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Arthur Frederick, better known online as Arthur TV, is a Jersey commentary YouTuber known for his entertaining commentary and calm.
Content[]
Arthur's content typically consists of him reviewing clips of reality TV in a humorous, analytical and satirical manner. The majority of Arthur's content is based on the US reality TV dating show 90 Day Fiancé, but he has also covered other shows, including Come Dine With Me, Airline, Wife Swap, and Kitchen Nightmares.
In addition to his main channel, he also has a reaction channel where he does a variety of solo and group reaction content, a true crime channel in which he explores criminal cases in depth, and a gaming channel in which he infrequently uploads playthroughs in the form of edited livestream VODs.
Personal Life[]
Arthur was born in Jersey on 5 April 1996. He attended Victoria College Jersey before leaving the island aged 18 to attend University in England. Arthur completed his undergraduate law degree and Master's at Durham University and completed his LPC (legal practice course) at BPP University in London, following which he sat his first seat as a trainee solicitor at a US law firm in London, before leaving to pursue a full-time career in social media in February 2020.
Family and Relationships[]
Arthur has 7 sisters and 1 brother, and is the the third oldest of the 9 siblings. He has two older sisters named Molly and Poppy [mentioned in a stream in 2023], five younger sisters named Willow, Autumn [both seen in locked in season 2], Posie, Flora [seen on Instagram].
Arthur revealed in his 100k Q&A that he was heterosexual (straight), but did not confirm whether or not he was in a relationship. In August 2019, Leo Jones, with whom Arthur had made several videos, posted a photo to his Instagram story of himself in Menorca with Arthur. When asked whether they had gone on holiday together, Leo revealed that Arthur was there with a girl called Lily and that it was purely coincidental that the two were on holiday in the same place at the same time. It is not currently known if Arthur and Lily are still together. Arthur has since spoken about dating experiences in several of his videos, but he has not yet named any particular individual.
Career[]
Arthur TV began his YouTube career with a bootleg version of Cowbelly's Comment Awards, uploading 13 episodes of 'Arthur's Memes' - a series of text-to-speech meme videos, which are unlisted but available to watch in the 'arthurtv-archives' channel in his Discord server.
Once he had reached 1,000 subscribers, Arthur started his YouTube commentary career in September 2018 with a commentary video on the popular reality TV show, Airline. The video gained millions of views and got Arthur his first several thousand subscribers. He would go on to make it into a popular YouTube series under the title 'AIRLINE PASSENGERS LOSING THEIR SH*T', leading him to reach 10,000 subscribers just a few weeks later on 15 October 2018.
By 31 December 2018, Arthur had gained over 18,000 subscribers and had branched out into YouTube news and other reality TV shows such as To Catch A Predator and 90 Day Fiancé. Arthur hit 100,000 subscribers on 11 August 2019, at which time he was at Social In The City - a YouTube social event in London - where he face-revealed to a crowd of friends and fans. His YouTube face-reveal would come several months later, where he invited the star of Airline to join him for his 100,000 subscriber special, where the pair reviewed some of their favourite moments from the series.
In 2020, Arthur terminated his training contract at a US law firm after his first seat in order to pursue social media full time.
During the 2020 Pandemic, Arthur covered 90 Day Fiancé's viral couple Big Ed and Rose Vega, which helped him reach 200,000 subscribers. Big Ed would go on to be a key figure in Arthur's success in the following years.
In 2021, Arthur began a true crime channel following the success of his video titled 'The Brutal Interrogation of Stephanie Lazarus'. While the video performed well, he explained on an Instagram story that separating his serious true-crime content from his more light-hearted, entertaining content was necessary due to the way the YouTube algorithm works. In 2023, Arthur created a reaction channel as a means of separating his scripted main channel content and his reaction-based content, as well as to introduce more collaborators.
