Tucker Boner

Tucker Boner (born March 16, 1993), also known by his online usernames Jericho or IIJERiiCHOII, is a YouTube Content Creator and Twitch streamer from the United States. He has over 1.26 million subscribers on YouTube and over 1.2 million followers on Twitch as of December 2020. His last name originates from his ancestors hailing from the town of Bonn, Germany. The original German name, meaning "One from Bonn", was anglicized and resulted in the surname Boner.

William Tucker Boner
Personal information
BornWilliam Tucker Boner
(1993-03-16) March 16, 1993
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.[1]
OccupationTwitch streamer and YouTube Content Creator
Twitch information
Also known asJericho, iijeriichoii, Willy Boner, Tuck-Bone, Tucker
Channel
Years active2009-present
GenreGaming
Followers1.19 million
(November 4, 2020)
Total views38 million
(November 4, 2020)

Career

He started creating gaming videos and skits for YouTube during his high school years in 2009. He joined Ustream in 2011 and moved to Justin.tv, then started streaming on Twitch. He graduated from the Friends School of Baltimore in 2011.[2] After failing to get into The University of North Carolina, he enrolled in The University of North Carolina- Wilmington. After realizing that college was preventing him from making content, he decided to drop out and move to Los Angeles with other YouTube content creators (GoldGlove, TmarTn, Syndicate, MuzzaFuzza) known collectively as the Gamershore. He did take classes at a community college in Los Angeles, but eventually did YouTube and Twitch streaming full time.[3]

He is the co-founder of The Race, which was a regular fundraising livestream event, helping the charity program of the Call of Duty Endowment foundation.[4]

He and his fellow streamer Tom Cassell are the creators of the Minecraft online gaming series titled Mianite, started in May 2014.[5] The two friends partnered up with Jordan Maron and Sonja Reid as the four main characters of the show. The series was renewed for a second season in 2015, which was the end of the original run of the series. Cassell continued the series with other YouTuber personalities including Maron under the name Mianiatian Isles in 2020, with Boner declining to return to the project.

Occasionally he participates in esports tournaments for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Player Unknown's Battlegrounds. His top esports achievement was winning the Jack Ryan CS:GO Invitational Tournament in 2018.[6] Boner has competed in other events such as Twitch Rivals, and has also competed in some Counter-Strike: Global Offensive matches as a stand-in for the North American esports team Mythic.

On November 29, 2019, Boner, along with Daniel Goudie of Disciple Records, launched a new record label called "NightMode". The label's first single is "Everything You Need" by Unlike Pluto.[7] The label has gone on to release new singles on a seasonal basis, and has created some collaboration projects, including one project titled "This Is Cyberpunk"[8] intended to be a simultaneous release with the videogame Cyberpunk 2077.

Recognition

In 2018 he was listed on the Forbes's "30 Under 30" list in the gaming category.[9]

References
  1. https://clips.twitch.tv/SwissInspiringBulgogiCoolCat
  2. "Tucker Boner". Linkedin. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  3. "Jericho on life as a Twitch celebrity and why fans rifling through your trash is just a part of the job | Dot Esports". Dot Esports. 2017-06-27. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
  4. "Call of Duty Endowment Announces The Race Charity Stream for Black Ops 4". Twin Galaxies. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
  5. "Mianite". IMDb.
  6. "Jericho - Tucker Boner - CS:GO Player Profile :: Esports Earnings". www.esportsearnings.com. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
  7. Gilmore, Grant (2019-11-30). "New Imprint NIGHT MODE Launches with Unlike Pluto's "Everything You Need"". EDM Identity. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
  8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95AeLXU0HQU
  9. "Tucker Boner". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-10-30.


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