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- Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, better known by his online alias PewDiePie, is a Swedish producer of Let's Play videos on YouTube. Since 15 August 2013, PewDiePie's channel has been the most subscribed channel on YouTube, being surpassed briefly in November and December 2013 by YouTube's Spotlight channel. Holding the position since 22 December 2013, the channel has reached over 34.8 million subscribers, as of February 2015. On 19 July 2014, the channel surpassed RihannaVEVO to become the most viewed channel of all time. Currently, the PewDiePie channel has received over 8 billion video views. Due to his popularity, PewDiePie's coverage of indie games has created an Oprah effect wherein their sales have been posted, and he has raised money for charities through his "Bro Army" fanbase. Aside from his online activities, Kjellberg has made appearances in other forms of media, including radio and television.
- A knack for creating outrageous, foul-mouthed characters in short comic videos helped to make Shane Dawson a star on YouTube and granted him access to mainstream fame through a variety of platforms. Born Shane Lee Yaw on July 19, 1988 in Long Beach, California, he began making short comedic videos in high school as a means of contending with a tumultuous home life. He developed his technical skills in video production while in high school and launched his first YouTube channel, ShaneDawsonTV, in 2008; one of his early videos, "Fred is Dead," which parodied Lucas Cruikshank's hyperactive character Fred Figglehorn, attracted substantial viewer numbers, which helped to mint Dawson as a nascent YouTube star. Subsequent videos, which featured Dawson parodying pop culture figures like Paris Hilton or performing as recurring characters of his own creation, like the garishly dressed Shanaynay or the aggressive but affectionate Aunt Hilda, led to the creation of a second YouTube channel, ShaneDawsonTV2, and a third, titled Shane, which showcased his daily video blog entries. He soon began working on larger-scale projects, including a series titled "SD High," and a show in conjunction with Sony Pictures and Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Pictures shingle. Neither of these came to fruition, but Dawson's first music video, "SUPERLUV!" reached No. 28 on the iTunes Pop chart. In 2013, he added a podcast, Shane and Friends, to his ever-increasing media empire, and directed his first feature, "Not Cool" (2014). The film, produced as part of the reality competition series "The Chair" (Starz), received universally negative reviews, but won the competition, earning Dawson a $250,000 cash prize. Dawson made his publishing debut with I Hate Myselfie, a collection of personal essays based on his upbringing and experiences. A proposed pilot for NBC titled "Losin' It" failed to receive a full order of episodes, but Dawson rebounded by signing with the subscription video service Fullscreen for new video content. He also earned headlines that same year for releasing a video in which he came out to viewers as bisexual.
- Liza Koshy was a YouTube star and actress who was best known for hosting the reboot of MTV's "Total Request Live" (MTV, 1998-2008, 2017- ), which premiered on the network in October of 2017. Born in raised in Houston, Texas, Koshy's fun-loving demeanor and funny personality made her popular all throughout high school. In 2013 she started to utilize her talent for making people laugh by posting videos on the micro-vlogging site Vine. Koshy's comedy videos instantly made her a star, and within just a few years she had amassed millions of subscribers. In addition to Vine, Koshy also began posting her comedy videos on YouTube, and gained notoriety for reaching 10 million subscribers faster than any of her peers on the video-sharing site. By 2016 Koshy had also begun acting in films and TV shows. In addition to appearing as Violet Adams on the Hulu horror series "Freakish" (Hulu, 2016- ), she also landed a supporting role in Tyler Perry's comedy-horror film "Boo! A Madea Halloween" (2016). The following year, in 2017, Koshy also nabbed a recurring part on the YouTube Red series "Escape the Night" (YouTube Red, 2016- ). In addition to her screen-acting, Koshy continued to release funny videos on her YouTube channel, and as of September 2017 had amassed over 11 million subscribers and an astounding 1-billion plus views to her videos. With her career as a well-known millennial personality on the rise, Koshy broke out into the mainstream in October 2017 when she began hosting the rebooted version of MTV's "Total Request Live." Carson Daly last hosted the show, which featured the most popular music videos of the day, from 1998 to 2008.
- Dude Perfect is an American sports entertainment group which routinely uploads new video content to various YouTube channels. The group consists of twins Coby and Cory Cotton, Garrett Hilbert, Cody Jones, and Tyler Toney, all of whom are former high school basketball players and college roommates at Texas A&M University. The members of the group hold several Guinness World Records. Their YouTube videos have garnered over 5 billion views total and their flagship channel, "Dude Perfect," has over 29 million subscribers as of April 2018. The channel is the 8th most subscribed channel overall and the most subscribed sports channel on YouTube.