Arthur posts a variety of comedic and informative TikToks to his account arthurtv. His most popular TikTok, a video in which he dubbed Gordon Ramsay's voice over a scene from Disney Pixar's Ratatouille, has amassed over 10 million views. Other notable TikToks include a chess video where Arthur used a position from a game between GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Luis Supi to set up a pick-up line, and a video highlighting the dangers of letting friends and family members (in particular women) travel home unaccompanied, which have amassed over 6 million and 3 million views respectively.
On 18 March 2021, Arthur hit 100,000 followers on TikTok. He celebrated the milestone with a joint livestream accompanied by his friend Freddi.
Arthur streams incredibly inconsistently on Twitch, from several times per week to barely once a month. He plays a variety of games ranging from casual games like Minecraft and Planet Zoo, multiplayer games like Call of Duty: Warzone, MMORPGs such as Old School RuneScape, and survival horror games such as Outlast. He also frequently does Just Chatting streams, where he plays music and speaks to his live chat. Arthur posts his gaming stream highlights to a YouTube channel called ArthurTV Gaming. He now also has a YouTube channel for his VODs called ArthurTV Streams. It's not clear whether he plans to livestream on this channel at some point.
Friends and Collaborations[]
Arthur grew up on the island of Jersey, where he went to school with Chris Dixon, also known as ChrisMD , with whom he also played Sunday league football.
In January 2020, Arthur went on a YouTuber skiing trip along with ChrisMD, Wroetoshaw, WillNE, Calfreezy, TheBurntChip, Theo Baker, REEV, and several others. Since then, he has appeared on many of their channels, as well as the channels of many of their mutual friends. These videos can all be seen in Arthur's playlist 'Collabs ft ArthurTV'.
Arthur is also the co-owner of Level Athletics, an athletics clothing brand he co-founded with his friend Freddi, known online as shredathletics.
In 2023, Arthur began making group reaction videos with George Clarkey, Arthur Hill, ImAllexx and Cam Kirkham, several of which were posted on his reaction channel. The group have since been dubbed the 'Chaos Crew'.
In April 2023, Arthur appeared on the Sidemen Sunday video titled 'SIDEMEN VISIT WORLD'S WEIRDEST RESTAURANTS', in which he accompanied ChrisMD and Behzinga to Karen's Diner, an Australian-American chain restaurant advertised as a deliberately unpleasant dining experience, where staff are instructed to insult customers throughout their meal.
Arthur lives with two fellow content creators: Florence Robertson (also known as glambyflo) and Darcey Angel (also known as glamwithdarcey).
Merchandise[]
Arthur sells merch at arthurtv.shop. The items include hoodies, jumpers, tees, mugs and phone cases, which feature a range of embroidery and print options featuring the ArthurTV logo, the words 'ArthurTV', 'sub2arthurtv', 'divvy' (a word he uses frequently in his content), and 'hardJet' (a parody of the easyJet slogan). Arthur also released a range of merch featuring the words Arthur Television in Japanese after the style was popularised by Memeulous and Pyrocynical.
FAQs[]
- Is Arthur Gay, bi or straight? "Arthur has confirmed that he is heterosexual."
- Is Arthur autistic? "Arthur and his friends have made several comments regarding his autistic traits, however Arthur has never confirmed that he has autism or spoken of an official diagnosis."
- Is Arthur a lawyer? "Arthur has a law degree, passed the LPC, and began working as a trainee solicitor, however he quit before fully qualifying to pursue a career in social media."
- How tall is Arthur? "Arthur is 5'10, or approximately 177.8cm."
Subscribers Milestones[]
- 1,000 subscribers: July 6, 2018
- 5,000 subscribers: September 25, 2018
- 10,000 subscribers: October 15, 2018
- 20,000 subscribers: January 6, 2019
- 50,000 subscribers: March 31, 2019
- 100,000 subscribers: August 11, 2019
- 150,000 subscribers: April 12, 2020
- 200,000 subscribers: September 23, 2020
- 250,000 subscribers: April 29, 2021