Jordan Maron

In July 2019, the song received renewed attention as an internet meme. This has led to "Revenge" reaching the number one spot on Genius' Top Songs chart. Maron has acknowledged the song's popularity, releasing a parody of Genius' lyric videos about "Revenge".

In early 2017, Maron began to frequently upload videos featuring his reactions and commentary on top Reddit posts to his main channel. These reaction videos gained popularity, but Maron ultimately decided they were not what his core audience enjoyed watching. As a result, Maron created a new channel called "Jordan Reacts" on August 11, 2018, where he continued to upload Reddit reaction videos, and refocused on making Minecraft videos for his main channel. Maron's newest channel is "Jordan Games", where he uploads gameplay videos that would be irrelevant on his main channel.

On January 13, 2018, Maron released "Turn It Up", an original Minecraft music video, again featuring vocals from TryHardNinja. Unlike his previous music videos, "Turn It Up" appears to take place in a modern city setting within Minecraft.

Beginning in early 2017, Maron uploaded videos featuring his reactions and commentary to various communities on Reddit. This led to a temporary decrease in Minecraft-related content. Maron ultimately decided they were not what his core audience enjoyed watching. He proceeded to create the channel "Jordan Reacts", where he continued to upload Reddit reaction videos, and refocused on making Minecraft videos for his main channel.

On May 27, 2017, Maron released a Minecraft music video for the song "Rush Over Me" by Seven Lions, Illenium, and Said the Sky, featuring vocalist Haliene. The video has gained over 3.2 million views.

On September 9, 2017, Maron released a Minecraft music video for the song "We Are the Night” by Madison Mars, featuring vocalist Sanjana Ghosh. The upload has received over 3.1 million views.

Maron is an electronic music enthusiast, having used tracks from the label Monstercat on his gameplay videos. He has experimented with music production himself. On March 27, 2016, he created "Maron Music", a music promotion channel where he would share other artists' music, as well as his own original music; "Moonbeam" was the first of his tracks to be uploaded to the channel.

Maron was featured in the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. In June 2016, he made an appearance in the sixth episode of Minecraft: Story Mode.

The fourth and final video in the series, "Dragonhearted", was released on November 19, 2016. The video currently has over 25 million views. The video contains yet another original TryHardNinja song, for which the video is named, and brings the tale of the king and his son to completion. The song ends with the self-sacrifice of the son.

Later Maron assisted in the creation of a mobile game called Fortress Fury, and created a new channel of the same name where he uploaded tutorial videos for the game. On May 15, 2015, he created a channel called "CaptainSparklez 2", where he began uploading unedited videos of his Twitch live streams, uncut videos, and other content which he felt did not belong on his main channel. On March 27, 2016, he created "Maron Music", a music promotion channel where he would share other artists music, as well as his own original music. On February 9, 2017, Maron created a dedicated channel for his personal vlogs. Maron later created "Fortnite Cinema" a channel which features short films created in the game Fortnite Battle Royale.

Maron started a mobile gaming company called XREAL with Howard Marks, co-founder and former CEO of Activision and cofounder of Acclaim Games and StartEngine. XREAL released their game Fortress Fury in May 2015, which received over 1.5 million downloads within its first month of launch. Fortress Fury was originally titled Fortress Fallout, however, ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda Softworks, who is known for the Fallout series, sent a cease-and-desist letter that requested that XREAL "immediately expressly abandon the application for Fortress Fallout and cease any and all current or proposed use of any mark incorporating the term Fallout." The main reason Bethesda took legal action was that they did not want any competition in the mobile game market for their game Fallout Shelter, which had been in development. Maron and the XREAL's legal team were not informed of this, because Bethesda had been keeping Shelter a secret at the time and did not reveal its existence until its release on June 14, 2015.

