Alfie Deyes | |||||||||
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Deyes at VidCon 2014 in Anaheim, California
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17 September 1993 (age 23) London, United Kingdom |
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Nationality | British | ||||||||
Residence | Brighton, United Kingdom | ||||||||
Occupation | YouTuber, vlogger, author | ||||||||
Partner(s) | Zoe Sugg | ||||||||
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Channel | PointlessBlog | ||||||||
Years active | 2009– | ||||||||
Subscribers | 5.2 Million (Main), 3.2 Million (Vlogs), 1.7 Million (Games) (18 June 2016) |
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Total views | 396.9 Million (Main), 484.1 Million (Vlogs), 156.7 Million (Games) (18 June 2016) |
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Associated acts | Zoe Sugg, Joe Sugg, Louise Pentland | ||||||||
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Alfie Deyes (born 17 September 1993) is an English YouTuber and author who runs the YouTube channels PointlessBlog, PointlessBlogVlogs (previously PointlessBlogTv) and PointlessBlogGames (previously AlfieGames). Since 2014 he has released two books in his Pointless Book series and one as an autobiography. On 4 September 2014 he released his first book called "The Pointless Book". This was followed by another book, "The Pointless Book 2". Deyes released it on 26 March 2015. His third book, "The Scrapbook Of My Life" was released on 24 March 2016.
Deyes started his PointlessBlog YouTube channel in 2009. As of May 2016[update], the channel has over 5.1 million subscribers and over 392 million views on YouTube. His second channel has 3.2 million subscribers and 468 million views, His Gaming channel has 1.6 Million subscribers and 153 Million views. He also has a following of 3.2 million followers on Twitter and 4 million followers on Instagram. He was named by Yahoo! News as one of "12 Web-savvy entrepreneurs to watch" in December 2013, and was featured on the cover of the January 2014 edition of Company magazine for the "Generation YouTube" feature.
Deyes has collaborated with a number of other YouTubers; including Tanya Burr, Louis Cole, Louise Pentland, Grace Helbig, Tyler Oakley, Troye Sivan, Miranda Sings, Joe Sugg, Zoe Sugg and Jim Chapman. He also created a couple of videos with Ariana Grande for the You Generation network on YouTube. He currently stars, along with a number of other YouTubers, in the Style Haul series The Crew, described by teen website Sugarscape.com as "the male version of Loose Women, but a bit less pervy".