YouTuber film
A YouTuber film also known as a YouTuber movie, is a feature length theatrical film in were one of the stars or producers is a YouTuber.
After YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in 2005, with Google buying the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, the term YouTuber would become a popular way to characterize people how made videos on the platform. One of the earliest YouTuber film to retrospectively get the label was the unanimously panned 2010 film Fred: The Movie starring Lucas Cruikshank. Other blockbusters include: Not Cool (2014) starring Shane Dawson and Smosh: The Movie (2015) starring the sketch comedy-duo, Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla from Smosh. There was also Independent YouTuber film like Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie (2014).
From 2022 onwards, YouTuber films would become more successful and received more positive reviews from critics. They include Talk to Me (2022) by the RackaRacka channel, Obsession (2025) made by the sketch comedy-duo Curry Barker and Cooper Tomlinson of the channel that's a bad idea, and Backrooms (2026) by Kane Pixels. Other YouTuber films would also get some mixed reception, like Shelby Oaks (2025) by Chris Stuckmann and Markiplier's Iron Lung (2026).
Background
YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005.[1] Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.[2]
The term YouTuber means a content creator and social media influencer who uploads or creates videos on the online video-sharing website or app YouTube, typically posting to their personal YouTube channel.[3] It was first popularized in the 2006 Time Person of the Year issue.[4]
History
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See also
References
- ↑ "YouTube turns 20! The numbers behind the platform". BBC Bitesize. Retrieved 2026-06-07.
- ↑ Monica, Paul R. La. "Google buying YouTube - Oct. 9, 2006". money.cnn.com. Archived from the original on 2021-03-05. Retrieved 2026-06-07.
- ↑ Jerslev, Anne (October 14, 2016). "In the Time of the Microcelebrity: Celebrification and the YouTuber Zoella". International Journal of Communication. 10 (2016): 5233–5251. ISSN 1932-8036. Archived from the original on October 24, 2020. Retrieved June 11, 2018. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Person of the Year 2006". TIME. Archived from the original on June 21, 2024. Retrieved 2023-08-10. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Caldwell, Brayden (2026-03-20). "YouTuber Movies: A New Era Of Filmmaking?". Trill. Retrieved 2026-06-07.
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