Nationality Dutch Alma mater Utrecht University Name Jo Luijten | Years active 2012-present Occupation Video artist | |
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Full Name Jo Jacobus Wilhelmus Luijten Born April 24, 1978 Roermond, Netherlands | ||
Alan Lauris & Het Voorzetselkoor - Snowball (original video by Squirrel Monkey)
Jo Jacobus Wilhelmus Luijten (Roermond, April 24, 1978) is a Dutch comedy video artist & video game developer who works with Kinna McInroe under the pseudonym of Squirrel-Monkey.
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Videos
Most of his videos show what social networking sites and video games might have looked like in the 1980s or 1990s. His videos have received positive press from a number of news and technology websites. They were highlighted by Mashable, Wired, The Huffington Post, CNET, ITN, Gizmodo and other media.
As part of the YouTube Comedy Week in 2013, Warwick Davis presented Warwick Davis' Top 10 Tech Sketch Moments, which included a video made by Luijten. The Nighthawk Cinema in New York City in collaboration with Daily Motion selected his video If Angry Birds were invented in the ’80s for the Cinema Selects cinema screening. The Hungarian online magazine Urbnplyr considered the video If Instagram were invented in the '80s... as one of the best videos of 2014.
Games
In 2016 Luijten developed two election-inspired online games, with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as their main characters. The object of the game is to win the United States presidential election.