Liam Thompson (YouTuber)
Liam Michael Thompson (born 25 April 2000) is a YouTube personality from Auckland, New Zealand. As of December 2020, he has 1,530,000 subscribers.[1] Thompson's channel consists of a mix of different videos with no common theme; however, his most successful videos tend to include his pet labradoodle, Max.[3] He also has an 18 year-old cat called Frodo.
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Born | Liam Michael Thompson 25 April 2000 Auckland, New Zealand | |||||||||
Nationality | New Zealander | |||||||||
Education | Mount Albert Grammar School | |||||||||
Occupation | YouTuber | |||||||||
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Years active | 2016-present | |||||||||
Genre | Entertainment | |||||||||
Subscribers | 1,600,000[1] (December 2020) | |||||||||
Total views | 159,719,899[2] (December 2020) | |||||||||
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Early life
Thompson attended Balmoral School and Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland, New Zealand.[4][5] After graduating in 2018, Thompson began studying engineering. He soon dropped out to pursue YouTube full for his job.[4][6]
YouTube career
Thompson has been actively posting on YouTube since mid 2019. His channel gained a large amount of traction in September 2019 after posting the video I Taught My Dog To Play Minecraft,[7] which has over 18 million views as of November 2020.[4][3] In an interview with New Zealand media outlet Stuff, he stated that "It took me four months to get 80 [subscribers] and, a week later, I had 150,000".[6]
On 20 July 2020, his YouTube channel reached 1 million subscribers. He celebrated with a video the next day where he bought Max 1 million dog biscuits.[8]
References
- "Liam Thompson's Real-Time Subscriber Count - Social Blade YouTube Stats | YouTube Statistics". socialblade.com. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
- "Liam Thompson's YouTube Stats (Summary Profile) - Social Blade Stats". socialblade.com. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- "Auckland labradoodle becomes YouTube sensation with his Minecraft talent". Newshub. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
- "Kiwi Minecraft playing dog video goes viral". NZ Herald. 21 November 2019. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
- "MAGS Scholar Lion Awards" (PDF). Mount Albert Grammar School. 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
- "Meet the Kiwi YouTubing teen who just bought a Tesla". Stuff. 19 March 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
- "YouTuber teaches his dog how to play Minecraft". Dexerto.com. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
- that video he claims"I probably couldn't have done it without Max" "Guy Surprises His Dog With 1 Million Pieces Of Food" Check
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