NEW Game Show Series Trailer ft. Host GUAVA JUICE 🎉 SpongeBob SmartyPants
ARE YA READY, KIDS? Coming soon to the SpongeBob SquarePants Official YouTube channel is the FIRST EVER official SpongeBob game show! Hosted by YouTuber Roy 'Guava Juice' Fabito, contestants will go head-to-head to test their knowledge, skill, and SquarePants-ery to win the coveted Golden Pineapple!
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From Vents Magazine:
Guava Juice Hosts New Nickelodeon “SpongeBob SmartyPants” Digital Series
SpongeBob SmartyPants, a brand-new weekly game show, debuts Sat. Dec. 21 on Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants’ YouTube channel. Hosted by YouTuber Roi ‘Guava Juice’ Fabito, this 5-episode series features contestants going head-to-head to test their knowledge and skill on all things SpongeBob for a chance to win the coveted Golden Pineapple.
Roi Fabito, known as ‘Guava Juice,’ is the Nickelodeon for today’s digitally connected kids and families. With over 14.6-Million subscribers and 6.4-Billion views on his main YouTube channel ‘Guava Juice,’ Roi has mastered the art of creating captivating content and successful entrepreneurship. Known for his insane challenges, bathtub experiments, silly DIYs, and random shenanigans – he has been able to capture the hearts of many and remind us that we should always embrace our inner child.
Roi has been recognized in and outside of the media as a top creator and entrepreneur. This year alone he has received nominations for the Teen Choice Awards, Kids Choice Awards, Streamy Awards and Shorty Awards. Additionally, he recently launched a successful mobile gaming app ‘Guava Juice: Tub Tapper’ (now available on Facebook), as well as a slime-filled toy line ‘Guava Toys’ (currently available at Target and Walmart stores/online).
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From South China Morning Post:
Filipino-American SpongeBob game show host and YouTube star on his rise to fame and the role he was born to play
Roi Fabito, known to his fans as Guava Juice, hit the big time on YouTube with a parody video of Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit song Call Me Maybe in 2012
Now he has four separate YouTube channels, a series of toys, his own mobile gaming app, and even a musical album
There are YouTube celebrities and there is Roi Fabito, better known to his many fans as Guava Juice. His wholesome but off-the-wall videos have garnered him nearly 15 million subscribers and more than 6 billion individual views.
Now, he is taking his stardom to the next level, bringing his particular brand of antic enthusiasm to television (or at least a television network’s YouTube channel) as the host of SpongeBob SmartyPants, an all-things- SpongeBob SquarePants quiz show on Nickelodeon’s dedicated SpongeBob YouTube channel.
Now, he is taking his stardom to the next level, bringing his particular brand of antic enthusiasm to television (or at least a television network’s YouTube channel) as the host of SpongeBob SmartyPants, an all-things- SpongeBob SquarePants quiz show on Nickelodeon’s dedicated SpongeBob YouTube channel.
As the host, he oversees kids flaunting their knowledge of the popular cartoon, going head to head in the hopes of winning the coveted Golden Pineapple.
It’s the role that he was born to play, Fabito says. “I’ve been a huge SpongeBob fan growing up and even now. It’s such an amazing show, because its humour can relate to people of all ages.”
In that, his Guava Juice channel has something in common with the popular cartoon.
While Fabito says he has always been driven by a passion to help children, today his massive audience is scattered all over the world: “[My] fan base ranges all over the place, from eight years old all the way up to 30 years old.”
Fabito is 28, or as he puts it, “10,390 days old”. He was born in the Philippines but moved with his family to the United States. They settled in Durham, North Carolina where Fabito would make his home for the next 22 years, before his burgeoning fame drew him – like so many before him – to Los Angeles.
“My life before YouTube was very boring,” he recalls.
“Living in a small town forced me to find things to help me enjoy my time there. So luckily for me, when YouTube had just started back in 2005, I was already making random videos with my friends in my neighbourhood.”
While his talent to entertain is undeniable, Fabito credits his success as much to good timing as anything else.
He started his first channel, “Wassabi Productions”, named for a then-popular skit on MTV’s reality comedy series Jackass in which daredevil dirt bag Steve-O snorted wasabi on camera.
“Unfortunately, I thought the word wasabi was spelt with two s’s,” he says. “We would do silly sketches of us pretending to be news anchors and lip syncing to our favourite songs like Barbie Girl and songs from High School Musical.”
As rudimentary as his channel was, at the time YouTube was still a new service and those basic videos alone secured them a following of more than 10,000 subscribers, which Fabito says “was a lot at the time”.
Fabito has distinguished himself in a very crowded field of YouTubers by the breadth of his offerings. Look on his channel and you’ll see videos of him drinking some of the world’s hottest hot sauce, making jelly in his bathtub, telling you “10 Things Not To Do in a Hotel Room”, and appearing in music videos for his original songs like “I Love Ice Cream!”
He may make it look easy, but Fabito will be the first to tell you that it is anything but.
“‘YouTube is easy’ is the biggest misconception about being a YouTuber. A lot of people don’t take online creators seriously, as they think it takes no talent to become famous and successful,” he says, having heard it all before. “It takes a lot of patience, a lot of research, and a lot of constant work to make it work.”
His first major hit was a parody video of Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit song Call Me Maybe with a friend on April 7, 2012. Within two weeks, it had 30 million. “That [was] unheard of,” he says. Today, that video has more than 136 million views.
Fabito now has four separate YouTube channels, a series of toys, his own mobile gaming app, and even a musical album.
These last two years have been a whirlwind for Fabito. He won a 2018 Streamy Award for the “Kids & Family” category, and was nominated for a 2019 Teen Choice Award for “Choice Male Web Star”, a 2019 Kids Choice Award for “Favourite Social Star” and a 2019 Shorty Award for “YouTuber of the Year”. That all culminated with the job offer from Nickelodeon – the ultimate honour for a children’s entertainer.
“I realised I was famous after that Call Me Maybe parody was posted. I would get stopped at grocery stores, restaurants and the mall,” says Fabito, admitting that, for the most part, he enjoys the celebrity status. “It feels cool, to be honest. But it’s pretty tough,” he says. “Most of my private life is in secrecy and not many people know about it, which is amazing. I value that privacy, so having both a private and public life is incredible.”
Fabito says that the best part of being famous is being able to use his lofty platform to “inspire those who need the laughter or the smile that day”. That, and to lend his clout to good causes, which he did most famously with a series of videos granting unwell children wishes in a partnership with the Make a Wish Foundation.
And the worst part of his celebrity?
“The worst part,” he says, “is when people ask to take a picture with me while I’m using the public bathroom.”
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Originally published: Saturday, December 07, 2019.
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