Tyler Oakley

Tyler Oakley  (born March 22, 1989)  is a 25 year old American YouTube celebrity, blogger, comedian &  internet personality,  known for mostly comedic vlog-style videos. Many of his videos are collaboration videos with other youtubers. He has collaborated with fellow youtubers such as  Joey Graceffa ,  Shane Dawson ,  Hannah Hart, Miles Jai, Troye Sivan and many more.

Oakley began making videos in 2007; his first video has received over 150,000 views on YouTube. Since uploading his first video while a freshman at Michigan State University, he has received over 250,000,000 video views and gained over 5 million subscribers along with over 339 videos posted. He 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."

Since March 2013, he co-hosts a weekly pop-culture news update – "Top That!" – with Becca Frucht for PopSugar. He also does weekly "Q and Slay" videos where he asks people to send him questions on twitter and he tries to answer as many as he can. This was started on Jan. 25, 2013, but he stopped and finally made as a regular series on Oct. 28, 2013 He posts regularly on several social networking sites, including: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram.

Oakley supports The Trevor Project, an organization for the prevention of suicide in LGBT youth. He has interned with them, hosted a red carpet event and raised around $550,000 in support of their work. He has also interned at Bowery. Other ventures include: working as a resident mentor; teacher's assistant; product marketer/developer at Michigan State University; social media and communication manager at Chictopia; and director of social media at Good Ideas for Good Causes. A self-proclaimed "professional fangirl," Oakley is a fan of  Darren Criss , Lady Gaga, Betty Who, and the British-Irish boy band,  One Direction.