Toby Turner
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Turner at VidCon in 2012.
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Tobias Joseph Turner March 3, 1985 Osborn, Mississippi, U.S. |
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| Origin | Niceville, Florida, U.S. | ||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||
| Residence | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | ||||||||
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| Website | tobyturner |
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| Pseudonym | Tobuscus | ||||||||
| Years active | 2006–present | ||||||||
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| Subscribers | 6.29 million (Tobuscus) 1.9 million (TobyTurner) 6.76 million (TobyGames) |
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| Total views | 1.3 billion (Tobuscus) 368 million (TobyTurner) 2 billion (TobyGames) |
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| Network | Maker Studios | ||||||||
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Tobias Joseph "Toby" Turner (born March 3, 1985), also known by his stage name Tobuscus, is an American Internet personality, actor, comedian and musician. Originally from Niceville, Florida, he currently resides in Los Angeles, California and is best known for his YouTube videos, as well as a number of television and film roles. As of July 26, 2016, Turner has a total of over 14.95 million subscribers and over 3.7 billion video views over his three YouTube channels.
Turner was born in Mississippi and grew up in Niceville, Florida. He attended the University of Florida, and having an interest in filmmaking, graduated with a degree in telecommunication production. Toby's mother later took out a loan and bought him a camera, an act he appreciated helped begin his YouTube career.
Toby Turner has become a popular personality on YouTube, achieving his early notability through his Tobuscus channel, and later through his secondary vlogging channel, as well as his gaming channel. Aside from these channels, Turner also worked with Philip DeFranco on Like Totally Awesome (LTA) and Cute Win Fail, after befriending and being employed by DeFranco. LTA was a gaming and review channel that ran during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
In July 2013, Turner signed with YouTube multi-channel network Maker Studios.
Toby Turner first joined YouTube on May 14, 2006, when he created a channel under the name of "Tobuscus". The first video that remains on the channel is a sketch based on the 2006 film Click. One of Turner's earliest popular videos is "Don't Tase Me, Bro!", a remixed recording of the University of Florida Taser incident in which his classmate Andrew Meyer was stunned with a taser gun by a police officer. Interviewed about the video by MTV, Turner explained that, after watching the clip, "as soon as [he] heard [Andrew] yelling, [he] knew it would fit in a hip-hop song", and that he "wanted to give [Andrew] the profits" from sales of related merchandise. The Tobuscus channel has since continued to focus on comedic skits and animated sketches. Turner's Literal Trailers series is one of his most popular, earning him mainstream recognition from CBS News, who described his rendition of the Dead Island trailer as "amazing" and "hilarious", and Wired, who praised Turner's Literal Trailer of Iron Man 3.
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