Keith Talens
Keith Talens
Keith Talens is a YouTube vlogger and TikTok Star from the Philippines who is best known for his YouTube and TikTok contents. He creates family prank videos for his channel. He features his family members on his vlogs and sometimes plays pranks on them. Keith has done a few Q&A videos featuring his girlfriend and daughter. He makes his vlogs in the Filipino language.
Early Life
Keith Talens was born on July 5, 1993 in Santiago, Philippines but he currently resides Parañaque.
Career
Keith joined the YouTube community on Oct 2, 2013, with his self-titled channel. However, his first video was uploaded on Oct 3, 2017, and it was a prank video. The first video on the channel to cross a million views was a Q&A featuring his girlfriend and daughter. The channel currently has more than 984 thousand subscribers.
Controversy
In June 2019, Keith started shooting a vlog to share his surprise plan for Father's Day. Unfortunately, that fateful day, Keith’s father died of a cardiac arrest before he reached home to surprise his father. The reason he got a backlash from his viewers was that he did not stop vlogging. The vlog continued as someone else shot the video while Keith was beside his father's bed, hysterically crying, screaming, shaking his father's body, and still holding the balloons he bought for him. The whole scene at his home was captured in the video, and everyone was shown mourning the death.
Keith Talens even uploaded the video, titled 'SURPRISING DAD ON FATHER'S DAY (SADDEST DAY OF MY LIFE),' on his channel and it has amassed close to seven million views. However, many viewers reacted negatively on the vlog and commented that Keith had shared the vlog only to earn more views and subscribers for his channel. Many even pointed out the length of the video, which gave them a reason to think the ads in between must have earned him some significant cash. They believed Keith had been disrespectful toward his deceased father. The vlog left many viewers wondering how someone could create content out of a family member’s death and then publicize it for fame and money.
There was also a section of viewers who conveyed their condolences to Keith, but by then, he had already been framed as a mean person.
Keith later publicly apologized to his viewers for the vlog.
He defended himself, saying that he had continued to shoot the vlog despite the sudden news because his father wanted to be in his vlog.
Hence, he was fulfilling his father’s wish.
He further added that he had by no means shared the video to gain fame for his channel.[1]
Personal Life
He is associated with 'STAR MAGIC,' a Quezon City, Philippines-based broadcasting and media production company. He has a girlfriend named Vena, and the two have a daughter named Kiyomi. Keith has featured his 94-year-old grandmother in a few of his vlogs.