Timeline

General timeline of major events in Greg's life.

Work in progress.

Two sets of "Eras". Plain text goes by his relationship with the internet, the other goes by major romantic relationships.

1985

[Beginning of Before Internet Era]

November 11, 1985

Greg is born.

1988

Date Unknown, 1988

Greg's parents are divorced.

1997

Date Unknown, 1997

Greg’s family stops attending church as Seventh Day Adventists.

Greg starts to cobble together what he would later call Sicesca.

2000

[End of Before Internet Era]

[Beginning of Past/Pre-YouTube Era]

Unknown Date, 2000

Greg creates The Cries of the Crypt website.

Greg is allegedly sent to juvenile prison for physically attacking his father after his father allegedly tried to choke him. (Source)

2001

Date Unknown, 2001

Skye notices Greg for the first time in their high school computer class. Greg did not notice her. Skye is a year younger than Greg.

2002

Unknown Date, 2002

Greg creates his Hybrid Eye website.

Greg creates a fan site and forum for Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance.

Greg and high school friend, Jad, create video game review website Gamer's Shadow.

Greg comes up with Sicesca’s name. (Source)

2003

[Beginning of Skye Era]

April 6th, 2003

Greg and friend Jad move on from Gamer's Shadow and create Extreme Gaming Headquarters, although shortly after, Jad left the site.

Unknown Date, 2003

Greg and Skye begin a relationship.

Greg creates a string of web hosting, website promotion, and website developing sites: Newbies Host, Niqmo, 4free.us, Online Forums Biz, WebPortal.TV, and iDesigns.

Greg creates his Death Reaper site to showcase his literature and art.

Greg creates the Sicesca website.

2004

May, 2004

Greg graduates from high school.

September, 2004

Greg creates the Tard Out website that would eventually become the Gregory J. Site.

October 14, 2004

Greg attempts to recruit followers for Sicesca from his Evolutionary Psychology forums. (Source)

Unknown Date, 2004

Greg creates a rape prevention website, Rape Prevention Info.

2005

January 1, 2005

Greg, Skye and Netunesa create an online video series titled "Odd Dolls".

January 3, 2005

Greg joins the US Air Force.

May, 2005

Skye graduates from high school.

May 27, 2005

Greg graduates from boot camp.

May 28, 2005

Greg and Skye become engaged.

May 30, 2005

Greg starts Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (S.E.R.E.) school. (Source)

June 17, 2005

Greg drops out of S.E.R.E. school. (Source) He alleges that the reason is due to the fact that S.E.R.E. training requires all students to kill a rabbit or chicken, skin or defeather, cook, and eat it. (Source)

July 20, 2005

Greg joins the security forces, known as the Security Police (S.P.) in the Air Force. (Source) The skills he would learn in school would allow him to take on a number of security jobs afterward.

August 5, 2005

Greg and Skye marry through the Texas court system.

Unknown Date, 2005

Greg creates the America's Air Force website to document his time in the Air Force.

2006

January 29, 2006

Greg creates his Onision YouTube channel. The name comes from “oni” meaning “one” and “sion” meaning “divine community.” All together it reads as “one divine community.”

August, 2006

Greg demotes Sicesca to a personal belief system and scrubs all mention of it from his other sites. The Sicesca site becomes a hosting ground for his music. (Source)

Unknown Date, 2006

Greg loses his Extreme Gaming Headquarters staff, re-names the site OniReviews, and keeps himself and Skye as the only staff.

2007

February, 2007

Greg’s friend, Jad, passes away.

November 14, 2007

Greg attempts to attempt suicide but instead decides to fully commit himself to YouTube.

Date Unknown, 2007

Greg starts the process of trying to leave the military by applying for conscientious objector status. ($ource)

2008

February 9, 2008

Skye creates her Tantaga YouTube channel.

July 17, 2008

Greg’s video “I’m So Gamer” is featured on the YouTube main page, garnering his Onision account a jump from 1000 to 4000 subscribers by the end of the month.

Date Unknown, 2008

Mentions of Sicesca pop back up again in Greg’s biography.

October 31, 2008

Greg is discharged from the Air Force under the rank of Airman First Class. It is a general discharge under honorable conditions.

December 3, 2008

Greg creates the OnisionArchive YouTube channel.

[End of Past/Pre-YouTube Era]

2009

[Beginning of YouTube Era]

Date Unknown, 2009

Greg begins making videos about Shane Dawson.

August 11, 2009

Greg creates the OnisionSpeaks YouTube channel.

