CaptainSparklez

Jordan Maron (CaptainSparklez) is a gameplay commentator on Youtube. His most famous gameplay series being Minecraft. Sparklez also posts gameplay of other games such as Happy Wheels, Left 4 Dead 2, Portal, and rarely Call of Duty, often playing in co-op with some of his friends. CaptainSparklez is famous for his Minecraft parodies where he changes the lyrics of a popular song to fit into the world of Minecraft. These parodies are all sung by TryHardNinja. His channel holds the record for the top 3 most viewed Minecraft videos with his parodies Revenge with over 65 million veiws, "TNT" with over 40 million, "Fallen Kingdom" with over 35 million views and "Minecraft Style" with over 1.5 million views. Jordan ocasionally posts videos with his friends Seananners, Mark, Nick and other Machinima directors.

History of CaptainSparklez.
Jordan's original channel was ProsDontTalkShit. He posted mostly Call of Duty videos and worked for Machinima

On the 23rd of July, 2010 he created his new channel CaptainSparklez and kept with posting CoD gameplay. As Minecraft got mildy popular Jordan posted a few Minecraft videos and soon he completely switched his channel from Call of Duty to Minecraft. His first song parody TNT, posted on the Feb 26th 2011 increased his popularity greatly and earned many new subscribers. Jordan knew this song was a hit and continued to work on more. Later the song Revenge was posted and currently holds the record for the most veiwed Minecraft video with over 65 million views. Minecraft Skyblock Survival soon appeared, gaining up to more than 2 million views. His second most famous series, Happy Wheels soon gained popularity on his channel, advancing him to 800 thousand subsribers. Then came his Minecraft Survival Let's Play, generally appearing to be more popular among his other series. His third parody soon came along giving him the subscriber boost to almost a million. The song affiliated in this video is titled, Fallen Kingdom, after the original song, Viva la Vida, by Coldplay. Following this success, Sparklez accepted the invitation offered by the Machinima team to participate in the Survival Games. His popularity is still continuing to expand as of now and is currently working on more of his gameplay series.

Personal Life
Generally keeping private in regards to his personal life, little is known outside of CaptainSparklez's channel. Appearing to be his intention, additional insights concerning Jordan's personal history are somewhat vague.

On the 30th of May, 2011, an interview with CaptainSparklez was held with a popular Minecraft podcast titled as, The Shaft. During their discussion, Jordan did state that after a short time experiencing being in a gaming industry (from an outside perspective), this led to him switching from chemical engineering to computer science. Explaining that he to balancing college and Youtube commentating is somewhat of a difficulty, Jordan stated that a gaming company, such as Valve, suited him the most.

The discussion leads off to a topic related to CaptainSparklez's channel, his videos, the making of his videos, development maps, etc.

Minecraft
Jordan has played many different Minecraft adventure maps including
 * Gloria - with Mark ( Allshamnowow ) and Nick ( NFen ).
 * Survival games - with all his buddies.
 * Revenge of the gods - Also with Mark and Nick.
 * The emperor of Minopia - With Mark and Nick. Again.
 * Survival let's play
 * It's better together - With Mark only.
 * Mini Hostile Rage Quit Holidays
 * Escape the puzzle master
 * Assassin's Creep
 * Cube Inc.
 * The making of "Deep Space Turtle Chase"
 * The island horror - With Tiff, Mario, Trevor and Adam.
 * Hardcore Parkour - With the people above and Tiff's brother, Anthony.
 * The desert's puzzle
 * Way of the warrior
 * Minecraft updates
 * Minecraft creations, tutorials and mods
 * Redmurk Mystery
 * MES facility
 * Minecraft portal
 * Zombie craft
 * The labyrinth of doommm
 * Songs, speed-art and song tutorials
 * Escapecraft 2 and 3 - With Mark and Nick
 * Escapecraft numero uno
 * Lux perpetua
 * Skyblock, Skyblock reloaded and Skyblock 2.0 ( 2.0 with Mark and Nick )

Minecraft parodies
On the 26th of February, 2011, he released his first song, TNT. Their next song came on the 19th of August, 2011, also being their most famous song at 79th place on the Youtube Top 100 Charts. The song affiliated in this parody is titled, Revenge. On the 1st of April, 2012, Sparklez, again, posted another parody titled, Fallen Kingdom, after a few days of absence without posting any videos. The original song is Viva la Vida, by Coldplay.

="Minecraft Style" - A Parody of PSY's Gangnam Style (Music Video)=

Survival Games
Captainsparklez volunteered as tribute on the 17th of April, 2012 with some of his buddies. When it started, he made a mad dash to the chest he found in the earlier game where the server got haywired. He noticed Luclin about after he got the contents in the chest and killed him. Shortly after, he killed Ihascupquake followed by Chimneyswift on the second day. He encountered his killer, Antvenom, twice in the games. The first encounter was not that much of a battle. He was chasing Sly and ended up getting distracted by dying mooshrooms. He walked up a steep hill and saw Antvenom. Seeing that venom had armour, sparklez backed off and fell down a cliff. His second encounter was much more hectic. He saw Antvenom coming through the forest and jumped off a cliff. Venom then proceeded to shoot sparklez with his bow and arrow. His shot worked and hit sparklez back into a lavafall. By then sparklez's health receeded to 5. Sparklez threw his potion of harming. The first shot worked but the second fell into the water. Venom hit him with a diamond sword and eventually killed him. The second games was worse for sparklez. He immediately got hunted down by team bomb squad, composed of Seamus, Sly, ImmortalHD and syndicate. He lost them but got lost himself. He found a chest with a golden sword and a raw porkchop. hE met a skeleton who shot him off the building. Sparklez re positioned himself to fall back into the building but by then, he had two hearts left. After a long wait on his building, he saw venom chasing down seamus towards his direction. He tried to parkour to a nearby bookshlef but failed, fell and died.

Deep Space Turtle Chase
On 15th october, Captainsparklez released what seemed like months and months of hard work a custom map onto the forums and called it deep space turtle chase. There were traps all over the place and puzzles and awesome stuffs like punishment systems and redstone mania. He did a bit of a play through on his channel too.

He did half of the work by giving ideas and the voxelbox team including ridgedog and deamon from the noxcrew gameshow created them. 9 episodes were shown on his channel about him building some parts of the adventure map especially the art of terraforming.