YouTubers From Chicago
YouTubers are people mostly known for their work on the video sharing platform YouTube. The following is a list of YouTubers for whom Wikipedia has articles either under their own name or their YouTube channel name. This list excludes people who, despite having a YouTube presence, are primarily known for their work elsewhere. YouTube personalities † Denotes the person is deceased See also * List of most-subscribed YouTube channels * List of Internet phenomena * Viral video * YouTube References {{DEFAULTSORT:YouTubers YouTube personalities YouTubers are people mostly known for their work on the video sharing platform YouTube. The following is a list of YouTubers for whom Wikipedia has articles either under their own name or their YouTube channel name. This list excludes people who ... Dynamic lists YouTubers Video bloggers YouTubers * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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MrBeast Frontface 2021
Jimmy Donaldson (born May 7, 1998), better known as MrBeast, is an American YouTube personality, credited with pioneering a genre of YouTube videos that centers on expensive stunts. His MrBeast YouTube channel had 112.2 million subscribers as of November 17, 2022, making it the fourth-most-subscribed on the platform, and the highest by an individual. Donaldson began posting videos to YouTube in early 2012 at the age of 13 under the handle MrBeast6000; his early content ranged from Let's Plays to "videos estimating the wealth of other YouTubers." He went viral in 2017 after his "counting to 100,000" video earned tens of thousands of views in just a few days, and he has become increasingly popular ever since, with most of his videos gaining tens of millions of views. Over time, his style of content diversified to include challenge and donation videos that reward thousands of dollars, videos with arduous tasks or survival challenges, and original vlogs. Once his channel took of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Addison Rae
{{Infobox person , name = Addison Rae , image = Addison Rae - Pandora 2021 3.jpg , alt = , caption = Rae in an interview for Pandora in 2021 , birth_name = Addison Rae Easterling , birth_place = Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S. , birth_date = {{birth date and age, 2000, 10, 6 , occupation = {{hlist, Social media personality, actress , years_active = 2019–present , parents = , module = {{Infobox TikTok personality , embed=yes , followers = 88.7 million{{Citation , last = Easterling , first = Addison Rae , year = 2019 , title = Addison Rae , publisher = TikTok , publication-place = Culver City, California , page = @addisonre , url = https://www.tiktok.com/@addisonre?lang=en , access-date = 26 July 2022 , likes = 5.8 billion{{Citation , last = Easterling , first = Addison Rae , year = 2019 , title = Addison Rae , publisher = TikTok , publicati ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alastair Aiken
Alastair Aiken (born 6 November 1993), better known by his online alias Ali-A (or by his original alias Matroix), is a British YouTuber known for ''Call of Duty'' and ''Fortnite'' commentaries and vlogs. He is one of the highest-paid professional online gamers. His main channel Ali-A has a subscriber count of over 18 million, with its total views exceeding 5 billion. His second channel, More Ali-A, has a YouTube subscriber count of over 7.7 million and a total of over 1.9 billion video views. On 23 April 2018, Ali-A created a new channel, titled "Clare & Ali" with his partner, Clare Siobhan. The channel has since gained over 777,000 subscribers and generated more than 29 million video views. In September 2020, he created a fourth channel titled "Ali-A Plays", where he uploads content relating to the ''Call of Duty'' franchise only. Currently, the channel has more than 386,000 subscribers and more than 21.2 million video views. Aiken often refers to his YouTube subscriber fanba ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alan Melikdjanian
Alan Melikdjanian (; Russian: Алан Меликджанян; born April 13, 1980), known by the alias Captain Disillusion, is a Soviet-born American independent filmmaker and YouTuber. Melikdjanian has been active in the founding of video-sharing sites Openfilm and Filmnet.com, and is the creator of the webseries ''Captain Disillusion'', which focuses on critical analysis of visual effects and video editing while promoting critical thinking and skepticism. Early life Melikdjanian was born to Soviet-era circus performer parents, and is of Armenian and Russian descent. His father, Vilen, was a particularly well-known performer. He toured the Soviet Union with his parents until age 6, where he would live with his grandmother while attending school. During summer, he would resume touring with his parents. In his youth, Melikdjanian would spend most of his free time trying to copy the styles of Disney animators. His family defected to the United States in the late 1980s; he re ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alan Becker
Alan Becker (born May 18, 1989) is an American online animator, YouTube personality and artist, best known for creating the ''Animator vs. Animation'' web series, its shorts (both ''Animator vs. Animation Shorts''Commonly abbreviated as ''AvA Shorts''. and ''Actual Shorts'') and its spin-offs, these include: ''Animation vs. Minecraft'' (and its shorts, ''Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts''Commonly abbreviated as ''AvM Shorts''), ''Animation vs. YouTube'' (featuring many well-known YouTubers as well as early YouTube viral videos), ''Animation vs. League of Legends'', ''Animation vs. Pokémon'', ''Animation vs. Super Mario Bros'' and ''Animation vs. Arcade Games''. on both Newgrounds and YouTube. Early life and education Becker was born in Dublin, Ohio. He graduated from Scioto High School in 2007, and attended Columbus College of Art and Design, graduating in 2013. Career When he was growing up, Becker's family owned one computer that was shared between him and his siblings. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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AJ Rafael
Arthur Joseph Rafael (born March 12, 1989), known professionally as AJ Rafael, is a Filipino-American singer-songwriter, YouTuber, and TikToker. Born in Moreno Valley, California, he graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 2010. Rafael started a Myspace account in 2003 and uploaded a song he wrote for a girl he met on the Internet. He also uploaded a Meg & Dia medley which garnered him attention from the band and received 30,000 views. He competed on season 4 of ''American Idol'' and was eliminated. In 2006, he posted his first YouTube video which was a Meg & Dia medley. In 2010, Rafael released an extended play titled ''Juicebox''. Early the next year, he appeared on ''Billboard''s recently created "Uncharted" chart. He released his debut album ''Red Roses'' in 2011 and went on tours in Southeast Asia and Australia to promote it. Rafael took an indefinite hiatus from touring in 2014 after he had difficulty filling seats at his concerts despite his having a half million Yo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ajey Nagar
