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Born | Craig Joseph Thompson 7 January 1995 [1] | |||||||||
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Craig Joseph Thompson (born 7 January 1995), known by the online community as Mini Ladd, is an Emirati-born British YouTuber. As of August 2019, he has accumulated over 10 million followers across all social platforms (YouTube, Twitter and Instagram), over 1.4 billion views, and averaged roughly 50,000 concurrent viewers during his live-streams at peak. [3] In September 2019, Thompson was named No. 3 out of the Top 100 Influencers in the UK by the Sunday Times . [4]
Thompson launched his first YouTube channel, "Mini Ladd", in May 2011. [5] Additionally, he launched his second channel, "Craig Thompson" in 2018, [6] and in 2019, he launched his third YouTube channel, "Mini Ladd Vault". [7]
In 2018, Thompson partnered with the Thirst Project and raised over $150,000 for relief. [8] In 2019, the Thirst Project listed him as one of their board members; [9] as of October 2022, he is no longer a board member. [10]
In 2019, Northern Irish Rugby club City of Derry R.F.C. renamed their stadium to the "Craig Thompson Stadium". [11] City of Derry ended their relationship with Thompson in July 2020; in a statement Thompson apologised for sending "inappropriate texts and messages". [12]
In September 2019 Thompson was named by The Sunday Times as one of Britain's top 100 influencers, behind only KSI and PewDiePie. [4]
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