What is Wong famous for? Biography
Freddie Wong is an internet sensation from the United States who works as a podcaster, competitive gamer, filmmaker, and visual effects artist. Wong has contributed to at least three YouTube channels: BrandonJLa, which has over 1.1 million subscribers and features behind-the-scenes videos and other content; Node, which is a gaming channel with over 3.2 million subscribers; and RocketJump, the main channel of his production company, which has over 9 million subscribers.
How old is Wong? Age
The actor is 38 years old as of 13 September 2023. He was born in 1985 in Seattle, Washington, United States.
Wong Family – Education
Jimmy Wong, an actor and YouTuber who co-starred in Video Game High School, is Wong’s older brother. His mother is of Chinese and Mongol descent, and his father is Chinese, having moved to Canton. Stunt choreographer and film director Corey Yuen is his uncle. 2004 saw him graduate from Lakeside School and then the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. In college, Wong met Brandon Laatsch, who would later become his collaborator.
Wong Podcast
Wong co-hosted the Maximum Fun network podcast Story Break from April 2017 until October 2021. The show’s description on the RocketJump website reads, “[Co-hosts] Will Campos, Matt Arnold, and Freddie Wong sit[ting] down in the RocketJump writer’s room and attempt[ing] to ‘break’ a story for a ridiculous concept, property, or idea that [they] in NO way have any rights to.” The hosts decided to end the podcast in 2021 in order to give themselves more time to work on other projects and because they were creatively content with the show.
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Along with Will Campos, Anthony Burch, Matt Arnold, and Beth May, Wong has been a contributing member of the Dungeons & Dragons actual play podcast, Dungeons & Daddies, since January 2019. In the podcast, four Earthly fathers are sent to the Forgotten Realms, an official Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition setting, where they go on a mission to find their missing sons. Along with being one of the four players, Wong edits the show. Burch plays the role of the Dungeon Master.
Wong RocketJump
In 2011, Wong founded RocketJump, a production firm, alongside partners Matt Arnold and Desmond “Dez” Dolly. They started developing the web series Video Game High School, which debuted on May 11, 2012, and amassed over 100 million views on several websites. Will Campos and Chris Pappavaselio’s concept served as the basis for the television show. Through Kickstarter, the crew was able to raise money for the series, setting a 30-day goal of raising $75,000 in financing. In less than a day, that sum was swiftly pledged, and it only went up from there. Pledges ended on October 22, 2011, with $573,725 raised for the project from 5,661 backers.
The show ran for three seasons, with a crowd-funded budget of more than $2.4 million for the last one. On November 17, 2014, the series’ last episode was made available on YouTube and the RocketJump website.
Wong’s channels, freddiew and freddiew2, were renamed to “Rocketjump” and “BrandonJLa” respectively around the end of 2013. Additionally, Brandon Laatsch declared that he and Wong would no longer collaborate on projects, and that any brief movies, or “shorts,” would be uploaded to BrandonJLa or NODE, the gaming channel that Laatsch and Niko Pueringer and Sam Gorski of Corridor Digital control.This was done because Brandon started working on a VR engine and game called Boneworks, and Wong was too busy with Video Game High School to work on both projects simultaneously.
Wong declared in 2017 that RocketJump would be shifting its focus from regular shorts to new endeavors. Following the release of Anime Crimes Division’s second season in 2018, RocketJump completely ceased uploading videos.
Wong YouTube – Career
In 2006, Wong started a YouTube account and shared gameplay videos to a large following. In July 2007, she participated in the World Series of Video Games in Dallas. In the Guitar Hero 2 competition, he performed a cover of Freezepop’s “Less Talk More Rokk” and took first place. About this time, he started posting videos to YouTube and gained notoriety for his humorous or video game-related content.
Freddie made an appearance as a guest on Total Request Live in November 2007 during MTV’s “Gamer’s Week” event. As part of a nationwide quest to identify the finest Rock Band ensemble, Wong took part in the program with his recently established band Hellanor Brozevelt. Following her training under renowned rock group Good Charlotte, Brozevelt took the stage against Chicago’s Carrie Me Home at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York.
In 2010, Wong aided Wong Fu Productions with the action scenes of Agents of Secret Stuff and Joe Penna, also known on YouTube as MysteryGuitarMan, on a McDonald’s commercial. At Electronic Arts’ request, Wong co-directed, produced, and performed in a Battlefield 3 TV commercial in 2011.