James Rallison

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**Robert James Rallison** (born: May 14, 1996), better known online as **TheOdd1sOut** (formerly known as **theodd1sout comic**), is an American YouTuber, animator, cartoonist, author, comedian and voice actor known for his animated stories.

TheOdd1sOut’s videos are very popular—as of February 2023, 243 of his videos have at **least** 10 million views, and 56 of his videos have exceeded 50 million views. His videos are hosted on YouTube.

As a member of the “Animators Squad," he collaborates with other YouTubers, and his significant popularity has directed attention to collaborators. With his main channel amassing over 18.7 million subscribers and 4.3 billion views, he is among the biggest storytime animators on the website, and it has been speculated that he has influenced the work of other animators of the same genre.

## Early Life

Robert James Rallison was born on May 14, 1996 in Chandler, Arizona. In a deleted video, he claims his first name is Robert, but he goes by James. He was named after a deceased war veteran grandfather. He also says that his relative is probably ashamed of him for being nervous to talk to bronies. His mother is Janette Rallison, a notable writer. Rallison has a twin sister named Faith who is four minutes younger. He is one of five children. Faith (already mentioned), Luke, Kate, and Arianna. His childhood hero was Jim Davis, the creator of the Garfield comic strip. He was a member of Boy Scouts and the Cub Scouts.

Rallison attended community college and later transferred to a four-year college with aspirations to become a mathematics teacher. He later dropped out merely a semester and a half into college as his YouTube gained traction.

## Career

### Webcomics

Rallison uploaded the first strip of his webcomic *TheOdd1sOut* on June 14, 2012 on Tumblr and later on iFunny. Throughout his first year of making comics, he played with his style a lot before settling on his current bubble style. He still posts webcomics, though a lot less frequently than he used to due to most of his time being occupied by YouTube.

James was a part of the comic creator group "OfficialOrgy." The group is made up of iFunny and Tumblr comic makers and animators Doggybag, Deezeewy/DizzyComic, Chez, Free Funtime, 8BitLiam, ForceAnimation, Blumod, and CowardlyComics. They take a question prompt (for example, "What shouldn't you say at a job interview?") and each person gives a humorous response. These collaborations were made every few weeks and posted by a different member each time.

### YouTube Career

On August 30, 2014, about two years after he started making webcomic, Rallison started making YouTube videos. He had mentioned that Anthony Padilla from Smosh inspired him to make his YouTube channel. He called it "theodd1sout comic" and uploaded a video about a book he had made in elementary school, titled "A Book I Made as a kid." After a few years of steady growth, in April 2016, his channel gained over 278,000 subscribers, giving him a total of over 400,000 subscribers as of that May.

James usually celebrates subscriber milestones with the number of sprinkles depending on how many subscribers he earned; for example, for his 3 million special, he filled an entire pool with sprinkles.

He also has a second channel called TheOdd2sOut, where he does things in real life such as gaming and very occasionally posts animations.

He does songs sometimes in animated form collaborating with YouTubers such as Boyinaband.

As of 2023, he has a total of 18.7M subscribers on TheOdd1sOut and 2.73M subscribers on TheOdd2sOut.

### Collaborations

Most of his collaborations are with his friends Jaiden Animations, TheAMaazing, and RoomieOfficial, as well as collaborating with smaller creators. Most known is when he collaborated with TimTom On Nov 1st 2016 for TimTom's 3rd Video Skipping School; James was featured as Kyle. The only reason why James Collaborated With TimTom is because James thought TimTom could get him into Vid-Con (Tim had quit Vid-Con as a Job Before Starting Youtube as Tim said "I couldn't even get myself into Vid-Con").

He has been featured on TheFineBros' *Teens React* series. He then released a video of him reacting to teens reacting to him. He has also appeared on the *YouTubers React* series.

His most popular video is 'Life is Fun', which features musician Boyinaband. The song is ironically about "existential dread".

James competed in the 100k YouTuber Battle Royale held by MrBeast and was put on the Green Team with Anthony Padilla and Jaiden Animations, who won the game for the Green team after shooting the last person. He donated the money to Team Trees.

He was invited and made an animation for YouTube Rewind 2017 for the first time, with his animation is in the credits.

He has also fought another YouTuber, Its Alex Clark, as a friend in a chess boxing match.

### Speed Drawings

James has also posted speed drawings of the comics he post on Tumblr, Twitter, Tapastic, Facebook, and iFunny, as well as his website. In these videos, he shows the process of a comic's creation and rambles about the events in his life.

### Books

TheOdd1sOut has created two books, *How to Be Cool and Other Things I Learned from Growing Up,* released in 2018, and *The First Sequel,* released in 2020. Both books were warmly received, having a 4.8-star rating on Amazon.

### Mobile Game

On November 22, 2020, TheOdd1sOut advertised his new official mobile game called "TheOdd1sOut: Let's Bounce". It was published by BroadBandTV Corp and has a 4.4-star rating on Google Play. In this game, the player, as TheOdd1sOut's character, has to jump on every person James has featured in his videos. As the game plays on a trail meeting his family and friends, different characters can be unlocked.

## Personal Life

TheOdd1sOut is friends with Jaiden Animations - both YouTubers (coincidentally) hail from Arizona.

TheOdd1sOut has a dog named Floof and two rats, Daisy and Peach. He also had a dog named Georgie but is deceased, and his parents have two dogs, Poppy and Jumping Jack.

TheOdd1sOut lived in Phoenix, Arizona at one point, but currently resides in California.

