User:Braydenpope

Summary
Brayden Pope is an Australian YouTuber who has done multiple things with his channels notoriety. His channel (popeyJN) is a channel that has done charity work, has helped to improve the careers of Australian singer/songwriters and has provided entertainment to over 4 million people globally.

YouTube Beginnings
Brayden Pope started the YouTube channel in 2011. In an exclusive interview with his local newspaper, he stated: "popeyJN was started as a bit of a joke. It was originally to upload short little videos that made myself and my friends laugh and we never planned on taking the channel anywhere."

PopeyJN was a channel that was immediately in trouble by YouTube due to the massive copyrighted content being uploaded to the channel every few days. "we didn't know what we were doing, we were uploading for the fun of it and not considering the consequences. Hell, we didn't even know what copyright was. It's something that we got into a lot of trouble over and I myself am still getting a bit of trouble from that content."

Stunts & Pranks
In mid 2012, Brayden Pope uploaded his first video that featured himself and several of his friends. The video titled "Jackass Australia Episode 1 & 2" was exactly what it sounds like, a bunch of kids imitating MTV'S Jackass Stunt Crew. "I call that my lost six months. We all were suffering from some sort of mental illness. I myself had depression and anxiety during that time and we were acting happy when the camera was on, but as soon as that camera went off, it was deadly silent. we were dumb kids who had a lot of problems."

Finally after six months of stunt work and five episodes of "Jackass Australia", Brayden Pope pulled the plug on the whole thing. "I finally woke up to myself and saw what we were doing and thought 'this isn't right, we need to stop.'"

After the "Jackass Australia" show had ended on the channel, Brayden Pope disappeared from youtube. "I was very upset and very disheartened about what I had done and it turned me away from ever doing YouTube again in any respect."

From August 2012 and March 2013, the popeyJN channel was dead with no activity.

The Rebirth
In March 2013, the popeyJN channel started to produce a few videos ever now and then. This time, gaming videos. These gaming videos would later become what "popeyJN" was well known for. "The early videos were nothing special, it was me sitting in front of a crappy laptop and playing a video game that I thought was fun."

YouTube Star On The Rise
As 2013 wrapped up, "popeyJN" was coming out with a lot more gaming videos. These videos were still patchy with the scheduling, but the videos slowly started becoming more consistent. "It was a good feeling to know that every time I was playing something that one person was going to connect with what i was doing. It was a real booster for me to see in the comments that people were liking what I was doing."

In 2014, "popeyJN" began to grow. As the numbers grew and the audience started to get bigger, the more consistent and frequent the videos would come out. "It got to a point where I said to myself 'Brayden, you either need to go full throttle at this, or stop it before you disappoint a whole heap of people' and I chose to keep going with it." By the end of 2014, "PopeyJN" as a channel was sitting on 700 subscribers. "That number was absolutely mind blowing to me. I felt such joy watching that number go up and to see the messages that people would send me and the comments people would leave. It was very humbling and a part of me was saying that I don't feel like I deserved all of these compliments." "I then met Pewdiepie Jacksepticeye and Markiplier and they kind of insisted that I keep pushing forward and to continue doing what I love and i'm forever grateful that they did."

PopeyJN Radio
As 2014 started to wind up, a new series was launched onto the popeyJN channel called "popeyJN Radio." PopeyJN Radio was an idea made by Brayden Pope to help promote struggling artists in the local community who would benefit from having their original music or covers of popular songs played.

PopeyJN Radio was however canceled by Brayden Pope in early 2015. "People just don't seem to be watching it anymore. It may come back or it may not. Only time will tell. PopeyJn Radio was a way from me to promote the people that I found and who I thought were super talented. I got to promote my friend Gabriel Lynch and I made a lot of new friends who I still promote in the outro of every PopeyJN video. In a way popeyJN Radio is still there, but it's in the form of my outro now."

In September 2015, Brayden Pope announced: "There is a plan to bring back PopeyJN Radio as a podcast online that people can download and listen to. One of my good friends has agreed to be my co-host and hopefully it'll start up again towards the end of 2015."

Charity Work
In February 2015 Brayden Pope uploaded a video called "I need Your Help." In the video he talked about mental illnesses and how he himself had suffered from depression and anxiety. He told his viewers that he wanted to help a charity company called "Anxiety United" with funding so that they could help as many people as they could who were suffering from mental illnesses. He asked for subscribers to contribute any money that they could spare to help out. After a two week campaign, the popeyJN community managed to contribute a little over $1,000 to Anxiety United. In December 2015, Pope announced a "Charity Livestream" set for April of 2016. He stated that "the money raised will be going to beyondblue." The charity livestream which took place on the 9th April raised over $300 for beyondblue.

Producing Career
In 2015, Pope announced that he had just finished producing his second album. In 2014 he secretly produced an album for the band The Capital. In late September 2015 Pope announced the release of a new album that he produced. Pope stated that "this album is a lot more personal to all of the band members as compared to the the first album. If we were sitting here and basically creating the same album again, I wouldn't have signed back on. Having Daniel Kyre playing piano on the song 'Goodbye' was fantastic, he was a massive help for that." There were rumors while recording the albums though that Pope was a difficult producer to work with. Tyler Kerpsack (guitarist/vocalist) stated on Twitter that "He (Pope) is the most difficult person i've worked with. He just argues and doesn't seem to understand what is best for the music." Pope never responded to these allegations, instead focused on the album. The album has sold 10,000 copies since its release.

popeyJN Now
At the beginning of 2015, the "popeyJN" channel returned with more games and a very consistent schedule for videos. "Every second day I upload videos. It now September 2015 and I have missed the deadline once for a video to come out and it was only three to four hours late. Having a schedule makes my life a whole lot easier."

Sadly, on the 18th September 2015, Daniel Kyre from the hit YouTube group Cyndago passed away. Brayden Pope went to facebook and said: "I'm utterly heartbroken to hear about the death of Daniel Kyre from Cyndago. Daniel was a good friend of mine and he taught me how to edit my videos really well and also taught me how to get the best quality from each video that I was recording. He is the reason that my channel has gone so far and my heart goes out to my friends Markiplier and Matt and Ryan from Cyndago. We miss you Daniel. R.I.P Buddy."

In May 2016, popeyJN hit 4.7 million YouTube viewers worldwide and reached 2.9 thousand youtube subscribers

Controversy
In January 2016, Pope released a press statement after one of his videos featured excessive language that many deemed "unacceptable for young children." Pope's statement read "I am deeply apologetic for any offense that has been taken from the content, however I have never advertised this channel as a 'kid-friendly' channel. I have done a few 'kid-friendly' game series on the channel, but that came from a request of a terminally ill child. The games that I play a very obviously not intended for a young audience. I'm playing games like: Grand Theft Auto and Walking Dead."

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