Sambucha

Sam Bereshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/samberes (born: ), better known online as Sambucha, is an American YouTuber best known for his YouTube shorts. Some of the videos uploaded to his channel are combinations of his shorts played one after another and challenges he talks about having attempted to succeed in one of his shorts.
==Personal life==
Sam was born on June 14, 1996, in a small town in New Jersey, United States,https://wikiabio.com/sambucha/?utm_content=cmp-true and raised alongside three sisters. He enjoyed his middle and high school years as he excelled in his studies and made many memories there. He has lived in New York City for 6 years, where he studied finance and management in college. 
Sam has traveled to places like VidCon, Japan, Italy, Morocco, and the Czech Republic, which he has posted photos of in his community tab. After having left his job in New York, he has moved back to New Jersey. He owns a cocker spaniel named Bruno. He is also a devout Christian and holds faith in the Catholic denomination.
==Content ==
Sam has received recognition mainly from the short videos that he uploads. These shorts are essentially videos of him reacting to certain things, which tend to last under a minute. He then moved on to uploading videos completing Scattergories runs (consisting of every letter of the alphabet), if something is underrated or overrated, his favorite foods, patterns studied in human behavior, stats about other countries, among a plethora of similar topics. 
Sam's YouTube videos are long-form. In his lengthier videos, he uploads a wide variety of content, such as gaming (specifically GeoGuessr), reactions, challenges, Wikipedia speedruns, as well as miscellaneous videos.
On May 3, 2021, Sam created a second channel named Sam2cha, where he has uploaded said long-form videos. He has since stopped uploading on his second channel and has maintained a steady upload schedule regarding both short and long-form content on his main. He spoke at a Vidsummit conference at some point during 2022.https://twitter.com/sambucha/status/1576286208484773889
Sam's comment section has become notorious and infamous among his viewers and community alike for containing copypastas. These comments can mainly be found in his shorts where his viewers poke fun at him for questionable things he says in his videos in the form of saying "Sam is the type of guy to [aspect mentioned in the video]". There are also a few of these comments that replace "Sam" with "Luigi", possibly due to a moustache he grew and had in previous videos. He has lampshaded his annoyance for this in one of his videos.
==History==
Sam created his YouTube channel on January 1, 2020, and uploaded his first video, titled "Wikipedia Speedrun", on January 22, 2021. He reached 1 million subscribers in 2021. 
Sam used to be a Twitch streamer and a TikTok content creator before he started YouTube, and worked at a bank before his social media career. He states that having the opportunity to meet many people of all different cultures while going to college in New York is what incentivized him to study geography in passing, which in part is what led him to become as accomplished as he currently is in GeoGuessr.
==Quotes==
*"Pretty cool, right?" (Sam's famous line at the end of an educational or entertaining short)
*"Pretty bad, right?"
*"Have fun."
*"Enjoy."
*"So stay safe out there."
*"So good luck."
*"Corn is an abomination of a vegetable."
*"Bert and Ernie. They're gay, right?"
*"Red by far. All the other ones aren't even worth eating." (Regarding starburst flavors in "Which flavor is the best?")
*"I'd be speaking Spanish if that was Dora."
*"I like Dick's." (in "Which Store Is Your Favorite?")
*"I would never cheat on Aunt Jemima."
*"Also, humans are kinda hit-or-miss, like what if you're saving Baby Hitler?"
*"If you're fat, you're fat."
*"Especially lefties, but who cares about them?"
*"...No comment." (when asked about furries)
*"But that's okay, because Chinese food is pretty mid, anyways." 
*"Hillary. 2016 ruined that name." (in "The Most Unattractive Girl Names")
*"I'll try not to be racist [immediately after] that's the whitest guy I've ever seen."
*"Just kidding. Not really." (after saying something particularly crude or jarring)
*"I don't obey anything...other than God."
*"I've included the conception dates of when your parents... you know."
