Biography
Mathew Tyler Oakley (born 22 March 1989) is an American YouTuber, actor, activist, author and Twitch streamer. Much of Oakley's activism has been dedicated to LGBT youth, LGBT rights, as well as social issues including health care, education, and the prevention of suicide among LGBT youth. Oakley regularly posts material on various topics, including pop culture and humor.
Since uploading his first video in 2007 while a freshman at Michigan State University, his YouTube channel has garnered over 683 million views, and, at its peak, had over 8 million subscribers. He was featured in the 2014 Frontline investigative report "Generation Like", a follow-up on how teenagers are "directly interacting with pop culture" to the 2001 report, "The Merchants of Cool". SocialBlade, a website that rates YouTube and Instagram accounts, ranks his YouTube channel, As of February 1, 2021, with a grade "B", subscriber rank of 1,434th, video view rank at 7,022nd, and a SocialBlade rating of 345,254th. As of February 1, 2021 he also had more than 5.6 million followers on Twitter and 5.6 million on Instagram.
From March to October 2013, Oakley co-hosted a weekly pop-culture news update – "Top That!" – with Becca Frucht for PopSugar. From 2013 to 2014, he performed the voice of Mr. McNeely in five episodes of the comedy web series The Most Popular Girls in School. He has hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook and Tumblr. In 2015, he released his first collection of humorous personal essays under the title Binge, via publishers Simon & Schuster.
Oakley was the host of The Tyler Oakley Show, which aired weekly on Ellen DeGeneres' ellentube platform. In 2017, he was named in Forbes "30 Under 30". Description above from the Wikipedia article Tyler Oakley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Cast Credits
Gay And Not Proud
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2021

Exposure
Character: Self - Guest Judge
TV • 2021

Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2020

Prime Day Concert 2019
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2019

This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2017

Escape the Night
Character: The Thespian
TV • 2016

The Real O'Neals
Character: Tyler Oakley
TV • 2016

Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry
Character: Self - Guest
TV • 2016

Snervous Tyler Oakley
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2015

Luna Goes Cruising
Character: Toby (voice)
MOVIE • 2015

The Late Late Show with James Corden
Character: Self
TV • 2015

Virtually Famous
Character: Self - Panelist
TV • 2014

Generation Like
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2014

1D Day
Character: Self
TV • 2013
RuPaul Drives...
Character: Self - Guest
TV • 2013

Catfish: The TV Show
Character: Self - Guest Co-Host
TV • 2012

My Drunk Kitchen
Character: Self
TV • 2011

The Streamy Awards
Character: Self - Host
TV • 2009

RuPaul's Drag Race
Character: Self - Special Guest / Short Change
TV • 2009

The Amazing Race
Character: Self - Contestant
TV • 2001
Crew