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Arin: Hey, I'm Grump!
Dan: I'm Not-So-Grump!
And we're the Game Grumps!

―Game Grumps' Intro

Game Grumps is an American gaming collaboration channel founded by YouTubers Jonathan Aryan Jafari (born: March 24, 1990 (1990-03-24) [age 33]) (JonTronShow), and Arin Joseph Hanson (born: January 6, 1987 (1987-01-06) [age 37]) (Egoraptor). Jafari would later be replaced by Leigh Daniel "Dan" Avidan (Ninja Sex Party) (born: March 14, 1979 (1979-03-14) [age 45]) as a full-time member since 2013.

The channel primarily produces Let's Play videos or gaming videos. The channel has grown since its creation and now harbors multiple segments, including Game Grumps, Game Grumps VS, Steam Train, Steam Rolled, and Grumpcade.

Segments[]

The Game Grumps channel features a few different shows. Each is different from most Let's Play channels, as there are no face cams and only the game footage is shown on screen.

Game Grumps[]

The original and first show, Arin and Dan (who has replaced Jon in 2013). They play through various games.

Game Grumps VS[]

Arin and Dan play and fight against each other in a multiplayer video game, usually a party, racing, fighting or golf games.

Steam Train[]

GameGrumps Banner

The Grumps' 2014 banner showcasing the Game Grumps and Steam Train segments.

A separate show introduced after Jon left. The show is hosted by Dan and Ross. They play PC games together. Arin, Barry, and Suzy occasionally make appearances on the show.

Grumpcade[]

The show focuses on console games and features any combination of the Grumps playing, with the most so far being a group of four.

Steam Rolled[]

Similar to Game Grumps VS, it's a 4 player versus series, which introduced Barry and Suzy onto the show.

Table Flip[]

Suzy and Barry host a tabletop game-centric show. The guests brought in are mainly those affiliated with the Polaris gaming website and the Game Grumps themselves.

10 Minute Power Hour[]

Arin and Dan interact with various toys and products in a ten-minute (or more) live-action format. It is previously available at the "Game Grumps" channel, but now available at "The Grumps" channel.

Guest Grumps[]

A segment where the Grumps play games with a special guest.

Members[]

The Game Grumps team currently consists of a lot of members.

GameGrumpsHosts

The hosts of the channel in 2013.

Arin Hanson[]

Suzy's husband, known as popular animator Egoraptor, he is one of the original creators of Game Grumps along with Jon. Arin has the title of Grump on the show.

Dan Avidan[]

Jon's replacement and the current Not-So-Grump, and a member of the band Ninja Sex Party as "Danny Sexbang". Danny hosts alongside Arin, and with Ross on Steam Train, another show on the channel. He also has a strong love for Skittles.

Christmas Grumps

The entire Game Grumps crew at Christmas in 2015.

Ross O'Donovan[]

Known for his animator name RubberRoss, he joined around the time Danny did to host Steam Train, and also on Steam Rolled. He is originally from Australia but has lived most of his life in America. He is the group butt monkey and is constantly picked on by other members, in jest. "Goddammit Ross" is usually uttered by the others whenever Ross says or does something stupid during a playthrough. He was married to Holly (WeCrowingHens) from 2012 to 2018.

Suzy Berhow[]

Arin's wife, She runs her own YouTube channel called Mortem3r, which focuses on her personal vlogs and makeup tutorials. During the Jon Era of Game Grumps, Jon referred to her as Suzy the Goose. She made her first physical appearance during the 75th episode of their Sonic 06 playthrough and was first heard during their 4th episode of Chulip. Later, she made her Game Grumps debut in the Rayman Legends: Kung Foot Steam Rolled and has appeared several times since. She also co-hosted Table Flip with Barry.

Brian Wecht[]

One of the editors and writers of the Grumps, he has recently become a larger member. He is also known as "Ninja Brian" and is a partner to Danny in NinjaSexParty. He was introduced to be a host of the show in the Grumpcade episode "Burger Time" on November 5, 2015.

Vernon Shaw[]

Vernon used to work at Maker Studios, working on various projects. It was here that he met the Game Grumps. Vernon was first revealed to be a member of Game Grumps on in a tweet late in January 2016. Vernon soon appeared on the Undertale live stream, "Final Showdown", hosting alongside Ross, Barry, and Brian, and later on KittyKatGaming with Suzy in a Slime Rancher playthrough.

Jory Barnes[]

Jory is a member of the Game Grumps office and a developer on the Dream Daddy team. He has appeared on multiple streams and podcasts but his first time physically being shown was on the 10 Minute Power Hour episode "WHO DONE IT?!" where he was the one who took the dinosaurs they were looking for, and also in the episode "Dare Jenga."

