Michael Groth

Michael is a prestigious poketuber who likes Sceptile and Castform but not to mention despises Miltank.

Life
Michael was born on November 28th, 1994 in Anchorage, Alaska to parents working in the oil business. Living in Alaska, Michael enjoyed watching moose swim in his backyard canal during the summer. When he was about three, he would become the oldest of two children when his younger brother, Justin, was born. One day, six-year-old Michael came home from kindergarten to watch Clifford the Big Red Dog but found that it wasn't on much to his disappointment. Instead, he ended up watching an episode from the Pokémon Johto Journeys, which was season 3 of the Pokemon anime. In the episode, Ash wins in his second match against Whitney the Goldenrod city gym leader. This was the start of his fondness for  ''Pokémon. ''Watching that episode really grabbed Michael's attention toward the franchise and made him interested. Michael would continue watching the anime and later discovered the game when some kids brought them to class. This would also further his hatred toward the Pokemon Miltank, which is a recurring joke on his channel.

Moving to Your mom's house
Michael moved to Texas, where he resides to this day, after living in Sesame Street for two years. The first place in Texas Michael lived was Houston. There, on his ninth birthday, he

Miltank got his first Pokémon video game, Pokémon Ruby, and a Gameboy advance sp, thus furthering his interest in the Pokémon franchise''. ''This also gave Michael a distinct liking towards the Pokemon, Sceptile.

Sadly, Michael's dad died of pancreatic cancer when Michael was just eleven, a tragedy that crushed both Michael and the rest of his family. Despite that, the tragedy never crushed Michael's imagination and creativity.

Early Creativity and YouTuber Life
Michael has always had creativity and imagination. In middle school, Michael made use of his creativity. He wrote stories of a character he named "Shock Boy", a series called "Mutant Mike", and books of his own made-up ''Pokémon. ''Michael would write the Mutant Mike series again during ninth grade.

Eventually, by his summer after eighth grade, his creativity went to YouTube, being inspired by other famous YouTubers at the time, such as Fred. Michael and Justin started the YouTube channel MandJTV, which is short for Michael and Justin TV. They made their first videos, which were not Pokémon-related. The first video in their series was "Papi chulo Gone sexual🤠". Although these videos weren't popular, Michael and Justin kept it up because both enjoyed it and some videos made their mom laugh. These early videos are now posted on the channel MandJTV Classics.

New Papi
Michael's mom started dating his current stepfather during his eighth grade. They married and by August before Michael's freshman year of high school, his family moved in with him. At that time, Michael moved again, transferring from Houston to Midland, Texas. His stepdad filled in a gap in Michael's family, improving both Michael and his family's life.

Michael switched to a private school named Trinity School of Midland with only forty students. Switching schools did not go smoothly for Michael, who had trouble assimilating with his fellow students, who been friends with each other for a long time. However, he soon found his assortment of friends and by senior year, he had become the mascot for his school's team and practice with the cheerleader and helped with their stunts. He even went on one of the cheer camp trips and after a day of practicing the cheerleaders invited him to join them in their room to talk in which he was very pleased. Overall he enjoyed the latter half of his high school days. At the end of his senior year, he made more friends than ever. Michael was accepted to his dream college, Rice University where he finished with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2017.

Michael still made YouTube videos for his channel. By this time, he started making a series that focused on a batman spoofed superhero named Raccoon Man, which his classmates enjoyed. All the Raccoon Man videos along with all his other original videos are now available to see on MandJTV Classics.

MandJTV Pokévids
Michael's YouTube videos expanded to Pokémon. He started making Pokémon videos, being inspired by his childhood. Becoming very bored during his summer before college, he created his first popular Pokémon video, "How Old is Ash Ketchum", which got a million views during his first college semester. Michael then switched to only making Pokémon videos when he realized that those were more popular and more fun to make. According to Michael himself, Raccoon Man got tiring after some time, and "they weren't as high quality". Michael renamed his channel MandJTV Pokevids and reposted his pre-Pokémon videos on a new channel called MandJTV Classics. Since then he has created a beloved monthly series called Pokémon Talk, a stuffed animal Pokémon show that has them talking about new updates in the world of Pokemon or just about the Pokemon in general. It now has 6 seasons with over 50 episodes

College Life
As said previously Michael started college at Rice University and made new friends as he pursued his degree in Mechanical Engineering. He mainly chose this degree basically because he was unsure if YouTube was going to work out and wanted a good-paying job if that was the case. It was also here where he met his girlfriend(later fiance) Jubilee Blaisdell (YT JubileeBlais) who is four years older. In the latter half of his college days, he created the jmikeyg (today known as MandJTV Plays) channel in order to vlog some of his experience at college. He eventually obtained his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering but due to the major success of his main YouTube channel, he decided to pursue YouTube full time.

