Stephen Georg

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"The Eternal Vlogger"
StephenPlays (Stephen Georg), is a content creator primarily on YouTube and Twitch based in Raleigh, NC. He is a recurring cast member on the Disc Only podcast (and was on the other end of the meme of the same name since its inception). He is also the husband of MalMakes.

He has kept up a vlog about his life since November 24th, 2009 that began as a passion project aside from his college work to work on his camera skill. It has since become one of the longest-running vlogs on YouTube at 14 years. November 24, 2023 marks the start of Year 15.

Background
Stephen was born and raised in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. His interest in filming started at age 12 when he received a video camera. Alongside being a regular on the Starmen.net forum who posted his own video content, he started a website in 2005 to host his creations. His personal works have gotten noticed and written about in magazines and the press. Some of these videos still exist in the “Stephen’s Basement” YouTube channel, as well as other defunct channels he started in the past. He used to go by a "random key" username, "xfisjmg1" (pronounced ex-fice-j-m-g-1), that he made up by hitting random keys blindly at a time before he became good at typing.

He attended college at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Georgia from 2007 through 2011 as a film major. His college years are also when he met his closest friends, including MotionDan, Alex (wasabimilkshake), and his now-wife Mallory (MalMakes), all of whom have known each other since they met in dating site Earthbound/Mother fansite Starmen.net.

After years of being in a long distance relationship, Stephen and Mal married in August 2011. They adopted kittens in 2012, Kepler and Sagan, the latter of whom had passed in February 2020. They are both depicted in the emotes of Stephen’s Twitch channel.

As a Content Creator
Content creation is Stephen’s full time job. StephenVlog started in 2009 as a project to practice his filming skills and has now passed over 4,000 days. StephenPlays, now 120+ LPs strong, started in 2011 (a couple days after TRG’s YouTube inception) and was inspired by his exposure to LPs by Emile (Chuggaconroy). Stephen and Emile often feature each other in each others’ channels and have been good friends since they met in Starmen.net. Stephen also features Emile on StephenVlog whenever he comes to visit or vice versa. Such vlogs have made a bridge between Emile and Stephen’s communities in the early years of his vlog. Stephen and Mal’s involvement in TRG in tournaments and TRG Colosseum charity events (as well as Stephen’s involvement as Player 4 during the collabs of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures and Kirby: Amazing Mirror) have further bridged the gap, especially for the greater TRG community. He is also great friends with JoshJepson and MasaeAnela and are both featured often in the Vlog. Stephen's involvement in Disc Only, as well as the stream meme that caused it, has also become such a bridge between his and Jon's communities (as well as Tom's and Jerod's).

Stephen started streaming to Twitch in 2014 for his annual charity event (Extra Life), streaming games from a particular system’s library. Slowly but surely, he started streaming regularly in 2018, lovingly adopting the nickname Internet Grandpa from his inexperience on the platform. Powered as of recently by his friend Chaz (@stochaztic), Stephen’s Twitch content includes breakfast social eating chat streams on Tuesdays and Thursdays (Breakfast Stream), live First20 recordings (for YouTube), and game streams every Friday night. Stephen and Jon have previously had run-ins with each other, primarily being summoned due to mentions of Jon’s boobs and the rare cross-raid. As you do. (Though, other TRG members and friends stop by the stream too, like Emile, Carlos, Sab, Adri, Jules, etc.)