- David Dobrik (born July 23, 1996) is an American YouTuber from Slovakia. He has received over 5,000,000 subscribers on his main YouTube channel and was previously part of a collaborative channel called Second Class. He also has a second channel which has received over 3,000,000 subscribers.
- Ethan and Grayson Dolan (born December 16, 1999), collectively known as The Dolan Twins, are an American comedy duo who rose to prominence in May 2013 on the video sharing application Vine. Since their beginnings, the duo has accumulated over 6.4 million followers on Vine and 4.4 million subscribers on YouTube, and embarked on a world tour titled the "4OU" Tour in 2016.
- Lannan Eacott (born December 14, 1994) is a YouTube gamer known as LazarBeam who initially gained a following for his Madden challenge videos. Especially popular are his videos featuring tiny, talentless created players. He also features videos of GTA V with mods, Beam NG, and Happy Wheels. He has more than 1.1 million subscribers to his YouTube channel. His sister Tannar is a photographer and he has two brothers, one of whom, Jarrad, played professional baseball.
- Mark Edward Fischbach (born June 28, 1989), known online as Markiplier, is an American YouTube personality. Originally from Honolulu, Hawaii, he began his career in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is currently based in Los Angeles, California. As of November 2017, his channel has over 8 billion total video views and 19 million subscribers, and is currently one of the Top 25 most-subscribed channel on YouTube. Fischbach specializes in Let's Play videos, commonly of survival horror video games.
- James Charles Dickinson (born May 23, 1999), also known as James Charles, is an American internet personality, makeup artist, and model known for being the first male CoverGirl spokesperson. Charles launched his YouTube channel, focusing on makeup, on December 1, 2015 and has over 2,798,000 million subscribers and 169.3 million views (as of February 2018). His Instagram currently has over 3.2 million followers (as of February 2018).
- Seán William McLoughlin (born 7 February 1990), better known through his online pseudonym Jacksepticeye (or simply Jack), is an Irish producer, game commentator, and internet personality, known primarily for his comedic Let's Play series on video games and vlogs on YouTube.
- Safiya Nygaard (born July 16, 1992) is an actress, comedian, and writer, who first gained fame while creating video content for BuzzFeed. Also widely known as a beauty vlogger, she has starred on her eponymous YouTube channel, which reaches over 4.5 million subscribers and growing. She attended Stanford University where she participated in theatre productions of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and The Crucible.
- Colleen Ballinger was an Internet personality and actress who was primarily known for portraying the character Miranda Sings on her widely watched YouTube channel. Born and raised in the coastal city of Santa Barbara, California, Ballinger dreamed of becoming a professional singer when she was a young girl. She started taking voice lessons in her early teens and majored in the arts at Azusa Pacific University. After graduating from the university in 2008, Ballinger started performing live all throughout Los Angeles. With her career on the rise, she moved to New York City, where she hoped to land a manager, and possibly a recording deal. It was also around this time that Ballinger invented the character Miranda Sings, a socially awkward woman with a bad singing voice, as a means to make videos for YouTube. Although not a hit at first, Ballinger's Miranda videos slowly gained a following, and after two years of struggling in New York City, she moved back home to the West Coast to focus on her burgeoning YouTube career. Before long Ballinger's Miranda videos were being seen by millions, making her one of the most watched personalities on YouTube. She performed the character on Jerry Seinfeld's "Comedian In Cars Getting Coffee" (Crackle, 2012- ), as well as "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" (NBC, 2014- ), and also performed a one-woman show as Miranda before sold out crowds all across the country. With millions of subscribers to her YouTube channel and an ever-growing fanbase, Ballinger branched out to the world of streaming television in 2016 when she premiered he own Netflix series called "Haters Back Off." The series, which is a comedy based on her Miranda Sings character, debuted on Netflix in October of 2016.
- Tal Fishman (born December 27, 1996), commonly referred to as his online alias, Reaction Time, is a YouTuber who specializes in reaction videos where he reacts to popular videos on the Internet suggested by his fans. Unlike most reaction channels, Tal typically does not react to other videos but instead reacts to various photos and-and other things on the Internet with a lot of fancy editing to make his videos more entertaining. He will sometimes make reaction videos with his two friends, Michael and Anthony, who also have their own YouTube channels, his brother Adi, who also has his own YouTube channel and he has made one video with his friend Cenna, who edits and films Adi's videos.