December 10, 2009

Greg uploads "Dawson's Freak" announcing that Shane Dawson has emailed him asking to do a collaboration.

December 12, 2009

Greg and Shane upload their first collaboration together to their respective channels.

2010

January, 2010

Cyr reaches out to Greg to do a collaboration. At the time, Cyr has about 37,000 subscribers.

January 28, 2010

Cyr and Greg upload their first collaboration together.

February, 2010

Greg's video "I'm a Banana" is submitted to tosh.0 as Viewer Video of the Week. The video goes viral, garnering millions of views and driving traffic to Greg's Onision YouTube channel.

Date Unknown, 2010

Greg's Onision channel becomes one of the top 100 most subscribed channels on YouTube.

April 13, 2010

Greg and YouTuber Hannah Minx appear on each other's Youtube channels for the first time in two sketch videos.

April 26, 2010

Greg responds to Sicesca being re-discovered with a video.

June, 2010

Greg threatens to divorce Skye for the first time.

September 28, 2010

Cyr and Greg collaborate with BlackBoxTV and have their first short horror film “Not Tonight” uploaded to the channel.

October, 2010

Greg asks Skye for a divorce a second time, but doesn’t go through with it.

December 2, 2010

17-year-old Shiloh contacts Greg through email for the first time asking for advice getting over her abusive ex-boyfriend.

Shiloh creates DomoConzy YouTube channel.

Onision becomes Domoconzy's first subscriber and promotes her channel on his Facebook page.

December 17, 2010

Greg and Skye separate.

December 22, 2010

Greg creates a hand written divorce contract and Skye signs it.

December 24, 2010

Greg announces his separation from Skye to his fans.

December 25, 2010

Skye makes her last appearance on the Onision channel.

December 27, 2010

Greg totals his car by hitting a deer during a snowstorm while he was on his way to visit Shiloh in Pennsylvania.

December 28, 2010

Shiloh and Greg begin privately dating.

Shiloh and Greg meet up for the first time.

[End of Skye Era]

2011

[Beginning of Shiloh Era]

February 2, 2011

Greg and Shiloh dye their hair orange/red together.

April 2, 2011

Greg introduces Shiloh to his fans through his "Onision's Girlfriend" video.

April 12, 2011

Shiloh creates her Draculoh YouTube account.

April 14, 2011

Shiloh creates her DraculohRants and DraculohVault channels.

April 23, 2011

Greg reveals the "Remember Love" wrist Tattoos he got for Shiloh, despite previously stating tattoos were mutilation.

June 23, 2011

Greg uploads "Shiloh Forgot Me", a video of Shiloh having a seizure-like episode and losing 3 years of memory.

Greg later deletes it due to public backlash.

June 25, 2011

Shiloh defends Greg's decision not to take her to a hospital during the "Shiloh Forgot Me" episode.

MrRepzion makes his first response video to Greg’s “Shiloh Forgot Me” video.

July, 2011

Shiloh and Greg have a major break-up. Shiloh moves back to Canada and Greg flees his home to live in LA with Cyr.

July 25, 2011

Skye calls Greg and they are on good terms.

July 28-30, 2011

Greg attends his first and only VidCon. He meets Shane Dawson in person for the first time and they film the infamous gay kiss video.

August, 2011

Greg begins a private online unofficial relationship with then popular Youtuber Hannah Minx.

August 6, 2011

Shane Dawson uploads a video titled "GAY KISS with SHANE DAWSON!!" Kai eventually sees this video and becomes smitten with Greg.

Sometime after the video was posted, Greg and Shane would go out to lunch and Share would tell Greg that YouTube is “just a job.”

August 24, 2011

Greg announces a break up with someone (Hannah Minx) he was unofficially dating in the video "She Wanted My Body, Not My Heart".

September 3, 2011

Greg begins dating Adrienne.

Greg announces their relationship to his audience in the video "I Found Her".

September 4, 2011

Greg uploads a video titled "I Got Dumped" announcing that he and Adrienne broke up.

September 10, 2011

Greg flies to Texas to meet Adrienne in person for the first time.

September 1, 2011

Greg's first payment of alimony to Skye is due.

September 14, 2011

Greg announces he and Adrienne broke up again in the video "Single Again". They began dating again soon after.

Kai sends the first of many fan tweets to Greg.

September 19, 2011

Greg and Adrienne break up for the last time.

September 21, 2011

Greg tries to win Adrienne by leaving a string of voicemails.

September 26, 2011

Shiloh and Greg announce they are back together and engaged.

