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The Completionist
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Logo
Personal information
Born (1998-01-03) 3 January 1998 (age 26)
Los Angeles, California[1]
YouTube information
Channels
Years active2012–present
GenreGame Reviewing
Subscribers1.61m[2]
(April 2023)
Total views321,760,247[2]
(April 2023)
100,000 subscribers
1,000,000 subscribers

Jirard Khalil (born: January 3, 1988), also known online as The Completionist, is a YouTuber focusing on video games reviews.[3] Jirad’s channel is dedicated to completing games, and throughout his career as a game reviewer on YouTube, he has uploaded reviews of over 340 games.[4]

Khalil also co-hosts another channel, Super Beard Bros. Initially featuring only Jirard and Alex, The show began on November 19th, 2012; later on April 15th, 2013, Jirard’s companion on The Completionist, Greg, joined the two.[5] (until Greg left in 2015)

Early Life

After Khalil got his College degree in Theater and Flim, Khalil worked at a Best Buy. After his manager pushed him to pursue his YouTube dreams full time, Khalil began starting his new YouTube Channel which were originally called "ThatOneVideoGamer" but was changed into The Completionist. Khalil in a interview with CNN stated "And I said to myself, what’s one thing I love doing? Completing games. How do I share that passion with the world and make that passion my identity?"[6]

Career

Khalil's career begins in 2012, however, Jirard Khalil's YouTube channel, The Completionist, had removed its first 120 episodes due to legal threats from Greg Wilmott, Jirard's ex-best friend who appeared in those episodes. However, the Epsiodes are now on Archive.org.[7][8][9] In 2021, Khalil had joined G4's Xplay, which in a interview Jirard said to Syfy "It’s very surreal for me. It’s really a dream come true in terms of this whole full circle, Cinderella-esque story for me and my journey joining the team.”[10][11] Xplay and G4 averaged 1,000 viewers before G4 faced a it's second shutdown in 2023, thus ceasing the production of G4's Xplay.[12][13] In 2022, Khalil debuted his new series, God of Work.[6][14] Jirard was also a writer for one episode of JonTron, a 2009 web series "Continue?"[15] and one episode of Game Theory.

In 2021, as apart of Sonic's 30th Anniversary, the Official Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube channel, featured a new series called Sonic Rings. In the series, Khalil talks his history with the series.[16] In 2022, Adam Cole challenged The Completionist to come on AEW Dynamite.[17][18]

On March 18, 2023, Khalil uploaded a video about buying every single Wii U and 3DS game before it shut down in 2023.[19][20] In the video, Khalil talked about it took 328 days to complete the project, US$9,673 in Wii U games, $13,118 in 3DS games with a grand total of $22,791.[21][22][23] The Video was funded by multiple sponsorships throughout 2022.[24][25][26] In the description of the video, Khalil states that: " It was costly, time-consuming, and absolutely worth it." In the same video, Khalil talked about donating the consoles to a preservation company called The Video Game History Foundation.[27][28][29] However, most of these games in the video Khalil preserved were already preserved on illegal ROM websites.[30][31][32]

References

  1. ^ "Jirard Khalil - IMDb". IMDb.
  2. ^ a b "About @ThatOneVideoGamer". YouTube.
  3. ^ "The Completionist - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  4. ^ jturner@qconline.com, JONATHAN TURNER. "Passionate video gamer 'The Completionist' comes to Rust Belt Nov. 19". The Quad-City Times. Nov. 13, 2019. Retrieved April 17, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. ^ "Super Beard Bros - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  6. ^ a b Andronico, Mike (August 9, 2022). "We talked to The Completionist's Jirard Khalil about his new G4 show — and his favorite YouTube gear". CNN Underscored. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  7. ^ The Future Of The Completionist, retrieved April 17, 2023
  8. ^ "TwitLonger — When you talk too much for Twitter". www.twitlonger.com. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  9. ^ That One Video Gamer, The Completionist Archive, retrieved April 17, 2023
  10. ^ "New Xplay co-host 'had weird emotional outbursts' of G4 fandom upon joining Adam Sessler". SYFY Official Site. November 16, 2021. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  11. ^ "CAA Signs Prominent Gamers Alpharad And The Completionist (Exclusive)". Tubefilter. September 1, 2020. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  12. ^ Simmons, Nathan (October 16, 2022). "RIP G4 TV". SVG. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  13. ^ Chapman, Tony Maglio,Wilson; Maglio, Tony; Chapman, Wilson (October 17, 2022). "Why Did the G4 Channel Close? Well, It Averaged 1,000 Viewers". IndieWire. Retrieved April 17, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "Can The Completionist bring his combination of video games and acting to TV? 100%". Tubefilter. August 10, 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  15. ^ Continue? (TV Series 2009– ) - IMDb, retrieved April 17, 2023
  16. ^ "New official Sonic Rings YouTube series highlights Sonic megafans, starting with The Completionist". Nintendo Wire. July 15, 2021. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  17. ^ "411MANIA". Adam Cole Delivers Challenge to The Completionist to Come to AEW Dynamite. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  18. ^ Adam Cole, AdamColePro. "Hey @Completionist." Twitter. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  19. ^ Nunneley-Jackson, Stephany (February 16, 2022). "The Wii U and Nintendo 3DS eShop will be shutdown next year". VG247. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  20. ^ The, Completionist. "I bought EVERY Nintendo Wii U & 3DS game before the Nintendo eShop closes". YouTube.
  21. ^ Kuhnke, Oisin (March 19, 2023). "Ahead of the Wii U and 3DS eShops' closure, YouTube's most prolific completionist bought every game". VG247. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  22. ^ Liang, Lu-Hai (March 19, 2023). "TheCompletionist Just Spent $23K Saving Every Game On Wii U And 3DS". TheGamer. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  23. ^ "YouTuber Buys Every Single Video Game On The Wii U and 3DS eShops Before They Close". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  24. ^ "YouTuber The Completionist Bought Every Wii U And 3DS eShop Game Before Shutdown, And It Cost $23,000". GameSpot. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  25. ^ Hopley, Alex. "The Completionist buys every game on the Wii U and 3DS eShops". Gamereactor UK. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  26. ^ "YouTuber spends over $20,000 in 3DS and Wii U eShop ahead of closure". Dexerto. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  27. ^ "Jirard 'The Completionist' Khalil Buys Every Wii U And 3DS eShop Game, Donates Them All". Kotaku Australia. March 20, 2023. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  28. ^ "Video Game History Foundation". Video Game History Foundation. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  29. ^ Irorita, Franz Christian (March 20, 2023). "Jirard the Completionist buys all 3DS, Wii U games before eShop closes". ClutchPoints. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  30. ^ published, Dustin Bailey (March 21, 2023). "YouTuber's wild $20k quest to preserve the Nintendo eShop could be the only legal way to save game history, and that sucks". gamesradar. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  31. ^ Petrovich, Erik (March 20, 2023). "This YouTuber May Have Just Saved 2413 Nintendo eShop Games". SVG. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  32. ^ Life, Nintendo (March 19, 2023). "Random: YouTuber Spends Nearly $23K Buying Every 3DS & Wii U eShop Game". Nintendo Life. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
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