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Callum Adams (born September 26, 1981, better known online as Callum's Corner, is an English YouTube vlogger who became a meme, particularly in British internet culture, after he published a rant video threatening people who joked that his head was shaped like a Tic Tac. He is also known to not get much boom boom in his life, when he does get the meow meow, he will cover it in a video. He is also known to browse adult websites, daily.
His most popular video is titled, "MY HEAD DOES NOT LOOK LIKE A SODDING TIC TAC. A FINAL WARNING" and was uploaded on July 20, 2016. On October 22, 2016 he uploaded a video titled "My head does look like a sodding tic tac. You win, I give up" where he gave into the viewers who believed his head looked like "a sodding tic tac", and admitted it did look like one. Callum created a second channel called "Callum Does The Internet"[1] on November 16, 2016, which is used less often. Videos on that channel include subreddit/meme reviews or investigations into problematic content creators, such as Paul Breach and Ian Moore.
He started his video career on Facebook and YouTube by making short videos sharing advice and life stories. However, it wasn't until WillNE reacted to his infamous "Tic Tac" video that he attracted the large audience that he upholds to this day. This original video, the following diss track created on Callum by BGMedia[2] artist Afghan Dan (with the help of WillNE), and his innumerable appearances in other YouTubers' videos have cemented his place as an icon in the UK YouTube scene.
Personal Life[]
Callum Adams was born on 26 September 1981 in Blackburn in the North of England to a working class family. His family moved to the Isle of Wight when he was six months old, That's where he spent a large amount of his childhood. When he was young, his father was exposed as having a secret second family with another woman, leading to his parents' divorce.[3] His mother forced him to change his name to a "spirit" name, including taking a name from a different race, and her maiden name (Bennett) - he chose the name "Sanjay" because he 'liked curries'.[4] Callum later said he regretted this decision as it led to bullying when popular Eastenders character Sanjay Kapoor was revealed to be impotent. After school, he moved to Surrey where he went to Reigate College, as stated on one of his live streams.
Not a lot is known about Callum's life through his twenties to now. He has previously said that he used to be a insurance broker, and that he was engaged for a period of time. At some point after college he moved to Bristol, where his mother lived with him as he took care of her. He also worked as a carer in at least 2 care homes during this time; he quit his last care job in Bristol over his hatred for it. People eventually found out Callum's address in Bristol; this resulted in sex workers, Tesco Clubcard's and toasters being sent to his house en masse, the latter of which came after his audience asked to see his kitchen appliances on live stream.
He moved back to the Isle of Wight in July 2020 to a small village called Bembridge.[5] In August 2021, trolls started review bombing and changing the names of locations in his village which caused a shop owner in the village to confront him about the reviews.[6] In June 2022, a troll anonymously emailed his local churchwarden claiming Callum was a sexual deviant that preyed on elderly men, lived out sexual fantasies as a merman, abused marine animals and abducted strangers while roleplaying as Michael Jackson.[7] In October 2023, he moved house again to an undisclosed part of the Isle of Wight; he also started working as a carer again. In June 2024, he was once again found by trolls when someone posted an allegation of paedophilia to the family of a person he cared for - as a result of this, Callum quitted his carer job and now has plans of emigrating to Thailand.
Callum has two sisters, one unnamed (and rarely described as anything other than 'the sister I do like'), and his other sister 'Aimee' who is often the antagonist of his videos. Aimee is described by Callum as 'life ruining' and her 'militant veganism' fuels Callum's thematic opposition to veganism. Callum has two nieces (children of Aimee) and one nephew (son of the other sister, that he does like), Eddie, who has appeared in a large amount of Callum's videos before stopping due to sexually inappropriate memes about him and Callum. Callum also has multiple cousins called including Gregory and Tim[8][9], though Callum's relation to Gregory has been contended.
Callum's current videos include vlogs, Travel Videos and Challenges. Videos such as rants, self defense, cooking and stories about his life have been put on the shelf and many of the new rants are posted to Callum's TikTok account. Callum's travel vlogs include:
- Morocco (Unreleased)
- Spain
- India
- Majorca
- Cruise Ship
- Thailand (1st Time)
- Tunisia
- Caravan
- Tenerife
- Thailand (2nd Time)
- Thailand (3rd Time)
- Morocco (2nd TIme)
Callum also regularly streams on his Twitch account, where he plays games such as 'Wii Sports Resort' and 'Crash Bandicoot', even when the community does not like the game he is playing. He also does variety streams such as Sleep Streams, VR Streams and rare Hot Tub streams. He constantly gets 'troll donations' where viewers spend the minimum amount of money ($3) to send a text to speech message or a video link which will play on stream. This feature is meant for songs and music but often abused to play racist songs, AI-generated music, and other types of filth often regarding prominent figures in the community such as Elliot Rodger, Ian Moore, Jimmy Savile, and up until recently, Minitom. More recently, Callum has also been exposed to gore through his Twitch donations. In June 2022, Callum was banned from using Streamlabs due to extremely inappropriate donations, including one where a penis was shown on stream. He began to use StreamElements. In September 2024, Callum was banned from Twitch for 24 hours due to leaving the stream unattended. This caused his StreamElements to be banned and the move back to Streamlabs. Not even a night in and his Streamlabs was banned once again. He soon regained access to StreamElements with restrictions that prevent certain types of TTS Donos from being sent.
In 2024, Callum began doing daytime streams on his 2nd Youtube channel where he does live Reddit Reviews and investigations to people such as Ian Moore.
