Liam Thompson (YouTuber)

Liam Thompson
Personal information
Born	Liam Michael Thompson (2000-04-25) 25 April 2000 (age 24) Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Education	Mount Albert Grammar School
Occupation	YouTuber
YouTube information
Channel	Liam Thompson
Years active	2016–present
Genre	Entertainment
Subscribers	2.11 million[1]
Total views	334.3 million[1]
Creator Awards 100,000 subscribers October 2019[2] 1,000,000 subscribers August 2020[2]
Last updated: 10/04/2024

Liam Michael Thompson (born 25 April 2000)^[citation needed] is a New Zealand YouTube personality. As of May 2024^[update], he has over 2 million subscribers.[1] Thompson's channel consists of a mix of different videos with no common theme; however, his most successful videos tend to include his pet labradoodle, Max.[3] He also often included his 20-year-old cat named Frodo (died 26 February 2022) and his 1-year-old cat named Samwise.[4]

Early life

Liam Thompson was born in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand as the second of four siblings.[5] He attended Balmoral School and Mount Albert Grammar School,[6][7] where he was a Prefect[8] and involved in orienteering, competing successfully at many regional and national championships.[9][10] In 2018, he was the inaugural recipient of the Service to MAGS Sport award.[11] After graduating in 2018, Thompson began studying engineering. He soon dropped out to pursue YouTube while enrolling in Police college, moving furniture and considering film school.[6][5]

Thompson started a blog called Velterro in 2019, focusing on tips for self improvement, productivity, money and health.[12] As of 2024, the blog is inactive.

YouTube career

Thompson has been actively posting on YouTube since mid 2019. His channel gained a large amount of traction in September 2019 after posting the video I Taught My Dog To Play Minecraft,[13] which has over 22.3 million views as of February 2022.[6][3] In an interview with New Zealand media outlet Stuff, he stated that "It took me four months to get 80 [subscribers] and, a week later, I had 150,000".[5] Thompson subsequently decided to pursue YouTube full time.[5]

On 20 July 2020, his YouTube channel reached 1 million subscribers. He celebrated the next day with a video, in which he bought Max 1 million dog biscuits, most of which he donated.[14]

Thompson is among the top 10 YouTubers in New Zealand, with the 8th most subscribers in March 2024.[15]

References

1. "About Liam Thompson". YouTube.
2. "Liam Thompson's YouTube Stats (Summary Profile) – Social Blade Stats". socialblade.com. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
3. "Auckland labradoodle becomes YouTube sensation with his Minecraft talent". Newshub. Archived from the original on 5 June 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
4. Thompson, Liam (4 November 2021). "I Built an Elevator for My Cat". Youtube. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
5. "Meet the Kiwi YouTubing teen who just bought a Tesla". Stuff. 19 March 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
6. "Kiwi Minecraft playing dog video goes viral". NZ Herald. 21 November 2019. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
7. "MAGS Scholar Lion Awards" (PDF). Mount Albert Grammar School. 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
8. Creative, Jade (2 November 2017). "Prefects of 2018". Mount Albert Grammar School. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
9. Hepburn, Graham (8 May 2018). "Orienteers discover top form". Mount Albert Grammar School. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
10. Hepburn, Graham (19 August 2018). "Duathlon Silver at Nationals". Mount Albert Grammar School. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
11. Hepburn, Graham (31 October 2018). "Sports Prizegiving Dinner 2018". Mount Albert Grammar School. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
12. "About | Velterro". Liam Thompson. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
13. "YouTuber teaches his dog how to play Minecraft". Dexerto.com. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
14. "Guy Surprises His Dog With 1 Million Pieces Of Food". www.unilad.co.uk. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
15. NZ, Voyager (20 March 2019). "The Top New Zealand YouTubers". Voyager Internet. Retrieved 16 May 2021.