Allie Burton[]

Allie is the social media manager of the grumps. She appears on some streams along with Hanna.

Ben Perry[]

Ben (born August 11, 1993 (1993-08-11) [age 30]) is the current editor for Game Grumps. He replaced Matt Watson and Ryan in May 2019 when they left to focus on SuperMega.

Brent Lilley[]

Brent is the manager of both the Grumps and NinjaSexParty. He has a large phillange. His duties are basically keeping the Grumps on track and organized, as, without management, the Grumps are known to get distracted.

Hanna Leiber[]

Hanna manages the streams and checks the chat.

Ike Mancini[]

Ike is an intern for the Grumps from Texas. He was introduced in the part 6 stream for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.

Jack Walsh[]

Jack is an Irish film-maker working for the Game Grumps as an intern. Not to be confused with jacksepticeye, as Ross was before meeting him for the first time.

Former Members[]

Jon Jafari[]

Known as video game reviewer JonTron, he is one of the original creators of Game Grumps as the original Not-So-Grump along with Arin. He hosted the channel with him for around a year; the last Game Grumps episode to star Jon was Super Star Wars: Attack of the Back – Part 5 – Game Grumps, before he was replaced by Danny on June 25, 2013. He stated that while he did have a good time working with Arin, his schedule left him far too busy to keep up with JonTron and GameGrumps content at the same time, so he left GameGrumps entirely to put all of his focus onto the JonTron channel.

Barry Kramer[]

Barry was the editor of the Game Grumps videos starting in September 2012 to allow Jon and Arin to focus more on the gameplay aspect of the show. Barry's role as a silent one until the Battletoads episode when Jon and Arin acknowledged him. Since then, Barry has been regularly asked by Jon, Arin, and Danny to crop in pictures during their recordings or respond to something they're saying. Barry usually "spoke" through yellow text whenever he was acknowledged during the show. He made his Game Grumps debut in the very first Steam Rolled episode, Quake III Arena. Barry was no longer the editor of Game Grumps from November 2014 but became a regular cast member of the show. He also co-hosted Table Flip with Suzy.

In December 2017, Barry had left the channel to pursue his own work.[1]

Kevin Abernathy[]

Kevin was one of two (now three) editors of Game Grumps and Steam Train. He was announced on November 21, 2014, in the episode "Domino Rally."

In Summer 2016, Kevin left Game Grumps to pursue his interest in trailer editing.

Matt Watson[]

Matt is a YouTube game commentator, online sketch producer, American Let's Player, and editor. He is the co-host of YouTube gaming channel, SuperMega, and the sketch comedy channel, Kids w/ Problems, alongside Ryan Magee.

He and Ryan were the editors for the Game Grumps and KittyKatGaming channels.

Ryan Magee[]

Ryan is a YouTube game commentator, online sketch producer, and co-founder as well as a former member of the sketch comedy duo Cyndago. Ryan is also the co-host of the gaming channel, SuperMega, alongside Matt Watson, who operated KidsWithProblems, a sketch comedy channel on YouTube. He and Matt were the editors for the Grumps and KittyKatGaming channels.

Graham Nicastro[]

Graham (also known as TeddyGramEsq) was the lawyer, business developer and tabletop strategist for the Grumps. Graham did the legal work while Brent does the actual managing. He worked for them from November 2013 to October 2014.

Holly Conrad[]

Holly is an artist and cosplayer. She was married to Ross from 2012 to 2018.

Controversies[]

Leadfoot Doxxing Incident[]

During one of the Knuckles stages in Sonic Adventure, the Grumps decided to use a guide to help them find the pieces of the master emerald. The author, however didn't seem to know that the pieces spawned randomly, which made the Grumps unhappy with the guide. Dan eventually said the person's actual full name out loud and even commented saying "if he gets a wave of hate from our fans, won't he be surprised". This allowed the fans to doxx the person. The episode was later reuploaded with the name bleeped out, and Dan apologized. Leadfoot himself later commented and said that things were fine.

OneyPlays/Dream Daddy Drama[]

Chris, aka OneyNG, host of OneyPlays, was a friend of Arin's since his Newgrounds days and even lived with him for several months at one time. While no one knows exactly what happened, the two seem to be on not the greatest terms. But the main point of drama comes from Chris's previous co-hosts Ding Dong and Julian.

