Tyler Oliveira

Tyler Oliveira (born: January 6, 2000 [age 24])I Investigated the City of Sëggz Offenders… - YouTube is an American YouTuber known for his and challenge, experiment, and investigation videos.
==Content==
Oliveira's YouTube content mainly consists of vlog-type videos featuring challenges, experiments, and more recently, investigations of various places or ideas.
==History==
Oliveira created his channel on January 29, 2018. He uploaded his first video on April 10 of that year. His old videos mainly consisted of prank and vlog videos. His channel did not gain much traction at first.
On August 15, 2018, Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson uploaded a video titled "Attempting The Impossible Maze - $10,000 Challenge". In this video, Donaldson flew over Oliveira, who had become the 7,000,000th subscriber to his channel, and had him compete in one of his challenge videos. Since upload, the video has amassed over 48 million views. This would shout out Oliveira's channel, and it would soon begin to grow.
Oliveira's channel didn't begin to see major growth until early 2019. His videos would begin to become very popular, and as the months went by, his subscriber count increased substantially.
Oliveira reached 1 million subscribers in August 2020. On August 15, 2020, coincidentally exactly 2 years after his first appearance on the channel, MrBeast uploaded "Last To Leave $800,000 Island Keeps It", which Oliveira competed in. The video has amassed over 110 million views.
Starting in 2023, Oliveira began making journalism-type content, traveling across the United States to investigate hot & controversial topics. These videos have garnered millions of views each.
As of 2024, Oliveira continues to create content on YouTuber and has gained a large following.
== Controversy ==
=== Misrepresentation of drug use in Canada ===
In November 2023, Oliveira posted "I Investigated the Country Where Every Drug is Legal...", a video documenting drug use and interviewing drug users in Vancouver, Canada. He explored the city alongside Kevin Dahlgren, a fellow social media creator based in Portland, Oregon. A few days prior, Dahlgren was indicted by the city of Gresham on 19 counts of theft.
Canadian politician Elenore Sturko, who made an appearance in the video at rougly 13 minutes in, described the video as "inaccurate and exploitative," and claimed that she was unaware the interview was being recorded. The video was criticized by harm-reduction advocates as being misleading, as they claimed that Oliveira misrepresented a homeless shelter as a supervised injection site, described as unsanitary in the video. Also in the video, a man could be seen having an overdose while an ambulance was arriving, whom Oliveira filmed. The man, named Michael Manitoba, heavily criticized Oliveira, calling the video "unethical." Vice News described the video as "based on poverty tourism."
=== Soft White Underbelly and the Whittakers ===
In March 2024, Oliveira posted a video titled "I Investigated the Poorest Region of America...", a video that served as an update to The Whittakers, a West Virginian family previously documented by the YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly, headed by Mark Laita. Laita has since made a GoFundMe for the family that raised over $130,000. Oliveira initially tried to contact Laita and the channel to get in touch with the Whittakers, but was denied because of an "exclusive contract". Oliveira would however get in touch with the family, and alleged that Laita and Soft White Underbelly had kept the donation money to themselves rather than giving it to the family based on the condition of the property, with the families matriarch Betty claiming she doesn't know what happened with the money.https://thedirect.com/article/soft-white-underbelly-controversy-mark-laita-the-whittakers-explained Oliveira would make his own GoFundMe shortly after to help fund the Whittakers, donating $10,000 in the process.
Laita soon responded with the video "Whittakers GoFundMe-The Problem With Social Media" on the Soft White Underbelly channel a day later. In it, he criticized Oliveira's content as clickbaity and misleading, and said that the video has spread misinformation about him and his relationship with the Whittakers family. Laita said that the family had repeatedly asked him to lend donation money to the point where he had to give them his own cash after using up all the donation money. Hurt especially by Betty's betrayal within Oliveira's video, Laita had also made the choice to deactivate the GoFundMe page for the family, and that he would no longer make videos covering them.https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/inbred-family-donations-cut-after-32276863 Oliveira soon responded to Laita with another video that was later deleted. 
Viewers would criticize Oliveira's handling of the situation, such has his failure to properly get in touch with Laita and Soft White Underbelly, and the allegations that he levied to them without no real evidence. 
Oliveira would later take down the Whittaker GoFundMe and donate the initial $10,000 to the Coalfield Development Foundation, apologizing to both Laita and his viewerbase.https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx-01Qg8gcTWJ4TP8j5l22G6qoEn08rn4I 
==Trivia==
*He has been featured numerous times in MrBeast videos, making his debut in a challenge video in 2018 after the being the 7,000,000th subscriber to the channel.https://youtu.be/b91vrgVY-ZQ?t=41
*He is of Mexican descent. 
==Channel milestones==
===Subscriber milestones===
*100,000 subscribers: January 10, 2019https://twitter.com/tyleraloevera/status/1083587834211033088
*500,000 subscribers: December 8, 2019
*1 million subscribers: August 3, 2020
*2 million subscribers: October 15, 2021
*3 million subscribers: March 20, 2023
*4 million subscribers: August 19, 2023
===Video view milestones===
*100 million video views: April 17, 2020
*1 billion video views: November 6, 2023
==References==
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Category:Users who joined in 2018
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