- Jeffree Star (born Jeffrey Lynn Steininger Jr.; November 15, 1985) is an American Internet celebrity, beauty YouTuber, makeup artist, model, entrepreneur, and singer-songwriter. The founder and owner of Jeffree Star Cosmetics. By 2006, Star had become the most followed person on MySpace. He frequently used the platform to promote his music career. In 2009, Star released his first and only studio album, Beauty Killer, which included songs such as "Lollipop Luxury" featuring Nicki Minaj. He embarked on several world tours to promote his music. In 2010, he signed to Konvict Muzik—whose founder Akon described Star as "the next Lady Gaga"—with plans to release a second album titled Concealer. However, it was never released and Star abruptly left the music industry in 2013 under unclear circumstances and also due to legal issues Akon was facing between 2007 and 2010.In November 2014, he founded his own cosmetics company, Jeffree Star Cosmetics; which he promoted on his YouTube channel. In 2018, Star earned $18 million from his YouTube endeavours alone, according to Forbes. That was enough to make him the 5th highest-paid YouTube star as of December 2018.
- Emma Chamberlain (born May 22, 2001) is is an American internet personality, specifically on YouTube. She won the 2018 Streamy Award for Breakout Creator. In 2019, Time magazine included her on its Time 100 Next list, and its list of The 25 Most Influential People On The Internet, writing that "Chamberlain pioneered an approach to vlogging that shook up YouTube's unofficial style guide."In April 2019, she launched her first weekly podcast series, Anything Goes. Chamberlain subsequently won the award for "Best Podcaster" at the 12th Shorty Awards. She also has been a recurring model for Louis Vuitton.
- Alia Lia Shelesh (born October 22, 1992), better known as SSSniperWolf, is an Enormously popular YouTube gamer who specializes in Call of Duty gameplay videos as well as anime and video game character cosplays. She has earned over 8 million subscribers. She has a popular video called "Misty Cosplay (Black Ops 2 Zombies)" where she cosplayed as Abigail "Misty" Briarton from the aforementioned video game. In 2014, she started a second channel, LittleLiaWolf, which she uses for DIY videos.
- Lilly Singh (born September 26, 1988) is a Canadian comedian, actress, former talk show host, and YouTuber who formerly appeared under the pseudonym Superwoman (stylized IISuperwomanII), her longtime YouTube username. Born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, Singh began making YouTube videos in 2010. In 2016, she was included in Forbes list of world's highest paid YouTubers ranking third and earning a reported $7.5 million. By 2017, she was ranked tenth on the Forbes list of the world's highest-paid YouTube stars, earning a reported $10.5 million; as of February 2022 she has 14.7 million subscribers and over three billion video views. Forbes named her one of the 40 most powerful people in comedy in 2019. She has received an MTV Fandom Award, four Streamy Awards, two Teen Choice Awards, and a People's Choice Award.
- Rosanna Pansino (born Rosanna Reardon) is an American YouTuber, baker, actress and author. She is known for the cooking series Nerdy Nummies, one of the most well-known baking shows on YouTube. She also starred as Violet in the animated YouTube series Broken Quest and in the YouTube Premium series Escape the Night as The Jet Setter (season 3) and as The Socialite (season 4). She has Italian, Croatian, German, and Irish ancestry.
- 19Daniel Robert Middleton (born 8 November 1991), better known through his online pseudonym DanTDM (formerly The Diamond Minecart), is an English YouTube personality and professional gamer. His online video channels have covered many video games, mainly the popular game Minecraft. His channel has been listed among the top YouTube channels in the United Kingdom. In 2014, Business Insider estimated Middleton's annual income to be somewhere between $213,000 and $2.15 million. In July 2015, his channel was listed as one of the most popular YouTubers in the world by viewership. He has earned several Kids' Choice Awards as well as set Guinness World Records for his gaming and presenting. In 2017, Middleton topped the Forbes list of Highest-Paid YouTube Stars, earning $16.5 million (about GB£12.2 million) in one year.
- 20Lachlan Ross Power (born August 25, 1995) is an Australian gamer known for posting Minecraft and Fortnite-related content on his channel CraftBattleDuty, which has earned more than 3.9 million subscribers. He is also the creator of the well-known Pixelmon server Pokeballers. He has been given a variety of nicknames by his fans, including "The Lachers," "Little Lachy" and "JagBattleDuty." He created a secondary gaming channel called Lachlan Playz, which features Let's Plays.
- 21Matthew Robert "Matt" Patrick, also known by screen name MatPat, is an American internet personality, actor, writer, and producer. He is best known as the creator and narrator of the YouTube webseries Game Theory, where he comments on topics such as the logic, scientific accuracy, and lore of various video games and the gaming industry. He is also known for creating the spinoff Film Theory, centering around cinema and internet filmography. In 2015, Patrick created one of YouTube's first live gaming channels, GTLive, and in 2016, he created the YouTube Red series MatPat's Game Lab. As of June 2017, Patrick has amassed over 13 million subscribers and over 1.6 billion views total across his three channels. Between July 1, 2016 and July 31, 2016, he starred in the game show The Runner. The show was produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and was available on Go90.
