From Wikipedia
Fred Figglehorn is a fictional character who is the primary subject of a
channel on the
video-sharing website
YouTube. The Fred channel is one of the most subscribed, with over one million subscribers. The videos are centred around a fictional 6-year-old, Fred Figglehorn, who has a dysfunctional home life and "anger management issues".
[1] The character of Fred is played by Lucas Cruikshank, a teenager from
Columbus, Nebraska,
USA.
[2]
Cruikshank introduced the Fred Figglehorn character in videos on the JKL Productions channel he started on YouTube with his cousins, Jon and Katie. He set up the Fred channel in April 2008. By April 2009, the channel had over 1,000,000 subscribers, making it the number one most popular and subscribed channel of all time.
[1][2] The
"Fred Goes Swimming" episode was nominated for the "Favorite User Generated Video" award at the
35th People's Choice Awards, but it lost to
Barack Roll. Cruikshank also guest-starred as Fred in an episode of
iCarly, a sitcom on
Nickelodeon. He also appeared on the
Tyra Banks Show, to talk about the YouTube phenomenon. According to YouTube insight metrics, the largest age group of viewers is 13-17, though Cruikshank points out that this could skew lower because users must state they are at least 13 to create a YouTube account. Many YouTube users have created parodies of Fred, or other characters in his videos.
The Fred channel has received over 41 million channel views and over 260 million video views since its launch. He has passed
Nigahiga, and
Smosh as well as many other famous channels. His channel was the first channel to hit one million subscribers.
