Benjamin De Almeida
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| Benjamin De Almeida | ||||||||||
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 Benjamin De Almeida in 2024 | ||||||||||
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| Born | Benjamin Emile De Almeida September 8, 1999 (age 25) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | |||||||||
| Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||
| Other names | Ben | |||||||||
| Occupation | YouTuber | |||||||||
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| Also known as | BENOFTHEWEEK | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2010–present | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 8.21 million[1] | |||||||||
| Total views | 2 billion[1] | |||||||||
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Benjamin "Ben" De Almeida (born: September 8, 1999), better known online as BENOFTHEWEEK, is a Canadian comedy YouTuber who mainly uploads surrealism-style comedy in the style of TVFilthyFrank and Cow Chop.
His older videos were often described basic and mainstream and weren't responded well to. Currently his new careless comedy videos are much different and received well. He is currently partnered with Maker Gen.
He is also known for his Zoom videos, where he enters random meetings; some of them even caused him to be on the news as he would hack online Zoom classes.
Life and career
[edit]His full name is Benjamin De Almeida. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, he moved with his family to Tewksbury, Massachusetts when he was 2 years old. He is of French, German, Indian, and Portuguese descent.
History
[edit]He owned a channel from 2010 to 2013 in which he posted a variety of videos. Some popular videos were parodies and skits that got around 20,000 views each.
He made a video reacting to them on August 6, 2014. His old channel was closed due to AdSense fraud. In a deleted video he explained that his friend came to his house and logged into his account to click the ads from his home IP address causing the channel to be closed.
On May 27, 2020, he uploaded a video of him entering meetings, but in June 2020, his Zoom account was deleted, but came back again.
Trivia
[edit]- His video, "Hacking Zoom Classes", is now unlisted for reasons he said in his Podcast channel DRAMA MAMA.
- He is a pescatarian (a person who doesn't eat meat but does eat fish).
- It is hinted that he grew up somewhere in Alberta.
- He is of German, Indian, Portuguese, and French descent, and during several of his videos has talked about speculations about his race.
- Despite his not-so-family-friendly content, he is a host on Nickelodeon's news program Nick News.
- YouTube's official Instagram account posted photos of him at 2024 Coachella.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "About Ben Bogolie". YouTube.