Zach King is a famous internet persona mostly known for his popular videos on various platforms suck as TikTok, and YouTube.
Let’s find out more about him!
- His full name is Zachary Michael King.
- He was born on February 4th, 1990.
- His star sign is Aquarius.
- He is an American internet personality, filmmaker, and illusionist based in Los Angeles.
- He is most known for his “magic vines”, which are six-second videos digitally edited to look as if he is doing magic.
- He calls his videos “digital sleight of hand”.
- He started posting videos on YouTube in 2008 .
- In 2011, he posted a video titled Jedi Kittens on YouTube.
- The Jedi Kittens were produced by King and one of his college friends.
- The video showed two cats fighting with lightsabers.
- The video gained over a million views in three days[15] and went on to have over 18 million views.
- A sequel of the video titled Jedi Kittens Strike Back gained over 27 million views.
- A third part of the video, Jedi Kittens – The Force Awakens was posted in 2013, which has gained over 28 million views.
- King’s official YouTube channel is -what else- Zach King.
- He started posting videos to Vine in 2013.
- After creating an account on Vine, he decided to create one Vine each day for the next thirty days.
- After the success of his first few Vines, he decided to continue with creating and posting new Vines.
- He appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on January 29, 2014, and made several Vines with the crew of the show.
- As of 2014, King creates Vine videos for a living and works out of his garage.
- In an interview with The Independent, he said that he would want to direct feature films, preferably action-adventure movies, in the future.
- Zach King posted his first video to TikTok (formely known as musical.ly) in 2016.
- His first video on TikTok showed him escaping a jail cell.
- Since then he accumulated over 45 million followers.
- This is making him the third most-followed individual on the platform.
- King won the Hewlett-Packard commercial contest in 2010, and got a trip to the red carpet at the London Film Festival.
- In 2013, he won YouTube’s NextUp Creators contest.
- Zach King and Rachel Holm, married in 2014.
- On 2016, they competed together on the Amazing Race 28.
- They were eliminated during the ninth leg of the race being placed sixth in the overall standings
- As of 2017, they lived in the community of Rossmoo.r, an unincorporated community in Orange County, California.
- King and his wife have two sons.
- One of their son is adopted.
- King started his website, FinalCutKing.com in 2008, to offer training and tips about using the editing software Final Cut Pro.
- He came up with this idea because he was unable to find tutorials for the software on the Internet.
- At the same time, he started using his YouTube channel to give tutorials for visual effects using the Software.
- After gaining an audience for his website, he began selling training seminars and used the money to pay for his college.
- He participated as a contestant on an episode of Viral Video Showdown that aired on Syfy in 2012.
- In December 2019 he shared the most viewed video on TikTok
- The video showed himself apparently flying on a broomstick.
- The video was viewed over 2.1 billion times on TikTok in 4 days.
- In 2013, he was placed in the 25 most promising filmmakers of the generation.
- His perseverance has landed him great projects working in Hollywood films.
- He has been part of the director’s team for the popular movie Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – The Trailer Rescue.
- He has also voiced over the muzzled wolf in Zootopia.
- He spends most of his free time learning new special effects.
- During his free time he likes making his videos better, even when he isn’t filming for his newvideos.
- He loves pets, especially dogs and fishes.
- Apart from that, Zach is also a trained pianist.
- As a child he used to train for 3 hours a day.
- He also loves food cooked by his mother, and he calls her the best cook in the world who can preparedelicious meals at the drop of a hat!
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