“ | It's ya boy J to the E to the L-L-Y! |
” |
―Jelly's old intro |
Jelle van Vucht (born: October 14, 1996YouTuber known for his gaming videos and vlogs. Jelle was a member of the trio known as Robust (Slogo, Jelly, Crainer/Kwebbelkop), but from early 2022 to late 2023, he only played with Slogo. On November 8, 2023, he and Josh started to record with Crainer again as Crainer was invited back into the group. However, on August 17, 2024, Jelly left the group.
), better known online as Jelly, is a DutchPersonal life[]
Jelle was born in Roermond in the province of Limburg. He also has a brother named Koen van Vucht. Jelle followed an audio-visual course in Eindhoven but quit to focus on his own businesses. He is currently dating fellow YouTuber iamSanna.
YouTube Career[]
Starting the GTA 5 Videos channel (2011)[]
During his school days, Jelle would show clips of him gaming to his friends and they found it interesting. After seeing his friends were interested in this type of content, he decided to create his first channel, GTA 5 Videos. Eventually other people around the world had seen his videos, which lead him to make more videos.[1][2]
As the channel name suggests, Jelly would record various GTA 5 videos on the channel.
Foundation of Robust (2014)[]
In February 2014, Jelly collabed with Aquib and Kwebbelkop. The trio founded the gaming group Robust. They used to upload funny gaming videos. After that, Aquib left and British YouTuber Slogo joined.
Starting Jelly channel (2014)[]
In 2014, Jelle started his YouTube channel called "Jelly". He used to upload funny gaming videos with Kwebbelkop and Slogoman.
Recording with Kwebbelkop (2014-2019, 2024)[]
Jelly recorded frequently with Kwebbelkop and Slogo until 2019, when Kwebbelkop left in 2019 after temporarily living in New York City together before getting evicted.
Recording with Crainer and Slogo (2019-2022, 2023-2024)[]
In late 2019, Jelly started making videos with Crainer. In December 2019, Jelly announced that Kwebbelkop was replaced by Crainer in Robust. Crainer became the newest member of Robust. When Crainer joined the group, the trio rose up in subscribers. Also, Jelly met Crainer in real life in January 2020. In May 2022, He and Slogo removed Crainer from the description of his videos, implying that Crainer stopped recording with the group. In 2023, Crainer reunited with Slogo and reformed the group with Jelly.[3]
Recording with Dino (2020-2023)[]
In March 2020, Dino commented in a Jelly video and then Jelly hearted the comment and contacted Dino. In May 2020, the both started to record gaming videos and then became great friends. They don't upload together with each other as frequently as with Slogo and Crainer, but do upload great videos when they collaborate.
Podcast With two/thirds (2023-2024)[]
On February 27th, 2023, Josh and Jelly partnered up and created the two/thirds channel, a comedic podcast. They later joined Twitter and Instagram that day. It wasn’t until the 23rd of March that Jelly announced the podcast. One the 24th of March, Jelly uploaded a video called ‘We Have News…’ where he further promoted the podcast and outlined how it formed. That day, the first video was uploaded on the channel. The channel, since its launch, has been gaining subscribers rapidly.
Collab with JackSucksAtGeography (2023)[]
In 2023, Jelly decided to collaborate with the channel JackSucksAtGeography on a GeoGuessr video.
Leaving Crainer and Slogo (2024)[]
On August 17, 2024, Slogo would announce the official departure of Jelly from the Robust Group.[4] This seemed to start since late July when Jelly stopped recording with Crainer and Slogo as a result of moving houses.
But the very next day, Jelly uploaded a video on the situation and stated that he was undergoing creator burnout.[5] He states that when someone works with other people, there can sometimes be conflicts and it just won't go well. He also stated that he felt left out with the other two, which especially shows from the SLG channel. He would then state to everyone that he'll start doing stuff (e.g. making videos) on his own.
Reuniting with Kwebbelkop (2024)[]
On September 8, 2024, five years after Kwebbelkop left, Jelly and him reunited, getting the latter out of gaming retirement.[6] One week later, they reunited in person and moved in together.[7]
Setup[]
Computer specs[]
- CPU: Intel Core i9-9900K CPU
- GPU: NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2080 TI FE
Software[]
- Recording software: OBS
- Editing software: Sony Vegas Pro
Peripherals[]
- Headphones: Beyerdynamic DT 1770 PRO Studio Headphones Bayer Dynamic dt 1700 70 pro
- Microphone: Rode Broadcaster Studio Microphone (with RODE PSA1 Microphone Arm & ME Fireface UFX Audio Interface) Broadcaster
- Chair: GT Omega EVO XL Racing Gaming Chair Blue and Black Herman miller
- Mouse: Logitech MX Master Mouse (with SteelSeries QcK XXL Gaming Mouse Pad)
- Keyboard: CM Storm QuickFire XT Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Corsair k55
- Camera: Canon VIXIA HF G40 Camera Camcorder
Trivia[]
- Jelly is 5'6”, meaning he is below average of the Dutch male height, which is 6'0”[8]
- This causes frequent taunting from friends about his height.
- Jelly met Crainer both in January 2020 and in June 2021.
- Jelly met Slogo in Gamescom 2014.
- Jelly met iamSanna in September 2014. They entered their relationship shortly afterwards.
- Jelly won Gaming Influencer of the Year Award in 2019.[9]
- His favorite color is green.
Channel milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
Jelly[]
Subscriber milestones[]
- 1 million subscribers: June 4, 2015
- 2 million subscribers: October 23, 2015
- 3 million subscribers: March 10, 2016
- 4 million subscribers: June 5, 2016
- 5 million subscribers: October 3, 2016
- 6 million subscribers: March 9, 2017
- 7 million subscribers: October 3, 2017
- 8 million subscribers: April 19, 2018
- 9 million subscribers: September 25, 2018
- 10 million subscribers: December 17, 2018
- 11 million subscribers: February 7, 2019
- 12 million subscribers: April 2, 2019
- 13 million subscribers: July 7, 2019
- 14 million subscribers: August 31, 2019
- 15 million subscribers: November 27, 2019
- 16 million subscribers: February 7, 2020
- 17 million subscribers: April 3, 2020
- 18 million subscribers: May 28, 2020
- 19 million subscribers: August 15, 2020
- 20 million subscribers: November 12, 2020
- 21 million subscribers: February 18, 2021
- 22 million subscribers: July 22, 2021
- 23 million subscribers: October 21, 2022
Video view milestones[]
- 1 billion video views: June 7, 2016
- 2 billion video views: May 28, 2017
- 3 billion video views: May 31, 2018
- 4 billion video views: January 14, 2019
- 5 billion video views: May 15, 2019
- 6 billion video views: September 4, 2019
- 7 billion video views: December 31, 2019
- 8 billion video views: March 26, 2020
- 9 billion video views: May 26, 2020
- 10 billion video views: August 6, 2020
- 11 billion video views: November 10, 2020
- 12 billion video views: February 9, 2021
- 13 billion video views: June 23, 2021
- 14 billion video views: April 2022
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUs3hUQEWsM&t=330
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUs3hUQEWsM&t=339
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixj3pbKeo0U
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxy37k1uU66I65Ia2_MnhcQJ5rBcpavn1h
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW_b01UiZfw
- ↑ https://youtu.be/9j8wn4qZYCY
- ↑ https://youtu.be/VIyl-FoIt3s
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrcaTE6e2QI
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/jelly/p/B3XDCJznTMD/