Tyler Oakley

Mathew Tyler Oakley (born March 22, 1989) is an American YouTuber, actor, activist, author, television personality and Twitch streamer. Much of Oakley's activism has been dedicated to LGBTQ youth, LGBTQ rights, as well as social issues including health care, education, and the prevention of suicide among LGBTQ youth. Oakley regularly posts material on various topics, including pop culture and humor. Since uploading his first video in 2007 while a freshman at Michigan State University, his YouTube channel has garnered over 683 million views, and, at its peak, had over 8 million subscribers. 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". From March to October 2013, Oakley co-hosted a weekly pop-culture news update—"Top That!"—with Becca Frucht for PopSugar. In 2015, he released his first collection of humorous personal essays under the title Binge, via publisher Simon & Schuster. In 2017, he was named in Forbes "30 Under 30".