Gamers, musos and pranksters: Qld’s top 100 YouTube content creators | PART 2
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They’re famous for muttering the phase “Don’t forget to like, comment and subscribe!” - YouTubers are the celebrities of the social media generation, making and sharing videos to their loyal followers, whether it be comedy skits, wildlife adventures, vegan recipes, home organisation, video game competitions or ‘day-in-the-life’ vlogs.
Influencers aren’t a new phenomenon, with apps like Instagram and TikTok responsible for being the birthing place of thousands of Australian social media superstars, but the video-streaming platform YouTube is one of the original influencer platforms, creating viral sensations since the website was created in 2005.
And Australia’s sunshine state is home to some of the country’s most popular YouTube legends.
Troublemaking pranksters, beauty bloggers, professional gamers, wholesome vloggers and artistic creatives - which Queensland influencer will take the top spot for their YouTube success?
Here’s our list of Queensland’s top 100 YouTubers (#50 to #1) ranked by subscriber count.
50. Michelle Barnes – @muchelleb
Subscriber count: 502k
Hailing from the Gold Coast, Michelle Barnes is a content creator with a passion for sharing videos about “self-compassionate productivity and behaviour change”.
Having previously worked creating programs about workplace safety and bullying as an online learning designer, Barnes, who goes by the handle @muchelleb, uploads videos of her morning routine, one-minute habits that build happiness, getting out of a slump and everyday journaling ideas to encourage her more than 500k YouTube subscribers to help create an intentional life with healthy behaviours and habits.
49. Conagh Kathleen – @ConaghKathleen
Subscriber count: 516k
With more than 516k subscribers, Conagh Kathleen is a widely popular Brisbane YouTuber known for her range of makeup, beauty, fitness and lifestyle content, posting weekly vlogs about her day to day life.
Starting her account in 2016, the now 24-year-old founded her own small business Early Bird Society in 2022, selling a range of products from hair clips, mug sets and tote bags, in addition to collaborating with Showpo on a clothing line.
48. Michael Fallon – @MichaelFallonVideos
Subscriber count: 533k
A frequent collaborator with practical jokester Shammi Prasad, Michael Fallon is a Brisbane-based troublemaking YouTuber who posts outright outrageous videos, often featuring his sister Stephanie as the victim of his silly antics.
Posting new videos every week, Fallon has grown a following of more than 530k subscribers on YouTube and three million followers on TikTok for his prank videos where he replaces his sister’s orange juice with egg yolks, sprays hot chilli on her toilet paper, and puts fart spray in her mouthwash, his most popular video titled ‘BAD SANTA!!’ earning 12 million views.
47. Cutting Edge Engineering Australia – @CuttingEdgeEngineering
Subscriber count: 543k
A family owned machining and fabrication business, Cutting Edge Engineering Australia is a unique YouTube channel run by Kurtis Allen and his partner Karen Murphy as they run a machining and hydraulic repair workshop in Ormeau.
Located in the northern Gold Coast region, the pair established the company in 2017 and post their work repairing excavator buckets, dozer trunnions and motor grader blades online, earning millions of views for their videos using the industrial machinery, as well as featuring their adorable staffy with the unique name of Homeless.
46. Jack of the Dust – @jackofthedust3115
Subscriber count: 549k
Often referred to as a “skullptor”, Andy Firth is a self-taught artist who describes himself as “just your friendly neighbourhood skull lord”, creating fantastic artworks using the signature canvas of a skull to create spooky masterpieces that have been purchased by Joe Rogan, Slash, Jason Momoa and Chris Brown.
Operating in a team of 15 from two warehouses in Burleigh Heads, Firth worked in boat building for twelve years before pursuing his skull artworks full time, gaining 550k subscribers on YouTube and nearly one million followers on TikTok for his work constructing skull pieces inspired by Predator, Alien, Andy Warhol and more, selling from AU$594 to $4767 a piece.
45. Steal The Spotlight – @stealthespotlight_
Subscriber count: 555k
Describing her videos as “funky fashion content”, Katie Orlowski is a Brisbane-based content creator known by her YouTube channel @StealTheSpotlight, where she shares content exclusively about fashion, posting videos where she creates clothing combinations to mimic characters from famous TV shows and movies including Barbie, Gossip Girl, Euphoria and Friends.
After completing a Diploma in Fashion Styling from the Australian College of Professional Styling, Orlowski now creates content full time, with millions of views on more than 380 videos, her most popular videos including where she dresses like cartoon characters and styles outfits based on Zodiac signs.