Ajey Nagar (; born 12 June 1999), popularly known as CarryMinati, is an Indian YouTuber and streamer from Faridabad, India. He is known for his roasting videos, comedic skits and reactions to various online topics on his channel ''CarryMinati''. His other channel ''CarryisLive'' is dedicated to gaming and live streams. In May 2020, his roast video titled "YouTube vs TikTok - The End" caused controversy on YouTube India. The video was removed by YouTube for violations against the platform's terms of service, citing reasons such as cyberbullying and harassment. Career Ajey Nagar is based in Faridabad, a city near India's national capital New Delhi. Popularly referred to as ''CarryMinati'', Nagar is mainly involved in creating Hindi-language roasting and comedy videos, diss songs, satirical parodies, apart from live gaming. Nagar and his team produce videos out of his home in Faridabad. Nagar began posting videos on YouTube at the age of 10. His main YouTube channel has been ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alizé Carrère
Alizé Carrère is a French-American climate researcher, filmmaker and science communicator. As a social scientist, she studies how humans adapt to changing physical environments, particularly with respect to climate change. Her academic research and filmmaking focus on the theme of human resilience to environmental change. In 2013, while attending McGill University in Montreal, Canada, she won a grant from National Geographic and she used the funds to travel to Madagascar to study how farmers were adapting to deforestation. Learning of farmers who were using erosional gullies as unique places to grow crops, she went on to study other ways that people were learning to adapt to profound environmental change. She received two additional grants from the National Geographic Society and filmmaker grants from The Redford Center and PBS to support the completion of a film series based on this work, titled ''ADAPTATION''. Carrère is the creator, producer and host of the series, which is ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Akidearest
Agnes Yulo Diego (born February 16, 1993), known online as Akidearest, is an American YouTuber. She is best known for discussing anime, manga, otaku culture and Japanese-related content on her YouTube channel. Early life Diego was born in Bakersfield, California, on February 16, 1993, and was raised in Virginia before then eventually moving to Las Vegas, Nevada. Growing-up, Diego got into creating Anime music videos (AMV) and had a prior YouTube channel that hosted some of her work. After completing a degree in psychology at university, Diego decided to pursue YouTube as a career. Career Diego created her second and current YouTube channel "Akidearest" on December 18, 2014, with a focus on discussing anime, manga, and otaku culture; her first video, "REACTION: DMMD Love Scene," in which Diego reacts to a scene in ''Dramatical Murder'', was released on December 26, 2014. Considered as her break-out video, "5 Songs That Will Change The Way You See Vocaloid," was released on Jan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Adore Delano
Daniel Anthony Noriega, (born September 29, 1989) better known under the stage name Adore Delano, is an American drag queen, singer-songwriter, and television personality. Noriega appeared as a contestant on the seventh season of ''American Idol'' in 2008 and later competed as Adore Delano on the sixth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', placing in the final three. Delano then went on to compete on the second season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'', placing ninth after voluntarily leaving the competition. Delano has recorded and released three studio albums: ''Till Death Do Us Party'' (2014), '' After Party'' (2016), '' Whatever'' (2017), and one EP ''Dirty Laundry'' (2021). Early life Noriega was born to Bonnie Pimentel Noriega and raised in Azusa, California, and attended Sierra High School, a continuation school for at-risk teenagers. Career 2008–2009: ''American Idol'' and early work In 2008, Noriega appeared on the seventh season of ''American Idol'', making it ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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NBA 2K
''NBA 2K'' is a series of basketball sports simulation video games developed by Visual Concepts and released annually since 1999. The premise of the series is to emulate the sport of basketball, and more specifically, the National Basketball Association. The series was originally published by Sega Sports. Beginning with 2005's ''NBA 2K6'', the series is currently published by 2K Sports. As of 2021, the series consists of twenty-three main installments and several spinoff titles across eighteen different platforms. An official eSports league, the ''NBA 2K League'', launched in 2018. Until 2018, the series' primary rival was EA Sports' ''NBA Live'' series. Gameplay Each installment in the ''NBA 2K'' series emulates the National Basketball Association, and present slight improvements over the previous installments. As such, gameplay simulates a typical game of basketball, with the player controlling an entire team or a select player; objectives coincide with the rules of bas ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Grand Theft Auto V
''Grand Theft Auto V'' is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the seventh main entry in the Grand Theft Auto, ''Grand Theft Auto'' series, following 2008's ''Grand Theft Auto IV'', and the fifteenth instalment overall. Set within the fictional state of San Andreas, based on Southern California, the Single-player video game, single-player story follows three protagonists—retired Bank robbery, bank robber Michael De Santa, street gangster Franklin Clinton, and drug dealer and Arms trafficking, gunrunner Trevor Philips—and their attempts to commit heists while under pressure from a corrupt government agency and powerful criminals. The open world design lets players Nonlinear gameplay, freely roam San Andreas' open countryside and the fictional city of Los Santos, based on Los Angeles. The game is played from either a Virtual camera system#Third-person view, third-person or First-person (video games), first-person persp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |