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Jenna Mourey, more commonly known as Jenna Marbles, is an American YouTube personality. Jenna attended Brighton High School in Rochester, New York. Later on, she moved to Boston, Massachusetts to attend college at Suffolk University, obtaining a B.S. in Psychology. She then attended Boston University and obtained her Master's in Sport psychology and Counseling. She resides in Santa Monica, California with her three dogs, Mr. Marbles, a Chihuahua, and two Italian Greyhounds, Kermit and Peach."Jenna Marbles"- Actress
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Lisa is one of the co-founders of Maker Studios where she plays an integral part in expanding the business and mentoring up-and-coming YouTube personalities who are part of the Maker Studios family. Lisa, known as LisaNova on YouTube, has one of the most successful YouTube channels of all time (210 million videos views, 709,000+ subscribers). Through her YouTube channel she has inspired many to become content creators themselves, and is now helping to build new online talent through Maker Studios.
Lisa is a pioneer and innovator in the online space. In addition to receiving an enormous amount of popularity on YouTube, she was one of the first YouTube content creators to cross over into mainstream Hollywood when she was cast on MADtv in 2007. Her talent goes beyond just acting to include editing as well as writing. Lisa has been a force in the online content creating community over the last five years, working with such notable figures as Jane Fonda, Katy Perry, Jenna Elfman, Ralph Nader and Spike Lee.
Through leveraging her ability to quickly execute concepts, combined with her knowledge of the ever-changing world of pop culture, Lisa has been influential in the direction of the online community. She has been profiled in two New York Times articles, was featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine, called "the best one woman show online" by Interview magazine and her work was highlighted in a Forbes Magazine piece written by YouTube founder, Chad Hurley. Lisa has additionally been featured numerous times on Perez Hilton, The Huffington Post and CNN."Lisa Nova"- Actress
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With nearly 7 million subscribers and more than 1 billion video views across her YouTube channel iJustine is one of top tech female personalities on YouTube. A New York Times best selling author for her personal memoir I, Justine. She was named "the most influential person online" by Fast Company and in 2012 was ranked No. 6 most influential personality by The Daily Beast's Digital Power Index.
Her online popularity has led to brand ambassador deals with Amazon, Mattel, Sony, Samsung, LG, Ford, GE, Carl's Jr., Taco Bell, Doritos, Skittles, Sharpie, Microsoft, and more.
In 2016, she was an advisor to Arnold Schwarzenegger on the reality competition series The New Celebrity Apprentice. Her television acting credits include guest appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Criminal Minds, The Bold and the Beautiful, and The Vampire Diaries. Ezarik also appeared as a main character on the first and fourth season of the YouTube Premium murder-mystery reality series Escape the Night."IJustine"- Actress, host, producer Amber Ettinger is most famously known for her viral video series portraying the Obama Girl. Most recently she created, produced and starred in Sín Fronteras, a festival nominated short, debuting her first filmmaking endeavor, alongside her best friend Alexis Johnson, co-founder of their film production company Stay the Course Films. Sín Fronteras embraces the theme of motherhood, forgiveness and racial borders both physical and mental. A Pennsylvania native, Amber excelled in the arts at a young age. From early years in community theater, ballet, tap and jazz and her fashion Design degree from FIT, which brought her to NYC at 17 years old. Amber has more than 15 years and 30+ credits of modeling, hosting and screen acting experience, performing roles on feature films, short films and TV series in drama and comedy. She was honored as one of MSN Most Influential Women of 2008 and #1 Hottest Woman on the Web by E! Channel."Obama Girl"
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Alexis Jordan was born in Columbia, South Carolina on April 7, 1992 to an African American mother, Native American and European descent and a Puerto Rican father. She rose to fame as a contestant on the first season of America's Got Talent in 2006. After being eliminated from the show, she began to upload cover songs to YouTube, which received millions of views. She was discovered on Youtube by Norwegian production team Stargate and American rapper Jay-Z, who both went on to sign her to their label, StarRoc/Roc Nation.- Actress
