Proton Jon

ProtonJon (Jonathan Wheeler) is a full-time streamer on Twitch and one of the founding members of TheRunawayGuys.

Life
Jon found his content creation debut on the Something Awful forums as one of the original Let's Players. His early videos are archived on his YouTube page where he played through the original Ninja Gaiden games, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and other several difficult games. The most well known videos coming from his attempts at Kaizo Mario romhacks (giving birth to quotes like "MOVE FASTER POKEY" and "death water"), some Super Smash Bros. Brawl content, his never-ending Superman 64 LP, and his play-through of Resident Evil 5. He is also one of the founding and core members of The Runaway Guys collaboration channel. comprised of himself, Chuggaaconroy (Emile), and NintendoCapriSun (Tim). Slowbeef, a fellow early Let's Player, has called Jon the nicest person in the Let's Play community, with the possible exception of raocow.

One of Jon's earliest videos on Resident Evil 5 was the "Rotten Egg Challenge", where one tries to defeat Albert Wesker in under 7 minutes, using nothing but rotten eggs. This was the root of his close relation to eggs and Wesker, with jokes and memes about it culminating into a full playthrough of Resident Evil 5 with Wesker's voice actor himself, D.C. Douglas, later in his streaming career,

In 2013, around the time of the Resident Evil 5 LP was ending, Jon started shifting towards streaming to Twitch instead of focusing solely on LPs. As a variety streamer, he averages out about 3 or 4 streams a week, where Saturdays are almost surely his "signature" Fortune Cookie stream. (The types of streams that he does can be found here.)

In 2018, he got happily married to now-VTuber Lucahjin, whom has credited him as inspiration for starting her YouTube career. Together, they care for their furry trouble-maker of a cat Bagel, whom they adopted. That same year was the inaugural year of The Runaway Guys Colosseum charity event, marking the first time in a while that Jon hosted a charity stream that has been run annually since its debut.

On February 3, 2019, of the more infamous streams of recent memory involved him egging (pun intended) on the artist community formed around him at the time when they started drawing him as Rosalina from the Super Mario series. This led to the creation of one of the three "Fem-Jon" timelines and eventually to the creation of the Jonaverse itself, marking a new era of his streams that had a bigger spotlight on the artist community than ever before.

In 2021, Jon briefly returned to making Let's Plays with the help of a couple of his Twitch mods for editing support, starting Let's Plays of Jet Set Radio Future and Super Metroid (as well as uploading one (1) video of Superman 64 as a treat). He also started posting stream highlight compilations to catch up his unsuspecting YouTube fanbase to his stream shenanigans (his 2020 update video notwithstanding). The LP channel is currently in hibernation once again, but his Twitch VOD channel is updated every time he streams.

''The StephenWiki page on Jon can be found here. The TV Tropes page for Jon can be found here.''

Lore
Proton Jon is the first, the Prime, and the center of the Jonaverse. Ever since the 'Glitch Bang', he has found his home continually hosting an ever growing number of alternate Jons.

Beyond his new guests; his powers over glitches seems to have manifested outside of the games now as well. The most recent example of this is the current Booru Voodoo that seems to be affecting many of the artists that follow his streams.

He has so far taken thins rather well, finding out there are an infinite number of variable versions of himself. Living with a few of them such as RosaJon, PonPon and others as he helps add some control to the chaos of these worlds. Through it all though he keeps a distinct humor and care for others, and continues to stream for the enjoyment of his now universe-spanning fans.

Trivia

 * March 9th, 2007 was the date his first video was uploaded to Google Video (a precursor to YouTube). Having sixteen years of experience (as of 2023) as a content creator, it can be argued that Jon is one of the longest-running content creators on the Internet as a whole. His mods and friends celebrated his 15th anniversary of content creation with a surprise video seen in this VOD.
 * One of the reasons Jon has come to prefer streaming is the atmosphere of it. He enjoys the instant chat interactions, chatting with co-comms on stream, and seeing fanart of stream moments and the alts. Furthermore, he is a very adamant supporter of people who do art and other creative things and likes to see people get into art and continue to grow in their craft. This and his support of RosaJon and the Jonaverse as a whole has cultivated a big artist following behind Jon's streams, leading to The Booru and The Egg PAC being created.
 * Jon once had the nickname "GOD GAMER PROTONJON", often spammed in chat after a hype moment on streams. In 2020, he asked his community to stop calling him this because it puts unreasonable expectations on himself. While he may be very good at games, it has only come from sheer dedication (usually stubbornness) to get through some hard things in gaming, as well as overcoming his own bad luck (and glitches) at times.
 * After going to therapy in 2021, Jon was diagnosed with ADHD and he went onto stream at the end of that year to announce it publicly. This is a common topic that is brought up when it comes to his own mental health and being one of the main reasons why his YouTube channel is currently dormant.
 * A number of content creators claim they knew of Jon from his early YouTube days and have said so on his stream:
 * It is surprisingly uncommon to hear a new raid target for Jon say they know him from his YouTube videos (rarely saying they know him from his early stream days). Such streamers like composer and cover artist ShadyCicada (who also knows Jules and Carlos) and indie VTuber swirlDrop mentioned this when Jon first raided them, but there have certainly been and will be more.
 * Aelita1234, one of Jon's mods, found his "MOVE FASTER POKEY" video a long time ago when she was younger, only to realize later (not too long after she started following his Twitch channel) that the guy who made the video was Jon himself. She made a comic about this here.
 * Major VTubers Haruka Karibu (VShojo, formerly indie) and Ceres Fauna (Hololive EN Council), as well as indie VTuber MariMari, have all mentioned they knew of Jon from his early YouTube days. The former two even credit him as a source of inspiration for starting content creation to some degree. Haruka has appeared on Jon and Lucah's stream at least once and has been in their chats a number of times, MariMari also has gained a connection with Jon after they versed each other in a Twitch Rivals Pokémon Scarlet and Violet tournament in 2023.

Featured "Alt"!
For the Egg PAC's 3rd anniversary, Jon himself was revealed to be November 2022's "Alt" of the Month as a joke. There is no promo image attached to this.