Jesse Cox

Jesse was born in Wheeling, West Virginia and for the early part of his life traveled frequently with his parents around the country. Eventually they settled in Oakwood, Ohio just outside of Dayton. After High School he studied at the State University of New York (S.U.N.Y) at Buffalo in New York state where he double majored, earning a bachelor's degree in Theater as well as History. He later went on to receive his master's degree in education while teaching, from the University of Dayton.

OMFGcata is Cox's YouTube channel (Rebranded as "Jesse Cox") and serves as his primary content platform. The name of the channel was inspired by the Cataclysm expansion of World of Warcraft, the coverage of which was one of Cox's first major video series. Eventually after the initial release of Cataclysm, Jesse expanded his coverage into "Let's Play" style gaming videos and eventually into a weekly "show" format featuring friends and colleagues. In 2016 he won a Golden Joystick Award for upcoming YouTube personality. The gaming convention Coxcon is named after Cox.

Jesse has voiced several video game characters such as Spirictus in Heroes of Newerth, Genji in Awesomenauts, and an Ice Troll named Jesse in The Witcher 3.

Jesse Cox alongside his friends John "TotalBiscuit" Bain and Brooke "Dodger" Thorne host a gaming Podcast every week with a fourth special guest or their friend Eric "Crendor" Hraab. While the podcast's main focus is about video games, they commonly derail and discuss other topics of the day, giving way to the joke "We occasionally talk about Video Games".

CoxCon is a video game and Youtube convention, hosted by Cox and held annually in the United Kingdom since 2015. The convention features game exhibitors, vendors, board gaming, and most prominently internet celebrity guests.