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Lia was born in Wahiawa, Hawaii. She is part of a military family and has lived all over the United States including Florida and California. She has four younger sisters and a younger brother. Now that she is permanently located in Southern California she is excited to continue pursuing her acting dream.- Actor
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Todd Womack is known for The Key of Awesome (2009), Chappelle's Show (2003) and RWBY: Volume 7 (2020)."Barely Political"- Actress
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Lisa Schwartz is known for Party Girl (2016), This Isn't Working (2016) and Talking Tom and Friends (2014). She has been married to Jeff Galante since 6 November 2021. They have one child.- Director
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Joe Penna was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He began his career on YouTube, where his videos have garnered nearly 3 million subscribers and over 400 million views. After years directing commercials, music videos, and short films, Penna directed and co-wrote Arctic (2019) and Stowaway (2021). He is married to Sarah Penna. They have one child."MysteryGuitarMan"- Actor
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After studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, Mark Douglas has been working as an actor, comedian, songwriter, stand up comic and has also played hamlet completely drunk. Now working as a comedian and songwriter at Barely Political in New York, he has written many song parodies for the Barely Political show Key of Awesome, all of which have been viewed over 1 million times each. Glitter Puke (Tik Tok by Kesha), the thirteenth Key of Awesome parody, has been viewed over 95 million times, more than the original video. For seven years, Mark co-hosted "The Rob and Mark Show", and they released their CD, "The 3rd and 7th Hardest Working Men in Show Business" in 2006. He has also co-hosted the Barely Political show "Tech Know" with Andrea Feczko."Barely Political"- Writer
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The Co-creator of a YouTube channel known as Epic Meal Time, where he and several other men indulge in culinary creations which they release on YouTube every Tuesday. He has created over 100 episodes with the YouTube channel and it has been active ever since October 2010. On the show there have been several guest stars such as Tony Hawk, Deadmau5, Lights, and other YouTube sensations such as FPSRussia and Smosh. He has appeared on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" along with the rest of the cast and crew of Epic Meal Time; this was their first late night interview.
On the show Harley is know as the "Sauce Boss" where he has tag-lines/catch-phrases such as "A drippin' that sauce" and "Bacon flip"."Epic Meal Time"- Actor
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Tay Zonday was born on 21 May 1982 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Tay Zonday: Chocolate Rain (2007), YouTube Assassin (2010) and Viralcom (2008)."Chocolate Rain"- Actor
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Shane Dawson is a young actor from California who started out making videos on YouTube for hobby and eventually became one of the biggest stars of the popular video website. His main videos, small sketches and parodies of popular songs, are seen by millions of people and the most recurrent characters of his works - Shane (himself), Aunt Hilda, S-Deezy, Shananay, Ned, Mom and Paris Hilton - have already become true icons of "fame" thanks to videos like "Fred is Dead!", "Twilight New Moon: Blood Hungry" or "Bad (Bro)mance!- Writer
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Peter Alexis Shukoff also known as Nice Peter is a self described "Comic/Guitar Hero" best known for the musical comedy on his YouTube channel, NicePeter. As of January 2012 he is the 34th most subscribed of all time and the 7th most subscribed musician with over 1.4 million subscribers. The day after hitting one million subscribers, the video game and news channel G4 crowned Nice Peter the King of Dot Com Comedy on "Attack of the Show". His videos have received over 384 million views and have been featured on the Huffington Post, Billboard.com, and the January 2012 issue of Wired Magazine. A recent interview with Forbes Magazine details Peter and his Epic Rap Battle of History partner Lloyd Ahlquist's rise to YouTube fame."Epic Rap Battles of History"- Writer
