Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Oakley
Born March 22, 1989 (age 24)
Michigan, U.S.
Nationality American
Occupation Internet personality
Years active 2007–present
Height 5 ft 5 in
Tyler Oakley is an American vlogger and advocate for gay youth, presenting on topics such as queer politics and pop culture.
Oakley began making videos in 2007; his first video has received over 108,000 views on YouTube. Since uploading his first video while a freshman at Michigan State University, he has received over 86,000,000 video views and gained over 2,400,000 subscribers along with over 200 videos posted. He 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 Bloomberg defines him as a “YouTube sensation.”
Since March 2013, he co-hosts a weekly pop-culture news update, “Top That!” with Becca Frucht for PopSugar. He posts regularly on several social networking sites, including: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram.
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. 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.
A self-proclaimed “professional fangirl,” Oakley is a fan of Darren Criss and the British-Irish boy band One Direction.
YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/tyleroakley/videos
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tyleroakley (1,467,000 followers)
Tumblr: http://tyleroakley.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thetyleroakley (537K likes)
Instagram: http://instagram.com/tyleroakley# (1,093,000 followers)
In the media:
Tyler Oakley Is A Bigger Fangirl Than You (VIDEO)
02/02/2013 | Huffpost Teen
Rising star Tyler Oakley may have one of the loudest voices on YouTube these days.
A self-proclaimed “fangirl,” Oakley’s humor, talent, and devotion to pop culture have captured the hearts of over half a million followers on YouTube, Tumblr, and Twitter. Oakley is rapidly ascending to the status of vlogger elite, frequently doing guest appearances on YouTube’s “What’s Trending,” hosting red carpet events, and hanging out with the likes of Lady Gaga, Perez Hilton, and YouTube’s own Kingsley. (The ship name, by the way, is Tingsley.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/02/tyler-oakley-is-a-bigger-_n_2599750.html
Young YouTube Partners: Finding Success as Entrepreneurs and Internet Stars
12/31/2012 | HUFFPOT College
Tyler believes that it is very difficult if someone defines success by the standard of being able to make YouTube your full time career. He believes it is easier to define success if you’re using your channel as a forum rather than a career. “If you define success as finding a creative outlet for you to express yourself, then it’s a place where anybody can be successful,” he says. “My idea of success is being able to connect with people and hopefully entertain and inspire and have fun just with myself.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alfonso-espina/young-youtube-partners-fi_b_2324241.html
Tyler Oakley tells TCU audience how YouTube brought hate but also inspired him to fight it
05 Mar 2012 | dallasvoice.com
California YouTube sensation Tyler Oakley shared his story of how video stardom led to his first experience of anti-gay hatred — and how he used the hatred to encourage others, on Saturday at the TCU Southwestern LGBT Leadership Conference.
http://www.dallasvoice.com/lgbt-activist-shares-youtube-brought-hate-inspired-speak-10103306.html