Philip DeFranco
Philip DeFranco (aka sxephil, born December 1, 1985 in New York) is an American vlogger on YouTube. Under the title " Philip DeFranco Show" he published there three to five times a week short videos discussing on most ironic way a mix of current events, politics and pop culture. His subscriber count now stands at 2,635,886 million (as of June 27, 2013 ). On his second Youtube channel, " PhilipDeFranco " he publishes daily vlogs which he calls "the vloggity ".
YouTube
On 15 September 2006, he created during his final exams at East Carolina University the " sxephil " channel on YouTube, the videos he conceives himself to this day, moderated and edited. DeFranco announced on 3 November 2008 that his work would end up on YouTube on 3 November of the following year to start something new that would be different from the Philip DeFranco Show. In fact, he let the show continue to run until 22 April 2010. On this day he put a video online in which he announced the official end of the show - he later explained that this is executed together with some legal complications, including the name of the show on. He launched a new program that he ( " Not Safe For Work" ) called " NSFW " and basically the same format represented with minor changes. Shortly afterwards, on 10 May, it was possible for him to return to the original name of the show.
In an interview DeFranco claimed to earn more than $ 250,000, which put together from several sources on the Internet. He was paid for, among other videos that ' s burgers and the U.S. television series Lie to Me and Fringe promote Carl 's Jr..
In 2008 he was elected with the help of his large YouTube following the "Sexiest Geek of 2008", a competition of Wired magazine, in which readers vote. In October of the same year he co-starred with Jessica Rose and Kevin Wu starred in Hooking Up, a 10 - episode web series of HBOLabs, the online arm of HBO.
In November 2009, he founded the review Channel " LikeTotallyAwesome " on YouTube, which he produced with various other before being displayed. The program deals with all aspects of film, video games and technology. In July 2010, he created additional " iPhoneDefranco ", a channel for unedited vlogs which he uploads directly from his iPhone 4. In the same month, he founded " CuteWinFail ", a channel, three short clips shown in the per video from the eponymous categories and judged by the audience. This channel is moderated by Toby Turner ( Tobuscus ).
End of August 2011, he created the channel "Stuff Phil Likes ", also on YouTube, on which he daily - except Sundays - video uploads in playlist form, in which he imagines other Youtube channels and videos. Most by, embeds a video of that channel in the playlist.
On January 23, 2012 launched its new YouTube channel " SourceFed " which he runs with three other YouTubers.
Personal life
On August 16, 2013 he made his long-term girlfriend Lindsay on the " DeFranco Does Arizona " show in Tempe, Arizona on stage a wedding proposal. The request was triggered by the viewer question whether the two would ever get married.
Then a video was released of him by announcing to become a father.