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Lloyd Ahlquist is known for Epic Rap Battles of History (2010), Epic Studios (2017) and Dis Raps for Hire (2011). He has been married to Ahlquist, Josie Renee (Hutchinson) since 18 October 2009."Epic Rap Battles of History"- Iman Crosson is known for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005), White Men Can't Jump (2023) and Grown-ish (2018)."Alphacat"
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Grace Helbig was born on 27 September 1985 in Woodbury, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Trolls (2016), Camp Takota (2014) and Epic Rap Battles of History (2010). She has been married to Elliott Morgan since 1 October 2022."Daily Grace"- Casting Department
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Lainey Lipson is known for Black Cake (2023), Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018) and For All Mankind (2019)."My Music"- Actress
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With over 2 Billion views online, Lauren Francesca has been described by Streaming Media as "a YouTube superstar." Lauren's has acted in have been featured on 20/20, Tosh.0, O'Reilly Factor, FOX News, TruTV's Funniest Moments, Comedy Central and more. Entertainment Weekly said Lauren's "Lady Gaga Telephone Parody," was the "funniest Internet phenomenon of the moment." Lauren has over 2 million followers on Facebook and 3 million followers total. Born and raised in Queens, New York, Lauren grew up in a family of award winning Broadway performers. At New York Tech, Lauren was President of both the Honor Society and The Women's Association, receiving awards for her work with the community. She graduated Magma Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Pre-Med Biology. After college, Lauren focused on acting, studying improv at UCB. It quickly paid off when Lauren was cast in the hit webseries, "The Key of Awesome." This led to her appearance on 20/20, a role in an FX pilot, and a national AT&T campaign. She also appeared in numerous viral hit videos from College Humor, Funny or Die, Totally Sketch and Bo Burnham. Tubefilter described her as, "a chameleon of parody, morphing from pop-sexy to nerdy-cute almost effortlessly." Lauren was featured in one of Netflix's top comedies, Bad Parents. Additionally, she's just wrapped starring roles in three upcoming independent films; Muck, Lucky Number, and Catskill Park. As a producer, Lauren has helped produce digital projects that have been sold to, BET, Comedy Central, and Stars. She has sold licensees for her viral video clips all over the world. She produced a short that was accept into Cannes Film Festival. Then her original show concept Like Me, (co-authored by Sideways writer Rex Pickett) was accepted to the "Just for Laughs" pitch competition. And her pilot Appland was accepted into YouTube's "Women in Comedy" program were she was mentored by Elizabeth Banks and Youtube helped produce. Recently, Lauren has been crowd funding features and has produced eight features in the last two years, directing the last three of them. Lauren has worked as an influencer with AT&T, Comedy Central, FOX, Universal"Barely Political, CollegeHumor"- Writer
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Jack Douglass is a Youtube personality that operates the Youtube channels "Jacksfilms", "Jackisanerd", and "SHUTUPDENNIS". He makes videos every Monday and Friday. Mondays' videos are usually a sketch, music video, or parody. Fridays' videos are usually something called "Your Grammar Sucks", which is a show that features Youtube or Twitter comments with bad grammatical errors. Jack relays these comments in a comical manner, making it a fun way to make fun of people who either use bad english or are just bad at typing. Jack Douglass also stars on the hit webseries by the Fine Brothers called "MyMusic", which can be found on the Youtube channel "MyMusicShow". Jack plays the character Intern 2."Jacksfilms"- Actor
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Jason Horton was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. Jason is an actor and producer, known for Mini-Mocks (2018), History's Greatest Mysteries (2020) and Rachel Dratch's Late Night Snack (2016)."Totally Sketch"- Andrea Feczko is known for The Key of Awesome (2009), Barely Political (2007) and Vacation Creation (2016)."Barely Political, MTV Essentials"
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Nikki Limo was born on 2 November 1986 in Santa Barbara, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Smiley (2012), How I Met Your Mother (2005) and Totally Sketch (2009). She has been married to Steve Greene since 28 May 2017."Totally Sketch"- Actor
