TheWineKone
Tony Huynh (* 1982 ) is a Canadian comedian and vlogger from Toronto, who published since 2005 under the name The Wine Kone (or CDW ) on the video portal YouTube his thoughts and views on various topics in his unique comedy style. In December 2007, Huynh was with more than 76,000 subscribers in twelfth place of the ranking of the most subscribed account on YouTube. In March 2007 he won with his video Hotness Prevails the first YouTube Video Award for Best Commentary category. His contribution to the CNN - YouTube Democratic Presidential Debate was the most watched by YouTube users contribution.
YouTube
Huynhs first video on YouTube was The Delaware Boy in December 2005. Since he published at irregular intervals videos on YouTube, with enlarged gradually the followers of his rant on various topics. His video Hotness Prevails / Worst Video Ever now reached over three million views.
His humor is described as versatile and self-deprecating. He is known for his rantings about various subjects with which he is a loyal audience, including other has to YouTube celebrities like Ben Going, earned. A recurring joke in his works is the warning that the viewing of this video was a waste of time. This warning is followed by either an empty sequence or content that are not interesting or humorous. Another repeating theme in Huynhs video is the speech of individuals who have achieved a certain notoriety on the Internet.
Huynh has appeared in the television show The FIZZ. In collaboration with other well-known personalities on YouTube, he appeared in a music video for the Barenaked Ladies named Sound of Your Voice. Other collaborations were made for the Save The Internet Campaign, the YouTube Anti-Racism Collaboration, the Yellow Bird Project and Dare to Dream.
In May 2007, Huynh was invited by YouTube, the YouTube Partner Program to join. This exclusive status, previously only offered commercial video creators, it allows, among other things, by the insertion of advertising on the respective video page to generate revenue.
Formation
Huynh started in 2002 in order to send newsletter as an e -mail to his friends in the university. By the time of that distribution grew, and after a year the newsletter The Wine Kone was called. The recipients were given a collection of articles, edited images, audio and video files that were produced by Huynh itself. In April 2005, he decided to publish his work online, which he first used free blogging sites like WordPress, LiveJournal and Blogger.com. A little later, he then focused on the video creation and found its way to YouTube. In Video> " The Wine Kone " Revealed < 11 December 2008, he declared for the first time how he came up with the name " TheWineKone ": His name Tony Huynh is pronounced in English " Toe Knee HWIN "; twisted to the letter eventually you come to " The Wine Kone ".