Tyler Oakley began making videos in 2007. Since uploading his first video while a freshman at Michigan State University, he has received over 86,000,000 video views and gained over 2,000,000 subscribers along with over 200 videos posted. He 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."

Since March 2013, he co-hosts a weekly pop-culture news update – "Top That!" – with Becca Frucht for PopSugar. He posts regularly on several social networking sites, including: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram.

Oakley supports The Trevor Project, an organization for the prevention of suicide in LGBTQ youth. He has interned with them, hosted a red carpet event and raised over $25,000 in support of their work. He has also interned at Bowery. Other ventures include: working as a resident mentor; teacher's assistant; product marketer/developer at Michigan State University; social media and communication manager at Chictopia; and director of social media at Good Ideas for Good Causes.

Oakley is an active member across all mediums of social media having amassed a twitter following of over 6 million.

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