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DeStorm Power is known for Caught the Series (2017), Punk'd (2003) and Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens (2016).- Brittani Louise Taylor is an actress, artist, and one of the most subscribed women on Youtube. With over 1,000,000 subscribers, and 140,000,000+ total video views, she is a digital force to be reckoned with. Brittani has been fortunate enough create branded videos for Rogue Pictures, Lionsgate, Weinstein Company, GE, Panasonic, Hewlett Packard, Kodak, Wonderful Pistachios, and more."Brittani Louise Taylor"
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Bree Essrig was born and raised in Los Angeles. After getting her start on YouTube, Essrig broke into the industry as an actor, writer, and host. She has starred in thousands of videos on many popular Youtube channels (SourceFed, Funny or Die, The Young Turks, Break, and many more), and has performed many live stunts/pranks. Essrig is the current host of Twitter's first ever daily live show, #WhatsHappening."Totally Sketch"- Actress
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Hannah Hart was born on 2 November 1986 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for My Drunk Kitchen (2011), Epic Rap Battles of History (2010) and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (2016). She has been married to Ella Mielniczenko since 12 June 2021."My Drunk Kitchen"- Producer
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Philip DeFranco was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for The Philip DeFranco Show (2006), The Station (2009) and BlackBoxTV (2010). Since 2017, He has been the founder and CEO of The Philip Defranco Network. He has been married to Lindsay Doty (Now Lindsay Defranco) since March 7, 2015. They have two children."sxephil"- Actor
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Kassem Gharaibeh, known as KassemG on YouTube, is one of the most popular personalities on YouTube with 2.6 million subscribers and over 431 million video views. Kassem began his career as a stand-up comedian working tirelessly in the local Los Angeles stand-up scene. In 2008, Kassem began posting videos of his stand-up and comedy sketches on YouTube and slowly amassed a loyal following. By the summer of 2010, Kassem had over one million subscribers on YouTube and secured his spot as one of the most viewed comedians online. He displays a witty and satirical tone that resonates with his wide and diverse viewership. Fearless and fast on his feet, Kassem's man-on-the-street format "California on..." has become one of the most beloved, and viewed weekly series on YouTube, averaging one million views per episode. His parody sketches, "KassemG Presents," have one foot in reality, but also draw heavily from the absurd. Also successful are his other recurring features, "Going Deep," and "Street Music.""KassemG"- Actor
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Jimmy Wong is a Chinese American actor, director, host, and singer songwriter. Most recently, he starred in Wish Dragon (Sony Pictures Animation / Netflix) as the lead voice of "Din" alongside John Cho and Constance Wu. Prior to that, he played Ling in Disney's Mulan (2020). Jimmy is well known online for his work across YouTube and digital platforms, starring in the hit webseries Video Game High School (2012-2014), creating the cooking show Feast of Fiction to over 1 million subscribers, and cohosting the popular Magic the Gathering podcast The Command Zone and Game Knights.
Online, his content has been viewed over 300 million times across his numerous projects. He is the younger brother of popular director and creator Freddie Wong of RocketJump and Video Game High School. His content can be found all across the internet, representing the entertainment, geek, gaming, and cooking worlds.
Jimmy first became known after a racist incident at UCLA, when a sorority student posted a vlog ranting about Asians studying in the library, openly mocking their accent and language. Jimmy responded with the "Ching Chong, It Means I Love You" song, which garnered national attention and over 5 million views. Later that year, Jimmy created the cooking show Feast of Fiction, dedicated to bringing foods seen in movies, video games, cartoons, and TV shows to real life. In 2012, Jimmy starred as one of the three titular characters in the massively popular webseries Video Game High School for three seasons. In 2018, Jimmy was announced as a main cast member of Mulan (2020), playing the role of Ling, one of Mulan's friends in the army. In 2021, he starred as the lead voice in Sony Picture Animation's Wish Dragon, which was the #1 movie on Netflix throughout all of June.
