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Lee at Vidcon in June 2014
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Caspar Richard George Lee 24 April 1994 London, England |
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Origin | Knysna, South Africa | ||||||||
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South African British |
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Website | YouTube channel | ||||||||
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Years active | 2012–present | ||||||||
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Subscribers | 7+ million | ||||||||
Total views | 720+ million | ||||||||
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Caspar Richard George Lee (born 24 April 1994) is a British-born South African YouTube personality with over 6.5 million subscribers, and a vlogger and actor.
Lee started his self-titled YouTube channel in 2011. As of April 2016[update], Lee's main YouTube channel "dicasp" has over 6 million subscribers and over 500 million video views, and is the 152nd most subscribed channel on the website; his second channel "morecaspar" has over 1 million subscribers and over 52 million video views.
Lee was part of the 'YouTube Boyband' that raised money in 2014 for Comic Relief and was featured in The Guardian. He was named by Yahoo! News as one of "12 Web-savvy entrepreneurs to watch" in December 2013. In 2014 he starred, 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". He featured in a 2014 episode of the American television series Web Therapy.
Lee is influential through social media, with over 2.3 million followers on Twitter and over 2.1 million on Instagram, as of February 2015[update]. Lee has collaborated with other YouTube personalities, including: Jack and Finn Harries, Grace Helbig, Tyler Oakley, Connor Franta, Troye Sivan, Zoe Sugg, Marcus Butler, Shane Dawson, KSI, Joe Sugg, Dan Howell, Phil Lester, Eva Gutowski, Lilly Singh, Cara Delevingne and others.