Saturday, July 11, 2009
I was recently introduced to KevJumba...(not personally)just know his existence
Here is a little something something about KevJumba
KevJumba
Kevin Wu was inspired to put comedy videos on YouTube by the stand-up performances of Dave Chapelle. He chose the YouTube username KevJumba because his friend used MattJumba as a screenname, and he thought it was funny. Wu chose YouTube because of his lack of resources and an audience. When Wu's "I Have to Deal With Stereotypes" video was featured, his number of viewers began to increase.[4] In this video, Wu says that the three stereotypes he must deal with as an Asian are that he is "cheap", a "nerd", and has "no social life". He tries to prove that he is not cheap by stating that he recently bought a "brand new, top of the line, TI-84 calculator". He acknowledges that this might make him nerdy but dismisses this stereotype because he does not "make all A's...in school today (he) made a B+". He goes on to say he can prove he has a social life because his cell phone rings all the time. At this point, his phone rings, he answers it, and the voice on the other end says, "Hey, why did you tell me to call you?"[5] Wu has collaborated with fellow YouTube comedian Christine Gambito (HappySlip) and has made five videos with her.
As of June, 2009, Wu had more than 537,000 subscribers and more than 17,000,000 views to his channel.[6] His combined video views total to over 56,500,000. On February 26, 2008 the Los Angeles Times compared the web series quarterlife's viewership to Wu's. At the time Wu was a "semi-well known YouTube blogger" and had received 450,000 views for a video describing how he broke his shin. quarterlife, which had been picked up by NBC, had received only 100,000 views on MySpace and 50,000 views on YouTube.[7]
By May 29, 2008, Wu had become one of three Asians under the age of 21 to be in the top five of YouTube's all-time most subscribed users with 187,000 subscribers and more than 5.9 million views.[8] By June 5, 2008 he had become the number one subscribed comedian on YouTube, and third most subscribed uploader overall.[2] Wu's videos have received replies from Jessica Alba and Baron Davis.[9] In 2008, Davis created a "longest stare" contest for ibeatyou.com, a site that he and Alba's husband Cash Warren co-founded. The contest began with Davis challenging Wu, who then challenged Alba.[10][11][12]
JumbaFund
Recently, Kevin Wu began JumbaFund, a YouTube channel dedicated to collecting money for charity. As a partner, Kevin gets money every time someone views his videos. Kevin posts casual videos such as throwing paper airplanes off the Golden Gate Bridge, scaring his floormates, riding his bike in the hallway or even shocking "Jesus". Due to his popularity on his main account, his secondary soon had over 175,000 subscribers. On June 26,2009, days after Michael Jackson's death, he made a video trying to prove he is not the freak the media tried to make him seem like. It hit a soft spot in a lot of people and in 3 days, had over 600,000 views. In May 2009 he donated $1708 dollars to St. Judes Children's Hospital. Christine aka Happyslip soon picked up on the idea and made her secondary, christinegambito into a charity channel too. Kevin Wu said he would like all the YouTube celebrities to do the same.
(source : Wikipedia)
here are some of his vids
(coutersy of JumbaFund)
here is the link to JumbaFund
(the link to the JumbaFund on Youtube)
(From KevJumba)
And now, beautiFULL JESSICA ALBA'S RESPONSE!
He is really someone to keep an eye on :D
oh by the why, why did I come across him?? SOMEONE said I look like him!
(failed to replicate his shot)
TAKE 2
hahaha, you decide...
(sometimes at certain glimpse in his video, I think he looks like me- JUST CERTAIN GLIMPSE. PLUS, he is so much cuter, handsome, better looking and ofcourse more popular and is a celebrity! compared to this lowly life form called Seumas)
oh yea, I had a haircut(and a little change of style)...
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