Jimmy has hosted for a wide range of projects and has represented brands such as Disney XD, Nintendo, Riot Games, Wizards of the Coast, Food Network, Starbucks, PepsiCo, Showtime, Google, Lionsgate, Walmart, IGN, Bon Appetit, State Farm, Conagra, and more.- Actor
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Freddie Wong was born on 13 September 1985 in the USA. He is an actor and director, known for Video Game High School (2012), Anime Crimes Division (2017) and We're All Gonna Die (2024).- Actor
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Ryan Higa was born in Hilo, Hawaii, USA, is an actor and writer, known for Ninja Melk (2009), Agents of Secret Stuff (2010), The Last Skitzo! (2015) and featured in Tell Me How I Die (2016). Also known for his YouTube channel 'nigahiga' with 23.7 million subscribers. He graduated from Waiakea High School in 2008."Nigahiga"- Actor
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Dane Boedigheimer was born on 28 September 1979 in Minnesota, USA. Dane is an actor and writer, known for The Annoying Orange (2009), The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange (2012) and Annoying Orange: Trailer Trashed (2014). Dane has been married to Theresa Barket since 2012.- Producer
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Charles Lincoln "Link" Neal III is an American actor, writer, singer/songwriter known for being the comedy duo "Rhett & Link." Neal is also known for being the co-creator and co-host of Good Mythical Morning (2012) along with several other projects such as Commerical Kings (2011), The Mythical Show (2013), and Rhett and Link's Buddy System (2016) alongside lifelong/childhood friend Rhett McLaughlin.- Producer
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Rhett McLaughlin is known for Good Mythical Morning (2012), The Mythical Show (2013) and Looking for Ms. Locklear (2008). He has been married to Jessie McLaughlin since 2001. They have two children.- Producer
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Anthony Padilla is an American YouTuber, actor, comedian, host, writer, director, producer, editor, and internet personality. He's most known for being the co-founder of the YouTube channel, Smosh (2005), with his friend Ian Hecox. He was known for being an actor, writer, director, producer, and editor on Smosh (2005), until he left in 2017. After leaving Smosh (2005), he started a personal channel where he became known for his series, I Spent A Day With... (2018), where he served as the creator, writer, director, and host.
On June 20, 2023, Anthony and Ian announced that they bought Smosh (2005) back. Since then, he's added writing and acting on the Smosh (2005) channels to his list of duties and stepped back from some of the behind-the-scenes stuff on his own channel.- Actor
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Ian Hecox is the Co-founder of the online comedy enterprise Smosh. Together with his childhood friend Anthony Padilla, they write, direct, and star in the comedy sketches they have been creating since 2005. They have amassed over 6 Billion views and over 22 million subscribers on their Smosh YouTube channel. They have also starred in Smosh: The Movie (2015), Angry Birds The Movie (2016), and Ghostmates (2016) among other things.- Actor
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Chester See was born on 20 April 1984 in Fairfield, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Side Effects (2013), Camp Takota (2014) and Dirty 30 (2016).- Actor
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Steve Greene is known for Funny Story (2018), The Thinning (2016) and The Wedding Ringer (2015). He has been married to Nikki Limo since 28 May 2017.- Producer
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Josh Mattingly is known for Smosh (2005), Ladies of Rap (2012) and Smosh Summer Games: Wild West (2017).- Art Director
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Graydon Sheppard is known for Shit Girls Say (2011), The Model Prisoner (2010) and Pure Breeds: Cavalier King Charles Spaniels (2013).- Actress
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GloZell Green was born on 30 July 1972 in Orlando, Florida, USA. She is an actress, known for Trolls (2016), Escape the Night (2016) and The Wedding Ringer (2015). She was previously married to Kevin Simon.- Producer
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Mike Lamond was originally born in California. At age 11, his family moved to outside Portland, Oregon, where Mike would spend the next 12 years of his life.
Upon his quickly growing YouTube success, Mike moved to Los Angeles to pursue his love of gaming, Esports, and new media. This includes traveling across the United States to commentate at live gaming events as well as finding himself in generally nerdy related short films.
His passion has always been to promote professional gaming (Esports) as a legitimate and worthwhile spectator sport. Some events Mike has cast have upwards of 180,000 live concurrent viewers online through live streams by MLG. The opportunity to promote Esports have proven to be many in the entertainment capital of the world, Los Angeles.
Being an avid gamer since he was a child, nearly every aspect of his life and career involves gaming or nerd culture. Mike is part of the parody band "Nerd Alert". With the assistance of fellow band member Kurt Schneider, Nerd Alert has released several video game related songs, totaling around 15 million views on YouTube.
Mike is also one of the founding members of the 'Game Station' YouTube gaming network. Through this network of YouTube channels, Mike has become very close friends with many people in the gaming and new media industry.