Oakley appearing in a Vlogbrothers video in 2016 His college years were also when he first became involved with YouTube, using the video sharing website to communicate with his high school friends, who were attending different schools. Oakley admits he considered suicide in this time. While at college, he fell into a short depression after a breakup with a long-term boyfriend. Oakley graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in communication, marketing and social media from Michigan State University. ![]() When in the sixth grade, Oakley moved to Okemos, and became involved in choir and drama. When he was an infant, his parents divorced. Mathew Tyler Oakley was born on March 22, 1989, in Jackson, Michigan. In 2017, he was named in Forbes "30 Under 30". Oakley was the host of The Tyler Oakley Show, which aired weekly on Ellen DeGeneres' ellentube platform. In 2015, he released his first collection of humorous personal essays under the title Binge, via publishers Simon & Schuster. He has hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook and Tumblr. McNeely in five episodes of the comedy web series The Most Popular Girls in School. From 2013 to 2014, he performed the voice of Mr. įrom March to October 2013, Oakley co-hosted a weekly pop-culture news update – "Top That!" – with Becca Frucht for PopSugar. As of February 1, 2021 he also had more than 5.6 million followers on Twitter and 5.6 million on Instagram. 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 1,434th, video view rank at 7,022nd, and a SocialBlade rating of 345,254th. ![]() 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". 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. ![]() Since uploading his first video in 2007 while a freshman at Michigan State University, his channel has over 683 million views, and, at his peak, over 8 million subscribers. Oakley regularly posts material on various topics, including pop culture and humor. Much of Oakley's 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. Mathew Tyler Oakley (born March 22, 1989) is an American YouTuber, actor, activist, author and Twitch streamer.
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