Jesse Cox (YouTuber)
Jesse Louis Cox (born May 18, 1981) is an American YouTube gaming personality, comedian, voice actor, and media commentator. He is the owner of the YouTube channel previously named OMFGcata, a gaming channel on which Cox posts most of his content. As of February 2022, the channel has over 987,000 subscribers.[1] In the fall of 2016, it was announced that he was co-creating and starring in a new YouTube Red series, Good Game, which is about a fledgling eSports team. It aired in fall 2017 and was generally praised by critics, but was cancelled in 2018 after one season due to low viewership.[2]
Jesse Cox | |
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 Cox speaking at the 2018 PAX West | |
| Born | May 18, 1981 |
| Other names | OMFGcata |
| Alma mater | State University of New York at Buffalo University of Dayton |
| Occupation | YouTuber, entertainer, comedian, producer, video game commentator |
| Years active | 2011–present |
| Awards | "YouTube - Upcoming Personality of the Year", Golden Joystick Awards, 2016. |
Biography
Jesse was born in Wheeling, West Virginia and for the early part of his life traveled frequently with his parents around the country. Eventually, they settled in Oakwood, Ohio just outside of Dayton. After high school, he studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo where he double majored in Theater, as well as History, earning a bachelor's degree. He later went on to receive his master's degree in education while teaching, from the University of Dayton.
Content
YouTube
OMFGcata is Cox's YouTube channel (Rebranded as "Jesse Cox") and serves as his primary content platform.[1] The name of the channel was inspired by the Cataclysm expansion of World of Warcraft, the coverage of which was one of Cox's first major video series. After the initial release of Cataclysm, Jesse expanded his coverage into "Let's Play" style gaming videos and eventually into a weekly "show" format featuring friends and colleagues. In 2016, he won a Golden Joystick Award for upcoming YouTube personality.[3] The gaming convention Coxcon is named after Cox.
Cox also co-created the YouTube Red series Good Game with fellow internet personality Michelle Morrow. Cox also makes a consistent appearance throughout the series in the role of Jesse Newman.
Cox was signed to Creative Artists Agency in 2020.[4]
Voice acting
Jesse has voiced several video game characters such as Spriticus in Heroes of Newerth, Genji in Awesomenauts, and an ice troll named Jesse in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, as well as a possible quest-giving character in Cyberpunk 2077.[5]
Podcasts
Jesse Cox co-hosted the Co-Optional Podcast alongside his friends Brooke "Dodger" Thorne and John "TotalBiscuit" Bain (prior to his death in 2018). After Totalbiscuits death the podcast was hosted by his wife, Jenna Bain. The gaming Podcast was hosted every week, usually with a fourth special guest or occasionally their friend Eric "Crendor" Hraab. While the podcast's main focus was about video games, they commonly derail and discuss other topics of the day, giving way to the joke "We do occasionally talk about Video Games".[6] Both Brooke and Jesse have indicated that the podcast is on an indefinite hiatus. Jesse has stated he has no intention to start a podcast like the Co-Optional podcast.
Cox also hosts the Star Wars New Canon Book Club, an infrequent podcast which concerns the lore of the Star Wars franchise, Chilluminati, a weekly podcast that concentrates on numerous conspiracy theories and paranormal events; Jesse also co-hosts Cox n' Crendor In The Morning, a podcast that typically features the two talking about the events that occur in their lives at the times of recording or making casual conversation followed by short news segments, sports, weather, and traffic in randomized areas in the United States.
CoxCon
CoxCon was a video game and content creator convention, hosted by Cox and held annually in Telford, United Kingdom from 2015 to 2019. The convention featured game exhibitors, vendors, board gaming, and most prominently internet celebrity guests in various panels over the course of two days. Most of the artwork featured in Coxcon's promotional material was created by Daniel "Supardanil" Tan, animator of "Cox n' Crendor Animated!".
| Year | Guests |
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| 2015 | Brooke "Dodger" Thorne, Sam "Strippin" Thorne, Eric "Crendor" Hraab, John "Totalbiscuit" Bain, Genna Bain |
| 2016 | John "Totalbiscuit" Bain, Genna Bain, Jirard "The Completionist" Khalil, Alex Faciane, Michael Davis, Eric "Crendor" Hraab |
| 2017 | Brooke "Dodger" Thorne, Sam "Strippin" Thorne, Angi Viper, John "Totalbiscuit" Bain, Genna Bain, Jirard "The Completionist" Khalil, Alex Faciane, Michael Davis, Kellie "PokeKellz", Daniel "Nerd³" Hardcastle, Chris "Sips" Lovasz |
| 2018 | Jirard "The Completionist" Khalil, Alex Faciane, Michael Davis, David "Lasercorn" Moss, Matthew Sohinki, Pamela Horton, Amie "misshabit" Lynn, Paul Ritchey, Josh Henderson, Nick Murphy, Jared "ProJared" Knabenbauer, Heidi O'Ferrall, Shane Gill, Satchell Drakes, Daniel "Supardanil" Tan |
| 2019 | Chris "Sips" Lovasz, Stuart Ashen, Mike "MathasGames" Martin, Jirard "The Completionist" Khalil, Alex Faciane, Michael Davis, Angi Viper, Daniel "Nerd³" Hardcastle, Steve "Dad³" Hardcastle, Rebecca Maughan, Daniel "Supardanil" Tan, Thomas "Tomska" Ridgewell |
References
- "Jesse Cox". YouTube. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
- Walker, Alex. "Dan Harmon Is Producing A Sitcom About Esports". Retrieved 2017-03-21.
- Sheridan, Connor (November 18, 2016). "Overwatch scoops five awards, Firewatch wins Best Indie Game: Here are all the Golden Joystick 2016 winners". Games Radar.
- "CAA Signs YouTube and Twitch Personalities Jesse Cox, Bruce Greene (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- Franzese, Tomas. "'Cyberpunk 2077' could feature a controversial cameo". Inverse. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
- "The Co-Optional Podcast - YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved 2017-03-23.