Tyler Oliveira (born: January 6, 2000 [age 25])[1] is an American[2] YouTuber known for his challenge, experiment, and investigation videos.
Content[]
Oliveira's YouTube content mainly consists of vlog-type videos featuring challenges, experiments, and more recently, investigations of various places or ideas.[2]
History[]
Oliveira created his channel on January 29, 2018.[2] He uploaded his first video on April 10 of that year.[3] His old videos mainly consisted of prank and vlog videos. His channel did not gain much traction at first.
On August 15, 2018, Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson uploaded a video titled "Attempting The Impossible Maze - $10,000 Challenge". In this video, Donaldson flew over Oliveira, who had become the 7,000,000th subscriber to his channel, and had him compete in one of his challenge videos. Since upload, the video has amassed over 48 million views. This would shout out Oliveira's channel, and it would soon begin to grow.
Oliveira's channel didn't begin to see major growth until early 2019. His videos would begin to become very popular, and as the months went by, his subscriber count increased substantially.
Oliveira reached 1 million subscribers in August 2020. On August 15, 2020, coincidentally exactly 2 years after his first appearance on the channel, MrBeast uploaded "Last To Leave $800,000 Island Keeps It", which Oliveira competed in. The video has amassed over 110 million views.Last To Leave $800,000 Island Keeps It by MrBeast. YouTube. August 15, 2020.
Starting in 2023, Oliveira began making journalism-type content, traveling across the United States to investigate hot & controversial topics. These videos have garnered millions of views each.
As of 2024, Oliveira continues to create content on YouTube and has gained a large following.
Controversies[]
Misrepresentation and Misinformation[]
In November 2023, Oliveira posted "I Investigated the Country Where Every Drug is Legal...", a video documenting drug use and interviewing drug users in Vancouver, Canada. He explored the city alongside Kevin Dahlgren, a fellow social media creator based in Portland, Oregon.[4] A few days prior, Dahlgren was indicted by the city of Gresham on 19 counts of theft.[5]
Oliveira in the video title exaggerated the legal use of drugs, as the video was filmed in the city of Vancouver, located in the Canadian province of British Columbia, and British Columbia is the only province in Canada to decriminalize small amounts of drugs.[6][7] Politician Elenore Sturko, who made an appearance in the video at rougly 13 minutes in, described the video as "inaccurate and exploitative," and claimed that she was unaware the interview was being recorded.[8][9] The video was criticized by harm-reduction advocates as being misleading, as they claimed that Oliveira misrepresented a homeless shelter as a supervised injection site, described as unsanitary in the video.[10] Also in the video, a man could be seen having an overdose while an ambulance was arriving, whom Oliveira filmed. The man, named Michael Manitoba, heavily criticized Oliveira, calling the video "unethical."[11] Vice News described the video as "based on poverty tourism."[12]
On December 24, 2024, YouTuber Vince Vintage made a video titled "Exposing Tyler Oliveira...Youtube's Biggest Liar", in which he says Tyler spreads misinformation, he interviews the wrong people and gives them a platform, such as; Darren Stallcup, Chris Gioia, Kevin Dahlgren, Jonathan Choe, Tommy Robinson and Bob Kroll, he also uses incorrect news clips to generate a false rhetoric that aligns with the Alt-right.[13] Vince also said that Tyler makes his thumbnails to fit false narratives.[14] He also points out that Tyler went to a Racist Neo-Nazi store calling it an "antique store" to buy throwing rocks to gift to the most racist man in america.[15] On December 31, 2024, Tyler made a video titled "I Investigated Tyler Oliveira - Exposing All the Lies…", where he denied all the claims by made by Vince. On February 7, 2025, Vince made a video titled "Tyler Oliveira Can't Stop Lying..." responding to Tyler on his 2nd channel, saying the evidence that Tyler is neutral on most situations, which when trying to prove this, Tyler actually spliced together clips from different videos to doctor footage to make himself look good.[16]
On January 14, 2025, YouTuber J aubrey made a video titled "YouTube’s Worst Journalist | Tyler Oliveira (Ft. Vince Vintage, Ghost Gum, & Saji Sharma)". In the video, YouTuber Saji Sharma said that Tyler was spreading misinformation and painting a false narrative about George Floyd's Murder.[17]
