Thomas Sanders (entertainer)

Thomas Sanders
Thomas Sanders' logo used from February 2016 onward.
Personal information
Born (1989-04-24) April 24, 1989 (age 35)
Gainesville, Florida, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Florida (BS)
Occupations
Websitewww.thomassanders.com
YouTube information
ChannelsThomas Sanders
Thomas Sanders & Friends
Years active2002–present
Genre(s)Comedy, music
Subscribers4.13 million (Main channel)[1]
379 thousand (Second channel)[2]
Total views534.93 million (Main channel)[3]
19.82 million (Second channel)[4]
Associated acts
100,000 subscribers2015
1,000,000 subscribers2016[5]
Known forNarrating People's Lives (Vine)
Sanders Sides
Cartoon Therapy
AwardsShorty Award
Streamy Award
Last updated: August 15, 2023

Thomas Sanders (born April 24, 1989) is an American internet personality made famous by Vine and YouTube. He is best known for his YouTube channel and Vine career, which lasted from April 2013 until the social media site was shut down by Twitter in 2017.[6][7][8][9] After the shutdown of Vine, he continued releasing videos across various social media sites. Sanders creates long videos on YouTube, while simultaneously posting shorter videos in the style of Vine to Instagram, Tumblr, TikTok and Twitter. His work consists of comedy sketches, pranks, stories, singing and civil rights activism.

Sanders is mainly known for the Vine series Narrating People's Lives, also known as Storytime, for the prank series "Disney Pranks with Friends," and on YouTube for the series Sanders Sides. He reached over 7.4 billion loops and 8.3 million followers on Vine,[10] making his career one of the most successful in this social media platform's short history. As of April 2023, his account on TikTok has a following of 10 million followers.[11] On YouTube, he has two channels, "Thomas Sanders" and "Thomas Sanders and Friends", with the latter being discontinued in November 2021. As of August 2023, his main channel has over 4.1 million subscribers and his second channel has 379,000 subscribers. Sanders has won two Shorty Awards[12][13] and one Streamy Award,[14] for best Viner and best YouTube comedian, and has been nominated for a Teen Choice Award[15] to "Choice Viner" among other recognitions.

As a singer, Sanders has published one EP in 2013,[16][17] one album in 2016,[18] and several singles from 2017[19] onwards.[20][21] He has had a career in musical theatre in his hometown in Florida since he was a teenager, performing since 2006 in Gainesville and Orlando, Florida, and starring in a tour through 17 cities in the US and Canada with his own stage musical, Ultimate Storytime, based on his Vine series.[22][23][24][25] In 2017, he made a guest appearance on the Disney Channel show Bizaardvark[26][27] and co-hosted a special episode of the Disney XD show Walk the Prank alongside David Lopez.[28]

  1. ^ Thomas Sanders. "Thomas Sanders Youtube". YouTube.
  2. ^ Thomas Sanders. "Thomas Sanders and Friends". YouTube.
  3. ^ Thomas Sanders. "Thomas Sanders YouTube info account". YouTube.
  4. ^ Thomas Sanders. "Thomas Sanders and Friends". YouTube.
  5. ^ "Thomas Sanders YouTube". YouTube. August 8, 2016. Archived from the original on August 8, 2016. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  6. ^ Seth Fiegerman (January 17, 2017). "Twitter officially shuts down Vine". Retrieved October 5, 2017.
  7. ^ "What Happened To Vine? Twitter Shut It Down". The Social Media Hat. October 27, 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  8. ^ "Vine is shutting down, so don't forget to export your videos today". TechCrunch. January 17, 2017. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  9. ^ "Vine FAQs". help.twitter.com. Archived from the original on July 6, 2018. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
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  11. ^ "Thomas Sanders on TikTok". February 25, 2020. Archived from the original on February 25, 2020.
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  26. ^ Kristine Hope Kowalsky (January 27, 2017). "Exclusive: See a Sneak Peek of Calum Worthy & Thomas Sanders on Tonight's 'Bizaardvark'". Twist Magazine. Archived from the original on January 28, 2017. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
  27. ^ Jonathan Brown (January 27, 2017). "Internet Star Thomas Sanders Swings his 'Vine' over to Disney Channel for First Ever Sitcom Stint". Inquisitr.com. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
  28. ^ "Talk the Prank with Thomas Sanders and David Lopez". Walk the Prank. Season 1. Episode 21. March 20, 2017. Retrieved November 16, 2017. (accessible from the USA only).