Jaiden Animations

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Jaiden Animations
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Dittfach at VidCon in 2017
Personal information
Born
Jaiden Dittfach

(1997-09-27) September 27, 1997 (age 26)
Origin Arizona, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
  • YouTuber
  • animator
Website jaidenanimations.com
YouTube information
Channel
Location Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Years active2014–present
Genres
  • Comedy
  • animation
  • storytelling
  • gaming
Subscribers
  • 12.5 million (JaidenAnimations)
  • 968 thousand (Jaiden)
  • 158 thousand (JaidenVODS)
  • 95.5 thousand (jaiden but short)
  • 485 thousand (WILDCARD)
[1]
Total views
  • 2.4 billion (JaidenAnimations)
  • 31.1 million (Jaiden)
  • 3 million (JaidenVODS)
  • 0 (jaiden but short)
  • 11.4 million (WILDCARD)
[1]
Network Channel Frederator
Associated acts
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2016
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers2016
YouTube Diamond Play Button.svg10,000,000 subscribers2021

Last updated: April 20, 2024

Jaiden Dittfach [2] [3] [4] (born September 27, 1997), known online as Jaiden Animations, is an American YouTuber and animator, known for her story-time animations. Her videos explore a variety of topics, spanning from her experiences to personal stories. She now primarily creates videos centered around video game stories.

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As of April 2024, Jaiden Animations's main YouTube channel has amassed over 12 million subscribers and 2.4 billion views. Nominated for a total of six Streamy Awards, she won in the Animated category at the 10th Streamy Awards in 2020. [5] [6] [7]

YouTube career

Prior to working on her own channel, Dittfach worked with other YouTubers on their channels, [8] including iHasCupquake. [9]

Eponymous channel

Dittfach created her YouTube channel in 2014, when she was 16 years old. [8] [10] In 2016 and 2017, Dittfach's channel started trending on the website, becoming more prominent to bigger audiences. [11] [12] [13]

Dittfach mainly uploads animated YouTube videos that tell stories about her personal life. [11] [14] [15] The videos sometimes discuss subjects such as toxic relationships, body positivity, anxiety, and depression. [11] [10] She also creates videos centered on her travels and video games, such as Pokémon . [8] [16] [17] [18]

On June 1, 2021, her YouTube channel reached 10 million subscribers. [19] [20] She received a nomination in the Animated category for the 11th Streamy Awards in December 2021. [21] In 2022, she signed with the Creative Artists Agency. [22] 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. [23]

Collaborations and other appearances

With fellow YouTuber TheOdd1sOut, Dittfach is a part of the "Animation Squad," a group of animators who frequently create videos together. [24] Her channel is managed by the Channel Frederator multi-channel network. [25] [26]

Dittfach (right) at VidCon with TheOdd1sOut (left), Domics (2nd from right), and other YouTube animators Vidcon Animators Panel 2017.jpg
Dittfach (right) at VidCon with TheOdd1sOut (left), Domics (2nd from right), and other YouTube animators

In December 2017, Dittfach appeared in YouTube Rewind: The Shape of 2017 , the first YouTube Rewind installment to include YouTube animators. [27] In September 2018, she received a nomination in the Animated category for the 8th Streamy Awards. [28] In YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind , [29] she made an animation featuring PewDiePie's chair. [30] [31]

In March 2019, Dittfach 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. [32]

In January 2021, Dittfach appeared on YIAY Time: The Game Show, a YouTube Original comedy program hosted by Jack Douglass ("jacksfilms"). [33]

She also frequently appears on the improv game show Scribble Showdown with TheOdd1sOut, Domics, RubberRoss, Egoraptor, and Emirichu. [34]

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. [35]

Philanthropy

In April 2019, Dittfach 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. [36] Dittfach was also among many social media figures who donated to the Team Trees fundraiser in 2019. [37] For World Health Day in April 2020, Dittfach participated in #HopeFromHome, a charity livestream initiated by fellow YouTuber Jacksepticeye that raised over $260,000 for COVID-19 relief. [38] [7] [39]

In October 2021, Dittfach 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. [40] [41]

Personal life

Jaiden Dittfach [2] [3] [4] was born on September 27, 1997. [42] In 2016, she stated in a video that she resides in Arizona. [43] In another video, posted in 2018, she stated that she moved to California. [44]

On March 20, 2022, in her video titled "Being Not Straight", she publicly came out as aroace, meaning aromantic and asexual. [45] [46] [47] In December 2022, she purchased a $4.8 million home in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California with fellow YouTuber Alpharad. [48]

On the 29th of March, 2024, in the description of her video, "Pokemon sent me to Japan!", Jaiden confirmed she had been diagnosed with ADHD, [49] which she had prior discussed as a possibility[ citation needed ].

Filmography

Animation

Voice acting

Reality shows

Discography

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryResultRef(s).
2018 Streamy Awards Overall Award AnimatedNominated [28]
2020 Streamy Awards Subject Award AnimatedWon [5]
2021 Streamy Awards Subject Award AnimatedNominated [21]
2022 Streamy Awards Subject Award AnimatedNominated [51]
2023 Streamy Awards Subject Award – AnimatedNominated [52]
Individual Award – VTuberNominated

Notes

  1. The music video for "Empty" has been made private. [50]

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