Aphmau

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Jessica "Jess" Bravura (born: October 16, 1989 [age 31]), better known online as Aphmau, is an American YouTuber. Jess was born in Houston, Texas. Throughout the years she has been known for a wide variety of content, but is mostly well-known throughout the gaming community for the Minecraft Content she creates. She has been known for creating two types of Minecraft Content from Roleplays (such as her popular MyStreet and MC:Diaries series) to her very unique style of Minecraft Gaming videos. Jessica has been playing Minecraft since 2012-2020, during which time she’s been able to change and diversify her Minecraft content very successfully throughout her career.

In her personal life she in married to Jason Bravura and together they have three children. In July 2020, she revealed on her Instagram that she was pregnant with her 4th child. On October 21st, 2020, Jessica gave birth to Jessabelle, her 3rd daughter.

History

In the beginning of their career Jason and Jessica had discussed the idea of creating a YouTube Channel with a group of friends. The channel Challenge Accepted Inc. was created August 2012 and originally started off with four members (including Jessica and Jason). Two members left after personal life issues came up and the channel had become just Jessica and Jason. They renamed the channel to Aphmau Gaming and eight years after the channel's launch Jess and Jason have managed to take Aphmau Gaming to 6.3 million subscribers and growing! In 2020, Jessica currently co-owns a business known as CatFace with Jason. The company is focused around helping her produce her YouTube content. In total Jessica has four channels:

Aphmau Gaming [Active]: A Gaming Channel that posts a wide variety of gaming content from 2012-2020, it’s primary game has mostly been Minecraft, but the most popular videos have been a mix of Snipper Clips, Minecraft Roleplays, Minecraft Mini-Games, Human Fall Flat, and Animations.

Shuki [Semi-Active]: A Roblox Channel that was very consistent with posting in from April-July 2020, but as of July 2020 has not posted as much. This is possibly due to the heavy increase in the main channels heavy audience growth in 2020 and the fact that Jessica is pregnant as of September 2020. Aphmau Stories [Inactive]: This channel was initially released as Aphmau Fantasy and has been inactive since 2017. But during 2020 it has been rebranded to Aphmau Stories. In the past it was known for posting only Minecraft Roleplay content.

Jessica Bravura [Inactive]: This channel was Jessica’s vlogging channel and was created in 2015. Her last video was her third child pregnancy announcement in 2019.

Personality

Family

Aphmau (Jess) is a positive, energetic, hardworking YouTuber. She has a funny sense of humor and won't hesitate to put a pun in where she can fit it. She is a social butterfly and a very kind person. On her channel she maintains her persona of very family friendly, but has done YouTube and Twitch streams in the past where she loosens that up a bit - she even marks the Twitch Streams as mature and has heavily enforced the fact that her Twitch Channel is aimed at a more mature audience. She’s very conscious about being kind and if on a stream will really show how much she cares about people. Based on how she speaks during streams she has a good sense of logic in her actions and really thinks through what she does. Jason has also been seen being incredibly supportive of her decisions on camera when he comforted her on stream for finally revealing her *reason for stopping Minecraft Diaries Season 3. [see reason in trivia]

Content

Jessica has a wide variety of gaming content on her channel. Throughout the years she has been very adaptive to moving from different forms of entertainment on her main channel Aphmau Gaming. She has gone from group content to solo content, roleplays to unique Minecraft style content, as well as various other games in between. As of 2020, in terms of growth, she’s the top female Minecraft-only content creator.

Various Games: Throughout the years, from the very beginning of the channel until 2019, Jessica has played multiple games from Dead Space all the way to SnipperClips. She’s had multiple Triple A game titles as well as indie games featured on the channel.

Roleplays: In 2015 she began her start of making Minecraft Roleplays. This era of her channel would last from 2015-2019. Due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, roleplays have since stopped. The status of her roleplay content was not in a good position after her final series of Phoenix Drop Days. This is most likely due to the decreasing popularity of Minecraft Roleplays as a genre in general as at the time of her departure she was the last big Minecraft Roleplay Creator left.

Jessica’s Roleplay content consisted of story-roleplay and roleplay themed minigames. Jessica herself had written every roleplay with the counsel of Jason to bounce ideas off of. Dreams of Estorra was the only series seemingly to have multiple writers working on the project, but it was ultimately discontinued due to lack of audience interest.

Most of her roleplays are discontinued as of 2019. Jessica has mentioned on streams that roleplay content cannot continue unless the support for the series can help fund the production of the series itself. She has mentioned that MyStreet was the only series that could help fund new roleplay projects, but has yet to comment on the current status of MyStreet due to a possible production halt because of COVID19.

A few of her popular Minecraft Roleplays Include:

MyStreet 2015 [Most Popular]: A slice of life story that follows the life of Aphmau and her friends. Episodes were originally filled with random mini-plots and character interactions. By Season 2, the series started to take on a more structured story and lore. MyStreet consists of 6 Seasons and each season is structured around a different story-telling genre. Seasons 1, 2, 3, and 5 all structure around a slice of life feel, while Seasons 4 and 6 take the characters on a more story-driven and emotional ride. MyStreet originally started as an alternate universe from her beginning roleplay Minecraft: Diaries, but has since managed to pull in more fans and become the staple of the roleplays she’s known for.

Minecraft Diaries 2014/2015 [Popular]: A fantasy-esque roleplay that started as a survival series in Minecraft Diaries: Origins and then spun off into the popular Minecraft Diaries that is well known today. The original concept of Diaries was a Let’s Play but it evolved into much more. The series originally did not gain traction but seemingly, after episode 20 it sent things off into motion for Jessica to begin to take on roleplays more-so.

Phoenix Drop High 2016 [Popular]: A high school slice of life story that follows Aphmau during her freshman year at Phoenix Drop High. This series was widely well received due to it providing more backstory and insight to the characters in MyStreet. Phoenix Drop High consisted of 2 Seasons. Season 1 had its own run while Season 2 was intertwined with MyStreet Season 4.

She has since created various roleplays which consist of: Falcon Claw University, My Inner Demons, Mermaid Tales, VOID Paradox/Mod-Mod World, Meteora Valley, Dreams of Estorra and various mini-MyStreet arcs.

Statistics

[1] From Social Blade, Aphmau Reach 7.11M Subscribers is: 1 million subscribers: November 11, 2015 2 million subscribers: July 14, 2016 3 million subscribers: September 10, 2017 4 million subscribers: October 3, 2018 5 million subscribers: March 17, 2020 6 million subscribers: August 5, 2020 7 million subscribers: November 2, 2020

Trivia

• Jessica has 4 channels, they are: Aphmau, Aphmau Fantasy, Aphmau Vlogging, and Shuki, And her husband Jason has a channel were he does livestreams featuring Aphmau.
• In an Instagram post, she talks about how she suffers from severe depression and Post-Partum Depression and also talks about her breakdown in August 2016.
• Reason for stopping MC:Diaries [see Personality above for context]: It was due to how she felt she had to change the story she wanted to tell in an attempt to stop the hate her fans had sent her for making the story the way she wanted and not the way the fans wanted. According to her it was mostly fans of the character Garroth. This caused her to write episode 98 of Season 2 to appease the fans and caused the series to be completely shifted off course. The stream of this has since been unlisted, but a fan uploaded video shows her visibly crying over how bad it had gotten. Since then she has openly expressed how she took back her content creation in ways that are best for her and how she has stopped trying to please everyone, however this inappropriate fan behavior is the primary reason she lost interest in the series. She attempted to revisit the series once more later but as she mentioned in streams, the series needed support to continue to which it did not obtain.

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