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James Ross Hudgins (born February 9, 1994), also known by his online alias, MrBossFTW (or simply as "Ross"), is a YouTube personality, content creator and CEO of the MrBossFTW Corporation, with over 1.8 million subscribers and over 500 million views. His content usually consists of daily videos relating to the Grand Theft Auto video game series (most recently, Grand Theft Auto V) and other Rockstar Games titles. Multiple online video games related media sources, including International Business Times (IBT) which has featured his content on multiple occasions, with IBT doing so within their Video games category. He has been referred to by IBT as a "Renowned YouTuber" on multiple occasions and a mistake he made was covered by Kotaku and MTV News in 2015.

YouTube career
Hudgins started his YouTube channel under the name MrBossFTW in March of 2010. Since then he has amassed over half a billion video views and a following of over 1.8 million subscribers, being featured by MTV, Kotaku, and other gaming media outlets. His video content usually consists of videos relating to Grand Theft Auto and the fifth installment in the series, Grand Theft Auto V, and other Rockstar Games related titles. The creators of Grand Theft Auto, Rockstar Games, have had him as a guest on live streams and have featured his content on their official newswire.

The video podcast series (now discontinued) of videos uploaded to YouTube by Hudgins and his friends' channels, Dat Saintsfan and Jobless Garrett – titled The Squadcast – was featured on the Rockstar Newswire on 24 March 2014. During the series, they discussed Rockstar Games related news and viewers could submit questions to them via email for a chance that they would be answered within a video. The series produced 31 episodes from February 11, 2014 until October 6, 2014.

On March 19, 2014, Hudgins incorporated the MrBossFTW name, creating the one person Domestic Profit Corporation, MrBossFTW Corporation.

Appearances in other media
Hudgins has been featured multiple times in online media outlets, including Kotaku, iDigitalTrends, and International Business Times. In the latter case, he has been featured in IBT's Technology/Video games category. In an article by International Business Times and in one by the Daily Star discussing upcoming updates to Grand Theft Auto V, Hudgins was referred to as a "renowned [Grand Theft Auto] YouTuber".

Images of his video content have also been used by internet publications, including The Guardian. The Inquisitr and Morning News USA have featured his content when discussing Grand Theft Auto content updates.

An error he made in a livestream, resulting in the revealing of a Grand Theft Auto V PC video game license/serial key, which resulted in a viewer stealing it, was covered by and Kotaku on April 13, 2015 and MTV News the following day. MTV News equated the mistake as the "gaming equivalent of Instagramming your credit card." Soon afterwords, the developers of the game, Rockstar Games, provided him with a new key.