Charlieissocoollike

Charles Joseph "Charlie" McDonnell (born 1 October 1990, also known as charlieissocoollike) is an English teenager and YouTube vlogger from Bath, Somerset.

He first came to prominence when a video entitled "How To Get Featured on Youtube" was indeed featured on YouTube's homepage. Prior to this he had fewer than 150 subscribers, but this number increased dramatically within the next eight months, and as of 14 December 2008, Charlie has over 100,000 subscribers and over 2.8 million channel views. He has also asked for challenges from his subscribers, and he completes them in a series of videos entitled "Challenge Charlie", or CC. He also used to video blog every week on another YouTube account along with four other YouTube personalities. The name given to this collaboration by McDonnell is "fiveawesomeguys", a spin-off of the American "fiveawesomegirls" collaboration. In a vlog posted on 28 October 2008, he announced that the project is going to end on New Years Eve 2008. The project is now officially over, although a few members mentioned they may still post on the channel. Charlie has since posted a large range of videos on the site, including his most viewed, "How to be English".

On 6 August 2008, Charlie showcased his musical talent with a song titled "Blink". Based upon the Doctor Who episode of the same name, the song inspired numerous bands to attack this newly-created genre, Time Lord Rock, or Trock, shortened by the same convention as the Harry Potter fandom's Wrock. However, it is noteworthy to mention that it was not Charlie, but his good friend Alex Day that invented the genre. Charlie simply wrote the first "Trock" song. Since it's conception, Time Lord Rock has been mentioned in Doctor Who Magazine and the band Charlie is in is due to release their first album in the near future.

On 30 September 2008, to celebrate his 18th birthday, Charlie and his friend Alex Day (known as 'Nerimon' on Youtube) shaved their heads whilst live on blogtv for a period of 7 and a half hours, in aid of Cancer Research UK. They managed to raise over £5000. The broadcast viewership peaked at 4,500. Another friend, Jazza John McMillan-Clenaghan (known as 'Rhymingwithoranges' on YouTube) promised to shave his head if they hit 4,000 and did so about a month later with the help from Kristina Horner (known as 'Italktosnakes' and Monday on the collab-channel 'fiveawesomegirls' on YouTube).

Videos

 * Numerous fiveawesomeguys videos
 * In the Absence of Christmas
 * Numerous other video blogs
 * How to be English
 * How to get featured on YouTube

Fiveawesomeguys
Charlie was responsible for the creation of "fiveawesomeguys" which is a well-known YouTube channel.