Angry Joe

About

Jose Antonio Vargas (born June 18, 1984) is an American media commentator and YouTuber. He is notable for his portrayal of Angry Joe, the titular host of his media review-oriented YouTube channel AngryJoeShow.

Vargas launched his YouTube channel AngryJoeShow on October 4, 2008, with the video “Shit that Pisses Me Off – Madden 2009 Hardcore Gamers”. The show features Vargas’ character “AngryJoe” reviewing a video game with a scale from 1–10. These reviews typically use sketch comedy and clips from his streams on Twitch. The channel was well received by the YouTube community; as of April 2021, it has accrued over one billion views and amassed more than 3.2 million subscribers. In addition to game reviews, Vargas produces movie reviews on his channel. He and his channel have received mention in media covering YouTube, most notably for Vargas’ opposition to copyright overreach on YouTube. His interest in copyright on YouTube stemmed from an incident in which Nintendo of America filed a copyright claim on a video of Joe playing Mario Party 10.
Vargas was affiliated with Blistered Thumbs of the media production company Channel Awesome until April 2018. His departure was due…