Tyler Oakley is an American author, humorist and YouTube personality. He posts different topics about pop culture, humor and politics on YouTube. He is a LGBT activist and his activism is dedicated to LGBT youth, LGBT rights and also to education, healthcare and different social issues. Tyler Oakley is also trying to prevent suicide between LGBT youth, so he is a big supporter of the national organization Trevor Project. The net worth of this successful young guy is $8 Million.
If you want to find out more about Tyler Oakley, his early life and career development, you should read carefully this article. We will also tell you how to find this celebrity on social networks and how to watch his popular videos.
Early Years
Tyler Oakley was born in 1989 in Jackson, Michigan. His parents divorced when he was still a baby. Tyler Oakley has 12 brothers and sisters. When Oakley was in the sixth grade, he moved to another city where he was involved in drama and choir. He had a disorder with eating at that time and he could not overcome it until high school.
When Tyler Oakley finished high school, he studied Communication, social media and marketing on Michigan State University. In that period of his life he started using YouTube to communicate with his friends from high school. Soon after that he posted his first video on YouTube and that’s how his career began.
Career Development
Tyler Oakley started making his videos in 2007. His first video was “Raindrops“ and it has around 420 000 views on YouTube. Since that time Tyler Oakley produced more than 400 videos which have more than 535 million views and over 8 million subscribers.
As we have already said, Tyler Oakley is openly gay, so he was the member of the channel “5AwesomeGays“. On that channel Tyler Oakley created the Friday videos for about 3 years. Tyler Oakley’s videos are usually in the humor category, but he also talks about different social issues, as we have already mentioned.
Tyler Oakley has appeared in many TV shows and movies. He is a co-host in the pop-culture news show “Top That“. Tyler Oakley was singing Christmas carols with Jerry Springer and One Direction. He was also seen in American program “Insider tonight“, which is presented by famous American presenters. In 2016 Tyler Oakley had also his own show, called “The Tyler Oakley Show“.
It is important to mention that Tyler Oakley supports the project Trevor which tends to prevent suicide among LGBT youth. He is also working for Ellen DeGeneres’ production company.
Today Tyler Oakley has 2 popular channels on YouTube. His main channel is called “Tyler Oakley“ and it has more than 8 million subscribers. This channel is growing every day and it gets about 2000 new subscribers per day. The other channel of Tyler Oakley is a podcast and it doesn’t have as much subscribers as his main channel.
Not only is Tyler Oakley popular as a vlogger and YouTube personality, but he is also writing books and making films. It is known that in 2015 he released the book “Binge“, which also brought popularity to him. It is actually a humorous collection of essays. In this book Tyler Oakley is talking about his upbringing in Michigan in U.S. and he is also talking about his past relationship.
In 2015 he also played a role in the comedy film “Luna Goes Cruising“. In 2013 he appeared in one episode of the science-fiction comedy series “Smosh“. There is no doubt that Tyler Oakley is one of the highest paid YouTube personalities. Tyler Oakley has millions of followers on social networks, but more about that you will see below.
Tyler Oakley has been a vlogger for around 6 years now, so you may be wondering what does he find as a favorite part of his job. Tyler Oakley says that he loves meeting people. His job has helped him meet a lot of interesting people and some of them became very important in Tyler Oakley’s life. Another thing that Tyler Oakley loves in his job is travelling. He travells a lot and he never gets bored. He enjoys in travelling from one place to another, from one country to another and meeting new people.
If you are wondering who is a YouTuber with whom Tyler Oakley would like to make a video, we will tell you now. It is Miranda Sings, a fictional character that was created on the internet in 2008. This character is actually portrayed by American actress and comedian Colleen Ballinger. Tyler Oakley said that he could watch her all day and enjoy.
Personal Life
As we have already said, Tyler Oakley is openly gay, so there is no possibility of any girlfriend in his love life. When he announced that he is a guy, it must have broken the hearts of millions of girls. Tyler Oakley is very cute and attractive to girls, but unfortunately he is gay.
He has confessed that he has a boyfriend, but his name is not known yet. It was not easy for Tyler Oakley to announce that he is a gay. But, today he is an idol of other gay people. Tyler Oakley is not talking about his love life and current affairs.
