Gastrow started his current YouTube channel, videogamedunkey, in 2010, with a video of him performing a speedrun of the 1991 game Battletoads. Examples include 'Great Yoshi Migration', his first video, and a parody of the Village People song ' Y.M.C.A.' called 'F.U.C.K.' On the H3h3 Podcast, Gastrow said he wanted to be an animator when he was young. Initially, he created Flash animations that he uploaded on the website Newgrounds under the username 'MeatwadSprite'. Gastrow has been publishing videos online since 2003. As of March 2023, Gastrow's YouTube channel has seven million subscribers, and he has accumulated over three billion views.
Jason Gastrow (born January 30, 1991), known online as videogamedunkey or simply dunkey, is an American YouTuber known for his YouTube skits and video essays that blend crude humor with video game criticism.
