Birth Name : Charles Joseph McDonnell
Born : October 1, 1990 bath, Somerset, England
Host Service : YouTube, BlogTV, and Twitter
Genre : Comedy, Vlogging
Charles Joseph "Charlie" McDonnell (born 1 October 1990, also known as charlieissocoollike) is an English teenager and YouTube vlogger from Bath, Somerset, and as of 25 April 2009, Charlie has over 136,000 subscribers and approximately 3,932,000 channel views on the site. He is currently the third most subscribed YouTuber in the United Kingdom.[2]
He first came to prominence when a video entitled "How To Get Featured on Youtube" was indeed featured on YouTube's homepage. Prior to this he had fewer than 150 subscribers, but this number increased dramatically, skyrocketing to over 4,000 in a matter of days. In celebration of gaining 25,000 subscribers, Charlie has asked for challenge suggestions from his subscribers, and he completes them in a series of 25 videos entitled "Challenge Charlie", or CC. So far he has completed six. He also used to Video blog every week on another YouTube account along with four other YouTube personalities. The name given to this collaboration by McDonnell is "fiveawesomeguys", a spin-off of the American "fiveawesomegirls" collaboration. In a vlog posted on 28 October 2008, he announced that the project was set to end on New Year's Eve 2008. The project is now officially over, although a few members mentioned they may still post on the channel. Charlie has since posted a large range of videos on the site, including his most viewed, "How to be English,"
On 6 August 2008, Charlie showcased his musical talent with a song titled "Blink", based on the Doctor Who episode of the same name. This song was in the musical genre "Time Lord Rock" (or Trock, shortened by the same convention as the Harry Potter fandom's Wrock), which was named by Charlie's friend Alex Day. Alex wrote the first song, "Awful Lot Of Running", to be classified as Trock, and "Blink" was the second. They have also have a song titled "Exterminate, Regenerate". (Although Alex Day did invent the label Time Lord Rock/Trock, he did not invent the concept of writing songs about Doctor Who. Fans of the long-running series have been writing songs about it since shortly after its inception in the early 1960s, including the hit single "Doctorin' the Tardis" by The Timelords.) Since its conception, Time Lord Rock has been mentioned in Doctor Who Magazine. Chameleon Circuit, a Trock band consisting of Alex Day, Charlie McDonnell, Liam Dryden, and "Ginger" Chris Beattie, is preparing to release a self-titled album this year.
On 30 September 2008, to celebrate his 18th birthday, Charlie and his friend Alex Day (known as 'Nerimon' on YouTube) dyed and then shaved their hair off whilst live on blogtv for a period of 7 and a half hours, in aid of Cancer Research UK. They managed to raise £4884.19. The broadcast viewership peaked at 4,500. Another friend, Jazza John McMillan-Clenaghan (known as 'Rhymingwithoranges' on YouTube) promised to shave his head if they hit £4000 and did so about a month later with the help from Kristina Horner (known as 'Italktosnakes' and Monday on the collab-channel 'fiveawesomegirls' on YouTube).
On 24 February 2009, Charlie painted his entire body purple in his fifth challenge in a series of 25 in a video titled, 'The Purple Man'. This video was unexpectedly successful and very quickly rose to his 2nd most viewed video of all time after being featured in the UK.
Press
Charlie has been interviewed on BBC News. He also participated in the Euro 2008 Zeitgeist Google conference, where he spoke about youtube along with Mia Rose (miaarose) and Peter (geriatric1927). This was a conference to honour online users of popular websites.
He also been featured in a recent advertising campaign for Confused.com, speaking directly to his camcorder about the savings the site offered and it's new layout and ease of use. The clips featuring Charlie are integrated with similar testimonials from other 'customers'.