Soft White Underbelly and the Whittakers[]
In March 2024, Oliveira posted a video titled "I Investigated the Poorest Region of America...", a video that served as an update to The Whittakers, a West Virginian family previously documented by the YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly, headed by Mark Laita. Laita has since made a GoFundMe for the family that raised over $130,000. Oliveira initially tried to contact Laita and the channel to get in touch with the Whittakers, but was denied because of an "exclusive contract". Oliveira would however get in touch with the family, and alleged that Laita and Soft White Underbelly had kept the donation money to themselves rather than giving it to the family based on the condition of the property, with the families matriarch Betty claiming she doesn't know what happened with the money.[18]
Laita soon responded with the video "Whittakers GoFundMe-The Problem With Social Media" on the Soft White Underbelly channel a day later. In it, he criticized Oliveira's content as clickbaity and misleading, and said that the video has spread misinformation about him and his relationship with the Whittakers family. Laita said that the family had repeatedly asked him to lend donation money to the point where he had to give them his own cash after using up all the donation money. Hurt especially by Betty's betrayal within Oliveira's video, Laita had also made the choice to deactivate the GoFundMe page for the family, and that he would no longer make videos covering them.[19]
Oliveira would later take down the Whittaker GoFundMe and donate the initial $10,000 to the Coalfield Development Foundation, apologizing to both Laita and his viewerbase.[20]
Trivia[]
- He has been featured numerous times in MrBeast videos, making his debut in a challenge video in 2018 after the being the 7,000,000th subscriber to the channel.[21]
- He is of Portuguese descent.
Channel milestones[]
Subscriber milestones[]
- 100,000 subscribers: January 10, 2019[22]
- 500,000 subscribers: December 8, 2019
- 1 million subscribers: August 3, 2020
- 2 million subscribers: October 15, 2021
- 3 million subscribers: March 20, 2023
- 4 million subscribers: August 19, 2023
Video view milestones[]
- 100 million video views: April 17, 2020
- 1 billion video views: November 6, 2023
References[]
- ↑ I Investigated the City of Sëggz Offenders… - YouTube
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Tyler Oliveira - About. YouTube. Retrieved on April 7, 2025.
- ↑ I'M THE BOSSES SON PRANK! (COPS WERE CALLED!?) by Tyler Oliveira. YouTube. April 9, 2018.
- ↑ I Investigated the Country Where Every Drug is Legal... by Tyler Oliveira. YouTube. November 2, 2023.
- ↑ Sparling, Zane. "Homelessness pundit Kevin Dahlgren accused of theft, official misconduct at city of Gresham", The Oregonian, October 31, 2023. Retrieved on January 10, 2024.
- ↑ Decriminalizing people who use drugs in B.C. - Province of British Columbia (gov.bc.ca)
- ↑ Success or failure? Canada's drug decriminalisation test faces scrutiny (bbc.com)
- ↑ Post on Twitter/X by Elenore Sturko, accessed on November 12, 2023
- ↑ Browne, Alex. "Sturko stung by Zoom call footage in ‘exploitative’ documentary", Surrey Now-Leader, November 15, 2023. Retrieved on January 10, 2024.
- ↑ "B.C. MLA says she didn't agree to appear in 'exploitative' drug crisis video", CTV News, November 13, 2023. Retrieved on January 10, 2024.
- ↑ "'It's unethical': Man filmed having an overdose urges people to stop recording residents on DTES", CTV News, December 4, 2023. Retrieved on January 10, 2024.
- ↑ Krishnan, Manisha. "‘It’s Disgusting’: Viral Overdose Videos Are Hurting People at Their Lowest Moments", Vice News, December 7, 2023.
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQV_uFY_snw
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQV_uFY_snw&t=37m40s
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GB_BoXSLnk
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP9EXCa3D2Q
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4hzs3cNmYw&t=1h33m6s
- ↑ https://thedirect.com/article/soft-white-underbelly-controversy-mark-laita-the-whittakers-explained
- ↑ https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/inbred-family-donations-cut-after-32276863
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx-01Qg8gcTWJ4TP8j5l22G6qoEn08rn4I
- ↑ https://youtu.be/b91vrgVY-ZQ?t=41
- ↑ https://twitter.com/tyleraloevera/status/1083587834211033088