Draft:Beluga (YouTuber)
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Comment: Likely to be notable, but current sources are insufficient to establish this. Greenman (talk) 12:31, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: YouTube, Vidpros and SocialBlade are not acceptable or reliable independent sources. Dan arndt (talk) 13:31, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
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| Born | Braden Boyko March 4, 2002 United States | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
| Website | belugacat | ||||||||||||
| YouTube information | |||||||||||||
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| Years active | 2021 – present | ||||||||||||
| Genre | meme videos | ||||||||||||
| Subscribers | 10.1 million[1] | ||||||||||||
| Total views | 2.2 billion[1] | ||||||||||||
| Contents are in | English | ||||||||||||
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Last updated: June 27, 2024 | |||||||||||||
Braden Boyko[2], better known online as Beluga, is an American YouTuber with over 10 million subscribers, well known for his skits revolving around various topics with the use of Discord. His videos mainly feature relatable situations.[3]
Beluga's profile picture is a cat meme from 2018 known as "polite cat", due to its smile. The smile turned out to be photoshopped. The cat's actual name is Ollie and it is a domestic short hair tabby cat. [4]
Career
[edit]2017-2021: Explore Lucid Dreaming
[edit]In January 2017, Beluga created a channel named "Survival Mode" which would remain dormant until 2021.[1] In September 2017, Beluga started a channel named "Explore Lucid Dreaming", a channel which teaches people about Lucid Dreaming. This was his main channel until 2021. He uploaded 77 videos on this channel between 2019 and 2021.[5]
2021-present: Beluga
[edit]Beluga's channel was first created in January 2017, however, Beluga did not upload any videos on the channel until 2021. In February 2021, Beluga posted his first video on his channel Survival Mode. Beluga's early videos were on various topics such as a reaction video of a man being attacked by goose and a commentary video on Dream's cheating scandal. In May of that year, he changed the name of the channel to Beluga and said that he would be posting "some of the best videos on the Internet."[6] On June 12, 2021, Beluga began uploading Discord content, which gained millions of views and the channel gained 740k subscribers in June alone.[7] [8] Beluga later became one of the fastest growing YouTube channels.
Awards and nominations
[edit]In 2021, Beluga came 4th place as Breakout Creator Of 2021 For YouTube.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "About Beluga". YouTube.
- ^ "Revealing My Name". www.youtube.com.
- ^ "GOD OF WAR, WEDNESDAY, AND BELUGA CAT – THE TRENDIEST KIDS' INTERESTS FOR AUTUMN 2022". ITVoice. 20 December 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
- ^ "What Breed of Cat is Beluga". Pangovet.com.
- ^ "Explore Lucid Dreaming - YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- ^ "How The Beluga YouTube Channel Gained 4M Subs In Only 3 Months". Vidpros. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ https://socialblade.com/youtube/c/beluga_1
- ^ "What Kind Of Cat Breed Is Beluga?". www.catster.com.
- ^ "YouTube Names The Top 10 Most Viewed Videos Uploaded In 2021". www.cnet.com.