Kurtis Conner
Kurtis Matthew Kenneth Conner (born May 4, 1994) is a Canadian stand-up comedian, YouTuber, and former Viner. Early comedy career and Vine. Kurtis Matthew Kenneth Conner was born at North York General Hospital on May 4, 1994. Conner began his stand-up comedy career in 2013, and later attended the program at Humber College, Toronto. After that, he moved onto Vine, where he gained about 350,000 followers before the app folded in 2017. Conner did several stand-up shows, performing all over Canada. He independently released his debut comedy album "Cuppla Jokes" in 2016, and it reached  No. 1 on the iTunes comedy charts and #6 on Billboard comedy. Conner joined Danny Gonzalez and Drew Gooden during their live comedy shows, the "We Are Two Different People" tour, in 2019. YouTube. The first video on Conner's main channel was uploaded in 2014. The channel began to gain momentum in 2017, when one of his videos gained 600,000 views in two days. Other creators and friends of Conner's in this group are Danny Gonzalez and Drew Gooden, also formerly of Vine fame. Content. He is also known for his critique of problematic content on the YouTube  platform, and for making fun of others who wish to stigmatise different groups of people. In 2019, Conner and his friend and fellow comedian Jacob Sharpe criticised TikTok star Sebastian Bails and his girlfriend, Lauren Godwin, for making light of domestic abuse on their YouTube channel. Conner and Sharpe were both disturbed by the content, frequently commenting in the video that they found it difficult to make light of such a serious subject. Conner later said he would raise funds of $10,000 to the domestic abuse charity loveisrespect, and match it with his own donation (over $16,000 was  raised, meaning that Conner made a donation of $26,000 overall). Conner also criticised a "female Viagra" trend on YouTube, which involved YouTubers administering a claimed aphrodisiac for women by spiking their girlfriend's drink without their consent. Conner's video was later removed from YouTube as it showed the controversial behaviour; at the time, a number of other "female Viagra" videos were still on the platform. He also does more lighthearted videos, and says that his favourite content is film criticism. He has also made content about the TikTok Hype House, manipulative tactics used by Justin Bieber's team  to promote his song "Yummy", the 22 Convention (a "convention for women" run by anti-feminist men's rights activists), and dating coach/pick-up artist Russell Hartley (whom Conner dubbed "misogynist of the year" for the offensive and manipulative advice given in his videos). During the COVID-19 pandemic, Conner posted a video detailing how to become famous on the internet. In April 2021, Conner and Gonzalez co-sang a song titled "In Love With A Creeper", which features the two men competing for the affections of and eventually having a threesome with a Creeper from the video game "Minecraft