Best Youtuber: DREW GOODEN vs ED BASSMASTER
DREW GOODEN
Drew Gooden (born October 26, 1993) is an American comedian and filmmaker known for sketch comedy on Vine and later for commentary videos on YouTube. He provides commentary on topics such as bad life hacks, Instagram comedy, and other YouTubers. He also frequently collaborates with, and has been on tour with, fellow YouTube content creators Danny Gonzalez and Kurtis Conner. Gooden began his career on Vine, making six-second comedy sketches. Gooden notably created a popular six-second video in which he sees a sign reading "Road Work Ahead" and jokingly replies, "Uh, yeah, I sure hope it does"; the video had 10 million loops on Vine. Gooden appeared in Camp Unplug, a show on Vine produced by Karyn Spencer and Jeremy Cabalona and written by Vine creators. After Vine was shut down by its parent company, Twitter, Gooden began posting longer videos on YouTube. He has over 2.95 million subscribers as of March 2021.
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ED BASSMASTER
Ed Bassmaster (born February 4, 1973) is the stage name of American YouTuber Edwin Rodriguez. His YouTube channel runs comedy videos where, as various characters, he pranks people or puts people into awkward situations. Bassmaster was also the star of the CMT reality-TV prank series, The Ed Bassmaster Show. In Bassmaster's videos, he is typically acting as one of his many characters: Chip Diamond, Always Teste, Skippy, Randy, Emillio, I-Work guy, Girard Douche, a CIA agent, Swollen Man, Hacker, Tequila, Mumbles, Bluetooth Man, Ugly Face, Bushman, and Zombie Face. Rodriguez was born in the Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He describes his mother as “half Italian, half Russian Jew,” and is also of Puerto Rican descent from his father, who left the family when Rodriguez was a toddler. He left high school in 10th grade.