Liam Thompson (YouTuber)

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Liam Thompson
Personal information
Born
Liam Michael Thompson

(2000-04-25) 25 April 2000 (age 24)
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Education Mount Albert Grammar School
Occupation YouTuber
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2016–present
GenreEntertainment
Subscribers2.11 million [1]
Total views334.3 million [1]
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribersOctober 2019 [2]
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribersAugust 2020 [2]
Last updated: 10/04/2024

Liam Michael Thompson (born 25 April 2000)[ citation needed ] is a New Zealand YouTube personality. As of July 2023, 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. [3] He also often included his 20-year-old cat named Frodo (died February 26 2022) and his 1-year-old cat named Samwise. [4]

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Early life

Liam Thompson was born in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand as the second of four siblings. [5] He attended Balmoral School and Mount Albert Grammar School, [6] [7] where he was a Prefect [8] and involved in orienteering, competing successfully at many regional and national championships. [9] [10] In 2018, he was the inaugural recipient of the Service to MAGS Sport award. [11] 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. [6] [5]

Thompson started a blog called Velterro in 2019, focusing on tips for self improvement, productivity, money and health. [12] 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 , [13] which has over 22.3 million views as of February 2022. [6] [3] 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". [5] Thompson subsequently decided to pursue YouTube full time. [5]

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. [14]

Thompson is among the top 10 YouTubers in New Zealand, with the 8th most subscribers in March 2024. [15]

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