- 22Wen Jie Huang (born January 9, 1986) better known as Wengie, is a Chinese Australian YouTube personality, vlogger, singer, and voice actress. As of 2018, her YouTube channel had over 10 million subscribers, making her the most popular YouTuber in Australia. Her channel was the 6th most subscribed "how-to and style" channel on YouTube, as of January 2018.
- Rhett James McLaughlin (born October 11, 1977) and Charles Lincoln "Link" Neal III (born June 1, 1978), better known as Rhett & Link, are an American comedy duo. Self-styled as "Internetainers" (portmanteau of "Internet" and "entertainers"), they are known for creating and hosting Good Mythical Morning. Their other notable projects include comedic songs and sketches, Independent Film Channel series Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings, and their YouTube Red series Rhett and Link's Buddy System (Season 1 and Season 2). In their 2008 documentary, Looking for Ms. Locklear, they chronicled their search for the first grade teacher in whose class they met for the first time.
- 24Lauren Kobayashi Riihimaki (born August 11, 1993) is a Canadian YouTuber and crafter known for her YouTube channel LaurDIY. As of June 27, 2019 her YouTube channel has over 9 million subscribers. Her channel has been described as "one of the most well-regarded fashion and beauty YouTube channels in Canada." Riihimaki began posting DIY tutorial videos on her blog in her first year of university in Toronto. She first joined YouTube in late 2011, originally to post her sewing videos on the platform. In 2015, she graduated from Ryerson University with a degree in graphic communications management. She won a Shorty Award in the "House & Home" category at the tenth annual ceremony. She also won a Streamy Award in the "Lifestyle" category at the Awards' debut ceremony in 2017. In the same year, her web series Served By LaurDIY premiered on Facebook Watch.
- Patrick Brown (born November 25, 1988) is an American Minecraft gamer who posts battles, Let's Plays, and other Minecraft related videos to his PopularMMOs channel for his loyalbase. He created series called Mob Battles, Mod Battle, Epic Proportions, Minecraft Mini Games, and Minecraft Mods VS Maps. He earned an undergraduate degree in psychology. His earliest videos featured the game Runescape. He also played Atlantica, Tera, Rift, World of Warcraft, and more. He surpassed 10 million YouTube subscribers in December 2016.
- Jenna N. Mourey, more commonly known by her pseudonym Jenna Marbles, is an American entertainer and YouTube personality. Her channel currently has over 14 million subscribers, making it the 7th most subscribed channel on YouTube and the top channel operated by a woman.
- Joseph Michael Graceffa (born May 16, 1991) is an American YouTube personality, actor, author, producer, and singer. He runs two active YouTube channels, both named after him. His main channel is dedicated to vlogging while the second one features video gaming content. They both have a combined total of more than 1.7 billion views. His third YouTube channel, WinterSpringPro, has 60 million views (as of August 2017), but is no longer active. He was a contestant on 22nd and 24th seasons of The Amazing Race, and has appeared in a handful of short films as well as in Escape the Night, a scripted web series, distributed by YouTube via its paid-subscription service YouTube Red.
- 28Tyler Blevins (born June 5, 1991) is a gamer, streamer, and YouTuber. He has been on teams such as Cloud9, Team Liquid, and Warriors. Games featured on his channels include H1Z1, Fortnite, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and Halo.
- 29The Fine Brothers, Benny Fine and Rafi Fine, are brothers who are online producers, writers, and directors who are known for their successful React video series, their several timed spoiler series, narrative web series, as well as creating the first transmedia sitcom on YouTube, MyMusic. The Fine Brothers have been creating content online since 2004. They are behind their company, Fine Brothers Entertainment, a full service production company of digital series, television shows, and feature films. On July 22, 2014, they announced a new channel featuring more "react" series, including "React: Advice" and "React: Lyric Breakdown". As of March 2015, the new React channel has over 3 million subscribers and 283 million views.
- Cristine Raquel Rotenberg (born October 17, 1988), commonly known by her pseudonym and YouTube username Simply Nailogical, is a crime and health statistics analyst, former child actress, blogger, and Canadian YouTube personality known for her role in commercials and for creating nail art tutorial videos. Rotenberg has been praised for her humor and welcoming YouTube presence. J-14 magazine describes Rotenberg as "the face of nail art in the internet world." Rotenberg self-describes herself as having an "out-of-the-box" approach to beauty tutorials.
- 31Elliott Watkins (born November 23, 1994), better known by his online alias Muselk, is an Austalian YouTuber whose channel features gaming videos for Team Fortress 2, Overwatch, Fortnite, Star Wars Battlefront, and more.
