| “ | Your not so normal video entertainer. | ” |
―Ricky Berwick | ||
Ricky Berwick (born: April 23, 1992) is a Canadian internet personality and comedian, best known for his crazy videoskits. As of January 2024, he has accumulated over 5.57 million subscribers and over 2.75 billion views on his channel.
History[]
Berwick currently lives in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.[1] He was born with Beals-Hecht syndrome, a physical disability that limits his bodily functions. From a young age, Berwick took to YouTube, making videos as early as 2006, as his profile name "Dog264sVideos" In doing this, he soon noticed that the content and skits never stuck, leading to a hiatus of over nine years from social media. However, It wasn't until Berwick's second attempt at Twitter in the late summer of 2016, where he posted a video of him yelling and eating McDonald's french fries; did he go viral. The video was stolen and re-uploaded to Facebook where it received millions of views. This led to an explosion of virality (almost overnight) on his social media, prompting him to take a second shot at the entertainment industry. In doing this, Ricky found success and would continue uploading on Twitter for months until later that year when he rebranded his YouTube channel into Ricky Berwick and began to release videos at a consistent and rapid pace.
As of 2018, Berwick's YouTube Channel and Facebook Page had amassed over 1 Million subscribers each, and his legacy had been written in stone. From here, although Ricky’s name wasn’t A-List celebrity status; his face was. Within the span of 18 months, Ricky Berwick had taken over the internet with trending videos scattered across 3 of the largest social media platforms. Uploading on the daily, no matter where you went, “the guy who spins on the floor and sticks out his tongue on Facebook”, was a star. Whether his videos were controversial or funny, Berwick found success in all aspects of entertainment. Not confining himself to one genre of comedy (controversial, funny, serious, etc.) and spreading his influence across multiple platforms; Berwick had paved a smooth path to fame and sealed the gates to the idea of fading into obscurity.
YouTube presence[]
His initial YouTube traction came from the success of his videos Darude - Sandstorm 🏜 and KA-CHOW! ⚡. Most of his videos involve him doing reenactments of events in pop culture with strange twists. Other times the skits will involve editing a "clone" into the video, which will then get involved in high jinks with Berwick himself. Within two years of his YouTube career, Berwick was able to gain over a million subscribers.
Affiliations[]
Berwick's first Television appearance was in April 2017 as a guest on Comedy Central's television show Tosh.0, where he was interviewed on their "Cewebrity Profile" in Season 9 Episode 11 titled "Ricky Berwick". He also starred on known YouTuber Daniel Keem's "DramaAlert" YouTube channel as the guest announcer, writer, and director for an episode titled "RICEGUM HAS A GHOST WRITER". Later, he made a popular video with YouTuber iDubbbzTV. Berwick has also partnered with the DXRacer company. The partnership resulted largely in success, with over 100 chairs sold as part of the deal.
Channel milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
Subscriber milestones[]
- 1,000 subscribers: September 7, 2016
- 10,000 subscribers: January 1, 2017
- 100,000 subscribers: May 2, 2017
- 200,000 subscribers: May 27, 2017
- 500,000 subscribers: September 11, 2017
- 1 million subscribers: April 19, 2018
- 2 million subscribers: July 31, 2020
- 3 million subscribers: October 9, 2021
- 4 million subscribers: April 21, 2023
- 5 million subscribers: September 19, 2023
Video view milestones[]
- 100 million video views: February 3, 2018
- 200 million video views: August 5, 2018
- 300 million video views: March 3, 2019
- 400 million video views: October 13, 2019
- 500 million video views: March 28, 2020
- 600 million video views: July 19, 2020
- 700 million video views: December 15, 2020
- 800 million video views: March 20, 2021
- 900 million video views: June 14, 2021
- 1 billion video views: August 29, 2021
- 2 billion video views: June 19, 2023
Trivia[]
- Ricky is best friends with and a very frequent collaborator with YouTuber StinkyBlueRat, appearing in innumerable videos with him, often as a butt-monkey and punching bag role, subject to slapstick gags and other humorously abusive misfortunes (in a manner similar to Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell's dynamic).
- Ricky is most notably known for his tongue flicking and "creepy" statement responses. Ricky has two cats named Shady and Sonny.
- Ricky used to own a baby bearded dragon named Flick.
- Ricky has an infamous video in which he removes a cookie from his behind and eats it while smiling to the camera.
- Rapper Tyler the Creator retweeted said video, only to delete it instantly and cover up the evidence.
- Ricky has a great love for Superheroes.
- Ricky loves animation and has been seen working with many notable animators.
- Ricky has collaborated with YouTuber iDubbbzTV.
- Ricky was jokingly challenged to a boxing match over Twitter by Keemstar.
- Also in early 2017, he was the host of DramaAlert for one video.
- Ricky loves McDonald's and Reese's products so much, that they are now associated with him, despite the fact that business simply doesn't work that way.
- Reese's has yet to sponsor him.
- In April 2018, he shaved his head to dress up as Kratos from God of War for the game's re-release.
- In October 2018, he did a more intense shave to dress up as Thanos for Halloween.
- In February 2020, he shaved his head (and his mustache) once again, possibly for his "Baby Ricky" video.
- In October 2018, he did a more intense shave to dress up as Thanos for Halloween.
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