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tyler oakley

tyler oakley -lrb- born march 22 , 1989 -rrb- is an american youtube , television , and podcast personality , humorist , author and advocate .
much of oakley 's activism has been dedicated to lgbt youth , lgbt rights , as well as social issues including healthcare , education , and the prevention of suicide among lgbt youth .
oakley presents on various topics including queer politics , pop culture , and humor on a regular basis .
oakley began making videos in 2007 ; his first video `` raindrops '' has received over 300,000 views on youtube .
since uploading his first video in 2007 while a freshman at michigan state university , his work of over 370 videos has close to 500,000,000 views and over 7,000,000 subscribers .
oakley , who is openly gay , is a former member of the successful collaboration channel `` 5awesomegays , '' where he produced the friday video for over three years .
currently , he is described as having `` one of the loudest voices on youtube , '' and bloomberg defines him as a `` youtube sensation . ''
he was featured in the 2014 `` frontline '' investigative report , `` generation like , '' a follow-up on how teenagers are `` directly interacting with pop culture '' to the 2001 report , `` the merchants of cool . ''
socialblade , a website that rates youtube and instagram accounts , ranks oakley 's youtube channel , , with a grade `` b + '' , subscriber rank of 109 , video view rank at 1,129 th , and a socialblade rating of 1,329 th .
oakley also has more than 2.7 million followers on twitter and 2.1 million on instagram .
as of march 2013 , oakley co-hosted a weekly pop-culture news update -- `` top that ! ''
-- with becca frucht for popsugar until october 31 when he announced his departure .
from 2013 -- 14 , he performed the voice of mr. mcneely in five episodes of the comedy web series `` the most popular girls in school '' .
oakley posts regularly on several social networking sites including facebook , and tumblr , where he has hundreds of thousands of followers on each platform .
