George Ioannou (Greek: Γιώργος Ιωάννου; born: December 3, 1984),[citation needed] better known online as 2J (formerly known as firekreve2j), is a Cypriot-Italian YouTuber who was born in London.[citation needed] He is focused on comedy.
Channels[]
2J has 2 channels, one focused on gaming videos (2J Games), and one focused on skits and other videos. Most of his videos are in Greek.
Personal and early life[]
2J's mother is from Italy, and his father is from Cyprus.[citation needed] Because he was born in London and could not speak Greek that well, he was bullied in school.[citation needed]
2J always loved music and at the age of 12 he started to work as a DJ.[citation needed] When he was 16, he decided to make a song about his school and to respond to those bullies. The song's name was "Y' all from Paralimni".[citation needed]
Two days later he arrived at school with a bag full of CDs with his song and gave them to everyone in class.[citation needed] He later made a second song called "Back To School", this time the song was insulting the principal.[citation needed]
After that the principal sued him, so the police arrested 2J.[citation needed] But fortunately for 2J he was found innocent.
He later got inspired by other YouTubers (and in addiction after his Playstation burned out from overuse) and made his own channel. After uploading a few small random videos and some songs he made, he finally uploaded the video which launched his career: The Comments Song.
History[]
After the first Comments Song, 2J started uploading many different types of videos, like parody videos (Greek: Οι Παρωδίες), Q&As and "Lazy Vlogs". He also started the series "General Conversation" (Greek: Γενική Συζήτηση), which he discussed serious topics, with barely any jokes on these videos, not to destroy the goal of the series.
On January 30, 2013, he uploaded the first episode of his character Vlakas (Greek: Βλάκας), which marks his first appearance on the channel. On November 15, 2013, 1J made his first appearance through the video "Ίσως Εμπνευστείτε (Μεγάλη Αλλαγή) | 2J".
On September 21, 2013, 2J uploaded the first episode of "Video Reactions" (Greek: Βίντεο Αντιδράσεις), in which he was reacting to weird videos online.
On October 13, 2013, 2J uploaded the first episode of "The Foreign Phone Call" (Greek: Το Ξένο Τηλεφώνημα), in which 2J is supposed to interact with actors from random movies.
On December 30, 2013, 2J became the #1 most subsscribed channel on Cyprus, with only 47,000 subscibers.
On January 5, 2015, he uploaded the first episode of "Fan Mail", in which he was opening on camera gifts and stuff he was receiving from fans.
On October 9, 2015, he announced a new concept called "You Tell Me" (Greek: Πείτε Μου Εσείς, ΠΜΕ), in which 2J is asking his fans a question and they have to write in comments funny and creative answers. Then, 2J reads all of them and chooses the best ones. These videos are his most interactive videos he has with his viewers. As he states in the announcement, this idea was taken by jacksfilms' series "Yesterday, I Asked You". The first episode was uploaded 3 days later, on October 12.
On June 23, 2015, 2J uploaded the video "The Meeting! | 2J" (Greek: Η Σύσκεψη!), with himself interacting with the other characters of the channel, 3J, 1J and Βλάκας about the channel's status. At the end of the second episode of the series, 2J is seen talking to 3 empty chairs, with the general goal to let go of the characters and continue without them. The fans reacted negatively to this change and 2J decided to keep the characters on the channel and made it official on the third and last episode of the series.
On August 25, 2018, 2J managed to reach 1,000,000 subscribers on the main channel. In respond to this, 2J announced he will make the long-awaited "The Comments Song 7". At a later date, 2J stated that this video will be at the end of is Youtube career (referencing how the first Comments Song is the start of his Youtube journey).
On November 30, 2018, he started uploading a new series called "The Show Without Name" (Greek: Το Σόου Χωρίς Όνομα), in which he was mentioning random and funny news that happened in the month that passed. These videos were uploaded almost always at the end of each month. On December 5, 2019, the 10th episode was uploaded, in which 2J mentions there is no point to announce news that most know already for weeks and decided to stop the series, leaving the possibility of making more episodes in future open. 2 years later, one more addiction to the series was uploaded.
Since mid-March of 2024, 2J is the second most subsscribed channel in Greece with 1,43 million subscribers, surpassed by Manos.
Trivia[]
- He is the first greek YouTuber to reach 1 million subscribers.
- 2J was the #2 most subsscribed channel on Cyprus before December 30, 2013, due to a channel called "HaidyHotSexy", which was uploading Arabic-styled videos and had set Cyprus as its home country for unknown reasons.
- He started using Youtube more after his Playstation got burned from overuse.
- The series "You Tell Me" (Greek: Πείτε Μου Εσείς) is the biggest and longest concept 2J has had, with 99 episodes so far uploaded during 2015-2023. The 100th and last one will be uploaded in 2024.
- Despite 2J had stated that the gaming channel wouldn't affect the schedule of the main channel, eventually it had a huge impact on it, since its videos needed time, compared to the gaming videos which were faster to make and edit.[citation needed]
- His gaming channel originally had as handle name "2jgaming001", as seen in some old video descriptions[1].
Channel milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Youtube videos.
Subscriber milestones[]
- 40,000 subscribers: December 2013
- 100,000 subscribers: June 2014[2]
- 300.000 subscribers: July 2015[3]
- 500,000 subscribers: April 2016[4]
- 666,666 subscribers: September 2016[5]
- 750,000 subscribers: January 2017[6]
- 1,000,000 subscribers: August 2018[7]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhUX-jMxQss
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5--7rS1qmb8
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkM5-93pGp0
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEmq4S2Hbsw
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDBkwweygww
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDBkwweygww
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c49kBa6pCA