Liam Thompson (YouTuber)

Liam Michael Thompson (born 25 April 2000) is a YouTube personality from Auckland, New Zealand. As of December 2021, he has 1,930,000 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.[4] He also often includes his 20-year-old cat named Frodo (died February 26 2022).[5]

Liam Thompson
Personal information
BornLiam Michael Thompson
(2000-04-25) 25 April 2000
Auckland, New Zealand
NationalityNew Zealander
EducationMount Albert Grammar School
OccupationYouTuber
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
YouTube information
Channel
LocationAuckland, New Zealand
Years active2016–present
GenreEntertainment
Subscribers1,930,000[1][2]
(December 2021)
Total views260,000,000[3][2]
(December 2021)
100,000 subscribers October 2019[3]
1,000,000 subscribers August 2020[3]

Early life

Liam Thompson was born in Auckland, New Zealand as the second of four siblings.[6] He attended Balmoral School and Mount Albert Grammar School,[7][8] where he was a Prefect[9] and involved in orienteering, competing successfully at many regional and national championships.[10][11] In 2018, he was the inaugural recipient of the Service to MAGS Sport award.[12] After graduating in 2018, Thompson began studying engineering. He soon dropped out to pursue YouTube while enrolling in Police college, moving furniture and considering film school.[7][6]

Thompson started a blog called Velterro in 2019, focusing on tips for self improvement, productivity, money and health.[13] As of 2021, the blog is inactive.

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,[14] which has over 22,3 million views as of February 2022.[7][4] 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] Thompson subsequently decided to pursue YouTube full time.[6]

On 20th July 2020, his YouTube channel reached 1 million subscribers. He celebrated the next day with a video, in which he bought Max 1 million dog biscuits, most of which he donated.[15]

Thompson is among the top 10 YouTubers in New Zealand, with the 8th most subscribers in September 2020.[16]

In April of 2022, Liam moved to a new house [17]

References
  1. "Liam Thompson's Real-Time Subscriber Count – Social Blade YouTube Stats | YouTube Statistics". socialblade.com. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  2. "About Liam Thompson". YouTube.
  3. "Liam Thompson's YouTube Stats (Summary Profile) – Social Blade Stats". socialblade.com. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  4. "Auckland labradoodle becomes YouTube sensation with his Minecraft talent". Newshub. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  5. Thompson, Liam. "I Built an Elevator for My Cat". Youtube. Youtube. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  6. "Meet the Kiwi YouTubing teen who just bought a Tesla". Stuff. 19 March 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  7. "Kiwi Minecraft playing dog video goes viral". NZ Herald. 21 November 2019. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  8. "MAGS Scholar Lion Awards" (PDF). Mount Albert Grammar School. 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. Creative, Jade (2 November 2017). "Prefects of 2018". Mount Albert Grammar School. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  10. Hepburn, Graham (8 May 2018). "Orienteers discover top form". Mount Albert Grammar School. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  11. Hepburn, Graham (19 August 2018). "Duathlon Silver at Nationals". Mount Albert Grammar School. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  12. Hepburn, Graham (31 October 2018). "Sports Prizegiving Dinner 2018". Mount Albert Grammar School. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  13. "About | Velterro". Liam Thompson. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  14. "YouTuber teaches his dog how to play Minecraft". Dexerto.com. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  15. "Guy Surprises His Dog With 1 Million Pieces Of Food". www.unilad.co.uk. Retrieved 9 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. NZ, Voyager. "The Top New Zealand YouTubers". Voyager Internet. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  17. Thompson, Liam. "Why I haven't been uploading much". Liam Thompson.


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