Nigahiga

Ryan Higa, known by his YouTube username nigahiga, is a vlogger, YouTube celebrity, actor, comedian and producer. He is a Japanese-American born in Hilo, Hawaii. As of January 2014, Ryan Higa's YouTube channel, nigahiga, has over 11.5 million subscribers and over 1.68 billion video views. It is the 5th most subscribed channel on YouTube.

Biography
Ryan Higa was born in Hilo, Hawaii on June 6, 1990. In high school, he competed in wrestling and Judo and holds a black belt in Judo. Ryan Higa graduated from Waiakea High School in 2008. He currently attends University of Nevada, Las Vegas to study filmmaking.

YouTube
The YouTube channel nigahiga was created July 20, 2006 by Ryan Higa, Sean Fujiyoshi, Tim Enos, and Tarynn Nago, collectively known as the Yabo Crew. Ryan Higa and his friends started making videos in mid-2006. First few videos consist of them lip-syncing to songs. Soon they started making comedic videos and other parodies. Their How To Be series contributed to the channel's break through success. How To Be Gangster, How To Be Emo and How To Be Ninja were few of the early classics.

On Christmas Eve of 2008, Higa and Fujiyoshi's two most popular videos, How To Be Gangster and How To Be Emo, were removed due to copyright violations. On January 21, 2009, the nigahiga account was temporarily suspended and was required to remove more copyrighted videos. Because of this, nigahiga's lip synching videos were all removed (with the exception of You're Beautiful, which was audio swapped), along with most of his other videos that included copyrighted music. Since then, Higa started composing the music himself. How to be Gangster and How to be Emo were put back on nigahiga's channel in late August 2009, only to be removed a few days later, along with How to be Ninja and How to be Nerd. In Spring 2010, How to be Ninja, How to be Gangster and How to be Emo were made public once more

Because Ryan Higa is currently living in Las Vegas for university, most of the recent nigahiga videos are solo efforts, usually featuring collaborations with other YouTube users. However, the other members of the Yabo crew have made appearances whenever Ryan Higa visits Hawaii.

Nigahiga
As of January 2014, Nigahiga has over 11.5 million subscribers and over 1.68 billion video views. It is the 5th most subscribed channel on YouTube.

HigaTV
HigaTV is Ryan Higa's secondary channel. It features behind the scenes videos, I Dare You and vlog-style videos. As of July 2014, HigaTV has over 2.3 million subscribers.

Trivia
According to Ryan Higa, his channel name is a combination of "Niga", which means "rant" in Japanese, and his last name, "Higa".

Nigahiga was the first YouTube channel to reach 3 million subscribers in late 2010.

Nigahiga's most subscriber status was beaten by Ray William Johnson in mid 2011.