- Alex Wassabi (born March 28, 1990) is an American YouTuber best known for his channel Wassabi Productions, which has over 9 million subscribers. He developed a following from Vine. He is from Lexington, Kentucky.
- Ryan Higa (born June 6, 1990), also known as nigahiga (), is an American comedian, YouTuber, and actor. He is known for his comedy videos on YouTube. Higa's YouTube channel, nigahiga, was the most subscribed channel on YouTube for 677 consecutive days from 2009–2011, the second longest span of time behind PewDiePie. He was also the most subscribed for twelve days in 2008.
- Gabrielle Jeanette "Gabbie" Hanna (born February 7, 1991) is an American YouTuber, viner, author, comedian, and singer-songwriter. Hanna began uploading skits to Vine in late 2013, but only in 2014 she first gained recognition for her comedy on the app Vine, where she managed to accumulate just under five million followers. In 2014, she also set up her main YouTube channel, Gabbie Hanna (formerly The Gabbie Show prior to her rebranding of her public image), which became popular for her 'Storytime' videos.
- 35Smosh is an American sketch comedy YouTube channel created by Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox.In 2002, Anthony Padilla had created a website named "smosh.com" for making flash animations, and he was later joined by his friend Ian Hecox. Soon afterward, they began to post videos on Smosh's YouTube channel in the autumn of 2005 and quickly became one of the most popular channels on the site. As of March 2019, the Smosh channel has over 8 billion video views and over 24 million subscribers, putting it just outside of the top 50 most subscribed channels on YouTube.Since 2012, the Smosh brand has expanded to consist of multiple channels, including a Spanish-language channel (ElSmosh), a channel focused on video gaming content (Smosh Games), and a variety channel (Smosh Pit). The sketches have also included more actors. Padilla left Smosh in June 2017 to pursue independent ventures. The Smosh channel has experienced three different spans as the most subscribed YouTube channel. The first period spanned from May to June 2006, the second spanned from April 2007 to September 2008, and the third span lasted from January to August 2013.On November 6, 2018, Smosh parent company Defy Media abruptly closed without warning. On November 12, 2018, the Smosh cast released a video announcing that production of Smosh, Smosh Pit, and Smosh Games content was still ongoing, and that existing videos would be finished and other content would be released independently by Smosh on their YouTube channels. They subsequently joined Mythical Entertainment after their company was purchased by Rhett and Link.
- Trisha Kay Paytas (born May 8, 1988) is an American Internet personality, actress, singer, and songwriter. After moving from Illinois to Los Angeles to pursue acting, she began stripping and doing work as an extra. She has made over 45 television appearances, including on My Strange Addiction, Dr. Phil, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and America's Got Talent. She has also appeared in music videos by artists such as Eminem and Amy Winehouse. In 2006, Paytas began her YouTube channel "blndsundoll4mj". She would later start a second channel for vlogs in 2014. On YouTube, Paytas has garnered a following for her varied videos, which range from comedic skits to eating challenges, as well as frank discussion of her personal life. In 2015, she started pursuing a career in music and has released seven EPs.
- Evan Fong (born 31 May 1992), better known through his YouTube videos as VanossGaming (or simply Vanoss) is a Canadian video game commentator and internet personality. He produces content on YouTube centered on playing popular video games with other YouTube collaborators. As of December 2017, Fong's channel has over 8 billion video views and 22 million subscribers on YouTube, making it the 20th most subscribed channel on YouTube.
- Jordan Maron (born February 10, 1992), better known through his online pseudonym CaptainSparklez, is an American YouTube personality whose channel primarily consists of videos of Minecraft let's plays, animations and mod/command block reviews, and gameplay of other video games, most prominently Trials. On March 13, 2017, he uploaded his first video reacting to subreddits. With over 10 million subscribers, his main channel is currently the 91st most subscribed channel on YouTube, not counting auto-generated channels. In May 2015, Maron started a second channel called "CaptainSparklez 2" where he primarily uploaded videos of his Twitch live streams. In March 2016, he started a music channel called "Maron Music" where he uploads his own music and showcases music of other artists. In February 2017, he started a vlog channel called "Jordan Maron".
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Olajide William "JJ" Olatunji (born 19 June 1993),[3][4] better known as KSI (shortened from his online aliasKSIOlajideBT), is a British YouTube personality, comedian, actor, rapper and white collar boxer.[5][6]
After establishing himself on his YouTube channel, which, as of August 2018, has reached over four billion video views and more than 19 million subscribers as the 41st most subscribed channel, he has also become well known for his music. KSI released his debut extended play Keep Up in 2016, reaching number one on the UK R&B Albums Chart as well as charting in several other countries.