On October 10, 2020, TheOdd1sOut announced that he has a girlfriend. The exact date of when they got together is unknown. Very little is known of her as of now, but James simply refers her to "Gif". There were rumors suggesting that JaidenAnimations and him were dating, but James stated in his video "My Girlfriend, My Best Friend, and The Barfy Beach Date", that "it isn't Jaiden and it never was". So therefore Jaiden Animations is not his girlfriend, but just a friend and nothing else.

## Friends

TheOdd1sOut has several friends, many of which he has collaborated or worked with in some capacity. They include:

* SomeThingElseYT
* Jaiden Animations
* Let Me Explain Studios
* TheAMaazing
* Domics
* TonyVToons
* ThePivotsXXD
* It's Alex Clark
* Alan Becker
* GetMadz
* ToonCee
* GingerPale
* Wolfychu
* ToastedNoodle
* Tabbes
* Aidini Tortellini
* FootofaFerret
* Whats inside?
* workitoutWombatsGuy64
* AnthonyPadilla
* Grian
* TimTom
* CaptainSparklez
* Jacksfilms
* Ninja
* MatPat
* Boyinaband
* DJ Welch

## Trivia

* His mother is Janette Rallison, an American writer from Pullman, Washington best known for her light romance novels for young adults. She also writes young adult science fiction and fantasy under the name C. J. Hill and adult romantic novels as Sierra St. James.
* There is a parody channel called 'AnEven2sIn', based on another comic of the same name, which is the exact opposite of his channel.
* In one of James' videos titled "Getting Recognized Part 2," he mentions liking M&M's. In "My Mom's Cruel and Unusual Punishments", he says they're his favorite candy, and he thinks it is because of past trauma. In "Starting Conversations", James states that he hates the question 'What's your favorite candy bar?' as he always answers M&M's and they are not traditionally seen as a candy bar. In "Junk Food", he instead says that since M&M released a candy bar version he can now say that it's his favorite candy bar without being questioned.
	+ When James visited M&M World in the UK, he got a custom M&M with his cannonball character on it.
	+ He also says he likes Twix and Oreos, and his fans don't have to give him M&M's all the time.
* He is a big fan of CaptainSparklez.
* James has guest starred on SMG4's series, Meta Runner.
* He went vegan for a week and later nominated Jaiden Animations to do it (Rather jokingly as she was already vegan).
* In his video "Buying Clothes", he sneak dissed another YouTuber, RiceGum, who responded with a video poking fun at James for hugging CaptainSparklez at VidCon. He also threatened to make a diss track on James in the thumbnail. After its release, James liked the video.
* He is left-handed.
* He is a big fan of the 1982 puppet movie The Dark Crystal.
* Some have speculated that James is a furry after some discovered he owned a partial fursuit. James claims he bought the suit as a joke though.
	+ His fursona is Chip. It is unknown how active he is in the furry community (although he has visited a furry convention twice before: Once in person and once in Minecraft).
* His least favorite show on PBS Kids is Caillou. *It's his least favourite cartoon because of how the 4-year-old acts like a brat in every episode and throws a tantrum, and his parents don't punish him. Another reason why he doesn't like the show is because of the animation style.*
* His favorite shows on PBS Kids are Cyberchase, *Clifford the Big Red Dog*, *Dragon Tales*, and *Arthur*.
	+ He also watched a lot of *Yu-Gi-Oh* and *Sailor Moon* as a kid.
	+ James said that he never watched *The Powerpuff Girls* as he thought it was too girly, and later thought that was funny as he watched Sailor Moon.
* His favorite *DreamWorks* spin-off film is *Penguins of Madagascar*.
* His favorite color is magenta.
* He has confirmed that he currently has a girlfriend, who prefers to keep her name private. She has been given the nickname 'Gif'.( as refered before)
	+ His name is James
	+ His girlfriend has a dog nicknamed 'Floof 2'. Floof 2 has motion sickness and is dark brown as seen in his video *My Girlfriend, My Best Friend and the Barfy Beach Date.*
* Pokimane and him share the same birthdate: May 14, 1996.
* TheOdd1sOut was nominated for the 2020 Streamy Awards in the Animated category. The Streamy Awards took place on December 13, 2020.
* He always thought that mobile games, "targeted kids into making them click apps that has to be payed for", even though in the following year, he creates a mobile game, *TheOdd1sOut: Let's Bounce*.
* He has owned several hamsters and cats before, and has owned 2 dogs, Georgie (deceased) and Floof.
* He launched two tabletop games on *Kickstarter* (both successful), called *Can't Catch Harry* and *Cafe Chaos*.
* In his video, "Our Cats :3," James says that he is "bisexual for animals," meaning he likes both cats and dogs, but then questioned the way he said that, as if he were saying he was a furry.

## Milestones

### Video View Milestones

* 100 million views: August 4, 2016
* 200 million views: November 23, 2016
* 500 million views: August 12, 2017
* 1 billion views: April 18, 2018
* 2 billion views: April 20, 2019

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1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUHwQsMQm6Y&t=331s
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo8bcnLyZH8tBIH9V1mLgqQ
3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150810042239/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo8bcnLyZH8tBIH9V1mLgqQ
4. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Odd-1s-Out-Definitely-Learned-ebook/dp/B0776HLP7V#customerReviews
5. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Odd-1s-Out-First-Sequel/dp/0593087631#customerReviews
6. ↑ https://janetterallison.com/blog/answering-three-questions-about-becoming-a-writer/#comment-246948
7. ↑ https://youtu.be/XOIZZEdfrfA?t=231