Garrett Watts
Garrett Watts
Garrett Watts (born June 15, 1989) is a YouTube Star. Notable for his Comedy content on both Vine and YouTube, he would begin working for Funny or Die as a digital content creator in 2014. He has more than 3.2 million subscribers on his YouTube Channel.
Early life & education
Garrett Watts was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the United States. He has a brother whose name is Andrew. He attended high school in Mesa, Arizona, and later attended the University of California, Los Angeles, California, where he studied filmmaking. He was a famous Viner in the past and is an avid Harry Potter fan.
Career
Garrett Watts launched his self-titled channel on May 30, 2012. His first video was 'Coco Goes to Target', a video in which Coco Peru, the drag persona of American actor Miss Coco Peru goes to Target to shop. This was followed by a similar video titled ‘Coco Goes to Walgreens’.
On June 24, 2016, Watts posted an introduction video in which he welcomed his YouTube audience.
Soon after this, he started his "Will It Combo?" series.
This series included videos, such as ‘Ice Cream Nachos- "Will It Combo?,” “Reese’s Pizza- "Will It Combo?," and ‘Deep Fried Halloween Candy "Will It Combo?" The series was a major hit and garnered hundreds of thousands of views in no time.
Watts continued with the series and also simultaneously posted a wide variety of other content like his tiny house tours, gold bike tours, and so on.
These videos became massive hits and eventually garnered Watts millions of followers.
Currently, the YouTuber’s hub has more than 2.4 million subscribers and over 70 million views.
Two of the recent uploads on his channel are 'Organizing My Insane Hoarder House In 24 Hours' and 'Going Through My Cringey Old High School High Cell Phone'. While the first vlog features Watts organizing his house, the second one features him exploring his old high school cell phone. Both of these videos are interesting to watch. They have over 3 million and over 2.6 million views respectively as of September 2018.
Trivia
He worked as a casting coordinator at Nigel Lythgoe Productions from December of 2011 to April of 2012.