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Born | Toby Joseph Turner March 3, 1985 Osborn, Mississippi, U.S. | |||||||||
Origin | Niceville, Florida, U.S. | |||||||||
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Website | tobyturner | |||||||||
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Years active | 2006 | –present|||||||||
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Subscribers | 6.24 million (Tobuscus) 6.28 million (TobyGames) 1.81 million (TobyTurner) | |||||||||
Total views | 1.44 billion (Tobuscus) 2.05 billion (TobyGames) 377 million (TobyTurner) | |||||||||
Network | Polaris (Disney Digital Network) | |||||||||
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Last updated: November 5, 2021 |
Toby Turner (born March 3, 1985), also known by his stage name Tobuscus, is an American Internet personality and actor. Originally from Niceville, Florida, he is best known for his YouTube videos. As of November 5, 2021, Turner has a total of over 14.33 million subscribers and over 3.867 billion video views over his three YouTube channels.[2][3][4]
Early life
Toby Joseph Turner was born on March 3, 1985, in
Career
YouTube
Turner has grown to 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. Turner's style of content is often extroverted, rambling, and energetic, but he always avoids using severe profanity and censors any explicit content due to his target audience.[8][9][10]
Aside from his channels, Turner also worked with
Main channel
Toby Turner first joined YouTube on May 14, 2006, when he created a channel under the name of "Tobuscus".
Vlogging and gaming channels
In April 2009, Turner began using his "TobyTurner" channel to upload daily unedited
Collaborations
In addition to producing his own original content over three channels, Turner has worked together with a wide range of other YouTube personalities on various projects. In 2009, he performed a guitar collaboration with
Aside from these works, Turner has also presented a web series called CuteWinFail, created by Turner and co-produced with
Film and television
Turner's first feature-length film role came in 2010 romantic comedy film New Low, in which he played stand-up comedian Dave, the best friend of main character Wendell played by writer, producer and director Adam Bowers.[citation needed] The film was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010, before it received coverage at the Austin Film Festival in October and at the Glasgow Film Festival the following February, and was later released on DVD in 2012.[44][45][46] Later, in 2012, he starred in psychological horror film Smiley, written and directed by Michael Gallagher and starring fellow YouTube partner Shane Dawson.[47] Turner also starred alongside Dawson in the 2015 comedy Bob Thunder: Internet Assassin[48] and played a minor role in the 2015 film The Great Gilly Hopkins.[49]
From 2012–2014, Turner starred in the Cartoon Network animated series The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange. Turner played Nerville, the only human character who can interact with the fruits.[50][51]
Sexual assault allegations
On April 8, 2016, Turner's ex-girlfriend April Fletcher, known online as AprilEfff, made several allegations against the YouTuber, including that he was addicted to drugs (including
Turner responded to the accusations on April 11, 2016. In a short video, he dubbed Fletcher's claims as "false" and claimed that he had "never done anything without her consent [and] never tried to trick her into anything".[52]
On June 14, 2018, Turner released another video titled "
Other work
Aside from video production and other entertainment, Toby Turner – who is described on his official website as a "viral marketer ... [and] consultant for viral video and social media platforms"
Turner has also secured hosting roles for a number of events and series, including reporting on the
In May 2013, Turner set up a fundraising campaign on crowdfunding website Indiegogo for an iOS (and later Android) game based on his Tobuscus Adventures YouTube series, called Tobuscus Adventures: Wizards!.[67][68] The fundraiser surpassed its goal of $240,000 within two days, reaching more than $644,000.[14] The game features Turner as main character Tobuscus as he fights off hordes of zombies to get to the Wizard of Darkness,[67][69] and also cameos Gabe Hohreiter as Gabuscus, and Turner's dog Gryphon.[69] The game was released in March 2015 for iOS and later for Android,[70][71] and in May 2018 for PC,[72] with plans to extend this to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.[73] Before the release of Tobuscus Adventures: Wizards!, Turner also revealed that a second, albeit smaller game, was in development at the same time and based on the popular sandbox game Minecraft, titled "Mine The Diamond", which was later released in June 2015 for iOS.[74][75]
In May 2014, Turner signed a three-book deal with Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, to help create an illustrated journal-style series based on Tobuscus Adventures.[76] The first, second, and third books were published in the fall of 2015, summer of 2016, and winter 2017, respectively.[citation needed] As of 2018, Turner had written a fourth book in the series.[73]
Turner was chosen to voice the character of Ant-Man/Scott Lang for the 2016 mobile game Marvel Avengers Academy.[citation needed]
Reception
Within the first few years of his three channels running concurrently, Turner was considered one of the most popular
Harrison Jacobs of Business Insider in 2014 meanwhile wrote of how Turner had been pursuing various projects outside of YouTube. He found that while he still published frequently to his channels, he seemed particularly devoted to other work in the hope that it could direct him into more "traditional media", citing Turner's first book based on his web series Tobuscus Animated Adventures, as well as his mobile game Tobuscus Adventures: Wizards!. Jacobs noted how the development of the game, which ultimately took place over an almost two-year period,[81][82] had run over-budget, despite having received more than double the requested funds, and had been met with a number of delays, which Turner himself ascribed to a lack of experience.[14]
Personal life
Having begun his video-making career in Niceville, Turner moved to Los Angeles in 2008.
Filmography
Film | |||
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Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2012 | New Low | Dave | Lead role |
Smiley | Mark | Supporting role | |
2015 | The Great Gilly Hopkins | Ticket Agent | Supporting role |
2015 | Bob Thunder: Internet Assassin | Himself | Supporting role |
2016 | Why Him? | Party Guest | Supporting role |
2017 | The F*** Happened | Reynolds | Supporting role |
Television | |||
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2008 | Stranger Things | Father Michael Hutchins | Pilot episode |
Listen | One episode | ||
2012–2014 | The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange | Nerville | Series regular |
2015 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Game host | Episode: "Intimidation Game" |
2016 | American Dad! | Josh | Episode: "Portrait of Francine's Genitals" |
Web | |||
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2009 | Russian Recommendations | Roman | Video shorts |
2010 | True Stories from My Crappy Childhood | Himself | Video short |
Annoying Orange | Cheese, Bread, Eggplant, Russel the Brussel Sprout, Tangerine, Oyster, and Spike the Durian. | Various episodes | |
BlackBoxTV Presents | Keith | One episode | |
2012 | Olga Kay Goes Haywire | Himself | Video short |
MyMusic | Satan | Series regular | |
FART with Toby Turner – Retarded Policeman #34 | Himself | Video short | |
2013 | Dead Island: No Retreat | Sam | Video short |
Ear Troll (w/ Tobuscus) | Ear Troll | Video short | |
Animeme Rap Battles | Courage Wolf (voice) | Music video | |
Whistle While I Work It | Himself | Music video | |
Animeme Rap Battles | Courage Wolf (voice) | Music video | |
2015 | Terminator Genisys: The YouTube Chronicles | T-360 | Video short |
2017 | Hyperlinked | Almond Butter Guy | Web series |
Video games | |||
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2015 | Tobuscus Adventures: Wizards | Tobuscus (voice) | Also creator |
Mine The Diamond | Tobuscus (voice) | Also creator | |
2016 | Marvel Avengers Academy | Ant-Man/ Scott Lang (voice) | Mobile game |
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