In a stream Ding Dong and Julian expressed their opinion of Game Grumps, then upcoming game, Dream Daddy, which advertised itself as a gay dad dating simulator. Ding Dong and Julian are gay themselves and their opinion, in short, was, they don't like it and it feels like pandering, but if it helps someone accept who they are, so be it. Because of their internet personality status, their negative review of the game mattered a bit more others and people took notice. Brian, from Dan's band Ninja Sex Party, and Suzy, Arin's wife, immediately went on damage control saying that the game is not a cash grab, and that Ding Dong and Julian had nothing to do with beta testing/work on the game. Ding Dong later provided screenshots proving that they did in fact play a beta build of the game.

Ding Dong would later explain the fallout out from the drama. He was doxed by Game Grumps fans when his phone number was leaked and people contacted his family, outing him as gay, which was especially bad as he had not come out yet. Ding Dong also implied that he would have done "something drastic" had Julian not been there for him. Ding Dong said that a lot of people complained about the development process and couldn't say anything due to fear of being fired, and that is why he was encouraged to speak up about it, but when push came to shove, those people backpedaled.

Ding Dong has since asked to be left alone about this incident and has deleted most of the links provided, but you can still find them if you look hard enough. I have left everything as is for posterity's sake and to give the complete story, so people will leave him alone and so he doesn't have to keep explaining himself, however if requested, I will remove this part no questions asked.

Garage Sale[]

The Grumps decided to do a Garage Sale to sell off some of their stuff when they moved into a new office. They only expected 100 people to show up, which caused problems as more than 100 showed up, and a lot of them had to wait outside in the California sun. They eventually had to send someone to hand out water and sunscreen. After a few hours the police shut down the event due to health concerns. A lot of fans were upset because they had traveled across the country to meet the Grumps. One game a fan sent to the Grumps with a note inside was sold [2] (which the fan was cool with), as well as, reportedly, RWBY figures that the deceased Monty Oum gave to Arin.[3]

Suzy's Etsy Scam[]

Suzy was caught buying several items from other vendors and then reselling them at an over 2000% mark up. (Product 1: Vendor $2.99, Suzy $80. Product 2: Vendor $6.99 for two, Suzy $80) Suzy originally denied these claims at first, but as more information surfaced, she eventually apologized.

The situation ended when Arin had to step in and make a comment saying to stop all talk of this, as she apologized, that people were fabricating evidence, that art is subjective and fluctuates in cost, and that Suzy came to him crying asking "should I just stop being on Game Grumps". Any future talk about this subject would then be removed from the Game Grumps subreddit.

NotSoGrumpGate[]

After one of Dan's Ex-friends released a play about the Me Too movement, someone noticed similarities between a character in the play and Dan. Since then, several women have come forward, one several months prior, each with screenshots, saying that Dan gave them the old ejaculate and evacuate. Aka, he had sex with them and then ghosted them.

Update: A Dan fan blog has come forward stating that Dan did indeed sleep with fans. In there own words "He was doing this from late 2013 to 2017 and maybe even beyond that. Exclusively to fans. And exclusively to younger women. Women that were at least fifteen years younger than him, if not more." and in regards to the claims in the Dan accusation masterpost, "These stories are exactly the same ones I have personally verified. " In one of the posts, they provided a selfie of Dan and an edited out picture of his contact information as proof.

Another person has come forward and privately shown proof to the mods as well as myself (the deal was that we would not be sharing what we saw and I intend to honor that agreement) and it was the best proof shown so far. The person was 17 when they started talking in 2013 and they met up when she was 21 in 2017. They continued to sext until 2018 which overlaps with Dan's current girlfriend who he publicly announced in January 2019.

That same day, I was messaged by another person who privately provided proof as well in the form of pictures of them together and screenshots of Dan offering to pay for her plane ticket and picking her up from the airport, as well as another who claimed that not only do Arin, Brian, TWRP and Planet Booty all know about Dan's behaviour, but they have special rules for him to not being girls back to the tour bus or backstage anymore.

Video evidence was provided by a girl along with an accompanying screenshot proving that their conversations were indeed sexual. Her story matches the others that came forward and to prove that contact was established before the age of 18, she provided some messages to Dan as well as a happy 18th birthday message that was wished to her by someone else at a later date. Despite contact being established before the age of 18, the girl denies any Dan grooming or pedophilia allegations.

Ben[]

Ben is an editor for Game Grumps and since day one the response to him has been mixed at best, with many people finding his edits annoying, intrusive, and in one case, gave someone a seizure. But what puts Ben on this list is what people found on his personal twitter.

