Johnathan Walton is the host of the podcast "Queen of the Con: The Irish Heiress" and is a vigilante who hunts down con artists. The first con artist Walton put in jail was Marianne Smyth aka Mair Smyth aka Marianne Clark who scammed hundreds of thousands of dollars from 43 victims, including Walton himself, in the United States and Europe, using an elaborate series of confidence tricks.
"Me at the zoo" is the first video uploaded to YouTube, on April 23, 2005, 8:31:52 p.m. PDT, or April 24, 2005, at 03:31:52 UTC. The 19-second video features YouTube's co-founder Jawed Karim, who was 25 years old at the time, in front of two elephants at the San Diego Zoo in California, noting their long trunks. Using Karim's camera, it was recorded by his high school friend, Yakov Lapitsky, a University of Delaware Ph.D. student at the time, who was in San Diego to deliver his research to the American Chemical Society. As of April 2024, it has gained more than 315 million views.
John Patrick Douglass, better known as jacksfilms, is an American YouTuber, videographer, and sketch comedian, best known for his series' Yesterday I Asked You and Your Grammar Sucks, in which he commentates on content sent by fans.
Mark Edward Fischbach, known online as Markiplier, is an American YouTuber, actor and filmmaker. He mainly uploads Let's Plays and is known for his videos of indie horror games. After joining YouTube in 2012, Fischbach became popular on the platform with Let's Plays of Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2010) and the Five Nights at Freddy's series. As of March 2024, his channel has over 36 million subscribers.
Clickbait is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow ("click") that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading. A "teaser" aims to exploit the "curiosity gap", providing just enough information to make readers of news websites curious, but not enough to satisfy their curiosity without clicking through to the linked content. Clickbait headlines often add an element of dishonesty, using enticements that do not accurately reflect the content being delivered. The "-bait" suffix makes an analogy with fishing, where a hook is disguised by an enticement (bait), presenting the impression to the fish that it is a desirable thing to swallow.
Seán William McLoughlin, better known online as jacksepticeye, is an Irish YouTuber. Much of McLoughlin's YouTube content centres around gaming and vlogs. As of March 2024, his YouTube channel has accumulated 16.6 billion views and 30.6 million subscribers, making it the 2nd most-subscribed Irish channel on YouTube.
Kian Robert Lawley is an American YouTuber, influencer and actor.
Jake Joseph Paul is an American YouTuber and professional boxer. He began his career posting videos on Vine in September 2013 and had amassed 5.3 million followers and 2 billion views before the app discontinued. He played Dirk Mann on the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark for two seasons. Paul launched his YouTube channel in May 2014, and has ranked on the Forbes list as one of the highest paid YouTube creators in 2017, 2018, 2021, and 2023. He also ranked on the 2022 Forbes list of the world's highest paid athletes.
Nathaniel "Coyote" Peterson is an American YouTuber, wildlife educator, and host of Animal Planet's series Coyote Peterson: Brave the Wild. He is best known for his YouTube channel Brave Wilderness, which focuses on documenting and educating about animals. Peterson has also become known for videos in which he allows himself to be stung or bitten by various animals, many of them venomous, such as the bullet ant and the executioner wasp.
James Stephen "Jimmy" Donaldson, better known by his online alias MrBeast, is an American YouTuber, online personality, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is known for his fast-paced and high-production videos, which feature elaborate challenges and large giveaways. With over 250 million subscribers, he is the most-subscribed individual on YouTube and the second-most-subscribed channel overall.
Dávid Julián Dobrík is a Slovakian Internet personality. He found early success on the video-sharing platform Vine before starting his vlog on YouTube in 2015. In 2019, he co-founded the photography app Dispo. Dobrik entered the United States as a child, and was later protected under the DACA program, before eventually being granted permanent residency.
Jason Gastrow, known online as videogamedunkey or simply dunkey, is an American YouTuber known for his YouTube skits and video essays that blend crude humor with video game criticism. As of March 2023, Gastrow's YouTube channel has seven million subscribers, and he has accumulated over three billion views.
Jason Matthew Ethier, popularly known as ImJayStation or JayStation, is a Canadian Internet personality and former YouTuber, noted for controversial content produced between 2015–2021.
Johnny Harris is an American filmmaker, independent journalist, and YouTuber, currently based in Washington, D.C. Harris produced and hosted the Borders series for American news and left-wing opinion website Vox. He also created three videos for The New York Times. Harris launched the company Bright Trip in 2019, which has video-based travel courses.
Rich Benoit is an American car enthusiast known for his YouTube car vlog Co-founded by Rich Benoit & Carl Hewitt, where he and members of his crew rebuild Teslas, create electric vehicles, and rebuild custom cars, called Rich Rebuilds. Benoit has been an outspoken critic for the Right to Repair on Teslas, and has spoken of Tesla's refusal to grant car service or parts to him for the purpose of repairing his used Model S. Benoit currently has an automobile repair shop called the "Electrified Garage" in New Hampshire, in addition to one in Ocala, Florida. Benoit currently lives in Salem, Massachusetts with his wife and two children. As of October 2022, his YouTube channel has 1.36 million subscribers.
Nicholas Perry, known online as Nikocado Avocado, is a Ukrainian-born American internet celebrity and YouTuber known for his mukbang videos on YouTube. As of January 2024, he has accumulated more than 8.6 million subscribers and approximately 2.5 billion total views across six YouTube channels. His fictional character is known for his comedic and theatrical performances, gaining excess weight on camera and generating over 10 billion views on TikTok.
Jarvis Allen Johnson is an American YouTuber and Podcaster. He is also a former software engineer who has been operating his YouTube channel since October 12, 2006.
Alia "Lia" Shelesh, better known as SSSniperWolf, is an English-American YouTuber. According to British Vogue in 2020, she is one of the most recognisable social media personalities associated with online video games.
Troom Troom is a multinational YouTube channel often cited as being based in Ukraine. It is most known for its life hack, D.I.Y, and prank content. Their videos have received criticism from both news publications and YouTubers for their bizarre nature alongside their usage of "clickbait titles," and are widely parodied, especially on YouTube. As of 2023, the channel has over 23 million subscribers and 9 billion views, putting it in the Top 200 most subscribed channels.
Ryan Hall, known as Ryan Hall, Y’all, is an American YouTuber, TikToker, and an Internet personality. As of April 2, 2024, Hall has accumulated over 1.8 million followers on TikTok. On his primary YouTube channel, Hall currently has 1.76 million subscribers and over 200 million views. Hall also has a secondary YouTube channel, "Ryan Hall, Y'all XTRA," that currently has over 700,000 subscribers.
