Anthony Po

Anthony Potero (born: ), also known as anthpo, is an American YouTuber known for his comedy and vlog videos.
He went viral with a video called "Harassing people with fat yoshi" and achieved additional fame with "Defending my high school as Ben 10" and "Disturbing Students as Perry the Platypus".
Once entering college, his content began to change. He gained additional attention for collaborations with 'The House Nobody Asked For' during 2020 and early 2021, and his current group of friends until graduating. He uploaded his final video before going on a hiatus on May 14, 2023."GOODBYE" As of May 14, 2024, he has since returned to YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7drTLdPmbo
==Personal life==
Potero was born on July 30, 2001 in Woolwich Township, New Jersey. He ran track at Kingsway High School and graduated in 2019. He was a student at Rutgers University where he studied marketing. He graduated in May of 2023.
He owns two cats, Boots and Fuzz, both of them which he revealed in his video "we adopted kittens and it's epic".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AaA6cVWVf8
==Content==
The first video featured on his channel was from December of 2018 and titled "USB mouse making my car fly". He soon began posting videos within his high school, which involved interactions with fellow students. Anthony would do such things as hand out pictures of fat Yoshi, dress up as Perry the Platypus, and give out free cookies at lunch. Once entering college, he continued doing the same shenanigans, up until the pandemic hit. Anthony began branching out with his content, particularly using greenscreens. With this, he made parodies of various TV shows, like , , and . Some of those were collaborations with members of 'The House Nobody Asked For' (aka THNAF), which was a TikTok group started by fellow creator Wahony. Most frequent would be 8illy, who Anthony still occasionally collaborates with. The group lived together from July 2020 until December 2020, still living close by until spring 2021. 
Once moving back to Jersey for on campus classes, his videos would slightly change in style. He currently does vlog videos under the name "The College Experience™"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcVy-Y2oUe0MnEGhrPFNxcSfek6TglQ1J where he gets himself into shenanigans with his friends. Most noteworthy is Henry, who was featured in many early college videos. Other present faces are Hanbon, Kieran, Collin, Paige, Enzo, Janice, Abhi, and so many more. He plans to do this until he graduates from college. He recently released 'friends' merch containing pictures of him and his friends in celebration of this new change in focus as well as just his friends in general. 
===New Era===
On May 14th 2024, Anthony decided to return to the world of YouTube after he get bombarded by a lot of DMs from other social media like Twitter, Instagram,... and don' t know what to do after graduation. He managed to hire a team of 9 people due to the fact that all of his friends went on their own direction to pursue their future. 
On May 16th 2024, he changed his banner as a countdown for how much videos he has made or he will choke an old lady.
==Collaborations==
His first collaboration on YouTube was with Caroline Konstnar.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9poU5DQ8BrM&ab_channel=notanthpo
He allegedly got PewDiePie to join his birthday livestream on 2020. Though actually, it was 8illy in a full-body greenscreen suit with pictures of PewDiePie on it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwd6ALKe1P8
The same thing happened when he uploaded a video with him playing Among Us with famous YouTubers and streamers (PewDiePie, penguinz0, Pokimane, Dream, Logic, Corpse Husband, James Charles, DanTDM, Valkyrae, Sykkuno).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDu8nfSqRwA When in reality, it's just his friends portraying as these YouTubers. He has, however, actually played with other YouTubers on videos not uploaded by him (such as on one of Alpharad's many Among Us videos).
== Controversy ==
=== Furry Convention ===
In May 15th 2024, as part of his comeback to YouTube, Anthony uploaded a video titled "I spend 200 days undercover as a Furry", talking about his experience in a Furry Convention, while also trying to attend private Furry parties with sexual connotations through business cards and joining Telegram groups. The original version of the video featured an Animal Crossing recreation of his experience at a party in which its members put themselves together naked side by side in a bed. This was followed by a scene in which Anthony participated in a "cuddling party", in which people in underwear hugged eachother. This last portion filming style resembled such of hidden camera videos, with certain body parts and faces being blurred and voices distorted. 
After reaciving some criticism on X from members from the Furry community, specially regarding the consent of the people featured in the cuddling party and the possibility of the video reinforcing sterotypes from the comunity https://twitter.com/BarleyTheBurr/status/1790933617318789432?t=XUM_CCYt60xj35pHZPSvzQ&s=19, and the video being age restricted, Anthony released an apology on X explaning that consent was giving for the filming of the party, while deleting those scenes from the video and putting up a fundraiser for The Trevor Projecthttps://twitter.com/anthpo/status/1792605721621577855?t=upUHiJbeiwXtyFuPsVETtA&s=19 . 
==Trivia==
*He dislikes coleslaw and Goldfish crackers.
*He got a Garfield tattoo when he got 1 million subscribers.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLiK4GrzyfE
*He shaved his hair for his role in his "every episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender" series.
*Anthony won a Korean beauty pageant in early 2022, even though he is clearly white. Or, as he said in his attempt two years before, he's Caucasian, without the Asian, so he's just 'Cauc'.https://youtu.be/Wm4IULujYTM?t=22
==Channel milestones==
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==Gallery==
AnthpoTuxedo.jpg|Anthony wearing a tuxedo
AnthpoFrog.jpg|Anthony wearing a frog hat
AnthpoDaBaby.jpg|Anthony parodying the cover of DaBaby's album Baby on Baby (2019)
Anthpo with guitar and dress.jpeg|Anthpo playing the guitar whilst wearing a dress
Anthpo and Janice.jpeg|Anthpo and Janice
Anthpo and Hanbon.jpeg|Anthpo and Hanbon
Anthpo Dancing.jpeg|Anthpo dancing
Anthpo 8illy wahoney.jpeg|Anthpo as Aang
Anthpo, Hanbon and Henry.jpeg|Anthpo, Henry and Hanbon celebrating her birthday
File:Anthpo new banner.png|His video countdown
File:Anthpo announcing returning on his yt community.png
==References==
Category:Comedy YouTubers
Category:Vlogging YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2016
Category:One million subscribers