| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | Stephen Sharer Westchester, Pennsylvania, United States (age 22) |
| Occupation | Internet personality |
| Website | stephensharer |
| YouTube information | |
| Channel | |
| Years active | 2015–present |
| Subscribers | 8.13 million[1] |
| Network | None |
Stephen Sharer (born March 1, 1998), is an American Internet personality best known for his Vlogs on YouTube, which have amassed over 3.2 billion channel views and 7.7 million subscribers.[2] His channel is one of the most subscribed Youtube channels.[3] As of October 2019, he is in top 250 of most subscribed Entertainment channels.[4]
Sharer was born in 1998 in West Chester, Pennsylvania and has two siblings Carter and Grace Sharer. He spent his childhood creating video content and performing at local events with friends.[5] Sharer uploaded his first YouTube video titled "Unboxing 2 Hoverboards!" and was encouraged to continually upload videos to the site. In 2017, Sharer began creating YouTube videos full-time with his brother Carter. His content includes videos of his day-to-day activities and other videos such as stunts, experiments, challenges and adventures. He is based in Northern Virginia which is the setting of many of his videos.[5]
The channel experienced rapid growth, amassing 2 million subscribers within a year and reached 6 million subscribers in two years. He was featured in Newsweek, CBS Local and Yahoo Finance.[6][7][8] As of 2019, his channel has engaged over 2.9 billion viewers with several viral videos.[9] Sharer created a music video, "“Share The Love”" which received more then 100 million views and became his most viewed video. He produced two more music videos "Jump In!", "Snow Day" after the success of "“Share The Love”". He has partnered with Hot Wheels, Honey Nut Cheerios, LEGO and Nickelodeon to promote their products on his channel.[10]
Sharer has been a guest speaker at CVX Live, VidSummit and Vidcon conferences, to discuss Youtube and social media growth methods.[11][12][13] In 2019, he granted the wish of a terminally ill child, eight year old James through the Make a Wish Foundation and took him on a backyard adventure in search of the “Pond Monster”, a character that has been the focal point of numerous videos.[14]