Ray Narvaez Jr.
- Actor
- Writer
An ace XBox gamer for almost his entire life, Ray Narvaez Jr (born on September 15th, 1989 in Manhattan, New York) aka BrownMan (because of his nickname in middle school) and X-Ray (because of his animated superhero counterpart in the Rooster Teeth show X-Ray and Vav) is a Puerto-Rican American Internet and YouTube personality, web video star, an independently self-employed full-time Twitch.TV live streamer and YouTube star. Having been creating, hosting, filming, and starring in online media gaming content for over a decade (since 2008), he is a former Rooster Teeth employee and former Achievement Hunter host in the Achievement Hunter division from April 6th, 2012 for three full years of employment until April 17th, 2015 when he quit his job in favor of full time streaming on Twitch. He received over $20,000 on his first day of full-time Twitch streaming. He is also a former GameStop employee and a former UPS employee. In The Internet Box Podcast and Achievement Hunter videos, Ray often joked about being poor and Hispanic at the time he joined AH/RT. His Twitch account is BrownMan and his YouTube channel is B1GnBr0wN. He initially got his start by making achievement guides on YouTube in September 2009.
Born in Manhattan to Hispanic Puerto Rican parents who were immigrants from Puerto Rico. and growing up in the residential neighborhood of Fresh Meadows, Queens, New York near Long Island, he started playing games since he was 2 years old. He is of Puerto Rican descent and grew up in New York area and he began wearing glasses since he was 5.
Ray attended Queens College for about a year but he dropped out as he would frequently ditch classes much to the anger and chagrin of his parents. His parents were at first very disappointed so Ray had to go find work with a well-paying salary. After dropping out of college, he at first worked as a bar server at a New York bar. He then worked as a delivery truck driver assistant at the American freight company United Parcel Service (UPS). His job working as a truck driver assistant at UPS was basically consisting of sitting in the passenger seat of the truck and give destination directions to the truck driver as well as delivering and carrying cargo/freight boxes and packages to the doorsteps across the neighborhood. Ray said that his job working at UPS was the worst job ever as he hated delivering packages in the cold winter snow.
Eventually, Ray moved to Austin, Texas (where he presently resides) to work full time at Rooster Teeth Productions. During his three years there Ray continued his work on achievement guides as well as appeared in hundreds of Let's Plays with the rest of the Achievement Hunter cast. His longest job before working at Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter and next job after UPS was working at GameStop in New York. He worked there for about 2 and a half years. His old awesome boss left for another job and when his horrible new boss came in and gave Ray unfair working hours, Ray quit working at GameStop immediately. At a GameStop branch in New York, he realized he hated his job and his manager kept cutting his hours so he was earning little to no pay. Due to this, he came to the decision to make a large selection of videos and try and be hired at Achievement Hunter (which was an overall success). At RTX 2013 Geoff revealed that had Ray asked Geoff to be brought on full time earlier, Geoff would have done so.
Ray worked as a content creator and uploaded community YouTube videos under the internet persona BrownMan for three years from 2009 until he was officially hired in April 2012 when his YouTube videos grabbed the attention of Rooster Teeth. When Ray first met Geoff for employment, Geoff ran Ray under a contract and he worked as a contract host from 2011 until 2012. Before being officially hired, he was a community member, editor, content creator and recurring host on Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter videos. On April 6th, 212, he was officially hired by Rooster Teeth and would later be promoted to the 6th main host at Achievement Hunter. He was the last and newest member at Achievement Hunter. He flew from JFK airport to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas on April 26, 2012 following his employment. By April 30th, 2012, he became a fully-fledged Rooster Teeth Productions employee and a cast member at Achievement Hunter. According to Burnie Burns, Ray was employee number 34.
Ray was considered to be the best gamer in Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter due to his considerable and unbeatable skills in many video game genres. Ray has won the Tower of Pimps the most times, survived more rounds in Black Ops: Zombies, has the longest Versus winning streak, and has the highest gamer-score out of all the Achievement Hunters. Before he quit, he had a gamer-score of about 450,000.
