James Wilson (YouTube)

James Wilson, otherwise known by his YouTube alias UberHaxorNova, is a popular gamer with over 3 million YouTube subscribers. He is a former member of the YouTube group The Creatures, and now co-hosts the channel Cow Chop with his friend, Aleksandr Marchant, who runs the YouTube channel ImmortalHDFilms. James has gained a lot of YouTube success from his rage and gaming videos. James is known for his temper and rather inappropriate gags. Before beginning his YouTube career, James worked at a Twizzlers factory while living with his mother and dogs in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Early YouTube Career

James created his YouTube channel on April 4, 2008. At the time, he uploaded Machinima and Let's Play videos. As time went on, James began to primarily produce Let's Play-style content. James created videos for Machinima and later Machinima Respawn shortly after the channel's launch. Having uploaded videos for Machinima since late 2008, he finally stopped doing so in 2014.

The Creatures (2010-2016)

In 2010 James officially joined the Creatures, a group he has a long history with and gained most of his fame on YouTube with. He got to know the Creatures when one of James' series, a solo playthrough of Dead Rising 2, eventually evolved into a multiplayer series featuring Sp00nerism. Following this series, James and Sp00n came to create several multiplayer series together. It was during this time that James also came to make videos with other Machinima members, some of whom were part of the Creatures. James was eventually inducted into the Creatures, and became a regular guest on Creature Talk. James' videos used to have an intro, in which his creature (a Pyjak from Mass Effect 2) walked across his YouTube name and then pooped on it, but more recently, he has simply been using artwork or 'title cards', also called thumbnails. One of his most successful series was about Happy Wheels, which was still well demanded months after 'ending' the series (James simply stopped uploading it). The series became so popular that the creator (Jim Bonacci aka. "ImAngryMan") of the game itself tried to contact James. However, many of James' fans would mark Bonacci's comment on his video as spam, which drove him to upload a rage video once he found out about the comment later on. Bonacci contacted James again later to let him voice his own character in the game (Pogostick Man). It was also during this time that the Creatures played Terraria together with the Yogscast for Christmas.

The next years would bring what was later called the "golden age" of The Creatures, with them moving into several large houses in order to easily produce content with one another. It was during this time that The Creatures started having complications with a few of their members, losing some and gaining others. The complications eventually led to the kicking of GassyMexican from the group after an anonymous vote between the members in late 2012 resulted in a majority deciding it would be best if he left. Reasoning for this was speculated to be his inactivity within the group and since it was known that he had troubles with Jordan and Dan, who were the instigators of the vote, they received hate for the first time ever from many of the fans, who generally liked Max. James also said that Jordan and Dan wouldn't create content, which also included editing videos of him and Seamus, something that they couldn't do as well themselves. The channel couldn't consist of only James and Seamus (who were the only other Creatures at the house at that time), since it was supposed to include all Creatures. His vote went against Max in the end, though he himself stated that he didn't actually vote for or against and just told the group his opinion, which was that if it was something that needs to happen for Jordan and Dan to create more content, then what could he say. So his vote was counted against Max by Jordan and Dan, something he stated weighed heavy upon his shoulders. It was the first boycott by Jordan and Dan and more and more complications would arise in the following years.

In July 2013, Sly's long time friend Aleks, better known as ImmortalHD on the internet, joined the Creatures by accident through a misinterpreted joke by the fans. He created content with the group for some time at that point and lived with Sly in a house. He went on to a panel with them where Jordan held up a water bottle and announced a new Creature. Many thought it was Aleks and others thought it was the water bottle, and even though it was initially nothing but a joke, Aleks later officially joined the Creatures and would go on to become one of James' closest friends. Sly left the group in July of 2014 to attend family matters, leaving the Creatures without their second most subscribed channel. A spot Seamus filled in and a spot Aleks would fill in later on at Cow Chop.

Together the group, James would finally move into the last stop of their then comfortable life as Creatures in early 2014: The Creature Office.

Complications arose within the Creatures when Jordan and Dan, who now had an executive role within the more business-like, professional Creatures, decided for the Creatures to become a kids-friendly channel. Neither James nor Aleks liked the idea, their creative innuendo being the exact opposite: Adult entertainment (non-sexual). Others had a problem with this too, for example, Dexter Manning. Another complication would be the sudden inclusion of interns in most content. James speculated later on that the hate towards the interns was caused by unprofessional inclusion by the executives into professional content. Nobody felt quite comfortable and the executives just went with it, which was the wrong approach in James' opinion, who hasn't had any problems with former interns Joe and Aron over at Cow Chop.

Leaving The Creatures, Cow Chop (2016-Present)

James officially left the Creatures with Aleks on April 30, 2016, after six years of being a Creature, due to creative differences between him and other Creatures, also to focus on Cow Chop, which has no relation at all to the Creatures aside from both being associated with Let's Play and Rooster Teeth. It should be noted that he was the Creatures most subscribed channel (Aleks also being the third most subscribed) and with other Creatures like Seamus (second most subscribed), Sp00n and Dex having left before, the Creatures suffered a huge drop in their subscriber count once the newly formed Cow Chop team severed their ties to them. With them, former interns and long time friends Aron and Joe also left, with Aron working for both groups at first, then finally choosing to focus on Cow Chop. Even though Cow Chop split from The Creatures, they still maintained their relationship with Let's Play and Rooster Teeth.

There was allegedly an affair that occurred between James and an ex-coworker from the Creatures that he admitted to on his live-stream, and for which he actually blamed specifically as one of the main factors for causing the falling apart of the group.

James began appearing in videos uploaded to Cow Chop in early April 2016, and appeared in regularly uploaded co-op Let's Plays with Aleks starting on April 15. On April 28, one day after the upload of a video showing the Cow Chop set being moved out from the Creature office, James and Aleks announced on a Q&A livestream that they, as well as Joe and Aron, had left The Creatures two months prior. Ever since, James has been setting kitchens on fire, setting fireworks off inside houses, letting doors be broken down and broke down walls, nearly drowned in rivers, flooded basements with human feces and nearly blinded himself with bleach and also doing barely anything when his underage employee Trevor was nearly blinded by pepper spray. They also have been kicked out of their house in early 2017 because of The Cunt.

In January 2017, Brett of Cow Chop announced a move to Los Angeles becoming possible if 2,000 viewers signed up for the Rooster Teeth FIRST program. However, they were evicted while still getting results for the FIRST memberships. Before they had reached their 2,000 referrals, the locations of their videos between mid-February and early April 2017 varied between the streets of Colorado, James' home, and a barn. However, they were still able to reach 2,000 referrals. On April 13, Cow Chop uploaded a video of James', Aleks', and Trevor's travels to Los Angeles. By the end of the video, they show the viewers their new office and thank the supporters who signed up through their FIRST referral link.

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