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CaptainSparklez
Jordan Maron (CaptainSparklez) is a gameplay commentator on Youtube. His most famous gameplay series being Minecraft. Sparklez also posts gameplay of other games such as Happy Wheels, Left 4 Dead 2, Portal, and rarely Call of Duty, often playing in co-op with some of his friends. CaptainSparklez is famous for his Minecraft parodies where he changes the lyrics of a popular song to fit into the world of Minecraft. These parodies are all sung by TryHardNinja. His channel holds the record for the top 3 most viewed Minecraft videos with his parodies Revenge with over 45 million veiws, "TNT" with over 30 million and "Fallen Kingdom" with over 15 million. Jordan ocasionally posts videos with his friends Seananners, Mark, Nick and other Machinima directors.

History of CaptainSparklez. Jordan's original channel was ProsDontTalkShit. He posted mostly Call of Duty videos and worked for Machinima

History CaptainSparklez

On the 23rd of July, 2010 he created his new channel CaptainSparklez and kept with posting CoD gameplay. As Minecraft got mildy popular Jordan posted a few Minecraft videos and soon he completely switched his channel from Call of Duty to Minecraft. His first song parody TNT, posted on the Feb 26th 2011 increased his popularity greatly and earned many new subscribers. Jordan knew this song was a hit and continued to work on more. Later the song Revenge was posted and currently holds the record for the most veiwed Minecraft video with over 45 million views. Minecraft Skyblock Survival soon appeared, gaining up to more than 2 million views. His second most famous series, Happy Wheels soon gained popularity on his channel, advancing him to 800 thousand subsribers. Then came his Minecraft Survival Let's Play, generally appearing to be more popular among his other series. His third parody soon came along giving him the subscriber boost to almost a million. The song affiliated in this video is titled, Fallen Kingdom, after the original song, Viva la Vida, by Coldplay. Following this success, Sparklez accepted the invitation offered by the Machinima team to participate in the Survival Games. His popularity is still continuing to expand as of now and is currently working on more of his gameplay series.

Personal Life

Generally keeping private in regards to his personal life, little is known outside of CaptainSparklez's channel (If you dont count his simple vlogs). Appearing to be his intention, additional insights concerning Jordan's personal history are somewhat vague. On the 30th of May, 2011, an interview with CaptainSparklez was held with a popular Minecraft podcast titled as, The Shaft. During their discussion, Jordan did state that after a short time experiencing being in a gaming industry (from an outside perspective), this led to him switching from chemical engineering to computer science. Explaining that he to balancing college and Youtube commentating is somewhat of a difficulty, Jordan stated that a gaming company, such as Valve, suited him the most.

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