44. Jaz Hand – @jazhand
Subscriber count: 583k
Hailing from Burleigh Heads, Jasmine Hand is one of the Gold Coast’s most well known YouTubers after starting her content creation career in the early 2010s, posting makeup tutorials and product reviews while working as a professional make-up artist.
Gaining millions of views on her videos, Hand now uploads a range of fitness, fashion and lifestyle content, uploading weekly vlogs covering a range of topics from Q & As, travel, lip injections, social media and entrepreneurship after founding her own jewellery brand Jaz Hand Made in 2020.
43. Dr Davin Lim – @LasersandLiftsbyDrDavinLim
Subscriber count: 625k
A board-certified dermatologist from west Brisbane’s Indooroopilly, Dr Davin Lim is one of the world’s leading experts for laser treatment and rejuvenation and discusses skincare products, DIY and common skin procedures including laser, injectables and surgery on his YouTube channel.
Completing is residency in Ireland, Dr Lim has won several accolades for his plethora of dermatological knowledge and has gained more than 90m views across his videos, including ‘satisfying’ Dr Pimple Popper-style blackhead extraction and acne scar removal videos.
42. Clickspring – @Clickspring
Subscriber count: 633k
With more than 630k subscribers, Clickspring is a YouTube channel made by a Cairns local known simply as Chris who creates videos about machine shop projects and clock technology, including a series where he attempts to reconstruct the famous Antikythera Mechanism – an ancient analog calendar computer that can track solar, lunar and astrological movements.
Chris began teaching himself how to make clocks after becoming interested in metal work during an elective in high school and now shares his engineering expeditions online, racking up over 57m views across all his videos.
41. Phantom Strider – @phantomstrider
Subscriber count: 634k
Hailing from Brisbane, Josh Strider is a 34-year-old YouTube personality who specialises in ‘top 10 list’ videos, ranking items from one to 10 in a fun and welcoming way, covering a range of topics including the top 10 best Disney movies, worst Simpsons episodes, banned fast food toys, and rejected Lego sets.
Studying psychology at Queensland University of Technology after serving in the navy for a year, Strider is half-Canadian and speaks out about mental health and anxiety tips, revealing in one of his videos that he is on the Autism spectrum.
40. Luke Falzon – @lukefalzon
Subscriber count: 656k
The fastest growing TikTok star in 2021 now with six million followers on the app, Luke Falzon is a Cairns based content creator and wildlife enthusiast whose YouTube content is dedicated to exploring around Far North Queensland, spear hunting, catching prawns, live bait fishing and camping overnight in the semirural coastal location.
With a second family account made with his wife Alex, Luke has more than 338m views on his channel where he regularly posts 10 to 20 minute videos undertaking various channels including surviving 24 hours on a pier with just a fishing rod, hunting mud crabs in deep mangroves, trolling for coral trout near Double Island and surviving 24 hours on a timber boat with just himself and his adorable beagle Bubi.
39. TrainGuy 659 – @TrainGuy659
Subscriber count: 692k
Posting videos that have gained more than 50 million views each, Joe Dietz is a Cairns local better known as TrainGuy 659, a YouTuber whose account is fully dedicated to posting Lego train content, creating insane Lego train tracks spanning over 120 metres, some constructed over his family pool and through his house.
Working as a loco driver in Far North Queensland, Dietz has turned his passion for trains and railroads into a reality both online and offline, with over 313m views on his videos crafting miniature versions of railroads.
38. Michelle Kenway – @MichelleKenway
Subscriber count: 706k
Based in Cleveland in the Redlands, Michelle Kenway is a physiotherapist and health educator specialising in pelvic floor safe exercises, uploading a range of exercise videos on her YouTube channel to help men and women access quality information about exercising safely and efficiently.
Specialising in classes for women with pelvic floor problems, musculoskeletal issues and osteoporosis, Kenway has received more than 100m views on her videos and is the author of prolapse exercise book and DVD series Inside Out.
37. Naysy – @Naysy
Subscriber count: 730k
Known simply as Naysy, Anais Riley is a full-time VR Youtuber from a coastal town near Brisbane who uploads videos of her gameplay trying out virtual reality video games, primarily posting videos of the popular VR video game Beat Saber, a rhythmical musical game where players have to slice blocks to create musical beats.
Earning more than 218m views on her video game content since posting content consistently for the past five years, Riley previously worked in social media and marketing for multiple video game brands after studying a Bachelor in Games and Interactive Media.
