VanossGaming

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About

VanossGaming is the handle of internet personality, music producer, and video game commentator Evan Fong. He is most popular on YouTube, where he has over 22 million subscribers, the 26th highest total of subscribers on YouTube as of January 10th, 2018.

History

Fong was born in Toronto, Canada on May 31st, 1992.^[1] According to Wikipedia, Fong launched his channel on September 15th, 2011. However, the oldest extant video on his channel is dated June 27th, 2012, gaining over 4.7 million views (shown below, left). A typical VanossGaming video features him going through funny moments of popular video games such as Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty. In July of 2013, Fong appeared on camera for the first time as a celebration of getting 1 million subscribers.

In 2014, Fong was nominated at The Game Awards for the Trending Gamer award. In January of 2015, Fong was profiled by CBC^[2] as one of the most popular members of the YouTube Let's Play community. It was estimated that at the time, Fong was making over $300,000 per month. In July of 2015, the game Dead Realm, for which Fong served as creative director, was released on Steam. In November of 2016, Fong starred in the YouTube Red series Paranormal Action Squad alongside other YouTubers Adam Montoya and Scott Robinson.

As a musician, Fong has produced under the name Rynx. He has a dedicated channel for his music work.

Online Presence

Outside of YouTube, Fong also has a large following on Twitter, where he has over 2.88 million followers.^[3] The Vanossgaming subreddit^[4] has over 790 subscribers.