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He has also reviewed films, such as The Shining.

Gastrow primarily covers video games on his channel, posting reviews, playthroughs, video essays, and montages. He and his wife Leah also run Dunkey's Castle, an online merchandise shop. Outside of YouTube, Gastrow is active on Twitter and has pages on Facebook and Reddit. Gastrow's videos have collectively generated over three billion views. By September 2015, the videogamedunkey channel had 1.8 million subscribers, which had grown to 3.5 million by September 2017 and 5.2 million by March 2019. He "told him to pet a donkey or something," and after trapping his friend in the game, told him he would release him if he said "go go magic dunk". Gastrow recalled that the name "videogamedunkey" came about when he was playing Left 4 Dead with a friend. Prior to videogamedunkey, Gastrow had another channel. Gastrow started his current YouTube channel, videogamedunkey, in 2010, with a video of him performing a speedrun of the 1991 game Battletoads. Examples include "Great Yoshi Migration", his first video, and a parody of the Village People song " Y.M.C.A." In an interview, Gastrow said he wanted to be an animator when he was young. As he explained in his review of the 2017 game Cuphead, Gastrow created Flash animations that he uploaded on the website Newgrounds under the username "Meatwadsprite". Gastrow has been video editing since 2003.
