Brief Backstory

I’m TRIZE, I upload gaming videos in the vehicle and racing sim/simcade genre, and I occasionally record Automation & BeamNG.drive videos. I started my first channel on February 23^rd, 2011 under the name MrJacon000. I started out just posting comments on people’s videos, liking them, and subscribing to them, nothing special. On July 11th, 2011, I uploaded my first video about a car crash from the TV show, Most Daring. Back then, I uploaded videos using the YouTube Editor program and took people’s videos that had a Creative Commons license. Those videos include:

• TV/Studio Logos;
• Certain Viral Videos;
• Game Theme Songs;
• Major News Headlines.

Most of those videos were deleted because I regretted taking those people’s videos since I could have gotten in legal trouble which would have jeopardized my channel and myself.

MrJacon000 Era

For my name, it’s pretty interesting how I came up with my channel name. When I was in elementary school, I was one of those people who acted “hard” to gain notoriety in the class and my grade level. Although I never got into real trouble like getting suspended, going to juvie, etc. Obviously, the first two letters, “Mr” or mister is a male salutation since I’m a guy. The “Ja” is the first two letters of my name. The “Con” part of my name was part of my school nickname because of my soft, hard actions of being the bad boy in school. That means that “Jacon” is a hybrid of the first two letters of my real name and being the “con artist” in class. That name stuck with me throughout the rest of my days until high school. And lastly, the three zeros were at first, just pointless channel name fillers. Like some people back in the day where they had usernames like XxSmokeBombxX555 and all that. Since people needed that name so badly, they added at least three consecutive numbers to make themselves original. Like what I did to my name. Years later, I managed to figure out what the three zeroes meant without doing a total rebrand of my channel. The three zeros meant that I came from nowhere with no views, no subs, and no fame. That’s why I later came up with the channel’s slogan, “From 0 content until now.” It’s strange how I named my channel, but it hasn’t changed until 2021.

A couple of my popular videos that I hadn’t deleted on the old channel were, To Anacreon In Heaven and Tourette’s Guy – Lottery. Those videos have a combined view count of over 580,000 views. As I was making the Anacreon in Heaven video, I recorded the audio using my old laptop’s microphone and covered up the webcam with my thumb because I didn’t know how to screen record. I obtained the audio file from the Smithsonian Institute and recorded it from there. (SOURCE) For the Tourette’s Guy video, I used the YouTube Editor of someone who uploaded the same exact clip and renamed the person’s video so it could be seen in the search results. During the 2016 Powerball billion-dollar drawing, a couple of Reddit users shared my video on the r/videos thread, which caused a massive surge in views. Before it went mainstream, the view count was at around 90,000. The day after, it jumped up to around 370,000 views. Roughly a 2.5x increase in views in a short period of time! I also made a blog post about it, which is located HERE.

On December 3^rd, 2011, I uploaded my very first gaming video of a Sim on The Sims 3 getting electrocuted. It’s a very short video of what it appears that my Sim is fixing a laptop with a screwdriver, which causes him to get electrocuted. Unfortunately, the video has no sound. After uploading that video, I began to publish more and more Sims 3 videos to my channel. After 2 months of making those videos, I began to upload cheat code videos and glitch showcase videos of me finding a bug or glitch in a game. When I recorded those videos, I used a cheap Flip video camera since I didn’t have a cell phone and pointed at a CRT TV, which looks HORRIBLE to this date! My first commentary gaming video was uploaded on August 25th, 2012, of me recording some Easter Eggs in GTA IV. Again, I had one hand recording the TV, the controller with my other hand, and my pre-puberty voice, making the video hard to watch and listen to. That archived video can be viewed HERE.
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On February 11^th, 2013, I uploaded my first ROBLOX video of me recording a crash compilation of cars jumping off a parking garage roof. This also made me publish only ROBLOX videos, as I did with the Sims. I also published a few videos that weren’t related to ROBLOX, such as a couple (now dead) meme videos, Just Cause 2 Fails, the infamous Super Bowl XLVII power outage, and even more glitch videos. None of my ROBLOX videos had any commentary because I wasn’t comfortable doing so since I was going through puberty, and I also thought no one would want to hear me talk because of my voice. A few months later, I began to be inconsistent with my uploading schedule because of school. I began uploading videos a couple of times a month or even a video every two months. As I was realizing what I was doing with my channel, I began to change it up a bit.

On February 28^th, 2015, I uploaded my first real commentary gaming video of a mobile game, Drunken Wrestlers. It’s just a simple 11-minute video of me having fun with the game. I uploaded another mobile gaming video, but it never caught on to me. I hit another gaming video break as I uploaded my last PS3 videos for another 8 months until I got a PS4. My first PS4 video was yet another glitch video of a character in Warframe named, Darvo stuck running in place. Two days later, I made my first PS4 commentary gaming video on the demo version of FIFA 16. It’s just a simple video of me playing a couple of matches on the game. What was unfortunate about recording gameplay videos on the PS4 was that there was a recording limit of 15 minutes long. I solved this by live streaming all of my gaming videos on Twitch and uploading the entire stream to YouTube. I’ve been doing that for over a year until they supported 60-minute recordings, which helped out a lot.

In July 2016, I decided to monetize my old YouTube channel through Socialblade. What was interesting was that they were partnered with BBTV. Despite all this, I’d submit my application to become a partner and earn money for the first time. Just a few days later, they accepted the application, and I was making money on my old videos. It only lasted for about two years when YouTube changed its partnership program guidelines to what they are today. Throughout my time making money, I’ve earned at an estimate of $96.21. This is not much, but it was something.

