in 2010, and since then, the team has expanded to include approximately 14 members as of June 24, 2023. The known members as of February 16, 2023, are Stuart, Scites, Rick Douglas, Samuel Buescher, Drew Bauer, Matt Alvarado, Caresse Hassoldt, Isaac Quazzo, Ana Brueggemann, Jackson Craft, Reese Banke, Alex Niforatos, Blake Dreisbach, and Dustin Cooper, of which the latter is a part-time employee.

## Team info

### Current

Matt Alvarado – Alvarado was the second editor to join the team. Alvarado does the final cut after Drew Bauer sends in the rough cut. Also rarely mentioned in videos, he was publicly announced as an editor in an Instagram post on the official JStuStudios Instagram page.

Reese Banke – Banke was introduced to the team in early 2023 as an assisstant to Samuel Buescher and Jackson Craft.

Drew Bauer – Bauer was the third editor to be on the team. He was first mentioned in a JStuStudios video, where they were talking about hiring him. In the bio of his JStu Instagram profile, it states that he is an "Assistant Editor and Camera Operator".

Ana Brueggemann – Ana is a new team member announced in episode 33 of the Laugh Daily Podcast. Andrew Scites stated that she was a production coordinator. She also works as an assisstant editor.

Samuel Buescher – Buescher is the head of productions at JStu. He is sometimes referred to as "Send it Samuel" or "The Ultimate Constructioneer".

Dustin Cooper – Dustin Cooper is the only part-time employee of JStu, and also the only employee who doesn't live in Colorado, as he resides in Toledo, Ohio. He is the thumbnail artists for all of JStu's videos, and has been doing so since April 2022.

Jackson Craft – Jackson was introduced to the team as Samuel Buescher's assistant, announced in Laugh Daily Podcast episode 37.

Rick Douglas – Rick Douglas was the first editor to be on the team, joining somewhere in mid-2019. Before Rick joined the team was trying out different editors, and then they heard about Douglas through another YouTuber and were impressed by his skills. They then hired him after back-and-forth emails. He then stepped down from being JStu editor somewhere in the summer of 2021 as he was promoted to head editor. He is currently still a head editor and is now quality control.

Blake Dreisbach – Dreisbach is a close associate of the JStu team. Originally a character who would occasionally appear in JStu videos, he stopped appearing in 2020 and officially joined the team in 2021. He would then leave the team in 2022, when it was announced in episode 33 of the Laugh Daily Podcast. In March 2023, he appeared in a JStuStudios video where they built a desk for him to work at, hinting a comeback. He was officially announced to be back on the team in the JStu video Overnight INSIDE the World’s Largest Donut.

Caresse Hassoldt – Caresse Hassoldt is a production coordinator. She hasn't been mentioned much, however she has been making more appearances.

Alex Niforatos – Niforatos joined the team in April 2023 as a video editor.

Isaac Quazzo – Isaac Quazzo is a new team member announced in episode 33 of the Laugh Daily Podcast. When introduced, it was announced that he would be a cameraman and would be the new channel manager for JStuMusic, and would be uploading new music every week.

Andrew Scites – Andrew was the second person to join the team, teaming up with Stuart to do pranks. Scites was originally a cameraman, credited in videos as RevelationsPro.

Justin Stuart – Justin was the first person on the team, and was originally the only main person on the team before Andrew Scites joined.

### Former

    Caleb Cauthren – Caleb Cauthren is a member of the JStu team. He was apart of the team for several years until 2020, when he left the team to get a job at Delaware. He moved out of Delaware and lived in North Carolina for about 5 months for a job opportunity, possibly for MrBeast. He then moved out of North Carolina and back to Colorado. Since moving back to Colorado, he joined the JStu team again and has now been in every video since. He then left JStu for a 2nd time to move back to the East Coast.

Matthew Doyon – Doyon was a former editor for the JStuStudios channel. It is presumed he stopped editing for the channel to go work on his own channel, which ended up getting over 1 million subscribers due to a shoutout from MrBeast. He has however made several appeances in videos since leaving.

Hyper Fenton – Seth Jacob Fenton was added to the team due to Caleb Cauthren leaving the team to go move to Delaware. He then announced on November 26, 2021 that he would be leaving the team on November 30, 2021, citing that he got a job at the church he worked at before moving up to Colorado, Meadows Baptist Church. He also said that if he were to start a family with Kelly Fenton and have kids, he would want them to be closer to family.

Tyler Hunt – Tyler Hunt was an editor for the **JStu team** for around a month. It is unknown which channel he edited for.

#### Unnamed

There were former editors for the JStu and JStuStudios channels, which have been left unnamed.

Before hiring Rick, they were testing out different editors, and had one for a while. However, as stated in a Laugh Daily Podcast episode, there "wasn't something clicking right."

While they were in contact with Rick, they had another editor in mind which JStu reached out to them. When they sent it back though, Andrew Scites said it was more like a rough edit rather than a full video.

## References

1. ↑ @jstustudios (July 3, 2021). "MEET THE TEAM - @mattalv90 | Editor" – via Instagram.
2. ↑ @drewfromjstu. Instagram. Retrieved on August 19, 2022.
3. ↑ @calebcauthren (May 23, 2021). "Life update for those that don’t know - I live in North Carolina now 🥸" – via Instagram.
4. ↑ We Love Christian Music Awards - Nominees. Archived from the original on December 11, 2021. Retrieved on December 5, 2021.