Ryan Higa
Nigahiga is a former #1 most subscribed YouTube channel created by Japanese-American Ryan Higa. Since relocating to Las Vegas to study filmmaking at UNLV,[1] Higa's videos are either solo efforts or videos with other people such as KevJumba.[2] They are known for their YouTube comedy videos, which have been viewed over 800 million times.[3] As of June 2011, Higa's YouTube channel, nigahiga, has over 3.8 million subscribers and is the second most subscribed YouTube channel of all time.
Content
Ryan Higa and Sean Fujiyoshi started posting YouTube videos of themselves lip-synching to songs in mid 2006 while attending Waiakea High School.[4] They quickly expanded beyond songs, with a variety of other comedic pieces. Occasional guest appearances are made by Tim Enos, Ryan Villaruel, Kyle Chun, and Tarynn Nago, collectively known as the "Yabo Crew".[5]
On Christmas Eve of 2008, Higa and Fujiyoshi's two most popular videos, How To Be Gangster and How To Be Emo, were removed due to copyright violations.[6] On January 21, 2009, nigahiga's account was temporarily suspended and he was told to remove more copyrighted videos. Because of this, nigahiga's lip synching videos were all removed (with the exception of You're Beautiful, which was audio swapped[7]), and so were most of his videos that include copyrighted music. As of now, all the music that is being played in nigahiga's videos is music Higa composed himself. How to be Gangster and How to be Emo were put back on nigahiga's channel in late August 2009, only to be removed a few days later, along with How to be Ninja and How to be Nerd. In spring 2010, How to be Ninja, How to be Gangster and How to be Emo were made public once more.[8] He created a second channel recently, where he posts video blogs and behind the scenes movies. His second account is under the name of "HigaTV".
Films
In 2008, Los Angeles producer Richard Van Vleet offered to help them create their first feature-length film. The resulting film, Ryan and Sean's Not So Excellent Adventure, was directed by Richard Van Vleet and released on November 14, 2008.[9][10] It was shown in sold out theaters in Hawaii and California.[citation needed][11] The DVD was released on July 14, 2009 in the USA.[12]
Ryan and Sean's Not So Excellent Adventure is about a down on his luck movie producer, played by Michael Buckley, who is seeking out famous celebrities in order to make a hit movie in 30 days or risk being fired. He chooses Ryan Higa and Sean Fujiyoshi after discovering the popularity of their YouTube videos. He invites them to Hollywood to make a movie. They accept the offer, and run into some amusing situations on the way.[13]
Ninja Melk, a 26 minute short film about ninjas, was released in August 2009. The plot revolves around a ninja master named Master Ching Ching sending his student Lapchung (played by Bryson Murata) to find a replacement, finding Ryan and Sean to catch the evil Bokchoy (played by Tim Enos) and his Hench woman, Gina (played by Tarynn Nago).[14]
A new independent 35 minute film he created with Wong Fu Productions called "Agents of Secret Stuff" was uploaded on Ryan's channel on November 24, 2010. It features some other popular YouTube users as well as actors such as Aki Aleong. "Agents of Secret Stuff" is about a teenage A.S.S. (Agent of Secret Stuff) (Higa) who is sent undercover to a high school to protect one of the students, a girl named Taylor (Arden Cho) from the A.S.S.'s enemy, the S.I.N.S(Society Involving Not-So-Good Stuff). It included guest appearances from Ian and Anthony of Smosh, KassemG and Hiimrawn.
Ryan Higa's and Sean Fujiyoshi's YouTube channel, nigahiga, was created on July 20, 2006. By December 21, 2010, it had reached 3,000,000 subscribers, the first channel to do so.[15] By June 2011, their videos had been viewed over 830 million times.[16]
Music
Ryan has released four comedic singles onto YouTube and iTunes along with Kevjumba, Chester See and David Choi. They are called "Shed a Tear", "I'm Hardcore", "Like a Good Boy" and "Nice Guys". Nice Guys reached the top of the iTunes charts in the comedy category.
Videography
- Advertisement spoofs
- The iPod Human
- The ShamWOOHOO!
- ChildrensBop!
- The Portobello Mushroom Burger
- The Big Bouncing Inflatable Green Ball!
- Hook on Fonik
- I broke my Nexus One!
- The Snuggo
- The iNavigator
- TEEHEE Band
- Dear Ryan
- Defeating a Ninja
- Superhero
- Makeup Guru
- Basketball-Tubing Weather Lamp
- Are you a liar?
- Extreme
- "How to be" series
- How to be Ninja
- How to be Gangster
- How to be Emo
- How to be Nerd (removed)
- How to be UFC Fighter (removed)
- How to be at the Premiere
- How to be a YouTube Celebrity
- Lip-synced songs
- You're Beautiful (audio swapped)
- Circle Circle Dot Dot
- I'm a Gangster (removed)
- Wannabe (removed)
- Fergalicious (terminated)
- Savin' Me (removed)
- My Heart Will Go On (removed)
- Destiny's Angels (shot)
- Milk and Cereal (removed)
- Numa Numa (removed)
- Irreplaceable (removed)
- London Bridges (had hard atack)
- Barbie Girl (removed)
- I Love Them Hoes (removed)
- Promiscuous (M.I.A)
- I Just Want You To Know (Drownt)
- Sukiyaki (private)
- Movies in Minutes series
- Titanic
- The Grudge
- Twilight
- Harry Potter
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine
- Transformers: Revenge of the Household Objects
- Saw 12
- Twilight: New Moon
- Facebook the Movie
- Nigahiga songs
- Yank Dat Cameltoe (Crank Dat)
- Sorry Fans, Blame My ADD (Sorry, Blame it on Me)
- So Damn Stupid! (YAHHH!)
