The Rise and What Happened to Freddie Wong/RocketJump?
2023 ж. 30 Сәу.
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What happened to RocketJump on KZhead? Why is Freddie Wong famous? What is Freddie Wong doing these days? Who owns RocketJump? What movies was Freddie Wong in? Will there be a VGHS Season 4? Are Freddie Wong and Jimmy Wong related? Those are the questions you may be asking yourselves on KZhead. In this video, I will go over Freddie Wong's entire KZhead career, his creation and involvement with RocketJump, why Freddie Wong left KZhead, and what Freddie Wong, Brandon Laatch, and Jimmy Wong are up to after KZhead.
Whatever Freddie's doing these days, I hope he's okay. I also hope he's doing what he loves. Dude made my childhood.
he's doing a D&D podcast called Dungeons and Daddies which is hilarious
He's on the latest Dimension 20 as well.
He's also been on a few Dropout shows like Umm Actually.
Stop hoping you’re making him far too powerful
Besides his recent work with Dropout and Dimension 20, I'm assuming he's quietly working in the video editing industry, like for television or cinema. I don't actually know, but you have to remember that his youtube channel was also his production studio, so it's a natural assumption that they just found steady work in the industry that isn't worth making youtube videos for.
Freddie and his friends don't get enough credit these days. They are probably one of the hardest working dudes in the internet space. It's because they love what they do. Even though they wanted to move a little beyond KZhead, to me, they were the REAL last KZheadrs of my generation. Classic KZhead wasn't about the money it was about making cool stuff for people to watch and they did that. I will always remember the cool stuff they made on this site.
It's pretty awesome how many cool things spun off those early videos. Not that they wouldn't/couldn't have become popular in their own right, but the Corridor Digital channel, and Brandon's company, and Node, etc are kind of all the next generation offspring of some early KZhead viral videos.
back in that day yeah
I wouldn't say last...but to be fair the vast majority of youtubers I'd say do it because they love it do have some form of monetization
An interesting takeaway from this is that part of what made Freddy stop making short, VFX heavy videos was KZhead starting to prefer and reward longer videos. Definitely an unintended, and very unfortunate, consequence.
Kind of ironic bc now KZhead is pushing its “shorts” feature
@@Gabriel-el3hn SHorter videos are better overall now. The algorithm changes.
guess he can come back now since youtube prefers shorts.
Not true nowdays, it pushes what ever people watch and click next. Time is a tiny factor.
@@lordfrz9339 what is so weird is that shorter videos have always been better. The only thing that has varied is whether Google's algorithm rewards shorter or longer videos. I graduated film school just after Google purchased KZhead and people were doing studies on ideal video lengths. Even after Google increased the maximum video length beyond 10 and 15 minutes, it didn't matter because most viewers wouldn't pay attention that long anyway.
I don't think we're ever going to get a show like VGHS again. Which is sad because I have sooo many memories from that show. I remember seeing it trending multiple times. Man -.- Maybe someone can take the mantel someday and produce the levels of quality they did. I miss those youtube days.
I'm so happy coming down to the comments here and seeing other people talking about VGHS. I loved that show as a teen, and I feel like most people have completely forgotten about it! It's good knowing I wasn't the only one enamored with it, haha.
Would be good to see a reunion episode. Maybe Ki and Ted's wedding?
@@notsuchabadguy man i miss that show too, currently rewatching it last time i watched it was like 6 years ago 😅
@@criticalevent wat
I think nowdays is way harder to produce this type of content, sadly... You'd have to start from 0 OR invest your money into it, we're talking -just like freddy did- all nighters and heavy workloads to put out these videos weekly, you can't do that AND have a job to eat while you hit it big. So unless someone throws a million dollars at it, maybe two, and produces the whole thing from scratch, it'd take years for a content creator to get big enough to do this sort of stuff again. And it's SAD, it's irreplaceable and always remember, this is a thing youtube STOLE from us. the corpo greed and the current state of ads and viewtime vs views is what kills this sort of content.
