NileRed

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NileRed
Personal information
Born
Nigel Braun

(1991-09-07) September 7, 1991 (age 33)
Montreal, Quebec
Education McGill University (BS)
Signature NileRed sig.png
Website nile.red
YouTube information
Channels
Years active2014–present
Genre Educational entertainment
Subscribers7.05 million (main channel)
4.66 million (NileRed 2)
2.37 million (NileBlue)
14.5 million (combined) [a] [1]
Total views2.70 billion (main channel)
174.87 million (NileRed 2)
242.76 million (NileBlue)
3.2 billion (combined) [b] [1]
Associated acts
Last updated: September 29, 2024

Nigel Braun (born September 7, 1991), known professionally as NileRed, is a Canadian YouTuber known for his chemistry-related videos covering chemical reactions and strange compounds. [2] [3]

Contents

Early life

Nigel Braun was born on September 7, 1991, in Montreal, Quebec, [4] to Dorian Braun, a sound engineer and former college professor, and Jody Tanaka. His younger brother, Corey, helps manage the channel. Braun has a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry [5] and a minor in pharmacology, both from McGill University. Before starting a YouTube channel, Braun was a trained laboratory technician in an organic lab. [6] He later focused on his Masters on chemistry at McGill, but left it several months later to focus on the channel. [1] [3] [4]

Career

Braun had been making videos, mainly tutorials, for fun since his teenage years, creating a YouTube channel on March 10, 2014. His first video was uploaded on March 24, 2014, and many of his early videos were recordings of his projects as a laboratory technician or at his parents' garage, with them later being filmed at his industrial-grade laboratory. [3] Braun wanted his channel name, NileRed, to be related to chemistry, but not too chemical-sounding. He and one of his university colleagues looked through a book containing chemical names and started with "N" because his name began with the same letter. They settled on nile red, a compound for dyeing used in biochemistry, as it sounded good and did not sound much like a chemical. A second channel, NileBlue, was created in 2016 to showcase more casual projects than the main channel, and a shorts channel, NileRed 2 (formerly NileRed Shorts), was created in 2021. [7] [8] He is assisted in his channel by two family members and two friends he hired. [3]

Some of Braun's videos were deleted in 2018 during a purge of chemistry channels. [6] In 2019 and 2020, the web magazine Hackaday reported on Braun extracting bismuth from pepto bismol, [9] making aerogel, [10] and making superconductors. [11] In 2021, The A.V. Club and Newsweek reported on a video of him dissolving a hot dog in piranha solution, which went viral. [12] [13]

Awards and nominations

YearCeremonyCategoryNominee / workResultRef.
2020 10th Streamy Awards Learning and EducationNileRedNominated [14]

Notes

  1. ↑ Subscribers, broken down by channel:
    7.05 million (NileRed)
    4.66 million (NileRed 2)
    2.37 million (NileBlue)
    350,000 (NileRed Extra)
    164,000 (NileRed en Español)
  2. ↑ Views, broken down by channel:
    2.70 billion (NileRed)
    174.87 million (NileRed 2)
    242.76 million (NileBlue)
    87.21 million (NileRed Extra)
    46.79 million (NileRed en Español)

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  10. ↑ Williams, Al (April 4, 2020). "Making Aerogel, It's Not For The Faint-Hearted". Hackaday. Archived from the original on December 2, 2023. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
  11. ↑ Williams, Al (August 4, 2020). "[NileRed] Makes Superconductors". Hackaday. Archived from the original on March 1, 2024. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
  12. ↑ McCarter, Reid (November 9, 2021). "YouTube scientist plays with hazardous chemicals to completely dissolve a hot dog". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on February 3, 2023. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
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