Biography
Full name: Mathew Tyler Oakley
Nick name: Tyler Oakley, Ty, Tilly
Date of birth: March 22, 1989
Birth-sign: Aries
Birth place: Jackson, Michigan, U.S.
Residence: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Age: 28
Occupation: YouTube personality, podcast personality, author, humorist, activist
Education: Michigan State University (Communication, marketing and social media)
Awards: Teen Choice Award for Choice Web Star: Male
Teen Choice Award for Choice Web Colaboration
The 2014 Streamy Entertainer of the Year Award
The 2014 Streamy Activist Icon of the Year Award
Personal Life and Family
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: White
Religion: Tyler Oakley is not a very religious person and he talks about that in one of his YouTube videos.
Father name: Unknown
Mother name: Jackie Oakley (Mama Jackie or Queen Jackie)
Brother name: Unknown
Sister name: Unknown
Marital status: Not married
Sexual Orientation: Gay
Boyfriend name: Unknown
Children: Not yet
Hobbies: Travelling
Personal Look and Measurements
Height: 165 cm (5 feet 5 inches)
Weight: 58 kg (128 pounds)
Hair Color: Multi-colored (He is changing his hair color very often. He usually wears bright blond, seafoam or purple hair color.)
Eyecolor: Blue
Chest: 94 cm (37 inches)
Arms/Biceps: 30.5 cm (12 inches)
Waist: 79 cm (31 inches)
Shoe Size: 7 (US)
Distinctive Features: His height is less than the height of the average American men. Tyler Oakley is working out regularly in order to keep himself in shape. He is wearing glasses and they are one of the most important details of his stylish look.
Net Worth and Salary
Net worth: $8 Million
Social networks
Oakley has millions of followers on social networks and that’s how he became so popular. On Twitter he has more than 5 million followers, while on Instagram Oakley has about 6 million followers. Also, it is known that he has hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tyleroakley/?hl=en (@tyleroakley)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thetyleroakley/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tyleroakley?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
(@tyleroakley)
Snapchat: https://www.snapchatcelebrity.net/tyler-oakley-snapchat.html
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/tyleroakley
Official website: @tyleroakley.com (You can visit the official website of Tyler Oakley and you can buy his book from tyleroakleybook.com. )
Interesting Facts about Tyler Oakley
Tyler Oakley is enormously popular on social networks, as we have already mentioned, so he even had the opportunity to meet the ex American president Barack Obama and the ex first lady Michelle Obama. Tyler Oakley was at the White House and it was an amazing experience for him.
Tyler Oakley’s mother also became very popular and Tyler Oakley has a very close relationship with her. She is usually called Mama Jackie or Queen Jackie and she has appeared in many videos of her son Tyler Oakley. Jackie Oakley divorced when Tyler Oakley was still a baby, so Tyler Oakley and his brothers and sisters grew up living with their mom, Queen Jackie.
Quick Summary
As you have seen in this article, Tyler Oakley is an American LGBT activist and YouTube personality. His parents divorced when he was a baby, so he has a very close relationship with his mother, who is also appearing in his videos.
Tyler Oakley started making money from YouTube in 2007 when he posted his first video. Today he has more than 400 videos and 8 million of subscribers. He posts different videos about humor, politics and pop culture. Also, on his channels he is talking about many social problems, healthcare and education. He is known as the LGBT activist, so he is trying to prevent the suicide among LGBT population. Tyler Oakley is earning millions due to his YouTube channels, but he is also selling books and he is appearing in different shows and films.
As we have already said, Tyler Oakley is an openly gay and he has a boyfriend, but his name is still unknown. Most young girls are sad because Tyler Oakley is gay. Even though Tyler Oakley is very short, he is looking good and the girls find him very cute and attractive.
Some people love Tyler Oakley, others not. But, there is no doubt that Tyler Oakley is one of the most popular YouTube personalities and authors nowadays. He has won a great popularity in a few years and he became an idol of many teenagers.
We hope this article has been interesting for you. If you want to find out something more about Tyler Oakley, you can find him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and other social networks.