My God, i can't believe VGHS is over 10 years old...I was in like 6th grade when season 1 was releasing. Its really sad how the changes in youtube's structure have totally killed off so many of the kinds of content that made it so big in the first place. I watched so many beloved youtubers get crushed under the weight of ever increasing demands from the algorithm
Just wait until your friends start dying. VGHS feels like it came out yesterday to me, lol. EDIT: RIP Brandon. A good friend of mine just passed at 38 this week. :(
funny how 6th grade can make all of us nostalgic, I remember that being a fun year for me as well, I just purchased NFS Hot Pursuit 2, harry potter and the sorcerer's stone, loved the entire soundtrack of it, still my all time favorite games, remember watching goosebumps on TV, as well as batman and superman, the first harry potter film had just come out, ahhh fun time 2001 was.
@@Dhruv1223 nah, I do not miss middle school, that shit sucked. Life was not great for 13 year old me
@@Purplepentapus_ school always sucked, but just that age was somewhat better than others, atleast in terms of getting entertained
@@Dhruv1223I was in 3rd grade but yeah. Getting old sucks. Being 30 sucks. I want a do-over!
Freddie is actually guest starring on a Dropout TV series called D20 right now, and it was probably filmed (or at least started filming) before or at the same time that this video was released!
Good to know
D20 has a new campaign already? time to renew my subscription
@@cutsleeve117 Not only do they already have a new campaign, but basically as I commented that the final episode of said campaign was released. Wouldn't be surprised if a new new campaign was announced very soon
a new season trailer was announced about the same time as you made this comment :) @@DJVevyVevs
@@ipodtouch They can't keep getting away with this!
Freddie is such a visionary. Always, always, always working towards something or anything for entertainment for fans or whoever tunes in. What a guy.
Wow thanks for summarizing all of this, I always wondered what happened to Rocket Jump. Glad Freddie is doing well.
No problem captaincrunch ip. Thank you for taking the time to watch the video!
This is NOT a summary lol.
I never knew Corridor Crew spun off of Rocket Jump or that they made Boneworks. It's crazy how these things turn out.
The amount of lives Freddie has touched is incredible
Definitely sucks not having Freddiew style of videos. But Dungeons and Daddies is really funny and I'm glad it's a thing he does.
People move on. Creating such a hectic schedule for yourself is going to drain you one way or another, especially when that is a delivery for the masses where judgement and opinion is the barometer.
Corridor kinda took the reigns of the freddiew vfx shorts format; granted nowadays, looks like they've also mostly moved on, and only post videos every 1-2 months
@@jwangcap I kinda think that now, Corridor Crew IS Corridor, and they just make and post "actual" videos occasionally on what used to be their main channel. I think it works and definitely enjoy their content, but I really do miss the 2-5m polished VFX shorts, ranging from silly to badass to atmospheric, and everything in between. Freddyw/RocketJump were so classic though, and I do wish we could get something like that again.
I stuck with rocket jump for years actually. Back when they were still called freddiew, watching all of VGHS and ACD. All the shorts and stuff. I didn’t even realize four years passed after rocketjump stopped uploading and i felt a pit sink in my stomach when I did realize just how much time passed. I’m glad to see that Freddie is still doing stuff. It’s sad to see things come and go, and it would’ve been nice to see a goodbye video, but I’m just glad Freddie seems to have just moved on and not died or got cancelled or some other BS drama. Kinda sad we won’t get ACD season 3 though
I just started VGHS again with my wife and she loves it! Thanks Freddie, for all of your hard work!
It’s sad that a platform that is meant to hold creations of whatever you want, is not sustainable as a job if you don’t meet certain very specific criteria. I love content that is being produced these days, for sure. Even videos like this one here. But the fact that you can’t live off of what makes Hollywood sustainable is probably soul crushing. Imagine creating stuff that rivals big name studios, only to be constantly gate kept to being a KZheadr, even by your own platform. But, love what Freddy Wong does these days, and love what he’s done! It even seems like a couple of people who worked beside him, as well as himself, constantly are pushing the envelope to this day!
I really miss that era of KZhead...VHGS was the peak of it all
Always wondered how Freddie & Co managed to do so much at such a high level of quality. Looks like it took it's toll.
freddie was recently on college humors dimension 20, so that’s part of what he’s up to nowadays
I always never got how FreddieW was about to put together better action scenes than productions that have millions in budget.