36. Freelee the BananaGirl – @freeleeTheBananaGirl
Subscriber count: 797k
Born and raised on a farm in Queensland, Leanne Ratcliffe is an influencer and self-described “vegan frugivore” better known as Freelee the BananaGirl, who went viral for her ‘frugivore diet’ of fully raw fruits, greens and nuts that saw her share her diet of up to 50 bananas a day.
The 42-year-old has earned 368m views on YouTube for her videos and YouTube shorts where she shares recipes, her natural lifestyle living off solar power, plus ‘what I eat in day’ videos, sharing her unique fully vegan and raw diet which saw her release her own e-recipe book ‘The Raw Till 4 Diet’ in 2014.
35. Karl Jobst – @karljobst
Subscriber count: 817k
With content solely dedicated to the niche act of speedrunning, an act involving finishing a video game as fast as possible, Brisbane-based Karl Jobst is a 37-year-old YouTuber who has been making content about gaming and speedrunning since 2010 following a career working in lending.
Posting videos at least once a week, Jobst’s most viral videos involve him commenting on and analysing popular cheating scandals in the gaming community, covering controversial alleged cheating moments involving the world’s best Minecraft speedrunner, Dream, and Guitar Hero record-breaker, Schmooey.
34. Susie J Todd – @SusieJTodd
Subscriber count: 879k
Recently moving to the Gold Coast after being raised in Canberra, Susie J Todd is a 23-year-old beauty, fashion and lifestyle content creator who went viral on YouTube following her series of honest and funny videos testing out viral fitness challenges in 2020, documenting her experience doing popular workouts including the seven day jump rope challenge and Chloe Ting’s two week shred challenge.
In addition to her fitness content, Todd has gained millions of views for her makeup tutorial, fashion haul and vlogging videos, earning sponsorship deals with Princess Polly and Lounge Underwear and releasing her own style edit with clothing brand Beginning Boutique in 2022.
33. Michael Finch – @MichaelFinch
Subscriber count: 883k
Since starting his account in 2014, Michael Finch is one of the Gold Coast’s most well known beauty influencers, starting his content creation career by making YouTube videos about beauty, fashion and makeup, earning millions of views on his videos reviewing makeup products, and participating in makeup challenges such as doing a full face using only $1 makeup products, kids makeup and makeup products used in jail.
With more than 100m views across his hundreds of videos, Finch now focuses more on vlogging and recipe content and often appears in videos alongside fellow Queensland influencers Lily Brown, Skye Wheatley and long-term best friend Shani Grimmond.
32. Kayla Oxley – @kaylaoxley
Subscriber count: 904k
Based on the Sunshine Coast, Kayla Oxley is a social media content creator best known for her social experiment and public street interview videos where she asks strangers questions about their lives or asks them to participate in challenges for a prize, gaining millions of views across TikTok and YouTube for her short form video content.
Releasing her own song ‘Your Mind’ in 2021, Kayla is the sister of content creator James Oxley or ‘Oxlee’ and has more than 2.6m followers on her TikTok account.
31. Marty and Michael – @MartyandMichael
Subscriber count: 917k
With over ten million followers across all social media platforms, Martin Sokolinski and Michael Brookhouse make up the Brisbane comedy duo Marty and Michael, who are most well known for their comedy sketches, public stunts and social experiment videos, including setting up 100 alarm clocks in their house, filling a car with ice and famously invading the pitch at the 2020 AFL grand final.
Since creating their YouTube channel in 2016, the pair have amassed more than 286m views across hundreds of videos and host their own podcast Fully Actual.
30. ExperGamez – @EXBAR
Subscriber count: 924k
Known simply as ExperGamez, Joe Wild, is a 24-year-old YouTuber based out of Brisbane who dedicates his YouTube channel of more than 900k subscribers to Dragon Ball Z content, analysing characters and episodes from the Japanese anime television series which has seen him rack up over 486m views across hundreds of videos.
29. Shae-Lee Raven – @Shae-leeraven
Subscriber count: 1m
Hailing from Tamborine Mountain in Queensland, Shae-Lee Raven is an entrepreneur, creative and YouTuber most well known for being apart of the comedy trio SketchShe alongside friends Madison Lloyd and Lana Kington before leaving the group in 2020m after their two videos ‘Mime Through Time’ and ‘Bohemian Carsody’ went viral, leading to the trio appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Following her departure from the comedy group, Raven continues to make couple comedy skit content with her partner in addition to being the founder of her own company Viva La Flow, a menstrual product and natural birth control brand with a focus on being environmentally conscious.
