Joseph "Joey" Michael Graceffa (born May 16, 1991) is a YouTube vlogger, singer, and actor. He is known for his daily vlogs and tag videos, his covers of pop and indie music, and his energetic personality.
His career as a YouTuber began with his friend Brittany Joyle on the channel WinterSpringPro
, and later branched off to his own channel after beginning to daily vlog. He and his friend Meghan Camerena were contestants on the television show The Amazing Race in Seasons 22 and 24. His channel can be found here.
He has hosted the YouTube Premium series Escape the Night which debuted in 2016, and has also played on a multitude of Minecraft servers. For his characters and roles in each of these series, please refer to the character pages for each individual work.
Works he appears in:
- The Amazing Race (Seasons 22 and 24)
- Escape the Night (all seasons; creator)
- The Minecraft Multiverse:
- Minecraft Championship (MCC 1–4, Pride 2021, 27)
- X Life SMP
- Empires SMP (all seasons)
- Afterlife SMP
- WitchCraft SMP (creator)
- New Life SMP
- Minecraft SOS
His videos and career provide examples of:
- Bookcase Passage: Invoked in a 2019 video — an electric one to his office. Deconstructed when he ended up forgetting to plug it in, using up the emergency battery powering it and accidentally locking himself out, and eventually had to bust a bathroom window open to get back in.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Has played multiple characters who aided or allied with an evil, demonic entity, usually against his own will: his Escape the Night persona was brainwashed into inviting a new batch of guests to yet another murder party in the show's second season, and his Empires SMP Season 1 character had no recollection of letting himself get Corrupted by the local demon and committing various atrocities, such as kidnapping his own friends, in order to earn said demon's love.
- Character Catchphrase: In his videos:
- His video intro, "Aaah, good day everyone..."
- In his earlier videos, ending every video with "May the odds be ever in your favor; goodbye!"
- Oh my goodness gracionious!
- Without further damn-ado...
- Referring to anyone and anything as 'slut', 'whore', and occasionally 'skank'.
- Beautiful for spacious skies.
- He signs off most of his videos with "Good-damn-bye."
- Verbal Tic: Randomly adding the suffix '-anya' to certain words.
