Gatorbox

Gatorbox is a variety show that has been broadcasting weekly since December 2012 whose content is mirrored on YouTube through periodic uploads. Since its inception the show has predominately been hosted by André "Dracokon" Kon (pictured in the infobox) who also serves as Gatorbox's executive producer. The show launched on the platform Livestream in 2012 before migrating to Twitch in 2013. They are best known for their series Your Level Sucks and What's Yiffin'? as well as their annual charity marathons for Extra Life.

The show is broadcast live on Twitch every Friday night at 9:00 PM (US Central time).

Personal Life
Kon was born on April 13, 1988 in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is a graduate of the Corpus Christi branch of Texas A&M University. He began writing comedy in 1995 and segued into fantasy stories around 2001. In the late 00's Kon rose to prominence as a popular niche author within the furry fandom. At his height of notability he was an occasional guest/performer at conventions and between 2008-2016 Kon was the community administrator of the popular furry art aggregate website Herpy.

He uploads personal and found-footage content on his alternate channel, TheRealDracokon.

Channel Format
The main Gatorbox show that runs every Friday night has followed the same overall pattern since its debut. The stream lasts approximately three hours and starts with an opening segment. Normally this is an installment of the series GatorUNbox, however the opening segment of the first broadcast of every month is reserved for one of Gatorbox's side series. From 2015-2017 the featured series was What's Yiffin'?, though starting in 2018 it has been replaced with Fanfiction Factory.

Following the opening segment, the stream transitions to a hosting/chatting segment dubbed "Talking Time" (after the NES game Clash at Demonhead) where Kon introduces the game featured in the broadcast and gameplay begins. This portion of the stream continues until approximately midnight after which there is a sign-off, credits, and viewers are redirected to the official Bob Ross channel.

Your Level Sucks
Following the release of Super Mario Maker for the Wii U, Kon quickly became displeased with the amount of low quality levels submitted by other players. Two days after the game's release Kon taped a pilot episode of a series called Your Level Sucks where he simply played through the game's "Easy" mode and sardonically critiqued on the creators' lack of skill. The video was uploaded on September 13, 2015 and quickly became the channel's most successful video and spawned a full series that lasted nearly two dozen installments. Production of Your Level Sucks was abruptly ended following Hurricane Harvey in 2017, however a "finale" episode is in the works to give the show a proper ending.

What's Yiffin'?
Billed as "the furry news show no one asked for", What's Yiffin'? is a furry-focused news satire program loosely in the style of The Daily Show. Written by Kon and Rob "Roastmaster" Maestro, the series was monthly in release and each episode covered four of the "top stories" in the furry fandom from the previous month. (Earlier episodes of the show sometimes featured less than four stories, and later episodes featured three stories from the furry fandom and one story from the brony fandom.) What's Yiffin'? debuted in September 2015 and ran until August 2017. The show's cancellation was mutually agreed upon by its creators citing how the increasing politicization of the furry fandom was making it difficult to find non-partisan stories to cover.

At the height of its popularity, What's Yiffin'? was syndicated through furry news outlet Dogpatch Press and was eligible for nomination for an Ursa Major Award.

Extra Life
Every year since 2013 Gatorbox has broadcast a 24 hour marathon stream to raise money for the charity Extra Life which benefits children's hospitals across the United States. To date, the channel has raised over $1,000 in donations which Kon has matched through additional donations of toys and stuffed animals. Gatorbox's Extra Life marathons take their inspiration from shows such as Awesome Games Done Quick and as such the charity stream features speedruns and completion runs of various games.

Hurricane Harvey
On August 25, 2017 Hurricane Harvey intensified to a category 4 storm and made landfall in Rockport, Texas, the town where Gatorbox has been filmed since 2016. The studio building where Gatorbox was hosted from sustained severe damage and as a result was condemned by the City of Rockport and most of it was torn down. Several days later a video was posted to the Gatorbox YouTube channel titled "The End of Gatorbox" which featured Kon standing in what was left of the studio. In the video Kon expressed his sadness over what had happened, but still wanted to thank his viewers and fans for so many great years and give them closure on the project as well as to let them know he was okay. To bookend the "end" of the show, Kon crumpled up a "COLA" can (a popular in-joke on the show) and tossed it into a nearby trash trailer before walking out of frame.

Gatorbox remained offline for nearly one year until May 27, 2018 when the channel's first video in nine months was uploaded. Titled "Gatorbox Returns", the video opened with a static shot of the Gatorbox set, pre-Harvey. Sitting on the show's iconic red couch was a large Spyro the Dragon plush and after several seconds of silence, a door is heard opening and shutting followed by Kon walking into the shot, moving the Spyro plush, and sitting down to deliver the announcement that the show would be returning to Twitch on June 1, 2018. Since then, Gatorbox has resumed its usual broadcast schedule of Friday nights without interruption.