GEVids (born: April 30, 2006) is a gaming YouTuber known for his Minecraft skits and building videos. He gained popularity from YouTube Shorts.
Content[]
GEVids is well known for his short Minecraft videos. A popular series on his channel, "If Saving Was a Choice," consists of him choosing between a meme character or diamonds in Minecraft.
History[]
GEVids started his YouTube channel in September 2016, and uploaded his first video, "Minecraft, but every drop is RANDOM" on October 5, 2019.
In the beginning of February 2021, GEVids decided to take his channel in an entirely new direction. He began uploading content to YouTube Shorts, which would lead to the rise of his channel. On February 2nd, 2021, GEVids uploaded a video titled "Minecraft - Avocados from Mexico 🥑." This video did extremely well at the time, bringing in over 6 million views. Avocados from Mexico and his other characters such as Hamood and Gnome would become recurring characters, which led to the start of the "If Saving Was a Choice" series. The success of his characters and the rapid growth of YouTube Shorts would cause GEVids's channel to grow at an unprecedented rate in the Gaming community. In the coming months, GEVids would continue to grow at an insane rate, reaching 1 million subscribers only two months after his initial debut.
His subscriber count would double in the next 3 months, reaching 2 million subscribers and 1 billion video views in August. To this day, GEVids remains as one of the biggest Short Form gaming creators on YouTube.
Trivia[]
- GEVids is Korean-American.
- His TikTok account has over 10 million followers.
- He started playing Minecraft in 2011, and has a Minecon 2013 cape.
- GEVids came up with his username when he was 10, and wishes he would've changed it. GE stands for "Gaming Entertainment".
- GEVids is a Taurus.
- One of his videos, "Minecraft: COMMAND BLOCK Parkour!" took over 20 hours to make.
- GEVids is partnered with Lunar Client, a Minecraft modpack, and has his own cosmetic line.
Subscriber Milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
- 10,000 subscribers: February 11, 2021
- 50,000 subscribers: February 27, 2021
- 100,000 subscribers: March 1, 2021
- 250,000 subscribers: March 6, 2021
- 500,000 subscribers: March 15, 2021
- 750,000 subscribers: April 2, 2021
- 1 million subscribers: May 3, 2021
- 2 million subscribers: August 2, 2021
- 3 million subscribers: January 15, 2022
- 4 million subscribers: May 4, 2022
- 5 million subscribers: October 19, 2022
