Best Youtuber: TIM BURTON vs TIMOTHY ROWETT

TIM BURTON

Tim Burton (born 17 September 1987), known professionally as Shmee150 or Shmee, is a British car vlogger and YouTuber, who is based in London. His You...

Tim Burton (born 17 September 1987), known professionally as Shmee150 or Shmee, is a British car vlogger and YouTuber, who is based in London. His YouTube channel has two million subscribers and features videos of him traveling to see exotic cars and maintaining and using his own car collection. Burton was born on 17 September 1987. He left school after he passed his A Levels around 2005. Before becoming a car vlogger, he owned an electronics web store, which he sold to become a ski instructor in New Zealand. When he returned to the UK after a fall, he initially started to study, but stopped a few weeks later. Subsequently, he got a job as part of the technology team at an investment consultancy firm in the City of London. He started posting pictures of special cars he spotted on his Facebook page and on online forums beginning in 2008 as a hobby. Burton uploaded his first video on YouTube on his Shmee150 channel in January 2010. It featured two supercars at a Top Gear event. He did not appear in the camera frame in his first videos, instead capturing special cars. His online following started out small, but began to grow over the next years, causing him to leave his other job a few years after his first video. In 2016, a book written by Burton called Living the Supercar Dream was published by Blink Publishing about his trips and experiences. He also started to accumulate a car collection. His first car had been a Renault Clio, and his first sports car was an Aston Martin Vantage. His former cars include three McLarens, another Aston Martin, a Ferrari FF, a Porsche 911 GT3, a classic Mini, and a Morgan 3-Wheeler. Currently, he owns about ten cars, amongst them a Ford GT, a McLaren Senna, an Aston Martin Vantage GT8, a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series, a Mercedes-AMG GT R Pro, a Porsche Taycan Turbo S, a Shelby GT500, a Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 and a McLaren 675LT Spider. Burton has over two million subscribers on his YouTube channel, with an audience that is around 95% male and largely between 25 and 45. Most of his income is earned through advertisements during his videos and on his social media, but Burton also generates revenue through merchandise, sponsorships, and consultancy for car brands. He uploads several videos per week and vlogs about using and maintaining his car collection and about his road trips and travels. During his trips Burton visits press launches, special and rare cars, and other car collections.

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TIMOTHY ROWETT

Timothy Quiller Rowett (born 12 July 1942) is a British YouTube personality and renowned toy collector, known for presenting videos about toys, optica...

Timothy Quiller Rowett (born 12 July 1942) is a British YouTube personality and renowned toy collector, known for presenting videos about toys, optical illusions, novelties and puzzles on the YouTube channel Grand Illusions. Rowett, known affectionately as "Tim the Toyman", is a former children’s entertainer, and claims to have collected upwards of 20,000 to 25,000 toys over a 50-year period, many of which are featured in his videos. In 2014, the Daily Mirror described Rowett as a "huge viral hit" and a "web sensation", while in the following year The Daily Telegraph published a piece naming him as one of "the best YouTubers over 50". Rowett worked as an entertainer at children’s parties from his late 20s until retiring in 2007 when he was 65. In a short BBC documentary, Rowett said that he considered the toys in his suitcases "dead" because they were no longer used, and that he took "great delight" in being able to bring them out and show them to people through his YouTube videos. In the past he has also donated some of his old toys to children’s hospitals. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

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