Emiliano Rodolfo "Emile" Rosales-Birou (born April 8, 1990), better known online as Chuggaaconroy or Chugga for short, is an American YouTuber, Let's Player and video essayist who has made online content since 2008. He is known for his high production values, regular update schedule, lighthearted and mostly family-friendly approach to games, his propensity for catchphrases and running gags, his impressive lung capacity, his hilariously bad puns, and overblown reactions to things that happen throughout his playthroughs. Regarded as one of the greatest Let's Players of all time, Emile's content focuses on playing games several years after their initial release dates, mainly of titles he's played numerous times before. He reached 1 million subscribers and 760 million views in 2015, and has 1.25 million subscribers and 1.24 billion views as of 2024.
Career[]
Emile created his YouTube account in 2006, and began his career in 2008 with a Let's Play of EarthBound. Since then, he has made comprehensive walkthrough Let's Plays on various video games, the majority of which were released on Nintendo platforms, including titles from the Mother, Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Pikmin, Kirby, Pokémonand Xenoblade Chronicles video game franchises. Emile commentates in an informative manner in his videos with the purpose of guiding viewers to complete the game themselves. Emile's channel grew in popularity as his gameplay videos were often recommended on YouTube's suggestions. After more than two years of making Let's Plays, Emile became a YouTube Partner in 2010, and became Let’s Play creator on YouTube as a full-time job in 2013. In the years since, Emile has made his Let's Plays more professional and informative, and has also done video essays such as Discardables and Chugga Sticks It to Sticker Star. In a departure from his usual Let's Plays and the occasional skit, these videos are done in a style that would be more expected on a video game analysis channel.
Alongside his own Let's Plays, Emile is one of the three founding members of the collaborative Let's Play channel The Runaway Guys, alongside Johnathan Wheeler (Proton Jon) and Timothy Bishop (NintendoCapriSun), who have produced 47 main collab LPs, along with five side collab LPs and six tournament LPs, and have 480 thousand subscribers and 421 total video views as of 2024. Emile is usually the best or at least better players of whatever game the group is playing, and is the loudest and most energetic of the three main guys. He also tries to annoy Jon as much as possible and allows for situations where the viewers can laugh at the group's collective suffering. In 2012, the group established a video game trivia and challenge show that would go on to become Thrown Controllers, which has grown into a hugely popular show, appearing in the United States and Canada at several conventions. Since 2018, The Runaway Guys Colosseum has been live streamed as a weekend long event to raise money for Direct Relief, which has raised over $1,000,000. Emile has also done collaborations with several other Let's Players.
Trivia[]
- Chuggaaconroy has his own wiki which you can see here.
- Tim and Chuggaa have done a lot of the same games for Let's Plays which include these.
- Tim appeared in his Let's Play of Super Mario 64 DS in the bonus episode covering multiplayer. He also was in Pikmin 3 Missions.
- Emile appeared in the final episodes of Pokemon Sapphire, when Tim is taking on the elite four and the champion.
- Tim and Emile, alongside Canadian ProtonJon, make up the trio known as The Runaway Guys. In any multiplayer Mario game, Tim is always Yoshi, having notably played every Mario Party they've LP'ed so far as Yoshi (Jon was initially Mario before willingly switching to Waluigi for 3, and Emile was DK before a forced change in 5 as he switched to Daisy).