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| Born | Kevin Wu June 12, 1990 Houston, Texas, U.S. | |||||||||
| Occupation(s) | YouTuber, actor, writer | |||||||||
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| Also known as | JumbaFund, cybermuse | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2006–2013, 2016, 2020–2023 | |||||||||
| Genre(s) | Comedy, Gaming | |||||||||
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| Total views | 386.3 million (combined)[1] | |||||||||
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Last updated: 30 October 2021 | ||||||||||
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| Chinese | 吳凱文 | ||||||||||||||||
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Kevin Wu (born June 12, 1990) is a retired American YouTuber best known under his former username KevJumba. The San Francisco Chronicle's Jeff Yang has noted that Wu is not a comedian in the conventional sense but that by "just talking [he] is, well, pretty hilarious" due to his deadpan vocal delivery, animated facial expressions and tendency toward unexpected digressions.[2]
Wu previously appeared on The CW Television Network's short-lived Online Nation and co-starred with Jessica Lee Rose and Philip DeFranco in Hooking Up from HBOLabs (the online arm of HBO) in 2008.[3] In 2010, Wu and his father, Michael, competed as a team on the 17th season of The Amazing Race, placing seventh out of eleven teams.[4] In 2014, Wu starred in crime drama film Revenge of the Green Dragons (executive produced by Martin Scorsese).[5] In 2013, Wu ceased production of YouTube content. In 2016, Wu returned for a brief period of time on social media. In November 2020, Wu created an account on Twitch, originally titled cybermuse.
- ^ a b "About KEVIN". YouTube.
- ^ Yang, Jeff (June 5, 2008). "On top of YouTube: Happy Slip, Choi, KevJumba". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved September 27, 2008.
- ^ Wallenstein, Andrew (September 8, 2008). "HBO offshoot launches Web video series". Reuters. Retrieved September 27, 2008.
- ^ ""Amazing Race" Goes to the Circus". CBS News. November 8, 2010. Archived from the original on November 30, 2010. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
- ^ Sun, Rebecca (August 28, 2017). "Why YouTube Megastar KevJumba Mysteriously Disappeared". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 2, 2020.