During that same year Arin began his collaboration with Joshua "TomaMoto" Tomar to make "Girlchan in Paradise", a 4 episode series sponsored by Newgrounds that parodies shōnen anime. The series was sponsored by Machinima and was featured on their YouTube channel. In 2009 Arin released "Lemon 'n' Bill", a comedy series where an anthropomorphic bullet and a lemon get stuck in classic video game worlds. Soon after he was commissioned by MTV to create more animations in a similar style for a new show called The G-Hole. Arin's first animation in the series, "Metal Gear Awesome", was published on Newgrounds on February 23, 2006, skyrocketing him to popularity. He soon found out that people had also made animations to go with his audio, which led him to Newgrounds.Īrin's animation career began in earnest with the Awesome Series where he parodied popular, classic video games. While his original version was fairly popular on Napster, the skit became even more popular when it was re-uploaded by someone else who rebranded it as "Invader Zim Does DBZ". One of Arin's first viral hits was a short audio skit he made called Dragon Ball Z In A Nutshell, which he uploaded to the filesharing service Napster, inspired by a famous radio skit that summarizes the entire Star Wars original trilogy in thirty seconds. Arin has hosted Grumpcade episodes with guests such as Markiplier, Jirard The Completionist, SoloTravelBlog, Octopimp, Nathan Barnatt, and Jacksepticeye.īefore becoming an animator, Arin was mostly interested in voice acting, recording little audio skits with his microphone and sending them to friends. This series also sometimes features guests from within the YouTube community. In January 2015, the Game Grumps premiered a new series, Grumpcade featuring Arin and the other Game Grumps playing console games. Arin appeared as a guest in many episodes, as well as doing most of the narration for the series. In December 2013, the Game Grumps channel announced a new show, Table Flip, hosted by Barry and Arin's wife Suzy Berhow, and co-produced with Polaris. He would also later be a part of the Steam Train spin-off Steam Rolled, playing competitive games with three other hosts. Arin would later join the cast of Steam Train, either replacing Danny as host in some episodes, or joining Ross and Danny, beginning in the Civilization V: Brave New World play-through. In June 2013, Jon decided to leave Game Grumps, and Arin chose Danny to be his new partner. When asked by Ross who he should choose as a co-host, Arin recommended Danny Avidan, whom he said would be his back-up partner if Jon were to ever get sick and could not do the show. Arin invited Ross to host the show on the Game Grumps channel alongside Game Grumps. Sometime in the first half of 2013, Arin's friend and fellow animator Ross O'Donovan decided to do a let's play show, Steam Train, inspired by Game Grumps. He would later hire other animators to make more animations for the channel as well.Įarly in 2013, Arin and Jon recorded their first video with a guest, Grant Kirkhope, in a new series Guest Grumps. In addition to hosting Game Grumps, Arin also animated a number of Game Grumps Animated videos for the channel. During the beginning of Game Grumps, Arin and Jon shared management of the channel, before hiring Barry Kramer to do most of the behind-the-scenes works. Arin and Jon co-hosted Game Grumps and Game Grumps VS together. Arin co-founded Game Grumps in July 2012 alongside Jon Jafari.
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