On December 27^th, 2017, I purchased my first gaming desktop computer. Even though it was a high-end work computer in the early 2010s. I bought a Dell Precision T3500 for $120, which had an Intel Xeon W3580, a decent 250GB HDD, 12GB of RAM, and a mediocre Nvidia Quadro FX580, which was worse than my laptop’s internal GPU. Because of the poor graphics card, I bought an EVGA Nvidia GTX 750 Ti for around $86. It made a large improvement on the frame rate of most games running on medium settings, but I could not achieve over 60FPS on the games I play. I saved up my money to buy my equipment and my new graphics card in 7 months. I bought my Corsair keyboard, Samson mic, a more powerful CPU, a new SSD and HDD, and my graphics card, which cost me $564.92. (Not including shipping.) Here’s how much each item costs:​​

1. (Used) ​Corsair Strafe Keyboard: $64.00
2. (New, open box) Samson C01U microphone: $39.99
3. (New, open box) Sennheiser HD280 Pro V2: $56.89
4. (New, open box) Crucial MX300 525GB SSD: $97.99
5. (New) Western Digital WD4000FDYZ 4TB HDD: $99.00
6. (Used) Intel Xeon W3690 3.46GHz processor: $62.00
7. (New) Silver thermal paste: $2.95
8. (Used) EVGA Nvidia GTX 970 SC: $142.10

Sure, it was quite expensive to convert the computer to a solid gaming machine, but I would end up either buying a dedicated gaming PC or building one myself in the future.

New Channel

On April 26^th, 2021, I received an email from YouTube stating that my MrJacon000 channel was terminated due to “spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content.” This was an absolute shocker, as I’ve never received a strike in a very long time, nor have I had any active strikes. Of course, I’ve tried to appeal their decision, thinking that it may have been an overreaction to my older content dating back to late 2011 that could have triggered something. This was also the time when YouTube was reviewing my channel because I had reached the YouTube Partner Program (YPP) threshold of 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch time hours in 1 year. I think during the review period, they saw something remotely disturbing that “broke” their community guidelines to have that channel banned. About a few days later, I got an email back from YouTube about my appeal, and they basically said, “We’re standing by our decision to keep that channel banned because it violated our guidelines.” I was utterly confused about exactly why and what videos made my channel to get banned. Yeah, I had some videos that were fine when they were uploaded back in the day. Some were still on that channel, and some were deleted, hoping to not get any community guidelines strikes in the past. I think a possible motive for YouTube’s decision to ban that channel was having at least two in-depth tutorial videos on cracking Vegas Pro 13 and 14. They were once public, with views of approximately 7,500–15,000 each, until both videos got privated about a couple years later. It’s not known to this date what exactly caused YouTube to ban my old channel.

Since YouTube made its decision on terminating MrJacon000, I immediately created this brand new channel, TRIZE. The name of my channel is an acronym based on my old channel, which stands for, “TRIple Zero Entertainment.” As every single video on the old channel is gone, I’ve lost a total of 436 videos that racked up 1.1M views and 1,130 subscribers. Fortunately, I’ve managed to archive roughly 110 videos from the old channel dating back to 2019 after my video storage hard drive crapped out. Most of those videos were recovered, but some were corrupted and couldn’t be saved. Because I have some of those videos back on my new channel, it still retains my personality and my channel’s focus on what it’s about.

Custom PC Build

On October 5^th, 2021, I started building my first ever gaming PC to replace the previous one. I’ve purchased two components to start out with, which were the computer case and a CPU cooler by Cooler Master on Newegg. As time passed, I purchased every component, little by little, so I wouldn’t financially stress myself out buying these components, which cost an average of around $125 per part. From the case to the AMD CPU, I’ve managed to complete the build within a one-month time span. The performance difference between the new and old PC is very drastic! Rendering a video on VEGAS Pro takes more than half the time compared to my old one. Gaming on CPU-intensive games like BeamNG.drive is WAY better as you can spawn a lot more cars at once and don’t lag a whole lot. Sure, my GTX 1070 that I’m still using may be “out of date,” but thanks to high prices for an RTX 2070S or 3060 Ti, I’m not going to spend more than $800 for those GPUs compared to paying $185 for the 1070 a year ago. If you’re willing to see how I’ve managed to build my current gaming PC, check out these blog posts if you’re interested. [PC Build Start] [Finished Build]

The last PC rig was a modified Dell Precision T3500 with an Intel Xeon W3690, a Crucial MX300 525 GB SSD, a WD 4TB HDD, and 24GB of DDR3 1333 MHz RAM. Those aren’t impressive specs by today’s standards, but at least it was something. The Xeon processor was equivalent to an i7 990X processor with the same amount of cores and a clock speed of 6C/12T @ 3.46 GHz. It’s still a good processor if you’re willing to game on it or do some moderate multi-tasking. It should cost you no more than $90 on eBay, but supply is very limited. Another alternative is the X5690, which is pretty much the same thing in terms of specs and is more available compared to the W3690.

Conclusion

From copying other people’s videos to making my own content, I think this was quite interesting as I managed my channel throughout the years. It was a slow start since most of the videos on my channel had underwhelming content like TV logos, brief news headlines, silent gameplay videos, etc. Since I’m heading on the right path to grow my channel, it would take this channel some time to get noticed, but there is a lot of potential. Not because I have all of the fancy professional recording equipment or a decent gaming computer; it’s the time and effort put into each video. From the time I play the game, record the gameplay, and publish it on my channel, I’m doing my part in entertaining an audience of the gaming culture.