Seth Everman
Seth Everman | ||||
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File:Seth Everman Profile Picture.jpg | ||||
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Nationality | Swedish | |||
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Musical career | ||||
Instrument | Synthesizer | |||
YouTube information | ||||
Channel | ||||
Years active | 2015–present | |||
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Subscribers | 3.4 million[1] | |||
Total views | 288 million views[1] | |||
Last updated: 27 June 2020 |
Seth Everman (born 19 October 1993) is a Swedish YouTuber and social media personality, known for making comedic piano videos and parodies[2], often maintaining a straight face in a deadpan manner. He has a vast following accross multiple social media platforms including Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram, and is one of the most subscribed YouTubers in Sweden.[3]
Early Life
Everman was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden. He currently lives in a house at an undisclosed location in Sweden. Everman is an only child and grew up in an apartment with his parents in downtown Stockholm. He attended a school for classical music from the age of 5 until the age of 18, where he studied percussion.
Career
Before creating content on his SethEverman YouTube channel, Everman had gone viral on multiple occasions ever since 2006. Many of those videos don't show his face, but one of them that do was a viral video titled "Nyan Cat 10 HOURS REACTION VIDEO! (yes, I actually watched it for 10 hours)" published on 6 December 2011 on a channel called TheGamePro. The video received over 1 million views and was reuploaded onto his SethEverman channel titled "my old secret videos" on 3 April 2018, accumulating another 1.8 million views.[4][5]
In September 2015, Everman published a mashup on his Tumblr account of Drake's Hotline Bling mashed up with Nintendo 64 classics such as The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart.[6][7] This post was his first viral posts under his SethEverman name, accumulating over 600,000 notes on the platform. In November 2015, he uploaded his first video on the SethEverman YouTube channel titled "How to make a Zelda necklace".[8] The first video to go viral on the SethEverman channel was "When you're a classical pianist but you listened to hip hop once", posted 13 February 2016. In the video he turns Beethoven's Für Elise and Moonlight Sonata into Eminem's Mockingbird and Dr. Dre's Still D.R.E. respectively.[9]. The video has received over 24 million views as of 27 June, 2020.[10]
In November 2019, Seth Everman became the person with the most liked YouTube comment and the first comment to hit 1 million likes.[11] The comment reads "i'm the bald guy" and was left under the music video for Billie Eilish's "bad guy". The comment currently has 3 million likes, as of 2 July, 2020.[12] In December 2019, Everman received a customized award from YouTube on achieving the most liked comment on the platform. He created a video of him unboxing the award where he also talks about his thoughts on the matter.[13]
His most popular video to date is "how to create billie eilish's bad guy" (uploaded 13 April 2019) which has accumulated over 62 million views as of June 27, 2020.[14]
Personal Life
Everman is known for being bald. When asked about why he shaves his head he has stated it is due to aesthetic reasons.[15] He is a big fan of Nintendo games, and many of his videos contain references to these games, or the physical games themselves.
References
- ^ a b "About SethEverman". YouTube.
- ^ Karabuda, Effie. "Svensken Seth gör succé – med sin spelmusik-parodi". Aftonbladet. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ "SethEverman's YouTube stats (Summary Profile) - Social Blade Stats". Socialblade. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ SethEverman. "my old secret videos". YouTube. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ "Nyan Cat 10 HOURS REACTION VIDEO! (Yes, I actually watched it for 10 hours)". YouTube. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ Gore, Sydney (10 October 2015). "Drake's 'Hotline Bling' Gets A Video Game Upgrade". The Fader. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ "im onto you drake < Seth Everman". Tumblr. 30 September 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ "How to make a Zelda necklace". YouTube. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ Shobe, Michael (6 October 2016). "Für Elise and Moonlight Sonata Like You've Never Heard Them". WQXR. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ SethEverman. "When you're a classical pianist but you listened to hip hop once". YouTube. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ Karlsten, Emmanuel. "Seth Evermans kommentar är världens mest lajkade på Youtube". Breakit. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ "Billie Eilish - Bad Guy". YouTube. March 29, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ SethEverman (20 December 2019). "how i got the world's most liked YouTube comment". YouTube. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ "how to create billie eilish's "bad guy"". YouTube. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ "Why do i shave my head? (Q&A)". YouTube. Retrieved 2 July 2020.