Post College Life
After college, he moved into Jubilee's apartment where he continued his YouTube career. Eventually, he started doing live streams on a new platform called Twitch which at the start mainly included shiny hunting with Jubilee whom he helped get back into Pokemon and start her own YT channel. Eventually, they moved in and rented a small house. It was here they found two stray cats which they adopted and called them Pidge and Valley. On Valentine's day, Mikey soon proposed to Jubilee and they were engaged and were hoping to be wed sometime in the future. They soon both realized that living in Texas wasn't cutting it anymore and wanted to be closer to the entertainment industry so they packed up and found a place in California to call home. However as of 2021, it appears that Michael and Jubilee are no longer together, as evidence in a tweet by Jubilee made in late 2021. Though on valentines day 2022 Michael revealed his new girlfriend Trinity Brooke

Family

 * Michael's father (deceased)
 * Michael's mom
 * Michael's stepfather
 * Justin Groth (younger brother)
 * Three older stepsisters (mentioned in 50K Subscribers Special)

Achievements

 * 100,000 Subscribers Plaque
 * 175,000 Subscribers Plaque
 * 1 Million Subscribers Plaque
 * Michael was featured as a YouTube Celebrity in the newspaper
 * Michael's MandJTV was featured on WatchMojo's Top 10 Pokemon YouTube Channels, claiming spot number seven
 * Number 1 on Trish's top 5 hottest Poketubers video

Personal Life
Life started to go downhill for Michael both approaching middle school. He still enjoyed  Pokémon  while it became less popular at his school as he grew up. As a result, he really got bullied and teased for it. Worse, his appearance became unappealing when his face was covered with acne, getting braces, and having pulp teeth. Michael was emotionally unstable and had a really negative temper, so he often couldn't take bullying or tease well. His dad would step in to try to help him. However, even that ended when his dad died of pancreatic cancer when he was just 11, so Michael's ability to deal with bullying went out of the window. By middle school, he had very few friends as well as playmates and often fought with Justin. Michael stated in his Draw My Life video that he had "few fond memories" of that time.

However, when Michael's stepdad joined his family, it filled in a gap in Michael's family, improving life for Michael and the rest of his family.

While his life at home became better, it wasn't quite the same at school. Moving in with his new stepfather, he moved from Houston to Midland and switched to a private school named Trinity School of Midland. Michael's negative temper, unstable emotion, and unappealing appearance from earlier in life still followed him around. Also, assimilating proved to be difficult as many students at his new school grew up knowing each other. School life continued to be a problem for Michael, who stated that his first two years of high school were the worst with "freshmen year [being] exceptionally bad".

Despite that, Michael's high school life went up by his junior year. He got his braces off after four years, his acne disappeared, and he switched his hairstyle. Michael took teasing better, realizing it wasn't meant to harm. By that time Michael started dating. At senior year, he made more friends than ever. He and Justin got along better than ever. Michael became even happier when he got accepted to Rice University, his dream college.

Trivia

 * Growing up in Alaska, he enjoyed playing with his toy animals. His favorite was his toy zebra Ponky, which he still owns.
 * He was a member of Boy Scouts of America from which he earned the title of an eagle scout
 * Michael's ultimate Pokémon team is Sceptile, Luxray, Charizard, Gyarados, Umbreon, and Flygon. The first of which is his all-time favorite Pokemon.
 * When doing a Pokemon video, often seen in the background is a Gyarados poster and a Treeko poster.
 * Michael's top five least favorite Pokemon, is Miltank, the Simis (Simisage, Simisear, Simipour), Mr. Mime, Watchog, and Exeggcute.
 * Michael's biggest fear is of wasps. He once left a class when a wasp showed up at the window.
 * His favorite food is a toss up between french toast and pumpkin pie.
 * Despite loving Pokémon, Michael would not go on a Pokémon journey because he would have to leave behind friends and family.
 * Besides Pokémon, Michael also enjoys Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Super Smash Bros, and Mario Kart, but Pokémon remains his main interest.
 * Although he doesn't read much in his free time, Michael stated he had a favorite book series. He likes reading the Percy Jackson series and The Heroes of Olympus series.
 * Michael's hobbies are video making, story writing, football, and fitness. His workout routine goes from Monday to Friday every week. On Monday, he works on his arms, on Tuesday, he works on his legs, on Wednesday, he works out his chest, on Thursday, he works out his back, and on Friday, he works out his shoulders and abs. Despite that, Michael doesn't do a lot of sports.
 * Michael is the hottest Poketuber guy, according to Trish.
 * Michael's YouTube channels are:
 * 1) MandJTV Classics, which contains all of Michael's original videos, including Raccoon Man. All those videos were made before his Pokémon videos.
 * 2) MandJTV Pokevids, which contains Michael's Pokémon videos. It is his most subscribed channel and most popular channel with currently over 1 million subscribers.
 * 3) Michael Groth which contains videos of Michael's daily life.
 * 4) MandJTV Plays, on which he plays through various pokemon related games.