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Game Grumps

Let's Play web series

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Game Grumps is an American Let's Play web series hosted by Arin Hanson (2012–present) and Dan Avidan (2013–present). Created in 2012 by Hanson and Jon Jafari, the series centers around its hosts playing video games. Jafari left the show in 2013 to focus on his own YouTube webseries, JonTron, with Avidan succeeding his role.

Editorial summary

“Game Grumps” enters the record as let's Play web series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Game, Grumps and Let's can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Game, Grumps and Let's.
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Why this record matters

“Game Grumps” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Game, Grumps and Let's provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2012 and 2013.

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Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Game Grumps” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.