Oakley, Tyler

Autor: Oakley, Tyler
Rok: 1989-
Oblast působnosti: youtubeři, spisovatelé

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Americký youtuber, humorista a spisovatel, zabývá se podcastingem. Publikace z oblasti pop a queer kultury.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Tyler Oakley (born March 22, 1989) is an American YouTube, and podcast personality, humorist, author and advocate. Much of Oakley's activism has been dedicated to LGBT youth, LGBT rights, as well as social issues including healthcare, education, and the prevention of suicide among LGBT youth. Oakley presents on various topics including queer politics, pop culture, and humor on a regular basis.Oakley began making videos in 2007; his first video Raindrops has received over 300,000 views on YouTube as August 16, 2015. Since uploading his first video in 2007 while a freshman at Michigan State University, his work of over 370 videos has close to 500,000,000 views and over 7,000,000 subscribers as August 16, 2015. Oakley, who is openly gay, is a former member of the successful collaboration channel "5AwesomeGays," where he produced the Friday video for over three years. Currently, he is described as having "one of the loudest voices on YouTube," and Bloomberg defines him as a "YouTube sensation." He was featured in the 2014 Frontline investigative report, "Generation Like," a follow-up on how teenagers are "directly interacting with pop culture" to the 2001 report, "The Merchants of Cool." SocialBlade, a website that rates YouTube and Instagram accounts, ranks Oakley's YouTube channel, as of August 16, 2015, with a grade "B+", subscriber rank of 109, video view rank at 1,129th, and a SocialBlade rating of 1,329th. As of June 2014 Oakley also has more than 2.7 million followers on Twitter and 2.1 million on Instagram.As of March 2013, Oakley co-hosted a weekly pop-culture news update – "Top That!" – with Becca Frucht for PopSugar until October 31 when he announced his departure. From 2013–14, he performed the voice of Mr. McNeely in five episodes of the comedy web series The Most Popular Girls in School. Oakley posts regularly on several social networking sites including Facebook, and Tumblr, where he has hundreds of thousands of followers on each platform.