Freddie Wong
freddiew
Wong in October 2010
Date of birth	1985/1986 (age 26)[1][2]
Hometown	Seattle, Washington
Nationality	United States
Games	Guitar Hero 2, Portal 2

Freddie Wong is an American filmmaker, musician, VFX technician and e-Sports player. He maintains two popular YouTube channels, "freddiew" and "freddiew2". He is the older brother of fellow YouTuber Jimmy Wong.^[3][4]

Biography[link]

Wong graduated from Lakeside School.^[5] He then attended and graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.^[5] Wong owns and manages Overcrank Media, a Los Angeles based media production company specializing in feature film and online video content, having produced an independent film titled Bear. Wong met his future collaborator Brandon Laatsch in college. They have collaborated with various Hollywood artists, and with video game development companies.

Notable accomplishments[link]

Wong competed in the World Series of Video Games in Dallas in July 2007. He won first prize in the Guitar Hero 2 competition, playing the song "Less Talk More Rokk" by Freezepop.^[6][7]

During MTV's "Gamer's Week" celebration in November 2007, Freddie appeared as a guest on Total Request Live.^[8] Participating in the program with his newly-formed band Hellanor Brozevelt, Wong was part of a country-wide search to find the best Rock Band ensemble. After receiving tutelage from well-known rockers Good Charlotte, Brozevelt performed at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York against Chicago-based Carrie Me Home.^{[citation needed]}

For the release of Rock Band, the band Hellanor Brozevelt was commissioned to play at the Best Buy in Hollywood, CA for the midnight release of the game.^[9]

Freddie Wong performed at the first (and only) YouTube Live in San Francisco on November 22, 2008.

He maintains two YouTube channels,^[10][11] with the main channel having a total of 611 million video views and over 3.1 million subscribers,^[12] and the second with 112 million video views and 0.9 million subscribers.^[13] Wong has successfully attracted mainstream attention as well, with Andy Whitfield appearing in a Time Crisis tribute video, Kevin Pollak appearing in a Hypnotism stunt, Shenae Grimes in a romantic gun action scene, Ray William Johnson in a troll infestation video, Eliza Dushku appearing in an action scene, Jon Favreau featuring in his video based on Cowboys & Aliens, and the glam metal band Steel Panther appearing in his video based on the Crossfire board game.

In 2010 he helped Joe Penna, known as MysteryGuitarMan on YouTube, shoot a commercial for McDonald's.^[14] In 2011 Wong produced, co-directed, and acted in a TV commercial for Battlefield 3 at the request of Electronic Arts.^[15][16]

Since 2011 he, along with his partners, has worked on the webseries Video Game High School, which began releasing episodes on May 10, 2012.

Filmography[link]

Notes[link]

Further reading[link]

• Slater, Grant (7 July 2007), "Mild-mannered gamers become rock stars for a day", Associated Press Newswires 
• Sperounes, Sandra (23 February 2008), "Internet phenomenon a Guitar Hero for hire", Winnipeg Free Press: p. c13 

External links[link]

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• www.facerocker.com
• www.freddiew.com
• Freddie Wong on Twitter
• Freddie Wong on Facebook
• FreddieW's channel on YouTube
• freddiew2's channel on YouTube
• Freddie Wong at the Internet Movie Database