- Born in Gales Ferry, Connecticut, in 1981, Casey Neistat left home and went out on his own at the age of 15. By the age of 17, he was a father and on welfare. When the mother of his child left him, Neistat decided to turn his life around, focus on the new world of digital home video, and moved to New York City. In 2003, he gained his first taste of notoriety when he released a video criticizing Apple for failing to have a battery replacement program for the iPod. A few months later, the company started a replacement program. In 2010, Neistat and his brother Van appeared in the HBO documentary series "The Neistat Brothers" (HBO, 2010), which followed the pair around the world for six weeks of adventure and aired for one season. Neistat also started his YouTube channel in 2010, but his first hit for the new medium came in 2011 when he released a video called "Bike Lanes," critical of the NYPD for citing cyclists with a $50 fine for riding outside of the bike lanes, even though the lanes themselves were frequently unrideable and full of obstructions. In 2012, Nike hired Neistat to make a video about what it means to #makeitcount. Using the money budgeted for the commercial, Neistat and his friend Max Joseph traveled around the world for 10 days and documented their adventure. Nike released the edited footage in their online campaign and the video went viral. Another viral video, in 2016, focused on Neistat on a snowboard as he was towed through the nearly deserted New York City streets during a blizzard. In 2016 Neistat was named GQ's New Media Star of the Year.
- Eleonora Pons Maronese (born June 25, 1996), known online as Lele Pons, is a American-Venezuelan internet personality and actress, most notable for her YouTube videos.
- 42Michael David Stevens (born January 23, 1986) is an American educator, comedian, speaker, entertainer, editor and Internet personality, best known for creating and hosting the popular education YouTube channel Vsauce. His channel initially released video game-related content until the popularity of his educational series DOT saw discussions of general interest become the focus of Vsauce, encompassing explanations of science, philosophy, culture and illusion. As the host of Vsauce, Stevens has become one of the most successful YouTubers (with over 12 million subscribers and 1.2 billion views), as well as a leading figure in the Internet-driven popularisation of science and education. In 2017, he created and starred in the YouTube Red series Mind Field, and presented the nationwide educational stage tour Brain Candy Live! alongside Adam Savage.
- Rudy Mancuso is an American actor, producer, internet personality, comedian, musician and singer most notable for his comedic videos on YouTube and previously on Vine. He is managed by John Shahidi of Shots Studios, a company that also produces his YouTube content. Many of Mancuso's videos consist mostly of musical comedy sketches. He has over 3M YouTube subscribers. Dolce & Gabbana invited Rudy Mancuso to walk in their Milan MenÂ’s Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2018 show on June 17, 2017. On October 6, 2017, Rudy Mancuso released his first single "Black & White," in collaboration with Grammy award-winning songwriter/producer Poo Bear.
- Jason Nash is an actor, writer, and producer who appeared in "FML," "Maryam," and "Batman Beyond."
- Ian Kane Carter (born July 27, 1991), known by his YouTube username iDubbbzTV, is an American YouTuber known for his Kickstarter Crap and Content Cop videos, specifically his ones directed at Jinx, Keemstar, LeafyIsHere, Tana Mongeau, and RiceGum, as well as his videos featuring fellow YouTubers TVFilthyFrank, Maxmoefoe, and Howtobasic.
- 46Zoe Elizabeth Sugg (born 28 March 1990) is an English fashion and beauty vlogger, YouTuber, and author. She is best known by her YouTube username Zoella. Her debut novel, Girl Online, was released in November 2014 and broke the record for highest first-week sales of a first-time novelist since Nielsen BookScan began compiling such records in 1998.
- Tyler Oakley is an American YouTube, television, and podcast personality, and advocate. Much of Oakley's activism has been dedicated to LGBT youth, and social issues including healthcare, education, prevention of suicide among LGBT youth, and gay rights. Oakley presents on various topics including queer politics, pop culture, and humor on a regular basis. Oakley began making videos in 2007; his first video has received over 70,000 views on YouTube. Since uploading his first video while a freshman at Michigan State University, his work of over 350 videos has over 290,000,000 views and close to 5.8 million subscribers as of November 2014. Oakley, who is openly gay, is a former member of the successful collaboration channel "5AwesomeGays," where he produced the Friday video for over three years. Currently, he is described as having "one of the loudest voices on YouTube," and Bloomberg defines him as a "YouTube sensation." He was featured in the 2014 Frontline investigative report, "Generation Like," a follow-up on how teenagers are "directly interacting with pop culture" to the 2001 report, "The Merchants of Cool."