Ray's primary job working at Rooster Teeth Productions and Achievement Hunter was to star in Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter videos, such as star in Lets Play videos and VS with the rest of the five guys and record for the internet box podcast which ended in 2014. He was also signed in to voice his animated superhero counterpart named X-Ray in the cartoon series X-Ray and Vav. He was often given the task of making guides for achievements that are too difficult for other employees (e.g. Call of Duty SpecOps missions on Veteran difficulty). Ray was at New York Comic Con in October 2012 (6 months after he joined AH/RT full-time), along with Matt Hullum, Monty Oum, and Kathleen Zuelch. He was a part of the Rooster Teeth interview on what it's like making Red vs Blue. He also got to answer the audience's questions, signed autographs, and had taken pictures for fans. He even performed some magic tricks for the crowd.
Ray talked about how he got to be in the same photograph with the entire game designer group that made Halo 4, as shown in the Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures. His humor is very sarcastic and self-deprecating, making for very memorable lines, or "Rayisms". He frequently responded to the mention of a song, movie, or person with something completely unrelated, such as responding to a Michael Jackson song with "I love the Baha Men". It was also common for him to poke fun at his own supposed abstinence from drugs and alcohol.
In November 2013, Ray starting streaming on twitch.TV as a hobby. By streaming several times a week and being highly interactive, Ray quickly built an audience on the Twitch platform. For a year and a half he would film 'Lets Plays' during the day at AH and stream in the evenings or on weekends on the official Rooster Teeth business/company Twitch channel without a sub button, void of any monetizing benefits, sharing it with other RT employees as he was not allowed to stream if and when a live RT production was broadcasting. Finally, in mid-April of 2015, Ray quit his position at Rooster Teeth as a whole (including Achievement Hunter) to pursue full-time streaming.
On April 10, 2015, Ray announced his departure from Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter to pursue streaming on Twitch full-time. He left on April 17, 2015 and began live-streaming video games on Twitch full-time the next day (April 18th, 2015).
In the past 5 years Ray has amassed over 450,000 followers on twitch and built a very dedicated community. Ray's streams are focus mainly on Xbox games and unlocking achievements to further his already impressive gamer-score.
Ray's streams feature a lot of chat interaction mixed with his quick wit and dry humor he is known for. As a full-time streamer, he streams every day except for Monday's and Thursday. Ray resides in Austin, TX with his wife, Tina Dayton, and their dog, a Shiba-Inu named Charlie.
Born in Manhattan to Hispanic Puerto Rican parents who were immigrants from Puerto Rico. and growing up in the residential neighborhood of Fresh Meadows, Queens, New York near Long Island, he started playing games since he was 2 years old. He is of Puerto Rican descent and grew up in New York area and he began wearing glasses since he was 5.
Ray attended Queens College for about a year but he dropped out as he would frequently ditch classes much to the anger and chagrin of his parents. His parents were at first very disappointed so Ray had to go find work with a well-paying salary. After dropping out of college, he at first worked as a bar server at a New York bar. He then worked as a delivery truck driver assistant at the American freight company United Parcel Service (UPS). His job working as a truck driver assistant at UPS was basically consisting of sitting in the passenger seat of the truck and give destination directions to the truck driver as well as delivering and carrying cargo/freight boxes and packages to the doorsteps across the neighborhood. Ray said that his job working at UPS was the worst job ever as he hated delivering packages in the cold winter snow.
Eventually, Ray moved to Austin, Texas (where he presently resides) to work full time at Rooster Teeth Productions. During his three years there Ray continued his work on achievement guides as well as appeared in hundreds of Let's Plays with the rest of the Achievement Hunter cast. His longest job before working at Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter and next job after UPS was working at GameStop in New York. He worked there for about 2 and a half years. His old awesome boss left for another job and when his horrible new boss came in and gave Ray unfair working hours, Ray quit working at GameStop immediately. At a GameStop branch in New York, he realized he hated his job and his manager kept cutting his hours so he was earning little to no pay. Due to this, he came to the decision to make a large selection of videos and try and be hired at Achievement Hunter (which was an overall success). At RTX 2013 Geoff revealed that had Ray asked Geoff to be brought on full time earlier, Geoff would have done so.
