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Born | Jaiden Dittfach September 27, 1997 Arizona, U.S. | ||||||||||||
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Years active | 2014–present | ||||||||||||
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Location | Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||
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Subscribers | 14 million [1] | ||||||||||||
Total views | 2.6 billion [1] | ||||||||||||
Network | Channel Frederator Network | ||||||||||||
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Last updated: December 2, 2024 | |||||||||||||
Website | jaidenanimations |
Jaiden Dittfach [2] [3] (born September 27, 1997) is an American YouTuber and animator known for her story-time animations channel, Jaiden Animations. She made videos on a variety of topics, spanning from her experiences to personal stories. She now primarily creates videos centered around video game stories.
As of December 2024, Jaiden Animations's main YouTube channel has amassed over 14 million subscribers and 2.6 billion views. Nominated for a total of six Streamy Awards, she won in the Animated category at the 10th Streamy Awards in 2020.
Jaiden Dittfach [2] was born on September 27, 1997. [4] Prior to working on her own channel, Jaiden worked with other YouTubers on their channels, [5] including iHasCupquake. [6]
Jaiden created her YouTube channel in February 2014, when she was 16 years old. [5] [7]
In 2016 and 2017, Jaiden's channel started trending on the website, becoming more prominent to bigger audiences. [8] [9] [10] Jaiden mainly uploads animated YouTube videos that tell stories about her personal life. [8] [11] [12] The videos sometimes discuss subjects such as toxic relationships, body positivity, anxiety, and depression. [8] [7] She also creates videos centered on her travels and video games, such as Pokémon . [5] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
In December 2017, Jaiden appeared in YouTube Rewind: The Shape of 2017 , the first YouTube Rewind installment to include YouTube animators. [18] In September 2018, she received a nomination in the Animated category for the 8th Streamy Awards. [19] In YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind , [20] she made an animation featuring PewDiePie's chair. [21] [22]
In March 2019, Jaiden participated in an airsoft gun tournament organized by YouTuber MrBeast and sponsored by game developer Electronic Arts. The event, organized in order to promote the release of Apex Legends , featured 36 players, all of which were prominent YouTube influencers. Jaiden's team, which also comprised Anthony Padilla and close friend James "TheOdd1sOut" Rallison, ended up winning the competition, with Jaiden herself firing the winning shot. [23]
In January 2021, Jaiden appeared on YIAY Time: The Game Show, a YouTube Original comedy program hosted by Jack Douglass ("jacksfilms"). [24] She also frequently appears on the improv game show Scribble Showdown with TheOdd1sOut, Domics, RubberRoss, Egoraptor, and Emirichu. [25] With fellow YouTuber TheOdd1sOut, Jaiden is a part of the "Animation Squad," a group of animators who frequently create videos together. [26] Her channel is managed by the Channel Frederator multi-channel network. [27] [28]
On June 1, 2021, her YouTube channel reached 10 million subscribers. [29] [30] She received a nomination in the Animated category for the 11th Streamy Awards in December 2021. [31] In 2022, she signed with the Creative Artists Agency. [32] YouTube ranked the video among their list of the "top trending videos" of 2022, as it reached over 17 million views by the end of the year. [33]
In 2023, she joined forces with Alpharad to create WILD/CARD, a channel dedicated to bringing attention to the smaller content creators that the two of them considered friends. This collaboration included gsmVoiD, Weegee Plays, Giwi, SunflowerSmith, Captain Kidd, and Fyrus. [34]
In July 2024, Jaiden won another competition organized by MrBeast, this time in the video "50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000" in which she competed against 49 other YouTubers for $1,000,000 to give away to their subscribers. She pledged to use the prize money to send some of her subscribers to art school. [35] Later that month, for the tenth anniversary of her first video upload, Jaiden announced that she does not plan to continue creating content indefinitely. [36]
In April 2019, Jaiden published a video encouraging people to donate to Bird Gardens of Naples, a non-profit bird sanctuary in Florida, via a GoFundMe campaign. Within nine weeks, the campaign had raised over $22,000. [37] Jaiden was also among many social media figures who donated to the Team Trees fundraiser in 2019. [38] For World Health Day in April 2020, Jaiden participated in #HopeFromHome, a charity livestream initiated by fellow YouTuber Jacksepticeye that raised over $260,000 for COVID-19 relief. [39] [40] [41]
In October 2021, Jaiden participated in a charity tournament for the video game Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl hosted by YouTuber Alpharad and Coney of the esports organization Panda Global, playing as the character CatDog. In her campaign, she raised over $73,000 after uploading a now-deleted video asking for donations to help choose CatDog as the character she wished to play for the tournament. [42] [43]
In 2016, she stated in a video that she resides in Arizona. [44] In another video, posted in 2018, she stated that she moved to California. [45] In December 2022, she purchased a $4.8 million home in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California with fellow YouTuber Alpharad. [46]
In 2017, Jaiden spoke out about her experience with anorexia and bulimia in a video titled "Why I Don’t Have a 'Face Reveal'", [47] as well as a song titled "Empty" in 2018. [48] [49]
In 2022, in her video titled "Being Not Straight", she publicly came out as aromantic and asexual. [50] [51] [52] In 2024, she publicly announced that she was diagnosed with ADHD and autism. [53]
Year | Award | Category | Result | Ref(s). |
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2018 | Streamy Awards | Overall Award – Animated | Nominated | [19] |
2020 | Streamy Awards | Subject Award – Animated | Won | [56] |
2021 | Streamy Awards | Subject Award – Animated | Nominated | [31] |
2022 | Streamy Awards | Subject Award – Animated | Nominated | [57] |
2023 | Streamy Awards | Subject Award – Animated | Nominated | [58] |
Individual Award – VTuber | Nominated |
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[People singing "Happy Birthday To You" with date stamp of SEP 27 1998]
James Rallison: Oh goodness, is this you?
Dittfach: Yeah. It went back in time.
Rallison: It went back in time?
Dittfach: That's my first birthday.
With creators such as Swoozie, Domics, and TheOdd1sOut, the genre began to slowly expand to many others creators such as Jaiden Animations, Illymation, Emirichu, Daidus, Eroldstory, SomeThingElseYT, Odd1sOut and many others
Jaiden Animations and TheOdd1sOut are probably two of the biggest channels in this group but there are plenty of others
They were especially excited to see their favorite creators featured in the video, including notable animators on YouTube who were previously not featured in the annual video like Jaiden Animations and Rebecca Parham.
That being said, it appears there was a small reference to PewDiePie made by Jaiden Animations, or at least his chair.
So, coincidentally, we both live in the oven that is Arizona [...]
And now I'm here, on my own, moved to California.