The site launched on May 14, 2012, by Shane Gill who came up with the idea for a trivia focused website based on gaming after being inspired by a number of
Facebook trivia groups. By July 2012, the official Facebook page had reached nearly 20,000 fans in under eight weeks. On January 25, 2014, Did You Know Gaming partnered with a relaunched
Normal Boots, a collaborative website for hosting gaming themed content created by
Jon Jafari and
Austin Hargrave. A spin-off series' has also been created on the channel "
The Film Theorists" called
Did You Know Movies. It has long since moved to the
NormalBoots YouTube channel in where the majority of the original videos were reworked. On July 7, 2017, Did You Know Gaming? announced a new channel, featuring content created by
Dazz, creator of
The Spriters Resource and the
Region Locked series, alongside Greg who also works on Region Locked. The channel features a more off-the-cuff style primarily focused around providing additional content to complement the main channel. The channel hosted its own version of two of the channels main shows,
Did You Know Gaming? Extra and
Region Locked Light. As of April 2021, the second channel has over 160,000 subscribers and more than 4.1 million views. On November 21, 2017, they announced that
Region Locked Light would be cancelled and that
Did You Know Gaming? Extra would be moved to the main channel. They, as of the date, had almost no plans for the channel. One of their ideas was using the channel to promote smaller trivia and gaming channels. On June 29, 2020, they announced
Did You Know Gaming? 2 would be rebranded as
DYKG Clips which compiles clips from Did You Know Gaming? and
Did You Know Gaming Extra. On April 23, 2022, they announced they would release the one-hour videos from
DYKG Clips as podcasts. On April 28, 2023, the channel was hacked by
cryptocurrency scammers. ==Content==