Best Youtuber: PHILIP MASON vs PJ LIGUORI

Philip E. Mason (born 1972) is a British chemist and YouTuber with the online pseudonym Thunderf00t (also VoiceofThunder). He is best known for criticising religion and pseudoscience, including creationism. He works at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Mason worked at Cornell University's department of food science from 2002 until 2012, where he studied the molecular interactions between water and sugar molecules, as well as molecular modeling with regard to proteins and guanidinium solutions. As of 2013, he was working at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic as a member of a research group headed by Pavel Jungwirth. Mason received a BSc (2:1) (1993) and PhD (1997) in chemistry from the University of Birmingham. From 2003 until at least August 2010, Mason was affiliated with the University of Bristol.

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PJ Liguori (born 11 December 1990) is a British-Italian YouTuber and film producer. He is best known for his YouTube channel KickThePj. Liguori specialises in many different artistic areas including screenplay, directing, songwriting, creating props, acting, producing, editing, sound, art, crafts, writing, and costume. His most notable works include the comedy fantasy web series Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures, 'Colour Bandits' and 'The Forever Train'. Liguori uploaded his first video in early 2007 at age 16. On 7 October 2011, Liguori released an album titled Stories from Somewhere. The album is a collection of short stories told in song. In November 2012, Liguori won a Virgin Media Award for his short film PJ, Tiny Planet Explorer. Liguori has also been awarded for Best Director for his film series Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures in the 2016 Streamy Awards. In October 2016, Ligouri was nominated for the British Online Creator Awards (BONCAs) as the British Creator of the Year. Liguori was also nominated for the BONCAs Series of the Year for his film series Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures but lost to Adrian Bliss. Liguori has appeared in two episodes of Benjamin Cook's twelve part web series Becoming YouTube, and was interviewed on the various topics Cook covered. In 2018, Liguori staged two 'work in progress' live shows in his hometown of Brighton, revealing later that they were test shows for a planned live tour of the UK. In September and early October of that year, Liguori travelled to twelve separate cities with his show 'Space Trip', a live storytelling event based around the fictional planet Kazam and its dangerous inhabitants. The show featured three guest stars: Dean Dobbs, Bertie Gilbert, and Chris Kendall, all of whom have collaborated with Liguori in the past. Liguori directed the 2019 music video for Dodie Clark's single, 'Monster'.

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