OMG young Niko and Sam!! These three guys, including Freddie are actually some of the most artistically gifted people on the entire platform! legends!
and of course brandon! absolute legends
This is more of a chronical of Freddy's career than what happened to him. I would recommend breaking down all the events into different eras for easier viewing and grasping of timelines. Time slips and slides all over. and sometimes numbers of dates alone don't quantify it. I know I struggle to properly estimate when it was I did something and trying to remember what space I was in 7 or more years ago seems arduous. anyway, that's my only constructive criticism I have for your video. It's very informative.
Old KZheadrs that I have been missed of the days for early 2010s like Nigahiga, Kevjumba, fred, Jenna Marbles, CrazyRussianHacker, FPSRussia, Smosh and more
I should have think of Tobuscus, machinima and SMPfilms
Also I forgot to say that Corridor was formal name of Corridordigital
freddyw, smosh, epic meal time, key of awesome, and epic rap battles of history to name a few. this was the golden age of youtube.
I can't believe they were making hour long episodes before most major streaming services were. that's insane😧😧 especially for a KZhead channel.
tysm for delivering this compact but very detailed chronicle of freddy, while including so many recent appearances and introducing me to interesting podcasts. this must've been so much work to research and put together and I really appreciate it!
Holy shit.....rocket jump basically started stress level zero,....who of which made bonelab and because (i'm assuming) freddy kickstarted jimmy wong's acting career, jimmy went on to play himself in bonelab.....Damn shit's crazy
Jimmy also acted in the live action mulan
I listen to Dungeons and Daddies still, he is still playing and editing it as far as I’m aware.
Crazy that Freddie was such an influential part of my childhood and probably entire life. I've always loved Guitar Hero and still play it, mainly because I wanted to be as good as him. I've been into VFX and 3D Animation since before 2010. I remember wanting to win the giveaway to go see him in LA one time but never won. I hope he's doing well and knows that he did a lot for a lot of people
Nigahiga and freddiew were my childhood, man. Thanks for the video. I was wondering where freddiew has been, and I learned a lot of new stuff. I like how straight and to the point this video was, as well as the timestamps for the podcasts lol.
Thank you for telling their story. I discovered RocketJump / Freddie around 2010. Was amazed by what is possible on KZhead.
Fun review, thanks for putting this together!
Thanks for the video, dude. I'm a little too old for me to have really 'grown up' with their videos, and near the end of the short videos I kinda outgrew them, but in the early days it was awesome seeing that kinda stuff being produced. It filled me with hope to see the growth and potential future for video game culture in popular media as a 'for us, by us' production, so Freddiew and crew were always kind of a legend to me. I'm sad it didn't quite pan out that way, but it was nice to get an update on the boys.
I always get a fuzzy feeling inside whenever I think back to the RocketJump videos... They really were the best in the business back then and their videos will always remain timeless!
my god i love finding youtube channels like this. keep making these. i cant stop watching these types of videos
To this day I still listen to music that I only found thanks to VGHS. I know it's kinda besides the point of what they were doing but music is so important to me and I found one of my favorite artists ever through it
great video! nice to get a nice overview of their channel and related things, cool to see where people have gone with their careers and such
I Had no idea he was part of so many projects. Everything that man touches turns to gold.
I really appreciate the amount of effort you've put into making this video. Keep on doing this!
these guys made my childhood and when i look back at their videos today it brings me RIGHT back to what it felt like back then, its somthing you cant explain
Amazing video, thanks for making this. Freddie and Brandon were such a huge inspiration to soo many youtubers and filmmakers
Dungeons and Daddies is SO DAMN GOOD I HUGELY RECOMMEND IT PLEASE LISTEN
Thank you for making this video. Ngl it saddened me when they stopped posting videos and had no idea where they went after KZhead but damn they sound like they are doing good. They did so much amazing work that I’m genuinely happy to hear they are all living their best lives. I thought I recognized the voice from the Dungeons and Daddies podcast but I wasn’t sure who it was until now .
I never realized it until watching this video, but I always thought I was late to the party when watching a new FreddieW upload but now in hindsight, I was along for nearly every step of the way; it’s so cool to have seen the progression of not only Freddie but the entire RocketJump crew…
Can't believe it's been so many years since his early vfx videos that I've watched. Thanks for this video, and thanks Freddie for the hours and hours of inspiration and vfx-nirvana!!
