"What's up everyone, Jon from ARTV. Time for a review of the new studio album from (insert artist here)"
ARTV is an online music review YouTube channel hosted by Jonathan Compton, who joined the site in 2009. Jon's videos mainly consist of him reviewing alternative and rock, pop, hip hop, & electronic music on the channel, although he also does a series called "RANKED" where he ranks an artist and their music from worst to best, "Dear Jon Q & A" where he answers thought-provoking questions from fans, and "Wreck It Reviews", where Jon tears into album that he doesn't like or has little to say about in just one minute. Jon and his girlfriend Infinity on Hannah also host a podcast called Not a Podcast, where they discuss topics in the music world that they both feel strongly about. Jon has also collaborated with the likes of Spectrum Pulse, The Needle Drop, Spin It Reviews, and The LP Club.His YouTube channel can be found here
, his Twitter and Instagram accounts are here and here respectively, and his Patreon is here.
ARTV provides examples of:
- Berserk Button: Misogyny, materialism, Bro Country, 6ix9ine, AJR...
- To a lesser extent, positive portrayals of recreational drugs. But he can tolerate it when it is delivered with subtlety, humor or interesting music.
- Caustic Critic: Often averted, as Jon prefers to describe the album and give it praise for what it does well, even if he can't stand it. But played straight in any of his worst of the year videos.
- Everyone Has Standards: The character Xxbr00talsw4g69xx, a fan of "edgy butt-rock" bands, even he reluctantly had admit that he didn't like Trapt's Shadow Work.
- I Hate Past Me: Can border on this in the "I Got It Wrong!" videos, where he discusses albums he has changed his opinion on.
- Large Ham
- Lyrical Dissonance: Has done a series of videos on "songs that sound happy but are actually super dark".
- Straw Fan:
- Sometimes, when Jon is reviewing an often-mocked, "butt-rock" band, he brings out his Xxbr00talsw4g69xx character, an edgy, hyperactive guy who's a huge fan of such acts.
- In an Album Awards segment where he discusses how disappointed he was by Soccer Mommy's Color Theory, he suddenly gets interrupted by a snarky, hipster fanboy (played by Crash Thompson), who accuses him of criticizing a genre he doesn't know about and brags about heading Soccer Mommy's subreddits, her Facebook fan pages, and getting banned from three of her concerts.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Being a gamer, Xxbr00talsw4g69xx cannot go unseen without a bottle of Mountain Dew. In Worst Songs of 2017, he even shakes and opens a 2-liter like a champagne bottle in celebration of the announcement of Skillet releasing new music.
- Vague Age: Xxbr00talsw4g69xx looks and acts like an overly-excited teenager, but in Jon's review of And Justice For None, he's apparently old enough to pay rent.
- Your Head A-Splode: In a skit to announce his pick for the worst song of 2017.