- 48Morgan Hudson (born August 6, 2001) is a YouTuber with more than 2.8 million subscribers on his Morgz channel. He posts primarily challenges and comedy videos. He is also popular on Instagram with over 500,000 followers on his morgzyt account. In June 2014, he opened his YouTube channel with the video "Minecraft Faction Base Speed Build + Tour." He has an apparel store on his website with T-shirts that contain slogans such as "Teammorgz" and "Yo Guys It's Morgz."
- h3h3Productions (often shortened to h3h3 or simply h3) is an American comedy YouTube channel produced by husband and wife team Ethan and Hila Klein, formerly accompanied by longtime friend Sean Balogh. Their content mostly consists of reaction videos and sketch comedy where they satirize internet culture. In addition to their main channel they run a secondary vlog channel by the name of Ethan and Hila, and a third channel called H3 Podcast. The H3 Podcast covers a variety of topics, some controversial. Primarily, however, Ethan interviews celebrities and YouTubers, and the podcast has a "top of the week" segment.
- Logan Paul parlayed his talent for brief bursts of physical comedy into an enormously popular and financially profitable career as a YouTube personality and occasional film and television actor, until an unexpected scandal cut his burgeoning career short. Born Logan Alexander Paul on April 1, 1995 in Westlake, Ohio, he reportedly began making internet videos for a YouTube channel at the age of 10, but focused most of his teenaged energy on scholastic sports, with a particular focus on football and wrestling. Paul put aside these interests after enrolling at Ohio University, where he studied industrial engineering and maintaining a modest presence on YouTube. His standing on the social media site changed dramatically when he entered a short, six-second video created on the internet video sharing service Vine into a contest sponsored by Virgin Mobile. His entry proved to be one of the most shared videos in the contest, and by the end of 2013, his Vine account had over one million followers viewing and sharing his comic efforts, which largely hinged on broad slapstick comedy or Paul placing himself in harm's way, with decidedly nerve-rattling results. By 2014, he had over 3.1 million followers on social media platforms, with 150,000 alone on YouTube, where his first Vine compilation was viewed four million times in a single week. Such a sizable audience made Paul an extremely attractive showcase for companies, and he soon began earning thousands of dollars from advertising revenue. In 2015, he was named the tenth most influential figure on Vine, while his YouTube channels - which split into two outlets, one devoted to his comedy sketches and the other a daily video blog, or "vlog" - were followed by 4.36 million and 15.7 million viewers, respectively, by 2018. Interest from film and television studios was a natural next step for Paul, though his acting roles outside of YouTube Red productions like the science fiction thriller "The Thinning" (2016) were limited to guest appearances on series like "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" (NBC, 1999- ). Social media remained his most popular showcase, and in this capacity, he enjoyed a successful partnership with Dwayne Johnson on a series of 2017 shorts that detailed, in comic broad strokes, why his guest appearances in all of Johnson's films had been removed from the final release. But a pair of controversial videos posted that same year did much to undermine his shot at mainstream acceptance: a November 23 video titled "No Handlebars," which borrowed a sample of the Flobots single "Handlebars" and featured Paul appearing to ride women like bicycles, was lambasted by the media. A month later, Paul uploaded a video that depicted the corpse of a man who had committed suicide by hanging in Aokigahara, a forest in northwestern Japan where numerous similar deaths had occurred over many years. Seen by over 6 million people within 24 hours, both Paul and the video were widely criticized, and YouTube was petitioned to remove his channel. His channels were eventually removed from Google Preferred and production was halted on his Comcast video series, "Logan Paul vs." More significantly, the video and its ensuing uproar prompted YouTube to review its posting policies. He offered a number of video apologies in the wake of the incident, and posted a lengthy look at suicide prevention to his vlog channel in late January 2018.
- Jake Joseph Paul (born January 17, 1997) is an American social media personality and professional boxer. He initially rose to fame on Vine, before playing the role of Dirk Mann on the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark for two seasons Throughout his career, Paul has become the subject of many controversies due to his behavior including engaging in risky stunts, sexually suggestive behavior, featuring age-inappropriate material for YouTube, getting fired from Bizaardvark, and being charged with criminal trespass and unlawful assembly.