- I Miss You Soulja Boy (Better in Time)
- The Ninja Glare (In the Ayer)
- Tweet Whore
- I'm a Chingstah! (I'm a Gangster)
- Like a Good Boy (Like A G6)
- Shed a Tear (Rocketeer)
- I'm Hardcore featuring David Choi and JR Aquino
- Nice Guys featuring Chester See and KevJumba
- Best Crew
- Ninja Melk Preview
- Ninja Melk Trailer
- Ninja Melk
- Off the Pill
- Off The Pill: Stink People
- Off The Pill: Farts
- Off The Pill: Nosy People
- Off The Pill: 2009
- Off The Pill: BIEBER FEVER
- Off The Pill: Weird People
- Off The Pill: Rebecca Black (Friday)
- Rants
- Ranting about Music (removed)
- Rant on Liars (removed)
- Rant on Comments (removed)
- Rant on Nosy People (removed)
- Rant on Stink People (removed)
- Rant on ADD (removed)
- Violence (removed)
- Rant on Asian Dramas
- Rant on Music (Remade)
- Ryan and Sean's Not So Excellent Adventure
- The Super Secret!
- Ryan and Sean's NSEA
- Skitzo
- Introductions
- The Halloween Story
- The PSA
- Valentine's Day
- Despicable Me
- TV Program Spoofs
- House
- Dude vs. Wild – The Desert
- The Ryan Higa Show
- The Ryan Higa Show: Helga Fawntinilla (private)
- The Ryan Higa Show: Milo Ventimiglia
- Word of the Day
- Agents of Secret Stuff
- NEW NIGAHIGA MOVIE (TEASER)
- Agents of Secret Stuff Trailer (Official)
- Agents of Secret Stuff
- Million Subscribers Celebrations
- 1,000,000 Subscribers
- 2,000,000 Subscribers!
- 3,000,000 Subscribers!
- Fundraisers
- Honk For Japan
- Daily Life of
- Daily Life of Rustin Hieber
- Daily Life of NinjaHinja
- HigaTV
- Australia Trip
- Freedumb
- Nice Guys (BEHIND THE SCENES)
- Tag Your Green!
- Other
- Adjusting the Sails (private)
- The Number 21 (private)
- Beautiful Girls [Ghetto Style] (private)
- Mind Geek (private)
- Munky Tag (private)
- The Stalking Mangina Preview
- Subliminal Messaging (private)
- Hilo Puppets
- Romantic Valentines Day Story
- Vote for REVO
- A Message to All Haters
- Sean Returns!
- YouTube Live – WTH is a VLog
- Thanksgving Campaign (removed)
- Copyrighted
- Nigahiga Tee-Shirts (private)
- Why Chris Brown Beat Rihanna
- Will Ferrell Calling me out? (private)
- I wanna play a game (private)
- braces?! (private)
- Things I Like (private)
- REVO (private)
- sponsored (private)
- 5 Nigahiga facts (private)
- Asians Wrestle (private)
- FedUp
- Royal Wedding Reaction Video
- The Announcement
- Clubs Sicken Me
References
- ^ "from archives > hi1,500". West Hawaii Today. May 25, 2008. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
- ^ AsianWeek. "Just another WordPress site". AsianWeek. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
- ^ "nigahiga's Channel". YouTube. Retrieved June 10, 2011.
- ^ "Hilo teens become a Web video sensation. Higa and Fujiyoshi have made numorous amounts of videos like rants, lip singing, and short films". The Honolulu Advertiser. July 27, 2008. Retrieved August 21, 2009.
- ^ "starbulletin.com | Features | /2008/01/11/". Archives.starbulletin.com. January 11, 2008. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
- ^ Higa, Ryan (February 23, 2009). "Copyrighted". YouTube.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|accessdate=ignored (help) - ^ Higa, Ryan (June 27, 2008). "You're Beautiful". YouTube. Retrieved November 29, 2009.
- ^ a b Higa, Ryan. "Uploads". YouTube. Retrieved November 29, 2009.
- ^ "Ryan and Sean's Not So Excellent Adventure". imbd. Retrieved November 15, 2009.
- ^ "Ryan and Sean's Not So Excellent Adventure". zap2it.com. Retrieved November 15, 2009.
- ^ Associated Press. "YouTube was very good to this pair". Daily Herald. Retrieved September 19, 2010.
- ^ "Ryan and Sean's Not So Excellent Adventure (2008)". Amazon.com. Retrieved November 15, 2009.
- ^ "Ryan and Sean's Not So Excellent Adventure". infoplease.com. Retrieved November 15, 2009.
- ^ Higa, Ryan (August 24, 2009). "Ninja Melk". Video. YouTube. Retrieved November 29, 2009.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ "Hilo teens become a Web video sensation | The Honolulu Advertiser | Hawaii's Newspaper". The Honolulu Advertiser. July 27, 2008. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
- ^ nigahiga. "nigahiga's YouTube channel". Retrieved November 26, 2010.