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Tyler Oakley (born Mathew Tyler Oakley March 22, 1989) is an American YouTube and podcast personality, humorist, author and advocate. Much of Oakley's activism has been dedicated to LGBT youth, LGBT rights, as well as social issues including healthcare, education, and the prevention of suicide among LGBT youth.〔 Oakley regularly posts material on various topics, including queer politics, pop culture and humor.〔("Young YouTube Partners: Finding Success as Entrepreneurs and Internet Stars" ), ''The Huffington Post'' December 31, 2012 , Alfonso Espina〕〔("Tyler Oakley Is A Bigger Fangirl Than You" ), ''Huffington Post'', February 02, 2013, Aja Romano〕〔("Tyler Oakley tells TCU audience how YouTube brought hate but also inspired him to fight it" ), March 5, 2012, ''Dallas Voice''.〕 Oakley began making videos in 2007; his first video ''Raindrops'' has received over 300,000 views on YouTube as August 16, 2015. Since uploading his first video in 2007 while a freshman at Michigan State University, his work of over 370 videos〔 has close to 500,000,000 views and over 7,000,000 subscribers as August 16, 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tyler Oakley: About )〕 Oakley, who is openly gay, is a former member of the successful collaboration channel "5AwesomeGays," where he produced the Friday video for over three years.〔 Currently, he is described as having "one of the loudest voices on YouTube," and Bloomberg defines him as a "YouTube sensation."〔〔("Lady Gaga Honored With Google Inc. at 'Trevor Live' Presented by Audi of America and ING" ), Bloomberg, December 5, 2011〕 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 Oakley's YouTube channel, as of August 16, 2015, with a grade "B+", subscriber rank of 109, video view rank at 1,129th, and a SocialBlade rating of 1,329th. Oakley also has more than 2.7 million followers on Twitter and 2.1 million on Instagram.〔 As of March 2013, Oakley co-hosted a weekly pop-culture news update – "Top That!" – with Becca Frucht for PopSugar until October 31 when he announced his departure.〔("PopSugar," "Grumpy Cat, Kim Kardashian in Flats, and More — Your Pop Culture Cheat Sheet!" ) March 29, 2013〕 From 2013–14, he performed the voice of Mr. McNeely in five episodes of the comedy web series ''The Most Popular Girls in School''. Oakley posts regularly on several social networking sites including Facebook, and Tumblr, where he has hundreds of thousands of followers on each platform.〔〔 In 2015, Oakley released his first collection of humorous personal essays under the title ''Binge'', via publishers Simon & Shuster. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tyler Oakley Book Website )〕 ==Social media== Oakley is an active member across many social media platforms.〔 A self-proclaimed "professional fangirl", he is a fan of Darren Criss from ''Glee''.〔 along with Julie Chen of CBS's daytime talk show ''The Talk''. He also sang Christmas carols on stage with English-Irish boy band One Direction and television presenter Jerry Springer. Oakley is also known for receiving attention from major celebrities and organizations, such as Liam Payne from One Direction, Chris Colfer from the television series ''Glee'' and the restaurant chain store Taco Bell, namely on social network Twitter after commenting on a their previous tweet or tweeting about them. Due to Oakley's success with social media and prominence among many social media platforms (particularly YouTube), he was also given the opportunity to meet U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House. He also did a video with first lady Michelle Obama talking about education issues.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video-news/video-first-lady-michelle-obama-talks-education-with-tyler-oakley-30587729.html )〕 Oakley attributes his success only in part with his accessibility as a young gay man, "It's not all about me being gay. It's kind of like an underlying theme for me (gay life ) sprinkled throughout the videos."〔 He sees Ellen DeGeneres as a role model, "She embodies what I want my experience to be and my influence to be, where it's a positive one, it's a happy one, it's not something about the bad parts of life or the downsides of a lot of things. She's using her influence for good, and everyone knows who she is, what she stands for, and that she is a lesbian."〔 ''The Advocate'' in their 2014 "40 under 40: Emerging voices" say that, due to Oakley's presence on YouTube, he is the first openly gay person that many people have met.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tyler Oakley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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