The third video in the series, "Find The Pieces", was released on April 25, 2015. The video currently has over 36 million views and is the fifth-most-viewed video on Maron's channel. The video contains another original song by TryHardNinja, called "Pieces", and is a continuation of the story of the king's son, who is looking for his father. In the course of the song, he leaves his village, and battles a Wither. He is reunited with his father at the music video's end.

The second video in the series, "Take Back the Night", was released on August 31, 2013. The video, at over 130 million views, is the second-most-viewed video on Maron's channel, after "Revenge". The video contains the titular track, an original song by TryHardNinja, and tells the story of what happened to the son of the king from "Fallen Kingdom". It shows a prince, the son of the king in "Fallen Kingdom", being taken in and raised by villagers due to his father's absence, later pursuing and defeating the character Herobrine after an attack on the village. "Take Back The Night" is the second most viewed video on Maron's channel.

Maron is also known for his "Fallen Kingdom" series of four Minecraft music videos. They depict a storyline of a king and his son of a fictional kingdom in the Minecraft universe. The first instalment of the series, "Fallen Kingdom", was released on April 1, 2012. The video's music is a parody of the Coldplay song "Viva la Vida," with lyrics changed to fit elements of Minecraft as well as to tie into the narrative of the video, which shows a king wandering through a ruined town he once ruled, interspersed with flashbacks revealing what happened to the town. The video currently is the third-most-viewed video on Maron's channel, with over 122 million views. The song in the video was performed by singer TryHardNinja, whose YouTube channel has over 1 million subscribers.

Maron was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. When he was four years old, he and his mother moved to Santa Barbara. He attended Santa Barbara High School beginning in ninth grade. Maron then went to the University of California, Santa Barbara as a chemical engineering major. He decided to switch his major to computer science midway through his freshman year, based on his interest in video games. After the first quarter of his sophomore year, he dropped out. In December 2011, he made YouTube his full-time job.

On February 26, 2011, he released his first Minecraft music video, "TNT", a parody of Taio Cruz's "Dynamite", with vocals from singer TryHardNinja. In late 2015, the video was made private at the request of Maron's network and replaced by a new video with original music. In May 2018, the original video was made public again. The video is currently the fourth-most-viewed video on Maron's channel with over 106 million views, surpassing the number of views of the original song.

On August 19, 2011, he released his second Minecraft music video titled "Revenge", which is a parody of Usher's "DJ Got Us Falling In Love Again". TryHardNinja reprises his role as the main singer on the track. It depicts a Minecraft character encountering creatures called creepers underground before escaping to his home, eventually managing to fend them off. Maron is depicted as a separate character, who raps in front of a fireplace. The video has over 200 million views, making it the most viewed video on Maron's channel as well as the most viewed Minecraft-related video on YouTube. In late 2015, along with "TNT", it was made private and replaced by a new video with original music. In May 2018, along with "TNT", the original video and audio were restored.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Maron dropped out of the University of California, Santa Barbara, deciding to pursue a career on YouTube as a full-time job. Maron's first channel, "ProsDONTtalkSHIT", was created in February 2010 and featured gameplay from the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Maron later created his main channel "CaptainSparklez" in July 2010, uploading both Minecraft and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 gameplay before focusing mainly on Minecraft.

Maron owns a total of nine YouTube channels. Seven of his channels are currently active. On February 9, 2010, he created his first channel titled "ProsDONTtalkSHIT" (PDTS) where he primarily uploaded gameplay videos of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. When PDTS began to become more popular, Maron decided he wanted a less vulgar name. He created a new channel named "CaptainSparklez" on July 20, 2010, and left PDTS inactive.

Jordan Maron (born February 10, 1992), better known by his online alias CaptainSparklez, is an American YouTube personality, gamer-commentator, and electronic musician. Maron is primarily known for playing the video game Minecraft, which is featured on his main channel, CaptainSparklez, and the channel CaptainSparklez 2. His main channel is currently the 437th most-subscribed channel on YouTube with over ten million subscribers as of July 25, 2019.