Mathew Tyler Oakley (born March 22, 1989) is an American YouTuber,
actor, activist and author. Much of Oakley's activism has been
dedicated to LGBTQ+ youth, LGBT rights, as well as social issues
including health care, education, and the prevention of suicide among
LGBT youth. Oakley regularly posts material on various topics,
including queer politics, pop culture and humor.Oakley began making
videos in 2007; his first video Raindrops had received 517,715 views
on YouTube as of March 22, 2020. Since uploading his first video in
2007 while a freshman at Michigan State University, his channel has
over 682 million views, and, at his peak, over 8 million subscribers.
Oakley, who is openly gay, is a former member of the successful
collaboration channel "5AwesomeGays," where he produced the Friday
video for over three years. He was featured in the 2014 Frontline
investigative report "Generation Like," a follow-up on how teenagers
are "directly interacting with pop culture" to the 2001 report, "The
Merchants of Cool." SocialBlade, a website that rates YouTube and
Instagram accounts, ranks his YouTube channel, as of November 19,
2017, with a grade "B", subscriber rank of 224th, video view rank at
2,010th, and a SocialBlade rating of 33,897th. As of March
2020[update] he also had more than 5.9 million followers on Twitter
and 5.8 million on Instagram.From March to October 2013, Oakley
co-hosted a weekly pop-culture news update â€" "Top That!" â€" with
Becca Frucht for PopSugar. From 2013 to 2014, he performed the voice
of Mr. McNeely in five episodes of the comedy web series The Most
Popular Girls in School. He has hundreds of thousands of followers on
Facebook and Tumblr. In 2015, he released his first collection of
humorous personal essays under the title Binge, via publishers Simon &
Schuster.Oakley was the host of The Tyler Oakley Show, which aired
weekly on Ellen DeGeneres' ellentube platform. He was named one of
Forbes' 2017 "30 under 30".
actor, activist and author. Much of Oakley's activism has been
dedicated to LGBTQ+ youth, LGBT rights, as well as social issues
including health care, education, and the prevention of suicide among
LGBT youth. Oakley regularly posts material on various topics,
including queer politics, pop culture and humor.Oakley began making
videos in 2007; his first video Raindrops had received 517,715 views
on YouTube as of March 22, 2020. Since uploading his first video in
2007 while a freshman at Michigan State University, his channel has
over 682 million views, and, at his peak, over 8 million subscribers.
Oakley, who is openly gay, is a former member of the successful
collaboration channel "5AwesomeGays," where he produced the Friday
video for over three years. He was featured in the 2014 Frontline
investigative report "Generation Like," a follow-up on how teenagers
are "directly interacting with pop culture" to the 2001 report, "The
Merchants of Cool." SocialBlade, a website that rates YouTube and
Instagram accounts, ranks his YouTube channel, as of November 19,
2017, with a grade "B", subscriber rank of 224th, video view rank at
2,010th, and a SocialBlade rating of 33,897th. As of March
2020[update] he also had more than 5.9 million followers on Twitter
and 5.8 million on Instagram.From March to October 2013, Oakley
co-hosted a weekly pop-culture news update â€" "Top That!" â€" with
Becca Frucht for PopSugar. From 2013 to 2014, he performed the voice
of Mr. McNeely in five episodes of the comedy web series The Most
Popular Girls in School. He has hundreds of thousands of followers on
Facebook and Tumblr. In 2015, he released his first collection of
humorous personal essays under the title Binge, via publishers Simon &
Schuster.Oakley was the host of The Tyler Oakley Show, which aired
weekly on Ellen DeGeneres' ellentube platform. He was named one of
Forbes' 2017 "30 under 30".
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