Callum has an active and devoted fanbase, who he interacts with on streams, Reddit, video games and through other mediums. These fans appreciate him for his humour, (often unintentional, caused by the situations he finds himself in) his meme potential, his down-to-earth and approachable personality, his masterful music and his overflowing wisdom.
Callum's repertoire of music mainly consists of parodies of existing songs (list is non-exhaustive):Shake It Off (a parody of Taylor Swift's song of the same name)
- NO NONCESENSE (a parody of 2 Unlimited's No Limits)
- Vegan World (a parody of Sting's Englishman In New York)
- Here We Come! (a parody of Phantom Planet's California)
In November 2024, Callum posted a video titled 'I AM NOW AN ORPHAN - AN URGENT STATEMENT.' ranting on about how he has declared himself an orphan after his mother left his neighbours house at 6am after making some very suspicious noises.
Thailand Incident[]
On July 2024, while on holiday in Thailand, Callum was exploring the Red Light District. He was then sexually assaulted by a Ladyboy and mugged of all his belongings such as his phone and all of his money. He was left poor for the final few days of his holiday before returning to the UK to be trolled by his Twitch community. He claims he was not 'mugged' but instead robbed. After this incident, he would return to Thailand again despite the incident, as he still has plans to move here in the future.
Some people were concerned that Callum's move to Thailand would allow some viewers of his stream to take advantage of the fact that criticising the Thai monarchy is punishable by imprisonment, and that donations on his streams that mocked the Thai king could land him in prison. Callum then said he had spoken to police, and other Thai streams, and that he was well aware of his responsibilities.
Heathrow Suitcase incident[]
In 20th October 2024, Callum returned from his 3rd trip to Thailand. Whilst at Heathrow Airport, he inadvertently took another man's suitcase and in the process forgot about his own. The same night he went live on his Twitch channel and announced the incident streaming with only his PC and his webcam using its microphone. Days later he got his suitcase back and the situation was over.
Callum's Drama[]
Callum has got into a lot of drama over the last 8 years he's been on YouTube.
WillNE[]
On the 26th of July 2016, WillNE uploaded a video in his 'TWOTI'[10] series called 'World's Angriest Tic Tac (TWOTI)'. This would include Callum's 'MY HEAD DOES NOT LOOK LIKE A SODDING TIC TAC. A FINAL WARNING' video. He made a few jokes at Callum's expense before moving onto a different topic. Callum would respond the same day. He said WillNE looked like Gareth Bale's little brother and would comment on how he dislikes Will's commentary format. He would remind Will on the consequences that he may face if he mocks Callum's head and warns him about his Callum's Army which he made on Facebook. He claims Will is too cool for Facebook.
On the 6th of August 2016, WillNE would respond in a video called 'He Replied (ft Afghan Dan)', he didn't add much other then once again making some jokes towards Callum, he would however show a video of Callum dancing and put a variety of music over it. Will would admit Callum is the king of the North before getting a call from Afghan Dan from BGMedia. Dan would tell Callum that he doesn't want to see his face on YouTube again and to 'fuck off back to your TicTac Box'.
On the 16th of August 2016, Afghan Dan released TicTac Business, a diss track directed towards Callum. WillNE made a cameo in the video with him doing a little dance at the end. This dance would enrage Callum.
On the 18th of August 2016, Callum released his response to TicTac Business. He seemed quite upset with the video and said he caught his mother listening to the song. He would call Afghan Dan a 'Cola TicTac' in the video and said he would make his own diss track on Dan.
On the 3rd of April 2017, Callum released 'That's Not My Name' which was his response to Afghan Dan. The video has Callum stood in front of a wall in a park with cartoon characters including Homer Simpson, Stewie Griffin, the playboy logo, Porky Pig and Scooby Doo (with genitals drawn on him) all over it.
On the 4th of June 2021, Callum uploaded the first (and only) episode of 'CallumBall' which included WillNE. They both played a game in Callum's backyard involving trying to throw a ball into a basket. Will is seen to be towered by Callum in scale in this video.
His experience with Pornhub[]
On November 28th 2018, Callum uploaded a video called "NO FAP NOVEMBER HAS BEEN RUINNED BY A FILTHY NONCE ENABLER!!" where he revealed that somebody had posted his 'NO NONCESENSE' song onto Pornhub. This would make him 'livid' in his own words and he would admit that he failed 'No Fap November' after accidentally seeing a 'mermaid porn' video while trying to watch the video of him. Two days later, he uploaded another video where he addressed being trending on the UK version of Pornhub. He stated that his name was the first suggestion in the search bar and that it was noticed by people he knew in real life. He would then claim to be repulsed by men's genitals having inadvertently seen them while investigating his presence on the website.
On December 4th, he posted another video addressing his decision to move house after a man aware of him being on Pornhub smiled at him, and he believed the man thought he wanted 'bum bum boom boom' (slang for anal sex).
On December 10th 2018, Callum revealed that people were sending emails of male genitalia in response to his video in which he expressed his disgust for them.
On September 23rd 2020, Callum explained that someone had uploaded a video of his dog, Lenny, onto Pornhub. Two says later, he encouraged his viewers to boycott Pornhub when the video of Lenny was trending. He would admit that he had used the site for years but would not continue to do so unless Pornhub took action on the video of his dog.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Previously named 'Callum's Commentary Channel', 'Callum's Commentary Corner' and 'TicTalks'.
- ↑ Blackpool Grime Media.
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_OlIi6eIJA
- ↑ https://youtu.be/hCwmAlUpo-8?t=424
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb7EBnUwv3c
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6JKLKmdLkI
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ZG1arP7D8
- ↑ https://youtu.be/_TbEUapdsG0
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzdM880QJCQ
- ↑ This Week On The Internet