Ray worked as a content creator and uploaded community YouTube videos under the internet persona BrownMan for three years from 2009 until he was officially hired in April 2012 when his YouTube videos grabbed the attention of Rooster Teeth. When Ray first met Geoff for employment, Geoff ran Ray under a contract and he worked as a contract host from 2011 until 2012. Before being officially hired, he was a community member, editor, content creator and recurring host on Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter videos. On April 6th, 212, he was officially hired by Rooster Teeth and would later be promoted to the 6th main host at Achievement Hunter. He was the last and newest member at Achievement Hunter. He flew from JFK airport to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas on April 26, 2012 following his employment. By April 30th, 2012, he became a fully-fledged Rooster Teeth Productions employee and a cast member at Achievement Hunter. According to Burnie Burns, Ray was employee number 34.
Ray was considered to be the best gamer in Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter due to his considerable and unbeatable skills in many video game genres. Ray has won the Tower of Pimps the most times, survived more rounds in Black Ops: Zombies, has the longest Versus winning streak, and has the highest gamer-score out of all the Achievement Hunters. Before he quit, he had a gamer-score of about 450,000.
Ray's primary job working at Rooster Teeth Productions and Achievement Hunter was to star in Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter videos, such as star in Lets Play videos and VS with the rest of the five guys and record for the internet box podcast which ended in 2014. He was also signed in to voice his animated superhero counterpart named X-Ray in the cartoon series X-Ray and Vav. He was often given the task of making guides for achievements that are too difficult for other employees (e.g. Call of Duty SpecOps missions on Veteran difficulty). Ray was at New York Comic Con in October 2012 (6 months after he joined AH/RT full-time), along with Matt Hullum, Monty Oum, and Kathleen Zuelch. He was a part of the Rooster Teeth interview on what it's like making Red vs Blue. He also got to answer the audience's questions, signed autographs, and had taken pictures for fans. He even performed some magic tricks for the crowd.
Ray talked about how he got to be in the same photograph with the entire game designer group that made Halo 4, as shown in the Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures. His humor is very sarcastic and self-deprecating, making for very memorable lines, or "Rayisms". He frequently responded to the mention of a song, movie, or person with something completely unrelated, such as responding to a Michael Jackson song with "I love the Baha Men". It was also common for him to poke fun at his own supposed abstinence from drugs and alcohol.
In November 2013, Ray starting streaming on twitch.TV as a hobby. By streaming several times a week and being highly interactive, Ray quickly built an audience on the Twitch platform. For a year and a half he would film 'Lets Plays' during the day at AH and stream in the evenings or on weekends on the official Rooster Teeth business/company Twitch channel without a sub button, void of any monetizing benefits, sharing it with other RT employees as he was not allowed to stream if and when a live RT production was broadcasting. Finally, in mid-April of 2015, Ray quit his position at Rooster Teeth as a whole (including Achievement Hunter) to pursue full-time streaming.
On April 10, 2015, Ray announced his departure from Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter to pursue streaming on Twitch full-time. He left on April 17, 2015 and began live-streaming video games on Twitch full-time the next day (April 18th, 2015).
In the past 5 years Ray has amassed over 450,000 followers on twitch and built a very dedicated community. Ray's streams are focus mainly on Xbox games and unlocking achievements to further his already impressive gamer-score.
Ray's streams feature a lot of chat interaction mixed with his quick wit and dry humor he is known for. As a full-time streamer, he streams every day except for Monday's and Thursday. Ray resides in Austin, TX with his wife, Tina Dayton, and their dog, a Shiba-Inu named Charlie.
