Tucker Boner
Personal information
Born
William Tucker Boner

(1993-03-16) March 16, 1993
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.[1]
Other names
  • Jericho
  • IIJERiiCHOII
Occupations
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2009–present
GenreGaming
Subscribers1.23 million[2]
Total views227 million[2]
Twitch information
Channel
GenreGaming
Followers1.2 million
Last updated: November 29, 2023

William Tucker Boner (born March 16, 1993), known online as Jericho or IIJERiiCHOII, is an American YouTuber and Twitch streamer. His last name originates from his ancestors hailing from the town of Bonn, Germany. The original German name, meaning "One from Bonn", was anglicized and resulted in the surname Boner.

He has over 1.26 million subscribers on YouTube and over 1.2 million followers on Twitch as of April 2021.

Career

Boner started to upload gaming videos and skits on YouTube during his high school years in 2009. He joined Ustream in 2011 and later moved to Twitch.

Boner graduated from the Friends School of Baltimore in 2011.[3] After failing to get into The University of North Carolina, he enrolled in The University of North Carolina Wilmington. Boner thought that college was preventing him from making content, which influenced his decision to drop out and move to Los Angeles with other YouTubers (GoldGlove, TmarTn, Syndicate, MuzzaFuzza), known collectively as the Gamershore. He took classes at a community college in Los Angeles, but eventually became a YouTuber and Twitch streamer full time.[4]

Boner is the co-founder of The Race, which was a regular fundraising livestream event, helping the charity program of the Call of Duty Endowment foundation.[5]

Boner and a fellow streamer Tom Cassell are the creators of the Minecraft multiplayer series titled Mianite, which was released in May 2014.[6] They later partnered up with Jordan Maron and Sonja Reid as the four main characters of the series. Mianite was renewed for a second season in 2015, which was the end of the original run of the series. Cassell continued the series with other YouTubers including Maron under the name Mianiatian Isles in 2020, with Boner declining to return to the project.

Occasionally Boner participates in esports tournaments for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Player Unknown's Battlegrounds. His top esports achievement was winning the Jack Ryan CS:GO Invitational Tournament in 2018. Boner has competed in other events such as Twitch Rivals, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive matches as a stand-in for the North American esports team Mythic.

On November 29, 2019, Boner, along with Daniel Goudie of Disciple Records, launched the record label "NightMode". The label's first single is "Everything You Need" by Unlike Pluto.[7] The label has released new singles on a seasonal basis, and has created some collaboration projects, including "This Is Cyberpunk"[8] intended to be a simultaneous release with the video game Cyberpunk 2077, a skin for the character Athena[9] in the third-person MOBA Smite and a music-kit for Counter-Strike featuring Dashstar* by Knock2 which was created with the involvement of Valve and the artist, Knock2 itself.[10]

Recognition

In 2018 he was listed on the Forbes's "30 Under 30" list in the gaming category.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Twitch".
  2. 1 2 "About JERICHO". YouTube.
  3. ↑ "Tucker Boner". Linkedin. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  4. ↑ "Jericho on life as a Twitch celebrity and why fans rifling through your trash is just a part of the job | Dot Esports". Dot Esports. 2017-06-27. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
  5. ↑ "Call of Duty Endowment Announces The Race Charity Stream for Black Ops 4". Twin Galaxies. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
  6. ↑ "Mianite". IMDb. 30 May 2014.
  7. ↑ Gilmore, Grant (2019-11-30). "New Imprint NIGHT MODE Launches with Unlike Pluto's "Everything You Need"". EDM Identity. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
  8. ↑ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: This Is Cyberpunk (Continuous Mix). YouTube.
  9. ↑ "We're partnering with @NIGHTMODE to bring @OneTrueGod666's beats to the Battleground!". X (formerly Twitter). Retrieved 2023-11-21.
  10. ↑ "Interview with Jericho: Nightmode Records & Knock2 Music Kit". Esports Rambles. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
  11. ↑ "Tucker Boner". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-10-30.


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