==Channel milestones==
===Subscriber milestones===
*100 subscribers: December 2020
*1,000 subscribers: March 2021
*10,000 subscribers: June 20, 2021
*100,000 subscribers: July 5, 2021
*1 million subscribers: November 4, 2021
*2 million subscribers: March 26, 2022
*3 million subscribers: August 21, 2022
*4 million subscribers: January 4, 2023
*5 million subscribers: May 19, 2023
*6 million subscribers: October 2, 2023
*7 million subscribers: March 13, 2024
=== Video view milestones=== 
*1 million video views: May 2021
*10 million video views: June 22, 2021
*100 million video views: July 16, 2021
*500 million video views: September 28, 2021
*1 billion video views: December 23, 2021
*2 billion video views: May 1, 2022
*3 billion video views: August 17, 2022
*4 billion video views: November 20, 2022
*5 billion video views: February 17, 2023
*6 billion video views: April 29, 2023
*7 billion video views: July 17, 2023
*8 billion video views: October 9, 2023
*9 billion video views: December 10, 2023
*10 billion video views: March 7, 2024
==Trivia==
*Sam randomly received a confirmation email for the creation of an OnlyFans account.https://twitter.com/sambucha/status/1519053554685775876?cxt=HHwWiMC4nZzK4ZQqAAAA
*He has visited this wiki page in his video "I Used Your Search History To Make This Video".
*While attending New York University, Sam had run-ins with several well-known celebrities. His most notable experience was meeting the Sprouse Twins at a bar near his campus. He has also remarked on seeing actress Camila Mendes at some point, who had been to the same school in tandem and had even starred alongside Cole Sprouse in the 2017 CW teen drama Riverdale.
*Sam has gotten sponsored by Holzkern, a watch brand, and occasionally features their products and deals in his videos.
*Sam is permanently banned from the popular online children's game Club Penguin.
*He goes to the gym.
*He once made Kool-Aid in middle school.
*His celebrity crush is Dua Lipa, whom he has used images of as examples in a couple of his shorts.
*He had a peanut allergy throughout his younger years, but eventually grew out of it.
*He is seemingly apolitical, as shown through his general distaste for politics and a selection of politicians.
*He has thanatophobia, or a fear of dying.
*He loves gelato.
*He seems to have an affinity for spicier foods, as he did the One Chip challenge as well as the Death Nut Challenge during his time as a streamer.
*His favorite candy bar is of the Toblerone brand.
*He has a lot of favorite colors, notably purple and green.
*His favorite Attack on Titan character is Eren Yeager.
*His favorite JoJo's Bizarre Adventure character is Joseph Joestar.
*He doesn't usually drink, but when he does he prefers wine.
*He played football in high school, and baseball for much of his life.
*He briefly played the piano while in college.
*He once trained with Chris Hemsworth's stunt double.
*He once ran the New York City Marathon.
*He once tried to go vegan for a week, but stopped within the first few days due to fatigue.
*There was once a hedgehog in his house.
*He once defecated in his pants at his own birthday party and had to be hosed down in his yard when he was younger.
*He never watched Star Wars.
*He has multiple running gags in both his shorts and his long-form content, such as:
**Suggestive, double-meaning, or bait-and-switch offensive jokes, often accompanied by mood whiplash.
**His somewhat reformed dislike for the television sitcom Friends.
**His comical dislike for left-handed individuals.
**His fondness for a selection of fictional characters, particularly Elastigirl from The Incredibles.
**His inexplicable hatred for Caillou.
**His inherent need to keep up his status as a gaming channel, as listed by YouTube's classification system.
**His tendency to abruptly end his commentary videos once the subject gets controversial to avoid backlash.
**His tendency to "flash" his viewers by inadvertently showing his chest in his videos.
**His response to accusations falsely claiming his GeoGuessr content is staged, with him setting up a response only to immediately conclude the video with the song Flyday Chinatown by Yasuha - the same featured in said GeoGuessr content whenever he recognizes a location, be it from an anime to a television show to a movie to real life. The song has since become the most recognizable out of all his choices for background music present in his GeoGuessr videos.
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