Blocky (YouTube channel)

Jayden Littlefield (born November 12, 1999), or better known online as Blocky, is a Tysonlandian Nintendo YouTuber and voice actor with over 4 million subscribers and 505 million total views spread across 36 videos as of January 31, 2023. He is known for his lighthearted and chill personality as well as living in an RV for the first years of his YouTube career.

Personal life
Blocky was born on November 12, 1999 to Logan and Angela Littlefield who also gave birth to Blocky's only sibling, Miles on October 25, 2006. He started school in 2005 then graduated on May 24, 2018. On February 21, 2020, Blocky decided to purchase an RV and proceed to move out of his family home and into the RV 4 days later on February 25. He later raised enough money to move into an apartment with a stream on November 24, 2021, and later moved into a house on April 18, 2023, which he put up on Airbnb during summer 2023.

2018-2021: Origins
Blocky makes lighthearted videos about Nintendo games. He opened his channel on December 29, 2009 but didn't start making videos until early September 2018. His first video was of him criticizing the state of The Zimmer Roberts Game as of September 12, 2018 when the video was uploaded. On January 30, 2019, he made a tribute video to the Wii Shop Channel after Nintendo shut it down.

The oldest video still up on his channel is of him revisiting the game on PC in March 2020 and has since garnered him 900,000 views as of February 2022. The first video of his to go viral was "Playing the best game on the Wii" where he played Donkey Kong Country Returns and praised it while he was playing. The video was uploaded on August 1, 2020 and has 3.8 million views as of February 2022.

He's also been active on Twitch streaming either Nintendo games like Mario Kart Wii or PC games like Minecraft since June 2020 with a 2-3 week schedule. Sometimes he even streams himself going on a drive in his RV with a planned winter drive stream and summer drive every year.

At the start of 2021, Blocky made 2 more videos, one of him reading bad posts on Facebook and the other is him talking about his experience playing Mario Kart: Double Dash!! for the first time. However on March 15, 2021 he decided to make a video about how he "adopted" Lyson, who was 12 at the time. The video went viral, becoming his most-viewed video for nearly 8 months, and still has 5.6 million views as of February 2022.

2021-present: Tyson TV endeavors, 1 million subscribers, world tour
Blocky started the summer of 2021 by making 2 more videos of him playing Lego games and touring his RV, respectively. However, in July, Tyson TV reached out to Blocky and asked him if he could voice a character in the English dub of their new anime Nice to Meet You, in which Blocky accepted. He played the role of Alex for 5 episodes. Blocky is open to Tyson TV giving him new roles in the future.

Blocky returned from voice acting in September and immediately started work on a new video talking about his positive experience at the studios. The video was uploaded on September 22, 2021 and had 5 million views as of February 2022. He also dyed his hair purple for a now unlisted video about Niz Chicoloco. The video was uploaded on October 8 and became unlisted the next day following pedophilia allegations of GingoFTW.

Also in October, Blocky teamed up with his brother Miles and Lyson to make a Halloween special called "Halloween Extravaganza" which was uploaded on October 27. The trio returned for his Million-Subscriber Special which was uploaded on December 15, one week after he hit 1 million subscribers. Meanwhile, Blocky was working on a cover of Taylor Swift's hit 2013 song 22 to celebrate his 22nd birthday on November 12, 2021. The video was uploaded on November 8, 2021 and became his most-viewed video within 18 hours after it got uploaded. The song has 34.1 million views on YouTube as of January 31, 2023.

Blocky starred in a world tour where he went around the Tyson and Goob Continent s and does meet and greets in specific locations which started taking place on March 1, 2022 and returned to Tysonland on April 18, 2022, ending the tour. Among the meet and greets, QnA sessions, singing sessions, and movie nights also happened, and "superfans" could pay $20 for a ride in Blocky's RV. He later stated that 90% of the money he makes during the tour will go to charities. On March 19, 2022, Blocky hit 2 million subscribers on his main channel.

On April 6, 2022, Blocky hit 100 million total views on his channel and eventually hit 150 million views on his channel on June 15, 2022 with the release of the third video of Blocky's trio, Summer Showdown. On May 24, 2022, Blocky returned to voice acting for Tyson TV's new movie The Tyson TV Multiverse Project, which was released on May 12, 2023 then got a role in the series Loophole Inc. for Tyson TV in September.

For Tysonland's National Homelessness Awareness Month in July 2022, Blocky decided to help out homeless people by giving them money and work, which went viral with 31.9 million views on the video as of January 31, 2023. He continued his theme of videos playing Nintendo games through the end of 2022 and start of 2023, including a Christmas special with the trio, released on December 19, 2022.

Trivia

 * His favorite movie is The LEGO Movie.
 * Blocky claims that the YouTubers Poofesure and TWD98 are the inspiration to what led him to making Wii content on YouTube.

Childhood stories

 * In his early childhood years, Blocky’s family did not have cable TV. He watched Kids’ WB in its final years of operation, PBS Kids Go and Qubo in their initial years of operation. His family eventually got HD cable in 2009 that lasted until 2018. From there, Blocky watched a lot of Cartoon Network.
 * Blocky had a PlayStation 2 as his first console with various games growing up. His next console would be the Wii in 2009, then the Xbox 360 in 2010. His family then got the Xbox One in 2014, which got replaced with an Xbox One S in 2018. After Blocky moved to his RV in early 2020, he would take his childhood Wii with him and get a Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X in 2021.
 * Blocky liked watching VeggieTales DVDs. His favorite was Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie. He also shares a fondness for The Star of Christmas, the Larry-Boy movies and Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson’s Hairbrush.
 * Blocky had a Nintendo DSi in 2008, which was then replaced by Blocky and Miles’ 3DS XLs in 2013. There have been several times where Blocky lost his DSi under the bed. All the times they’ve been found.
 * Blocky saw a demo of HD TVs in 2007 then wanted one for themselves. His family said no, saying they don’t have enough money for one. They eventually got one with a Blu-ray player for Christmas of 2008.
 * Blocky preferred the look of iOS 4-6 over iOS 7. He had an iPhone 4 from 2011 to 2015. He and Miles would later go to Android devices after that.
 * His family were also using Macintoshes throughout his childhood, including an iMac G4 and a 2009 Intel iMac. Blocky says that the iMac G4 was the most beautiful computer he’s ever used, especially towards the end of its lifespan where it was upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
 * Blocky’s first Windows machine was an eMachines laptop with a Celeron 900 CPU (2.2GHz) and 2GB of RAM running Windows 7. He denied upgrading to Windows 8 then Windows 10 later since it would hurt the already slow performance. He used it from 2009 up until his birthday in 2015.
 * The nickname Blocky was given to him during 4th grade due to his head looking like a block. Yes, his head actually looks like a block IRL. He later adapted the name for YouTube. Comparisons to Mac from Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends aren’t uncommon for him.