- 52Bryan Quang Le (born November 19, 1996), most commonly known as RiceGum or Rice, is an American YouTuber of Chinese and Vietnamese descent who was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Hannah Hart was a YouTube personality who was best known for creating the widely popular video series "My Drunk Kitchen." Born and raised in the Bay Area, Hart always had a desire to be an entertainer. An excellent student, she excelled in English throughout high school, and dreamt of becoming a writer. In her early 20s Hart spent a brief period living abroad in Japan, where she grew to love and appreciate the Japanese language. Upon returning to the states Hart enrolled in a school close to home, the University of California Berkeley, where she studied English and Japanese language. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2009 and immediately moved to Brooklyn to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a writer. Hart quickly realized, however, that hacking it out in the cutthroat world of New York publishing was a lot harder than she anticipated, not to mention she now had to earn a living in one of the most expensive cities in the country. With her savings running out Hart took a job proofreading Japanese literature for a Manhattan-based translating company to make ends meet. With her artistic hopes and dreams dwindling, thanks to the drudgery of her day job, Hart turned to YouTube on a whim one evening and posted a funny video of herself making a grilled cheese sandwich while drunk. The video quickly went viral and within a few days Hart's little video had earned over 100,000 views on YouTube. Seeing that she had hit on something special, Hart started posting more videos of herself drinking and cooking and named the series "My Drunk Kitchen." More and more people started watching and within a few months Hart was able to quit her boring proofreading job and post videos to YouTube full-time. Hart eventually moved to Los Angeles to pursue other endeavors outside of YouTube videos and had some success in 2014 when she starred in the indie comedy "Camp Takota." However, as of 2016 "My Drunk Kitchen" continued to be Hart's primary means of notoriety, thus earning her millions of fans as well as a comfortable living in sunny Los Angeles. In addition to her YouTube videos she also released a parody companion cooking book which shot up the New York Times bestseller list upon its publication in September of 2014.
- Born in southern New Jersey to John Helbig and Theresa McGinnis, comedian and host Grace Helbig formed sketch comedy troupe "Baked Goods" with her best friend Michelle Akin. Interested in performing, Helbig entered the 2005 Miss New Jersey pageant, where she made it to the semifinals. In 2007 while housesitting for a couple in southern New Jersey, Helbig began to make video blogs, or "vlogs," in an effort to entertain and amuse herself. These videos aired on Helbig's personal YouTube Channel GraceHinaBox. Rob Barnett, the CEO of online multi-channel network MyDamnChannel, discovered Helbig's videos online and offered Helbig the chance to host a video series of her own on the website. The show "DailyGrace" premiered April 14, 2008 and consisted of original videos and content uploaded on a daily basis. The show ran through December 2013 and featured over 800 original videos created by Helbig herself. In September of 2013, Helbig premiered a weekly beauty-focused web series "Grace's Faces" on the website of makeup artist Bobbi Brown. Helbig appeared in numerous television spots including a series of public service announcements for The N's "Big Green Help" an environmental awareness campaign that aired in 2008-09. In January 2015, cable outlet E! announced that Helbig would be given her own talk show on the network.
- Huda Kattan (born October 2, 1983) is an American makeup artist, beauty blogger, and entrepreneur. She is the founder of the cosmetics line Huda Beauty. Her first product, a series of false eyelashes, was released through Sephora. The Huda Beauty label achieved success with the sales of the false eyelashes, which were famously worn by Kim Kardashian. Kattan is ranked #1 on the "2017 Influencer Instagram Rich List", earning $18,000 for each post of sponsored content.
- 56Mariand Castrejon Castañeda (born March 13, 1993), better known as Yuya, is a Mexican beauty vlogger and YouTuber. Yuya has one of the most-subscribed YouTube channels in the world. She is the most popular YouTuber in the beauty and style category, and the most popular YouTuber in Mexico, with more than 20 million subscribers. It was estimated that Yuya earned 41,000 USD per month in 2015.
- Luis Fernando Flores Alvarado (born July 7, 1993), known as Fernanfloo, is a Salvadoran gaming YouTuber. With a total of over 6 billion views, more than 500 videos and 26 million subscribers, his channel is the 10th most-subscribed on YouTube. Alvarado's YouTube channel is the most subscribed from his native country of El Salvador, and its subscriber count is more than three times as high as the population of that nation. Alvarado's channel is the only YouTube channel from El Salvador to have a higher subscriber count than the population of the country.
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Germán Alejandro Garmendia Aranis (born April 25, 1990), known by his YouTube channels HolaSoyGerman. and JuegaGerman, is a Chilean YouTuber, comedian, musician, singer, and writer. He has produced a variety of songs together with his band Ancud, all available on YouTube and Spotify. His book titled #Chupaelperro came out at multiple stores of Latin America and Spain on 28 April 2016. His channels are currently the 3rd and 17th most subscribed on YouTube, having a combined total of over 50 million subscribers. As well as being the 3rd most subscribed Youtube Channel, his main channel, HolaSoyGerman., is also currently the most subscribed Spanish-speaking YouTube channel. Furthermore, he was the first YouTuber to obtain two Diamond Play Buttons (for achieving 40 million subscribers on his two channels). He also gave his voice to the Spanish version of Ice Age: Collision Course as Julian.
