Lucas Cruikshank Biography

Lucas Cruikshank created the character Fred Figglehorn and the associated Fred series for his channel on the video-sharing website YouTube. These videos are centered on Fred a fictional 6-year-old boy who has a dysfunctional home life and anger management issues. Cruikshank was raised in Columbus Nebraska and attended Lakeview High School. Cruikshank is openly gay. He came out in a YouTube video in which he said I'm gay. I feel so weird saying it on camera. But my family and friends have known for like three years. I just haven't felt the need to announce it on the Internet. Cruikshank while testing character ideas created the Fred character in a Halloween video and uploaded it to a YouTube channel that he had started with his two cousins. Upon the success of Fred he started a video series and set up the Fred channel in April 2008. By April 2009 the channel had over one million subscribers making it the first YouTube channel to do so and the most subscribed channel at the time. In December 2009 Cruikshank filmed Fred: The Movie which aired on Nickelodeon in September 2010. Nickelodeon has created a franchise surrounding the character and began producing the sequel in March 2011.

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