TIKTOK has given a platform to many comedic sensations, including Zhong.
Zhong is a big hit on social media for his eccentric and outlandish comedic games that earn him a ton of subscribers.
Popularity
Zhong didn’t receive his first iPhone until 2013, but in just over a decade his creative posts have earned himself over 42 million subscribers on YouTube.
Zhongni “Zhong” Zhu is a Russian-Chinese YouTuber and CEO of Epic Zhong AB.
Born March 14, 2000, Zhong lives in California.
He was born in Moscow, but was sent to China to live with his grandparents when he was still a baby.
Zhong is famous for creating comedic vlogs and skits online.
His Most viewed, “I Would Do Anything For My Best Friend” shorts video, received over 212 million views since it was posted on YouTube in March of 2021.
Love life
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Zhong has been dating YouTube personality Kat Buno who was hailed the sixth breakout creator on YouTube.
The two YouTube stars got together in 2021.
They frequently collaborate together, making playful videos that include games called, “Sing Or Forfeit” and “What My Girlfriend Would Do Vs What I Would Do”.
Together they have a cat named Tofu who makes appearances in their videos.
Despite rumours that the Zhong and Kat ended their relationship in 2022, they still collaborate and announced in September, 2024 that they are planning to get married.
In a video named “I’m Getting Married,” Kat tasked Zhong with building a secret room for their wedding.
In the video viewers see Zhong building a room fit for a wedding, but as they didn’t hit their subscriber target they didn’t end up getting married but Zhong did make an engagement proposal.
Famous friends
The YouTube sensation has a string of famous friends including actress, Zoe Colletti, who played Tessie in the 2014 film version of Annie.
As well as boasting his famous friends, Zhong has two best friends, Nichlmao and Vujae who often appear on his Instagram.
Zhong has two public profiles on Instagram, one where he shares comedic reels and another he created earlier in his career called, Epic funny page.
The page remains active, with over 14 million followers.
The account is without identity, sharing only funny memes.
What was the first YouTube video?
Here’s what you need to know…
- YOUTUBE’S first-ever video was uploaded 15 years ago – on April 23, 2005.
- It was a clip posted by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, marking the beginning of the website’s rapid and unstoppable rise to internet dominance.
- The video is titled “Me at the zoo”, and is geo-tagged to San Diego.
- In the clip, Karim gives a short speech to camera in very low video quality by today’s standards.
- He’s standing in a zoo talking about elephants, who can be seen in the background.
- YouTube’s inaugural video has now been viewed more than 303million times.
- It’s received nearly 15million likes and has racked up more around 10million comments.
- Karim met fellow YouTube co-founders Steven Chen and Chad Hurley while working at PayPal.
- The trio went on to create YouTube, although Karim was officially an adviser to the site – rather than being an employee.
- He remained relatively unknown until Google purchased YouTube in 2006.
- Karim received 137,443 shares of stock, which was worth roughly $64million at the time.
- Watch the clip here.