Liam Thompson (YouTuber)

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Liam Thompson
Born
Liam Michael Thompson

(2000-04-25) 25 April 2000 (age 25)
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Education Mount Albert Grammar School
Occupation YouTuber
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2016–present
GenreEntertainment
Subscribers2.11 million
Views334.3 million
Last updated: 4 October 2024[ needs update ]

Liam Michael Thompson (born 25 April 2000)[ citation needed ] is a New Zealand YouTube personality. As of May 2024, he has over 2 million subscribers. [1] Thompson's channel consists of a mix of different videos with no common theme; however, his most successful videos tend to include his pet labradoodle, Max. [2] He also often included his 20-year-old cat named Frodo (died 26 February 2022). After Frodo died he got a cat named Samwise which he revealed in a YouTube video. Unfortunately it was revealed that Samwise died in 2025. [3]

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Early life

Liam Thompson was born in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand as the second of four siblings. [4] He attended Balmoral School and Mount Albert Grammar School, [5] [6] where he was a Prefect [7] and involved in orienteering, competing successfully at many regional and national championships. [8] [9] In 2018, he was the inaugural recipient of the Service to MAGS Sport award. [10] After graduating in 2018, Thompson began studying engineering. He soon dropped out to pursue YouTube while enrolling in Police college, moving furniture and considering film school. [5] [4]

Thompson started a blog called Velterro in 2019, focusing on tips for self improvement, productivity, money and health. [11] As of 2024, the blog is inactive.

YouTube career

Thompson has been actively posting on YouTube since mid 2019. His channel gained a large amount of traction in September 2019 after posting the video I Taught My Dog To Play Minecraft , [12] which has over 22.3 million views as of February 2022. [5] [2] In an interview with New Zealand media outlet Stuff, he stated that "It took me four months to get 80 [subscribers] and, a week later, I had 150,000". [4] Thompson subsequently decided to pursue YouTube full time. [4]

On 20 July 2020, his YouTube channel reached 1 million subscribers. He celebrated the next day with a video, in which he bought Max 1 million dog biscuits, most of which he donated. [13]

Thompson is among the top 10 YouTubers in New Zealand, with the 8th most subscribers in March 2024. [14]

References

  1. ↑
  2. 1 2 "Auckland labradoodle becomes YouTube sensation with his Minecraft talent". Newshub . Archived from the original on 5 June 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  3. ↑ Thompson, Liam (4 November 2021). "I Built an Elevator for My Cat". Youtube. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Meet the Kiwi YouTubing teen who just bought a Tesla". Stuff . 19 March 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 "Kiwi Minecraft playing dog video goes viral". The New Zealand Herald . 21 November 2019. ISSN   1170-0777 . Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  6. ↑ "MAGS Scholar Lion Awards" (PDF). Mount Albert Grammar School. 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  7. ↑ Creative, Jade (2 November 2017). "Prefects of 2018". Mount Albert Grammar School. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  8. ↑ Hepburn, Graham (8 May 2018). "Orienteers discover top form". Mount Albert Grammar School. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  9. ↑ Hepburn, Graham (19 August 2018). "Duathlon Silver at Nationals". Mount Albert Grammar School. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  10. ↑ Hepburn, Graham (31 October 2018). "Sports Prizegiving Dinner 2018". Mount Albert Grammar School. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  11. ↑ "About | Velterro". Liam Thompson. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  12. ↑ "YouTuber teaches his dog how to play Minecraft". Dexerto.com. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  13. ↑ "Guy Surprises His Dog With 1 Million Pieces Of Food". www.unilad.co.uk. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  14. ↑ NZ, Voyager (20 March 2019). "The Top New Zealand YouTubers". Voyager Internet. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
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