I remember being a kid blown away at his video where he shows off the new KZhead widescreen implementation by pushing the sides of the screen out
He was part of those golden years on YT, where amazing shorts filled with creativity were rising up weekly. I thank him for his amazing content, all the hard work they did and I wish him the best.
That was interesting ! Thanks for the update !
his story reminds me of the cartoon family tree. where one channel just leads into another, I never knew corridor was made by a former rocket jump creator. like I heard of a guy named jimmy Wong who played a part in rocket jump and ending up being an important character in the game Bonelab and a little bit of Boneworks. wow I never know that a lot of creators I liked would be connected in such a cool way. and in retrospect i can see how "stress level zero" was made by a "former rocket jump" creator, the story of Boneworks feels like something rocket jump would make. glad to see they are truly doing something great with their carrier's years down the line.
Freddie is def probably making some awesome as Hollywood VFX that we probably watch every day and don't even know it's him
He made a good video of Modern Warfare Frozen Crossing as COD MW2 fanmade. I seen many channels did on similar to FreddieW
Reading the title gave me whiplash cause I just saw him on Dimension20 last Wednesday. Did a double take and had to go back to make sure it was him.
Freddie was definitely an inspiration for me growing up. I never got into actually doing VFX, but I always wanted to. I eventually did go to school for Animation though. His channel is probably the reason I'm always thinking about random creative things to make (whether I actually do or don't haha). I remember donating to kickstart VGHS season 1 as well. I miss his stuff! It was super nostalgic seeing parts of his old videos in this video! I'm glad he's doing well!
Freddie's VFX videos inspired the 12 year-old me and some friends to create one ourselves. Six years later, me and one of my friend went to film school and now, I'm creating videos for social media while he's doing VFX for TVCs.
Loved his channel. Back then I was a movie editor myself for a small media company. Business gone to hell as there was a crisis going on, so we had very few assignments to work on. VHS was a great watch back then, something to look forward too at work as I sat there alone, the only employee left and my own employer not even showing up at the office most of the time. Loved that show.
Aww man, FreddieW was my childhood! I love the fact that he’s still ok despite not creating anymore VFX videos.
KZhead recommend an old video of freddie and this got recommended to me. I was really curious on what happen to freddie. Thank you for making a summary. I'm glad freddie and his former crew are all doing well in his fashion with cinematography.
Great video. This deserves much more views than it currently has. Happy for freddiew
Thank you so much Dylan. 🙂
such a fantastic video. you covered this corner of the internet very well
If we ever get a sequel to VGHS I will be the happiest person on Earth.
Freddie really carried my KZhead Entertainment for short films in early 2010s. I hope he's doing well, VGHS was such a big event at the time too.
i'm glad Freddie's still doing well!
Thank you for the great video There’re so much side works that are hard to keep up with Freddiew and rocketjump are a huge part of my childhood, all those cool gun videos is part of the reason I was so addicted to youtube
this was a great video and Im glad to figure out where Freddie Wong went; Which also reminds me I should rewatch VGHS
Okay every time you showed the youtube video list that looks like the "End of video suggested videos" page that shows and I kept thinking the video was about to end abruptly. lol
Freddie is OG, always loved his content been following him since the very beginning. I was at Uni when VGHS Season 1 came out and it got me through a lot of tough times. Freddie has lived 1000 lifetimes and deserves only good things, hope hes keeping well.
I never heard of him in years, almost decades. 😮 I hope he’s well and I wish him all the best and Godspeed on his future endeavors
Awesome video. Was visiting some ghost town channels recently and rocket jump was one of them. Nice to know what happened
Vghs was my childhood man, crazy to see all the cool connections that have come out of one guys crazy ideas
Loved VGHS so much!!!! man I had a huge passion for it. But ultimately no season 4 was announced :( Thanks Freddie for those amazing years of nostalgia
I was there watching this channel grow...it's crazy how many years ago this was now.
I was so ready to post a scathing critique of this video until I saw that you're actually reading every comment, so instead I'm just gonna say to keep going. You've got the bones of a really good essay channel here, but the presentation leaves a lot to be desired. Keep practicing, keep uploading, and don't let any haters kill your enthusiasm for creating content. Best of luck to you.