Shortly after this, they would return to Greg’s house in Washington.

September 27, 2011

Shiloh and Greg make corresponding videos about unclean vaginas. Shiloh's was complaining about women that don't clean down there and Greg's was an analogy of his exes as houses. He says Adrienne's house was "dirty".

October, 2011

A long email (also known as The Letter) Adrienne wrote to a friend detailing her relationship with Greg is leaked. She asks people to stop spreading it.

Greg flies out to LA to do another collaboration with Shane Dawson. He texts Shane when he arrives and doesn't get a response. Greg ends up flying home. ($ource)

October 11, 2011

Greg uploaded "Do I Have STDs" where he goes to Planned Parenthood with Shiloh to get STD tested after his "dirty" rebound, Adrienne.

October 12, 2011

Greg uploads a video reacting to his STD test results, which reveal he does not have any STDs.

October 13, 2011

Greg uploads a video about going to Planned Parenthood to get STD tested after his "dirty" rebound, Adrienne.

Greg's Onision channel drops off the Top 100 Most Subscribed List.

October 16, 2011

Adrienne gives permission to spread her email (The Letter) in response to Greg and Shiloh's STD videos.

October 27, 2011

Greg and Shiloh announce they are expecting.

October 28, 2011

Skye uploads her first video to her FellFromTheSkye channel.

Skye announces her and Greg's divorce is finalized.

October 29, 2011

Kai tweets about his love for Greg for the first time, despite never talking to him yet.

November 17, 2011

Greg promotes Skye's new channel on his Speaks channel.

December 6, 2011

Greg uploads "Shiloh and Greg: Non-Fiction" to prove their drama is real.

December 8, 2011

Greg and Shiloh announce they had miscarried.

December 15, 2011

Greg announces Shiloh has sepsis.

December 17, 2011

Greg apologizes for telling everyone Shiloh had sepsis.

December 28 2011

Shiloh announces her and Greg's one year anniversary on Facebook.

2012

January 8, 2012

Greg uploads "A Horrible Rebound", a video meant to tell his side of his relationship to Adrienne. The video causes a lot of backlash on Greg's part.

Soon after this, Greg’s name mysteriously disappears from the guestlist of VidCon 2012.

January 19, 2012

Adrienne publicly releases Greg's voicemails in response to his video.

Greg begins complaining about his alimony agreement with Skye.

January 23, 2012

Greg posts a video attacking VidCon for removing his name from their site and claiming that it’s because he holds unpopular opinions.

January 24, 2012

Hank Green emails Greg directly to clarify that he was upset with the employee who removed Greg’s name from the guestlist, but advises that Greg shouldn’t attend VidCon anyways due to recent controversy.

February 1, 2012

Greg and Shiloh officially break-up for the last time.

February 4, 2012

Greg uploads "It's Over", his break-up song for Shiloh.

February 8, 2012

Greg announces he found out Shiloh cheated on him.

[End of Shiloh Era]

[Beginning of Kai Solo Era]

February 12, 2012

Greg DMs Kai responding to a tweet and asks him why he thinks they are soulmates.

February 16, 2012

Shiloh attempts to apologize to Greg for cheating. He does not accept her apology and calls her "cheating scum".

February 17, 2012

Greg announces he is trying to take Shiloh to court on Judge Judy to get money back that he lent her.

Greg announces they will not be going on Judge Judy because Shiloh is Canadian.

February 21, 2012

After witnessing his break up with Shiloh, Adrienne emails Greg in an attempt to give support and end the drama between them. She apologizes for the hurtful things she said out of anger. Greg responds saying that he forgives her and that he could’ve done better.

February 27, 2012

Greg and Kai begin privately dating.

March, 2012

Greg informally proposes to Kai over Skype by saying “You know I’m going to marry you, right?”

Greg begins to wear a ring in his videos and when questioned about it says that he's been keeping his private life private.

March 8, 2012

Greg and Kai meet up in person for the first time.

March 12, 2012

Greg uploads "GOD IS REAL!?!?!" and is criticized by viewers for his stomach rolls and body acne.

Greg uploads "Me And My Zits", which gives us the quote "This Is My Body".

March 23, 2012

Greg announces that he and Cyr are no longer friends. Earlier, Cyr had asked Greg to take down a video that they had filmed together that contained an Adolf Hitler joke. Cyr ultimately felt uncomfortable with the joke after speaking with a friend who had grandparents who died in the Holocaust.

The two would eventually make up and the collab would be reuploaded without the Hitler joke.

