Patrick Thomas "Pat" Julianelle (born: November 25, 1988 (1988-11-25) [age 36]), better known online as PopularMMOs, is an American YouTuber who uploads Minecraft videos and vlogs. He used to play Roblox and Fortnite on his channel.

Pat played with GamingWithJen (his ex-wife) in almost all of his videos. He currently lives in Jacksonville, Florida, with his cat, Cloud, but he is originally from Connecticut. He is one of the 32 YouTubers to be featured in Kris Madas' YouTuber Intro Challenge, and also one of the YouTubers to have their intro in it.

As of December 2022, Pat hasn't uploaded any public videos but based on his latest community post on his YouTube channel after he was released from jail, he was then planning to come back in 2023 but he will make videos with his friends and his girlfriend, Liz. On September 23, 2023, Pat published his first video in over a year, titled "I went to jail".[1]

About

PopularMMOs is best known for his Minecraft series with Jen such as "The Challenge Games”, "Epic Proportions", and "Lucky Block Races". He and Jen also did other challenges, roleplays, mod reviews, and comical commentary. In 2018, he and Jen published a book together, titled "PopularMMOs Presents A Hole New World", featuring illustrations by Dani Jones. This book was the beginning of a 5 book series, the final one being released in November 2022.

On May 18, 2021, Jen liked a tweet that mentioned Pat likes to abuse women. After that, some pictures surfaced that Pat supposedly being warranted an arrest. Jen later responded by saying the tweet like was on accident and that Pat, in their 10 years together, had never laid a hand on her. Eleni also made multiple tweets against him.[2] It later came out on a Heavy.com article that both Pat and his girlfriend "Liz" were arrested for giving "opposing stories."

Addressing everything

In May 2023, in a now-deleted YouTube community post, Pat shared his perspective with regards to his arrests and Liz's behavior.[3] Pat asked his audience to not be hard on Liz because of her BPD, PTSD, and depression. On the first arrest after "having a night out at the bars", Pat mentioned that he had tried to hold Liz after she got upset and started to break things. The two were then arrested and sustained injuries on their bodies.

On an added edit later made, Pat explains Liz was then arrested separately a second time for "hurting" him and a third time for driving while intoxicated. The second time Pat was arrested he states he slashed their tires to prevent Liz from driving while intoxicated but was given a felony charge for "assaulting her with a deadly weapon". Pat then confessed the stress of the situation "changed" him and he started drinking heavily, even being hospitalized for 2 days and losing 15 lbs. Pat ends the post professing his love for Liz and asking for emotional support.

In follow-up comments, Pat would post the concerning comment "I'm just suffering so much." Pat later explained that someone called the police where he used to live. Pat then apologized if his posts sounded like a threat of self-harm and he intended it to just "get some feelings out."

On September 23, 2023, Pat and his best friend Mike told their "interesting" experiences in the jail on a video.[4]

Trouble with the law (2024-2025)

On May 28th, 2025, YouTube channel EWU Bodycam released a bodycam video of Patrick Thomas who was charged for resisting arrest with violence, as well as possession of marijuana under 20 grams. This happened on March 3rd, 2024, who first plead not guilty only to change to guilty on November 20th, 2024, after accepting a plea deal dropping his possession charge. Patrick was sentenced to complete 12 months of probation, 100 hours of community service and a mandatory substance abuse evaluation with follow up treatment. He was also ordered to donate $1,000 to the Police Memorial Fund and write an apology to the officer he assaulted. However, on January 8th, 2025, he violated his probation due to substance related issues after failing a drug test on December 20th, 2024. On January 10th, 2025, an arrest warrant was issued. On February 2nd, 2025, Police responded to a mentally Ill person at Pat's home address where police arrested him on his active warrant. Upon his arrest his probation was modified to have Pat have a GPS monitoring and completion of an inpatient treatment program. On May 12th, 2025, a warrant was issued for his arrest due to a second violation of probation.

Covid-19

On October 21, 2020 Pat uploaded a video called So...I Have COVID!. Pat said that he had been a little sick for the past week and decided to get tested for Covid-19. To his shock, it came back positive. Pat told his fans not to worry about him, since he was young and his symptoms were not serious but rather, they should worry about other people.

On October 29, Pat uploaded a video called Update On My Covid Sickness.... In the video, he stated that he no longer had Covid-19 and also answered a few questions about how he was doing. He also talked about Jen's boyfriend, Andy and expressed interest in making a video with him.