Experiencing Vghs as a kid was like a fever dream from the future. Too ahead of their time, Will always remember Freddie W
Always figured if he did some action choreography for games or or movies would be great. Also, RIP Andy Whitfield, who liked his stuff so much asked to do a video back in the day.
Great book report, buddy! Have to admit that sounded like you were standing in front of a classroom giving your report. But credit for doing some really good research.
i didn’t know freddy wong was actually a guitar hero world champion, i just thought that was a gag for the show that’s pretty damn cool though
I miss those CGI videos of his they were so awesome I'm glad to hear hes going fine tho and he actually was just on the lastest season of Dimension 20 and was quite good I was surprised to see him at first but he did a good job on the show.
And he was a player on Dungeons & Dads (*not a bdsm podcast)
Met Freddi at 2017's E3 and he was really nice and gave me his autograph. Miss his productions alot and it's great to see he's active at content creation in various form. ❤
I legit just wondered what the hell happened to them so it's nice you uploaded this, will always miss VGHS T~T
I'm glad I was able to provide knowledge on what happened to them.
I didn't realize that FreddieW was so instrumental in the start of some of my other favorite KZhead channels. I completely get where Brandon was coming from. As a viewer it was pretty evident how KZheads continual changes of the algorythm was affecting creators who were trying to do something more technical/skill based than vlogging. As for how Hollywood currently operates; well it's pretty much already been said. I hope FreddieW is happy doing whatever he's doing now, and I wish to success to all those guys from back then .
Nice update. Thanks!
Such a high quality vid. Keep it up and with the upload schedule 😅 trust
Thank you so much. Yeah.... my upload schedule is trash lol, but I am working on another video and trying to upload consistently in the future.
It's great to see Freddie still happy and doing what he enjoys.
I only know Freddie from Dungeon and Daddies, so all of this is WILD to learn.
I think the pace is a little fast for me but very insightful video nonetheless 😊 thanks for making it
No problem MunkQoo! I'll try and tone the pace down a little for future videos.
Somehow I only found out about Freddie Wong by the time his channel was closing down. Major bummer.
Loved his work, miss it terribly
VGHS was amazing. Loved every second of it. Freddie is insanely talented and it’s nuts to think how much this man has accomplished!
Man, I love Freddie.
Freddie is a cool dude, felt so star struck to meet him a year ago. Really great down to earth dude. He's creative so no doubt he'll have some fresh stuff down the pipe in the future.
Man I miss that time of youtube. Just so much creativity.
Found memories of watching Freddiew growing up with my brother. Hope he's happy doing the things he loves!
the golden era from 2010 to 2013 of rocket jump is gone but never forgotten, the channel might very well die but the memories shall last until the last of us who seen its prime fade into the earth memory
Thank you man, great doc
Anime Crime Division is so underrated.
I agree.
Freddie is one of the 3 original asian youtubers: freddie, kevjumba, and that funny chinese american.
I miss his work. I use to watch so much of it.
Why you only have 2k subscribers my dude? You deserve a sub.
You missed out the Old Western band that Jimmy and Corridor Digital formed called The Keep. They only released 1 EP if I'm not wrong, and Jimmy was the singer and guitarist in that. Their "Slow In Reverse" is still a jam to this day.
I remember people fighting in comments when he left KZhead. There were just as many people complaining as people trying to support him. I'm glad he left to pursue his dreams.
Thank you so much for this update. I first got onto KZhead back when Freddie was first exploding And remember, for years thinking. that the Freddie W and Corridor channels were the best channels on youtube Since I whas not paying attention to much else At the time And now years later, it's great to see what happened Since I really missed those Constant short videos. I have such fond memories of those days back when Mr. Guitar man was spending hours making stop motion videos. Boxy was exploding and Smosh whas Going crazy
Good vid, appreciate you telling stuff how it is rather than embellishing or over explaining. I would've preferred if the vid was a lil shorter as you did add some elements which I think weren't too important. However to a really big fan of Freddie maybe they would've liked to have seen everything. A short outro would be good too! Vid ended a bit abruptly
Very well researched Video !
Vghs was so epic , also the 48hz videos is awesome