His older brother, Nick Robinson, was a video producer at video game website Polygon before being dismissed in. On March 26th, 2017, Robinson tweeted 'no offense but anyone who acts like they didn't jack off to Krystal from Star Fox Adventures is lying to you.' His tweet gained over 900 retweets and 3,000 likes. He is the second of four boys in his family. as well as YouTube series Car Boys, Touch The Skyrim, and Let's Go To Hell. He has worked with Griffin McElroy on the podcast Cool Games Inc. In 2016, he created a Vine profile which gained over 80 million Vine Loops. In 2013, he started the Podburglars podcast with cohosts Matt Kessler and Ben Pack a previous incarnation of the podcast was created in 2011 under the name 'Internal Affairs.' He joined Polygon in February of 2015. In 2012, he became a writer and host for the YouTube channel Rev3Games this continued until 2014 when the channel ceased operations.

Robinson's journalism career began in 2011 when he worked as an intern for gaming website Giant Bomb.

Robinson's earliest online activities come from accounts under the name 'Babylonian.' His YouTube channel was created in 2005 his Twitter account was created in 2008.

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