GDILIVES

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User Details

Connections	Followers	Following
143	174.3K+	1.2K+

Account Details

Roblox ID	Date Created
9212846	20/07/2010

Groups	Games
Tower Defense X GDl GDI Studios JOHN ROBLOX	Tower Defense X Tactical Warfare: Hold The Line SWAGER21's Place Number: 19 ####################### ##### Number: 15 SWAGER21's Place Number: 22 ####################### ##### Number: 14

Social Links

Roblox	Discord
TDXiswinning	gdi

YouTube	Twitter
GDILIVES	M1A2 AbramsTank

Overview

John Smith, also known as GDILIVES online, JOHN ROBLOX, or SWAGER21, is an American Roblox YouTuber, self-proclaimed man-child, and the creator of Tower Defense X. He is also a moderator in the game Criminality and was a contributor for Tower Defense Simulator and moderator for Reason 2 Die: Awakening.^[1]As of now, he is 25 years old.

GDILIVES has a YouTube channel named JOHN ROBLOX, mostly known for making Roblox content, typically videos about Tower Defense X and occasionally another topic. He also owns 3 alternative channels called "okaythisisepic", "GDI" and "TDX". okaythisisepic primarily posted clips or memes from John's main channel, but was abandoned and has been inactive since November 2021. GDI is a semi-active channel that is about Roblox commentary or random stuff John does. The TDX channel was intended for posting TDX news and leaks, but nowadays most TDX discussion is either on GDILIVES' main channel or on the TDX Discord Server under channels such as #tdx-bread and #announcements.

History

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(For history about Tower Defense X, read the actual page for it or Update Log page.)

John Smith was born on the 12th of August on 2000 as a Texan with a deadly allergy to peanuts.^[2] He enjoyed FPS games and Roblox ever since he was the age of 3.^[3] Wanting to find success in creating video games, John made an obby game on Roblox as a start when he was 10 years old, although he didn't make much out of it despite his activity in it.^[4] On the 16th of June on 2011, GDILIVES created Tactical Warfare: Hold The Line, although not much is known about it due to a lack of footage online and the game being closed. John also wanted to learn scripting in middle school, but quickly gave up when he realized how complicated it actually is. John created the JOHN ROBLOX channel by the time he was 13, which was under the name SWAGER21 at the time, in which he'd upload a variety of short Roblox videos, most of which were memes. He'd eventually have some focus on games like Polyguns, Jailbreak, and Reason 2 Die: Awakening as he used to be friends with the game's creator at the time until multiple controversies regarding the owner arose years later.^[5] During his early years on YouTube, his videos never saw much popularity with little exceptions, but his channel would really start to take off once he started to focus on making Tower Battles videos.

Somewhere in 2022, John Roblox started dating someone who went by R0XAP0X, but the relationship only lasted a few months, because she eventually chose to secretly date her ex-boyfriend, which caused John to break up with her. John even went back to this video that featured her and would change the thumbnail and description. Although John would post a tweet asking people not to harass her, most people did anyways.

During the 2024 Roblox Developer Conference, John and BelowNatural, the owner of Tower Defense Simulator had seemingly turned against each other after John was removed from the Conference for supposedly intimidating and sabotaging Below and his team in front of David Baszucki. However the 2 were on good terms again after a few hours.

Trivia

GDILIVES was awarded the "Best Game Trailer" Bloxy Award for editing and recording the gameplay for the 'Tower Defense Simulator Trailer [BLOXY WINNER 2020]'. His reaction can be seen here.
GDILIVES has an official UGC item based on his avatar.
- It also used to appear as a statue on Tower Defense Simulator's map Rocket Arena, but was removed for unknown reasons.
GDILIVES occasionally makes his avatar look like Sunny from Omori.
John appears as a Skin and an Announcer in Arsenal. The skin was made when he won a duel against mightybaseplate, one of the game's programmers because he decided to replace this music with this, as the developer was getting sick of John and his fans equipping the Paintballer or Ace Pilot skin and then using the Megaphone taunt to blast that music, though that change was also reverted when John won.^[6][1]
The name GDILIVES references the Global Defense Initiative from the Command & Conquer franchise.
GDILIVES originally popularized Tower Defense Simulator when the game was first in development as a school project.
Despite competing with Tower Defense Simulator, GDILIVES is good friends with the game's owner BelowNatural, and has a tower in the game based off his likeness, the Militant, which was named John in the past, but was then reworked, with the overall tribute aspect to John turning into a skin.
One of GDILIVES' previous usernames was "TDSiswinning", indicating that TDS was the most popular tower defense game at that time. This was when he still worked for Paradoxum Games.
- This was later changed to "TDXiswinning" shortly before Tower Defense X first released.
John owns a 2023 ZL1 Camaro, along with a 2023 LT1 Camaro.^[7]
John owns a mature Rottweiler dog named Kane,^[8] who is unfortunately prone to seizures.
John had a Makeship plushie on sale that was available for 21 days until December 14, 2021 and was shipped out by March 2, 2022.^[9] He also tried to sell another one for Tower Defense X, but it unfortunately didn't receive enough funding for it to be put into production by the deadline, January 31, 2024.^[10]

Notes


Browsing		Badges • Beginner's Guide • Currency • Enemies • Events • Event Enemies • Gamemodes • Maps • Minor Characters • Narrators • Soundtracks • Towers • Units • Update Log
Features		Achievements • Battle Pass • Codes • Credits Upgrade Menu • Daily Login Rewards • Deployables • Emotes • Event Shop • Keybinds • Ping System • Power-ups • Name Tags • Ranks • Skincrates • Vending Machine • Ronald
Mechanics	Tower Mechanics	Interactive Abilities • Skins • Status Effects
	Enemy Mechanics	Attributes • Status Effects
	Map Mechanics	2021 Koenigsegg Jesko • Fortress Snowlyn Gate • GDA Artillery • GDA Base • Gatling Sentry (Finality)/G.U.N. Facility • Cannon Sentry (Castellan Reach)/Pacifica Ruins • Machine Gun Sentry
Developers		Atrazine • GDILIVES • SWAGER21c • xonae • Loravocado
Miscellaneous		Developer Products • Gamepasses • GDA • Lobby • towre defns real • Tower Defense X • Tower Defense X (Group) • Unreleased/Scrapped Content • Merchandise

[1] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxt9IGf0B-0

[2] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZEVI9RuB58

[3] ttps://youtu.be/5U76p3Aiyeg?t=73

[4] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZBCH5JE8U8

[5] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxt9IGf0B-0

[6] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vP08XEr_BM

[7] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/camaro/comments/1cym5d0/just_got_a_2023_zl1_camaro_next_to_my_lt1_2023/

[8] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COMcK6GZlOc

[9] ttps://www.makeship.com/products/john-roblox-plush

[10] ttps://www.makeship.com/products/tower-defense-x-john-plush

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