March 26, 2012

Greg announces to his fans Adrienne apologized for lying about him and requested his friendship. He sources her February email.

Adrienne quickly responds on her social media, saying he twisted her words and she regrets sending the email. She pleads with him to stop talking about her online.

April 12, 2012

Skye uploads her last video to FellFromTheSkye and abandons all of her FellFromTheSkye accounts.

April 25, 2012

Greg announces his alimony payments to Skye are making him suicidal.

April 28, 2012

Greg compares his alimony to Skye to slavery in his video "ALIMONY vs SLAVERY".

May, 2012

Kai graduates from high school at age 17 with a 3.41 GPA.

May 27, 2012

Greg creates the UhOhBro YouTube channel.

June, 2012

Kai and Greg's relationship turns long-distance.

End of August 2012

Greg returns to New Mexico and rents a place to secretly live with Kai. Kai's family believes he is living in his college dorm.

Kai creates the Laineybot Twitter account--cementing his former nickname, Lainey.

October 10, 2012

Greg tweets at Shane accusing him of becoming one of “them” and Shane responds. Greg proceeds to tweet at Shane, publicly shaming him for things that Greg had perceived as slights against him.

October 12, 2012

Smiley, a feature-length film starring Shane Dawson premiers in theaters.

October 22, 2012

Greg announces his fiance Kai with an Instagram picture of them kissing.

October 24, 2012

Greg and Kai get matching "27" hip tattoos.

November 14, 2012

Greg and Kai secretly get married through the New Mexico court system without telling Kai’s family.

November 21, 2012

A former friend of Kai’s makes a Tumblr post announcing Greg and Kai’s marriage to the internet.

2013

March 27, 2013

Greg and Kai get matching "14" ankle tattoos.

April, 2013

The Snail Mail Stalker sends a letter to Kai's parents informing them of the depth of Greg and Kai's relationship.

April 16, 2013

Greg starts his “Hot VS Not” series, wherein he rates women based on appearance. It is the first instance of him starting to rate women’s bodies publicly.

April 28, 2013

Greg announces a stalker sent a letter to his in-laws.

May 27, 2013

Greg creates the UhOhBro YouTube channel.

June, 2013

Greg and Kai have a formal wedding ceremony with friends and family.

June 26, 2013

Kai announces he is pregnant with a Tumblr post featuring his baby bump.

Kai announces he will no longer share baby bump pictures.

August 19, 2013

Greg publishes “Black Veil Brides Toast” in which he praises the band and its lead singer, Andy Biersack. Andy and his father, Chris Biersack, appreciate the video and soon become fans of Greg’s.

September 4, 2013

Greg uploads a video complaining about a doctor that wanted to do an expensive test on he and Kai's soon-to-be child for down syndrome.

September 25, 2013

Kai announces he will no longer post baby bump pictures for the second time.

September 26, 2013

Greg creates the Onichan channel on YouTube.

October 5, 2013

Greg announces he and Kai will no longer share their child online due to death threats.

2014

January, 2014

Greg’s first child is born.

January 26, 2014

Greg publishes a video directly acknowledging and discussing views from Sicesca. It is the first of three, this one being about life after death.

January 27, 2014

Greg publishes a second video featuring information about Sicesca. This one is about the soul.

January 28, 2014

Greg publishes his third and final video featuring information about Sicesca containing information about angels.

January 31, 2014

Greg uploads his first video in his Hannah Minx is Missing series after Hannah Minx leaves her YouTube career behind without an announcement. This video receives over a million views and sparks conspiracy theories about Hannah's departure from YouTube, such as she was murdered or kidnapped.

March 28, 2014

Greg uploads a music video for his new son.

May 11, 2014

Greg announces on his Facebook that he found out that Hannah Minx simply moved on from YouTube.

August 18, 2014

Sarah and Kai begin talking to each other online.

September 19, 2014

Shane Dawson’s second movie, Not Cool, premieres.

October 1, 2014

Shane Dawson publishes a video talking about his eating disorder and body dysmorphia.

2015

[End of Kai Solo Era]

[Beginning of Trinity Era]

January 7, 2015

After Shane Dawson responds to a tweet asking if he would ever have Greg on his Shane and Friends podcast, Greg tweets claiming that people keep writing him about it and that he isn’t interested.

February 19, 2015

Kai creates the LaineyBot YouTube channel.

March 29, 2015

Greg releases his first novel, Stones To Abbigale.

April 5, 2015

Life of Onion, a wiki dedicated to chronicling Greg’s life and the controversies surrounding it is created.

