Kalen does Stuff

Kalen Almeida (born May 14th, 2004 [age 19]), or Kalen does Stuff, is an American YouTuber and former Twitch streamer who posts a combination of sit down commentaries, as well as varying vlogs composed of things he does throughout the day, in a series called Kalen does Real Life.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEe6J5Q54ZTigJzT86_1RQfRLRGPYWncc
He reached the height of his popularity in the summer of 2020, peaking at 21,600+ subscribers in September of that year. His most popular series consists of him drinking water.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEe6J5Q54ZThyir_YgsdU8JaA90Z11-WL
==History==
Kalen began his channel Kalen does Stuff on October 12th 2015, as an inspiration to Jon Drinks Water, a channel dedicated to drinking water. He posted the same content on his channel, along with other videos including eating foods or playing basketball. This would last for 11 days, before moving on to the now deleted channel named Kalencool Animations, consisting of gaming content, prominently Roblox, from 2015-2017. 
He would go on to deleted the channel on May 19th, 2017 to create the then named channel MiniBOI. The mix of meme and commentary type videos from 2017 to early 2020 would find him the most success he had gained thus far, accumulating 400+ subscribers, and having popular meme type videos such as "Interior Alligator" Meme 100 TIMEShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5l46SsjQH0&t amassing over 54,000 views, and Danny Gonzalez but he's insanehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s81bNDL0X_A&t having over 186,000 views.
On April 12th, 2020, he would end the hiatus of the Kalen does Stuff channel, uploading Kalen drinks water #10. Once sharing the post onto Reddit, it would quickly gain traction, being reposted across social mediahttps://ifunny.co/picture/dl-kalen-drinks-water-7-kalen-does-stuff-4-years-fa9ABJMf7, with the timeline between the 9th and 10th installment of the water drinking series being caption by "Return of the King" or "You have returned". This instant attraction would cause Kalen to continue the series, leading over 15,000 subscribers over the 86 videos in the series. The MiniBOI channel gained over 1,000 subscribers itself in this time, and was rebranded to a secondary channel named Kalen did Nothing.
After ending the water drinking series, Kalen started a separate channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXiSeRF0wOE0w4Lhb9aqTlg for dedicated water drinking videos, and would go on to a commentary/comedy style of videos, peaking with over 21,600 subscribers in September 2020, but has not reached that number since.
==Events==
Kalen has most of his fanbase interaction on his Discord server, Watertopia, where server events are common. Videos including server events or taking questions from the server members has been a prominent feature on his channel.
===The Thirst Games===
Based on the obviously borrowed "The Hunger Games"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfmrPu43DF8, participants enter their names into a competition hosted from The Brainsteele.comhttps://brantsteele.com/ "Hunger Games Simulator"http://brantsteele.net/hungergames/reaping.php, and the results of the simulated match are relayed onto the server. This event has been the focus of I played in the Hunger Games with subscribers and its sequel.
===Meme competitions===
In a You Laugh, You Losehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS3dxL0E1kc style, Discord server member post memes and videos in an attempt to win special roles on the server, with include exclusive emojis and channel access. Photoshop contest WINNERS (very close)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPVkUMVzhDw, a video posted to Kalen did Nothing shows a photoshop competition of this sort.
===Merch competitions===
In a similar, but much more high stakes competition, server members were asked to create a design for the Kalen does Shop merchandise storehttps://kalen-does-shop.creator-spring.com/?, with the winner receiving that shirt for free.
==Other video series'==
===The Water Series===
Starting in July 2020 and ongoing, the Kalen Drinks Water series on the self titled channel has over 800 episodes, averaging just under 3 episodes per day. Though not on the channel that started it all, this series has similar popularity.
===Kalen does Real Life===
A variation of normal vlogs, Kalen shows around the audience the entire daily experience before going to whatever big plan is the feature of the video. This series only has one episode, but in a community tab pollhttps://www.youtube.com/post/UgxchSVtfbbohwYslQt4AaABCQ on the Kalen does Stuff channel, it was voted to continue in the future
===Not Your Average Series===
The "Not Your Average" Series, beginning with Not Your Average Q&A Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUZdi3h6Y9s&t=42s is a series dedicated to creating high effort videos for topics that wouldn't normally take such effort.
==References==
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2015
Category:Verified YouTubers