McElroy Brothers
| Name: | Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy |
| Also Known As: | |
| Occupation: | podcasters, video creators, TV stars |
| Medium: | Podcasts, YouTube, television |
| Works: | My Brother, My Brother and Me; The Adventure Zone, etc. |
| Official Website(s): | McElroyShows.com; McElroy shows on MaximumFun.org The McElroy Family youtube channel |
| Fan Website(s): | MBMBaM Wikia |
| On Fanlore: | Related pages |
Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy are three brothers from Huntington, West Virginia. They have been creating a variety of podcasts, YouTube video series, and television shows since 2010. Their most popular works include My Brother, My Brother and Me (an advice podcast for the modern era), The Adventure Zone (a D&D actual-play podcast), and Monster Factory (a YouTube series about creating the worst possible game characters).
The McElroys work together for some shows, but each brother also has projects on their own with their wives and with non-McElroys. Shows by Justin include Sawbones and Things I Bought at Sheetz; shows by Travis include Shmanners, Interrobang, and Trends Like These; shows by Griffin include Peacecraft, Griffin's Amiibo Corner, Car Boys, and Cool Games, Inc. All three brothers were regulars on Polygon's now-ended series Awful Squad, where staff members played PUBG together.
Justin and Griffin both worked for gaming website Joystiq when MBMBaM began, and many of their first fans found them this way. They both then moved to Polygon, which lead to more fan overlap, until they left in 2018.[1] Though Monster Factory began on Polygon, Justin and Griffin have continued to publish the video series on both Polygon and The McElroy Family YouTube channel. All three brothers now work full-time on their own projects.
The McElroys have some notable fans, including Jimmy Buffett and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Griffin appeared on an episode of We Bare Bears and one of the storyboard artists wrote in a reference to Taako, Justin's character from The Adventure Zone.[2]
Example Fanworks
The McElroys have asked in the past that fans not sell unlicensed merchandise or buy from fans that do and instead buy from their official store (and contact them if they want to create official merch). See Justin's tweet from 16 July 2018 and ensuing discussion.[3] However, individual commissions are allowed,[4] and fanart made not-for-profit is fine.
- I drew the mcelboys :>, fanart by geraltsbeard, 2 April 2017 [2]
- Some good good boys., fanart by juanjoltaire, 11 March 2017 [3]
- I loooove love love my magical goth cowboy dad, fanart by becpng, 22 June 2018
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Links & Resources
- Does anyone have something akin to a “McElroy content starter post”? reblogged Tumblr post with a flowchart & commentary
- Hey dude I wanna watch some of those McElroy boys u post about but idk what to watch???, answered Tumblr ask by king-rancho
- McElroy Starter Videos ("Alright so someone recently told me that my blog got them into MBMBaM and it literally made my day so I went through to find some of my favorite videos of the McElroy boys for people who don’t know where to start"), Tumblr post by mar-chant-live-without-you
- Tumblr tag
References
- ^ https://www.polygon.com/forums/meta/2018/4/24/17275680/its-a-departure
- ^ "Asker: hey I'm watching the wbb episode "hurricane hal", and there's a scene where Wallace says "Wallace is good out here". do you know if that's a TAZ reference, or just something that ended up sounding like one? :0 Answer: i wrote that line and YEA IT WAS" [1] archive
- ^ Archived
- ^ tweet by _stargayte, 16 July 2018