FGTeeV

FGTeeV is a family gaming channel on YouTube created by FGTeeV Duddy, who runs it with his family. The family also runs the FV FAMILY (FUNnel Vision) vlog channel and the TheSkylanderBoyAndGirl and DOH MUCH FUN channels, and posts on TikTok as FUNnel Vision and on Instagram. The youngest son, Beasty Shawn, has a channel of his own.

History

According to Tubefilter, FGTeeV was launched in 2006 and began uploading regularly in 2013. The channel describes its videos as part game review and part improvised comedy sketch, alongside music videos about games; Tubefilter reported in 2020 that its main content had become family playthroughs of games such as Among Us and Roblox.

Off YouTube, the family launched an FGTeeV toy line in late 2019 and released their own mobile game, Goozy, in 2020. Their graphic novel FGTeeV Presents: Into the Game! was published by HarperAlley in 2020 and was reported to be a New York Times bestseller; the series reached its sixth volume, The Big Shrink!.

Recognition

FGTeeV was nominated in the Gaming category at the 10th Streamy Awards in 2020, for Favorite Social Media Family at the 2023 Kids' Choice Awards and for Favorite Creator Family at the 2024 Kids' Choice Awards.