Tyler Oakley

Mathew Tyler Oakley born 22 March 1989 is an American YouTuber actor activist author and Twitch streamer Much of Oakleys activism has been dedicated to LGBT 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 pop culture and humor Since uploading his first video in 2007 while a freshman at Michigan State University his YouTube channel has garnered over 683 million views and at its peak had over 8 million subscribers He was featured in the 2014 Frontline investigative report Generation Like a followup 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 February 1 2021 with a grade B subscriber rank of 1434th video view rank at 7022nd and a SocialBlade rating of 345254th As of February 1 2021 he also had more than 56 million followers on Twitter and 56 million on Instagram From March to October 2013 Oakley cohosted a weekly popculture news update Top That 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 In 2017 he was named in Forbes 30 Under 30 Description above from the Wikipedia article Tyler Oakley licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia