Best Youtuber: MICHAEL BUCKLEY vs MICHAEL REEVES

MICHAEL BUCKLEY

Michael John Buckley (born June 8, 1975) is an American life coach, Internet celebrity, comedian and vlogger. Noted for his vlog What the Buck!?, Buck...

Michael John Buckley (born June 8, 1975) is an American life coach, Internet celebrity, comedian and vlogger. Noted for his vlog What the Buck!?, Buckley comments on popular culture events and celebrities. He also maintained one of YouTube's most popular entertainment channels.[2] Buckley "broke all records" of YouTube ratings when four of his shows ended up on the week's ten top-rated videos.[2] Buckley has appeared in magazines and newspapers such as The New York Times discussing Internet entrepreneurship[3] and The Advocate discussing homophobia on the Internet.[4] On March 18, 2008, he won a 2007 YouTube Awards for best commentary with the video "LonelyGirl15 is Dead!"[5][6][7] What the Buck?! began as a small weekly segment on Table for Two and gave him "a chance to riff and rant on his own."[8] His cousin then posted some on YouTube and "it snowballed."[1][8] Buckley started building a following on MySpace and started his YouTube channel in May 2006, with his main focus centered on celebrities and pop culture, often satirizing and parodying them.[1][2] On September 11, 2008, he quit his low-paying day job as an administrative assistant for Live Nation, a music promotion company and began earning more money as an online entertainer.[3]

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MICHAEL REEVES

Michael Reeves (born November 20, 1997) is an American YouTuber and Twitch streamer best known for his robotics-focused videos.[1] He is a member of O...

Michael Reeves (born November 20, 1997) is an American YouTuber and Twitch streamer best known for his robotics-focused videos.[1] He is a member of OfflineTV, an online social entertainment group of content creators. While Reeves was attending university, he released his first video on YouTube, The Robot That Shines a Laser in Your Eye, in 2017 which went viral.[3][4][5] His subsequent video ideas included a Roomba that screamed upon hitting an object, a taser camera that shocks subjects upon taking a photo, and a Twitter bot that purchases items from the replies that receive the most likes.[6][7][8] Newsweek described Reeves as an "internet edge lord and coding genius."[9] In December 2019, it was announced that Reeves had joined OfflineTV, a collective of Twitch streamers creating content and living together in Los Angeles, California.[10] In his first video with the group, Reeves created an iteration of laser tag titled "taser tag" where players get shocked by a taser after being shot.[11][12] June 2020, Reeves began streaming on Twitch, where he streams both video games and technology work. His debut stream attracted over 30,000 concurrent viewers.[13] With the financial support of OfflineTV, Reeves purchased the canine-inspired robotic platform Spot from Boston Dynamics in late 2020, and has featured it in several videos.[14][15][16]

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