ABOUT ME & MY CHANNEL
I go by JonBerry555 online, but you can call me Jon. I create YouTube videos where I review and analyze my favorite franchises. This includes but not limited to Star Wars, Star Trek, Scooby-Doo, The Owl House, DuckTales, Indiana Jones, Phineas and Ferb, Milo Murphy's Law, Hamster and Gretel, and much much more. I also enjoy playing videogames and uploading the footage to my channel. I also enjoy livestreaming my games, especially Star Wars games..
But now, about me and my fandom journey. I was first exposed to Star Wars in second grade, when my friend brought in a Boba Fett Action Figure, but that did not really spark my interest. Neither did my friend wearing a Episode III Clone Trooper costume for Halloween in Fourth Grade. What got me into Star Wars occurred the Summer before The Clone Wars aired on Cartoon Network.
Each summer my Church would hold a congregation-wide camping trip. That summer I rode in a different vehicle separate from my parents and grandparents. The vehicle I was in had a DVD player built in and they put on Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi to pass the time for the passengers. That was what sparked my first interest in Star Wars, our hero being related to a villain was intriguing.
Not that long afterwards, it was 2008 and The Clone Wars came out and I finally had new Star Wars content to enjoy. By that time I had already gone and watch all the movies, starting reading the junior novels and playing the Lego Star Wars video games. But I had no new content out for me, I was not yet old enough advance past the junior novels and I was still much too young for some of the other video games, plus I was not much a gamer back then. But the Clone Wars came out and I had new Star Wars content to enjoy.
I would come home from school, finish my homework and eagerly await the next episode. My family and I also recorded it so that I would watch it on the weekend If I did not managed to watch it the day it came out. The Clone Wars became my Star Wars. It was my Star Wars Story. And then Disney purchased LucasFilm and Star Wars in late 2012 and it was announced that the Clone Wars was to be cancelled and the last season would be the fifth season. I was not happy about it. At the time (still being in middle school) I was convinced that Disney would ruin Star Wars. That was also about the time I started getting into YouTube as a viewer and the Star Wars videos I was watching then only reinforced my misconception.
My opinion has since change. For one, I have gotten into the expanded universe and the vast quantity of books and video games to enjoy and then the new content started to come out. I was nervous about Rebels at first, but I found myself enjoying it. And then was the feeling of giddiness I experienced when I saw my first Theatrical release of a Star Wars movie with The Force Awakens.
Besides being a Star Wars Fan, I'm also a Trekkie (I don't like the term Trekker). When I got interested in Trek, I really don't remember, but I do know it was after I had gotten into Star Wars and It was one episode of The Original Series that truly and properly introduced me to Star Trek. That episode being Season 3 Episode 14 "Whom Gods Destroy." And ever since then, I enjoy Star Wars and Star Trek Equally.
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It was in 2016 when I uploaded my first YouTube Video, which is nothing like my latter content as my first year was experimental. I was trying to figure out YouTube and what kind of videos I would create. My first Star Wars video was actually myself unboxing the 2016 Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar and was shortly followed my review of Rogue One. As the time went on my content improved, I upgraded my equipment and actually learned how to make thumbnails, I event went back and recreated some of my early thumbnails.