Tyler Oakley

Tyler Oakley is a American vlogger, YouTube celebrity and advocate for gay youth. He is known for his satirical and quirky humor and creating vlogs on queer politics and pop culture. As of November 2013, Tyler Oakley's YouTube channel has over 2.7 million subscribers and over 100 million video views.

Biography
Tyler Oakley was born on March 22, 1989 in Michigan, U.S. He attended Michigan State University.

YouTube
Tyler created his first YouTube video in 2007 as a freshman in Michigan State University. His first video, titled "Raindrops", was uploaded on October 1st, 2007.

Tyler is a former member of the successful collaboration channel "5AwesomeGays," where he produced the Friday video for over 3 years. Currently, he is described as having "one of the loudest voices on YouTube" and and Bloomberg defines him as a "YouTube sensation."

Since March 2013, Tyler co-hosts a weekly pop-culture news update – "Top That!" – with Becca Frucht for PopSugar.

Outside YouTube
Oakley supports The Trevor Project, an organization for the prevention of suicide in LGBTQ youth. He has interned with them, hosted a red carpet event and raised over $25,000 in support of their work. He has also interned at Bowery. Tyler's other ventures include: working as a resident mentor, teacher's assistant, product marketer/developer at Michigan State University, social media and communication manager at Chictopia and director of social media at Good Ideas for Good Causes.

Trivia

 * Tyler's height is 5ft 5in or 165 cm


 * A self-proclaimed "professional fangirl," Oakley is a fan of Darren Criss and the British-Irish boy band One Direction.


 * He also sang Christmas carols on stage with said band and Jerry Springer.