July 1, 2015

Kai comes out as bisexual and genderqueer on Twitter. Kai begins trying out different names and uses "they" pronouns.

July 6, 2015

Kai comes out as non-binary.

July 7, 2015

Shane Dawson comes out as bisexual.

Greg tweets that he and Shane’s 2011 kiss has “new meaning” and criticizes Shane for crying in his video instead of smiling.

July 19, 2015

Greg begins his annual Twitter onslaught complaining about VidCon, only this time he starts discussing how the convention is full of sexual predators. This comes shortly after Viner Carter Reynolds was exposed for pressuring his then underage girlfriend into giving him oral sex.

Greg posts a tweet featuring an image of Shane Dawson hugging a fan with the caption “Vidcon: Pedophile heaven.”

July 24, 2015

Greg tweets between Carter Reynolds and Hank Green, effectively having Reynolds removed from VidCon premises. A handful of new outlets credit Greg with helping Hank Green remove Reynolds.

August 7, 2015

Kai and Greg make a coming out video together to more formally announce Kai's bisexuality.

September 5, 2015

Greg “interviews” Andy Biersack. The interview is littered with sexual innuendo and is wildly inappropriate.

September 11, 2015

Greg releases his second novel, This Is Why I Hate You.

November 15, 2015

Kai begins talking with Billie.

November 19, 2015

Kai tweets Billie asking if she would be their girlfriend.

November 21, 2015

Greg publishes his first collaboration with Jaclyn Glenn.

December 6, 2015

Billie visits Kai and Greg for the first time.

December 16, 2015

Greg asks Billie if she's ever thought about dating Kai.

December 17, 2015

Greg texts Billie trying to get her to ask Kai out. Shortly after this, Kai asked her out instead and the two began dating.

2016

January 25, 2016

Kai announces she is separated from Greg and that cheated on her with Billie.

January 26, 2016

Greg and Kai announce they are back together.

May 9, 2016

Greg uploads his first video about Eugenia Cooney, titled “Eugenia Cooney has Anorexia”.

June 29, 2016

Greg uploads a picture of Greg and Kai to Instagram where Billie's blue hair can be seen in the background.

June 30, 2016

Greg explains he has threesomes with two "amazing individuals" in a UhOhBro video.

July 1, 2016

Billie uploads a photo of her and Greg and Kai, officially letting viewers know that are dating again.

October 4, 2016

Greg publishes a video titled “Shane Dawson, My Ex Friend” in which he explains why he isn’t a good terms with Shane anymore.

October 6, 2016

Greg claims that “Eugenia Cooney Photoshop” will be his last video on Eugenia Cooney. It is his seventh video about her.

Greg later takes to Twitter to accuse Eugenia of hurting her fans due to her appearance. Eugenia defends herself.

October 28, 2016

Greg uploads his eighth video on Eugenia Cooney, despite saying he would stop.

November 8, 2016

Greg and Cyr have their final falling out after it is revealed that Cyr decided to vote for Jill Stein in the recent presidential election. Cyr’s reasoning was that California is a blue state and that he had the luxury to vote for the candidate he truly wanted.

Greg and Cyr fight publicly on Twitter over this disagreement for the better part of the day and Greg begins to call Cyr a leech.

November 14, 2016

Greg uploads “The Eugenia Cooney Cooking Show”, mocking Eugenia for having an eating disorder and even going so far as to show himself pretending to purge into the toilet.

November 20, 2016

Greg uploads “Eugenia Cooney: Final Video” and says that this is the last Eugenia Cooney video he intends to make, despite the massive attraction and profit they generate. This is his twelfth video on Eugenia and the second time he claimed he would stop.

December 6, 2016

Greg releases a diss track about Cyr.

December 7, 2016

Greg uploads “Ugly to Pretty Bodies ( + Body Image)” featuring more commentary about Eugenia Cooney. This is his thirteenth video about her.

December 8, 2016

Cyr uploads his own diss track in response to Greg’s.

December 20, 2016

Greg announces via Twitter that he will stop making Eugenia Cooney videos for the third time.

2017

January 16, 2017

Greg uploads another video about Eugenia Cooney. It is his fourteenth video about her.

February 21, 2017

Greg claims on Twitter that he won’t make any more Eugenia Cooney videos for the fourth time.

Eugenia Cooney responds to the harassment she’s been receiving due to Greg’s videos.

February 14, 2017

Greg reveals the secret YouTuber he dated in 2011 was Hannah Minx.