Tyler Oakley
Info: Tyler Oakley (born March 22, 1989) is an American YouTube, television, and podcast personality, and advocate. Much of Oakley's activism has been dedicated to LGBT youth, gay rights, as well as social issues including healthcare, education, and the prevention of suicide among LGBT youth. 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." SocialBlade, a website that rates YouTube and Instagram accounts, ranks Oakley's YouTube channel, as of November 2014, with a grade 'A', subscriber rank of 80, video view rank at 844th, and a SocialBlade rating of 242nd. As of June 2014 Oakley also has more than 2.7 million followers on Twitter and 2.1 million on Instagram.
As of March 2013, he co-hosted a weekly pop-culture news update – "Top That!" – with Becca Frucht for PopSugar until October 31 when he announced his departure. He posts regularly on several social networking sites including Facebook, and Tumblr, where he has hundreds of thousands of followers on each platform. He is also known for his appearance in that he regularly has brightly-colored hair.
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." SocialBlade, a website that rates YouTube and Instagram accounts, ranks Oakley's YouTube channel, as of November 2014, with a grade 'A', subscriber rank of 80, video view rank at 844th, and a SocialBlade rating of 242nd. As of June 2014 Oakley also has more than 2.7 million followers on Twitter and 2.1 million on Instagram.
As of March 2013, he co-hosted a weekly pop-culture news update – "Top That!" – with Becca Frucht for PopSugar until October 31 when he announced his departure. He posts regularly on several social networking sites including Facebook, and Tumblr, where he has hundreds of thousands of followers on each platform. He is also known for his appearance in that he regularly has brightly-colored hair.
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