William Tucker Boner (born March 16, 1993), known online as Jericho or IIJERiiCHOII, is an American

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and

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streamer. He has over 1.22 million subscribers on

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and over 1.2 million followers on Twitch as of May 2024.

Career

Jericho started to upload gaming videos and skits on YouTube during his high school years in 2009. He joined

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in 2011 and later moved to Twitch. Jericho graduated from the Friends School of Baltimore in 2011. After failing to get into The

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, he enrolled in The University of North Carolina Wilmington. Jericho thought that college was preventing him from making content, which influenced his decision to drop out and move to

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with other YouTubers (GoldGlove, TmarTn,

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, 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. Jericho 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. Jericho and fellow streamer Tom Cassell (Syndicate) are the creators of the ''

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series titled Mianite, which was released in May 2014. 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, Jericho participates in esports tournaments for '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' and '' Player Unknown's Battlegrounds''. Jericho 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, Jericho, along with Daniel Goudie of Disciple Records, launched the record label "NightMode". The label's first single is "Everything You Need" by Unlike Pluto. The label has released new singles on a seasonal basis, and has created some collaboration projects, including "This Is Cyberpunk" intended to be a simultaneous release with the video game

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, a skin for the character Athena in the third-person MOBA Smite, and a music-kit for Counter-Strike featuring Dashstar* by Knock2 which was created with the involvement of

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and the artist, Knock2, itself.

Recognition

In 2018 he was listed on the ''

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''s "30 Under 30" list in the gaming category.

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* * American Twitch (service) streamers American gaming YouTubers Video game commentators 1993 births Living people YouTubers from Chicago {{YouTubers-bio-stub