Ben asked a current 17 year old for nudes and claimed that he got "that plus more". He has also been tweeting oddly sexual things at this person and even got his account locked at one time. When people dug a bit further, they found out that Ben has been constantly doing this for years and even took a picture with them when they were 14. Ben deleted the tweets when people took notice and any comments about the incident on Game Grumps videos were deleted. Eventually Ben gave a sarcastic apology, hid any negative tweets and blocked people, before finally deleting the apology.

After almost two months of people asking Arin to make a statement about Ben and him blocking people on Twitter who ask about it, as well as banning people or mumbling and skipping the question for people who ask about it on his streams, Arin finally made a statement, stating that the silence was because Ben lost a family member and that he wanted to give him time to grieve. Arin told Ben that his behavior was not appropriate as long as he works at Game Grumps, and he is still editing for them.

When someone asked about the video that gave a fan a seizure thanks to Ben's edits, Arin stated that he did not know about it, despite emails being sent, and a disclaimer added to the description a few days later. The video was taken down, and Arin has deleted the tweet saying that he did not know.

Ben previous had privately contacted someone on Twitter and after Arin's statement, issued another apology where he explained that his actions were wrong, that he understood that now, and that his twitter was originally the voice of his character in Buckwheat Groats who is known for posting edgy humor.

Ben has stated multiple times that the tweets he made were "old" and that people took things out of context months later. While several tweets are indeed months old, the Reddit post was created on May 17th and Ben's last tweet was on May 8th, a difference of nine days.

A few days after Game Grumps deleted a some videos that included jokes about sexualizing children including the fan favourite Sad Hoshi in Journey to Silius, and a therapist hypnotizing and having sex with a little girl in Disney Princess (Something that Arin knew about). However, people were quick to point out that Arin and Dan had made plenty of sexual jokes about children over the years including Misty (10) from Pokemon, and Medli and Zelda (both around 14) in the The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker and many many more.

Black Lives Matter Comments[]

Coming only a few days after this post was made, Arin tweeted out asking if he should make a statement about BLM on the Game Grumps Twitter. This got him some backlash and he made a follow up statement that he regrets asking. The next day Game Grumps released a statement supporting BLM and apologizing for Game Grumps' past racism. Suzy quickly followed, but people were quick to point out that Arin apologized years ago while she only apologized because she was afraid of the backlash. In her own words, "I didn't apologize sooner because I was scared of the pain I would get by bringing attention to it" She also addressed one of her leaked tweets from last year, which also got backlash saying that she wouldn't have said anything if no one brought it up and saying that she made it about her when she said "I don't appreciate the shaming".

Despite being on this list, there is nothing wrong with publicly supporting the things that you believe in, and apologizing for past mistakes, something that a lot of the things on this list have been missing. The real controversy comes after.

After stating they would never do this, and if they did people wanting them to go the Warner Bros route, Game Grumps started deleting videos deemed "problematic".

The videos deleted resulting in a loss of ~40 million views which included all of A Link to the Past (both Jon and Dan playthroughs, the latter of which had Arin's Subway Rant, a fan favourite), Pokemon Emerald Part 13, Banjo-Kazooie Parts 11 and 19, Animal Crossing City Folk Part 2, Sonic 06 Part 36, and all of Bayonetta. Other video titles were also changed to remove swearing. However, people were quick to point out that the videos deleted focused on Black and no other races, completely ignoring entire years of everything from accents, stereotypes, animations, to entire bits. Arin has even said several times that returning to Endless Ocean and Dog Island is unlikely because "some of the character voices haven't aged well."

While some people claimed that this was for the best as it shows how much Game Grumps has changed, others claimed that it was Game Grumps trying to hide its past and to bend over backwards to try not to offend anyone.

Despite which side you fall on, they did not do a good job removing the problematic videos. In fact, the only videos/series that were deleted were the ones included in the Game Grumps N-word Compilation, so they missed a lot of videos including the ones already mentioned on this list as well as but not limited to, Arin not wanting to edit out the N-Word in a Mario Maker comment, Dan making illegal immigrant jokes in Man of Medan (Twice), whatever Barry edited out in Wheel of Fortune, Dan saying "Because he's Black" in Shovel Knight, Arin dropping the N-Word in Awesome the Hedgehog, Dan saying the N-word (Bonus: Dan saying the F-word), and many many more.


Subscriber milestones[]

Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.


  • 1 million subscribers: June 11, 2013
  • 2 million subscribers: January 11, 2015
  • 3 million subscribers: February 1, 2016
  • 4 million subscribers: August 6, 2017
  • 5 million subscribers: February 17, 2019

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