Skatune Network is the YouTube channel and music project of Jeremy Hunter, who takes all of your favorite songs and turns them into ska songs. Hunter also makes music under the name JER and plays trombone in We Are the Union. In December 2016, Hunter, having recently purchased recording equipment, began posting ska demos to Facebook, including a joke Christmas cover of José Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad" (entitled "Feliz NaviSKA"). That cover, as well as a similar rendition of "Auld Lang Syne" for New Year's Eve, were unexpectedly popular on the site, inspiring Hunter to start the Skatune Network YouTube channel. An early cover of "January 10, 2014" by The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die was shared by the band on social media, and within a week of launching the channel, Hunter had acquired over 2,000 subscribers. That number would expand to 100,000 by August 2019 and 200,000 by December 2021. After an April 2018 cover of the Mii channel theme went viral, Hunter began regarding Skatune Network as a "full-time job" rather than a side venture. A November 2018 cover of La Dispute's "Such Small Hands and Nobody Not Even The Rain" was requested by the band themselves; that same month saw Hunter begin touring Skatune Network as a full-live band with shows in St. Petersburg and Orlando, Florida. In February 2019, their cover of PUP's "Free At Last", off their album Morbid Stuff, was one of 253 fan covers included in the song's official music video. Later in 2019, Hunter returned to The Fest with Skatune Network, backed by members of We Are The Union and billed alongside Against Me!, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, Jawbreaker, Less Than Jake, Dag Nasty, Joyce Manor, and Screaming Females; they also played the festival again in 2021, playing a back-to-back set with Hunter's band We Are The Union and joining acts like Hot Water Music, Frank Turner, and The Wonder Years. In February 2023, Hunter collaborated with fellow YouTube musician Ali Spagnola on a ska cover of Taylor Swift's "Anti-Hero". They have been a musical guest at MAGFest in 2020 and 2023. The subjects of Hunter's Skatune Network covers are eclectic and wide-ranging, encompassing 1980s pop music, emo, and R&B as well as songs and theme music from films, television shows, and video games. Hunter has also released Skatune Network albums through Counter Intuitive Records since 2019, variously themed around the Billboard Hot 100, emo, Cartoon Network's Cartoon Cartoons, Undertale, Animal Crossing, the Beach Bunny album Honeymoon, and Halloween and Christmas music. John Ochoa of Vice noted that Hunter's "range of genres" and "self-aware exploitation of meme and internet culture, like Steven Universe and Adventure Time stan communities" has helped Skatune Network find greater exposure beyond ska and punk circles. Hunter is prominently active on social media. They have credited Tumblr as the source of Skatune Network's first 20,000 subscribers, as Steven Universe storyboard artist (and Craig of the Creek co-creator) Ben Levin had reblogged their cover of "Giant Woman". In addition to the YouTube channel, they host livestreams several nights a week on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitch, where they interact with viewers. Twitch streams often involve Hunter recording ska covers in real time. Hunter also uses social media to promote smaller ska artists, including through a regularly updated Twitter thread, a Spotify playlist, and year-end YouTube videos, as well as discussing the history of ska, misconceptions about the genre, and issues within the scene. As of March 2023, Hunter had over 200k subscribers on YouTube and over 400k followers on TikTok. John Ochoa of VICE described the typical sound of Skatune Network covers as "somewhere between bratty punk, dub-tinged ska, and loungey jazz, and often all three in one single track." Hunter has been outspoken about the history and current state of ska music, earning the fan nickname "The CEO of Ska". BrooklynVegan has written, "You can't talk about the renewed interest in ska without talking Jeremy Hunter", while music critic Anthony Fantano has described them as "a one-person ska wrecking crew". Hunter grew up on ska punk bands like Less Than Jake, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Reel Big Fish, Streetlight Manifesto, and The Aquabats; 1970s soul and funk artists like Al Green and Earth, Wind & Fire; as well as 1980s hip-hop; and jazz. They have also highlighted the influence of ska artists like Desmond Dekker, Fishbone, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Hepcat, and The Specials, with Hepcat and The Specials influencing Skatune Network and Fishbone influencing JER. Other artists Hunter has expressed admiration for include emo/indie rock artists like The World Is a Beautiful Place, A Great Big Pile of Leaves, Ratboys, The Promise Ring, The Get Up Kids, Really From, Hop Along, Tigers Jaw, Rozwell Kid, Camp Cope, Slingshot Dakota, and Lemuria; hip-hop/R&B artists like Silk Sonic, MF Doom, and Freddie Gibbs; and chiptune music. Outside of music, Hunter is passionate about science, particularly environmental and nutritional science, and has said they would have gone into those fields had music not taken off. They are vegan, and briefly hosted a ska-themed vegan cooking series called Up Beat Eats on their YouTube channel. Hunter is queer, non-binary, and polyamorous and uses they/them pronouns. They have ADHD and have struggled with anxiety and depression.