28. Parkour Twins (Brodie and Dylan Pawson) – @ParkourTwins
Subscriber count: 1.03m
Brisbane-based twins Brodie and Dylan Pawson have made a name for themselves as the Parkour Twins, featuring on Australian Ninja Warrior and racking up over 215m views on YouTube for their heart-stopping videos performing parkour around the Brisbane CBD, going from point A to point B in the most creative and sometimes, scariest, path possible.
With more than 10 million followers across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, the pair have gone viral for their creative extreme sport videos, often featuring fun plot lines like parkour during a zombie apocalypse, running away from Ghostface from the Scream 6 movie, and performing parkour while dressed as Spider-Man.
27. Pask Makes – @PaskMakes
Subscriber count: 1.09m
Based on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, Neil Paskin is a former construction worker and landscape photographer, better known as the creative mind behind Pask Makes, a YouTube channel where Paskin makes and creates various projects and shares the process with viewers, constructing a range of items from chicken coops and homemade truck beds to blades and coffee tables.
With more than 170m views across hundreds of videos, Paskin wants to encourage people to be creative and shares plans of some of his projects on his website, along with blog posts and merchandise.
26. Fynnpire – @Fynnpire
Subscriber count: 1.18m
Self described as “the jerky eating, cat loving, hot weather hating, Australian gamer”, Fynn Gore, better known as Fynnpire, is a Brisbane-based YouTuber who has been making videos professionally since 2017, uploading commentary and gameplay as he plays various video games including Teardown, Owlchemy Labs and other virtual reality video games.
Since starting his account in 2015, Gore has gained more than 572m views across more than 2000 gaming videos, some of his most popular including playing the Rick and Morty virtual reality video game..
25. Luke Towan – @LukeTowan
Subscriber count: 1.19m
Hailing from Far North Queensland, Luke Towan is a talented model railroad and diorama builder, creating a range of miniature trains, buildings, waterfalls and landscapes using mainly organic materials.
Working as a pilot for a regional airline during the day, Towan creates YouTube videos as a part-time hobby, with some of his most viewed videos including his tutorials on how to build an ultra-realistic muddy river diorama and a realistic miniature waterfall.
24. Go4x4 – @go4x4media
Subscriber count: 1.2m
Self-described as “lovers of camping, off-roading and videography”, Brisbane-based Eugen Schledwitz and Kelly Bang are the pair behind Go4x4, a YouTube channel where the couple share content all about camping, including campfire cooking, solo and couple camping trips, , racking up over 105m views on their videos featuring their adorable dog Ted.
Often camping in the rain, the pair have earned millions of views on their ASMR videos, posting 30 minute videos of them relaxing in their warm tent for viewers to enjoy the relaxing rain noises and cosy atmosphere of their camping set-up.
23. Shammi Prasad – @ShammiLTD
Subscriber count: 1.28m
With more than 250 videos and 1.28 million subscribers, Shammi Prasad, or simply, Shammi, is a viral prankster and content creator from the Gold Coast who was gained millions of views for his videos pulling practical jokes on his housemates including pushing them in their pool, planting stink bombs and throwing cake in their faces.
With more than 27 million followers across TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, Shammi has made headlines for sneaking into Splendour in the Grass inside a wheelie bin and opening a bar ‘Memory Lane’ along Glitter Streep on Broadbeach which closed just a couple months after opening in 2021.
22. Tammy Hembrow – @TammyHembrowOfficial
Subscriber count: 1.31m
Tammy Hembrow is arguably one of the most well-known influencers in the country, with over 16 million followers on Instagram and known as the founder of fitness app ‘Tammy Fit’ and activewear brand ‘Saski’ which has seen her land on the cover of Forbes magazine.
While most of her content comes from her Instagram page, the Gold Coast-based influencer uses her YouTube channel with 1.31 million subscribers to share ‘day in the life’ vlogs, family videos with her three children as well as fashion and beauty content.
21. AstroKobi – @AstroKobi
Subscriber count: 1.31m
Self described as an “Australian space guy trying to make learning actually interesting”, Brisbane-based Kobi Brown creates content with a sole focus on making science fun and engaging, sharing hundreds of videos about the Earth, planets and NASA.
With over 1.9 million followers on TikTok, Brown mainly shares YouTube Shorts (videos under one minute) on his YouTube channel where he has over 1.3 million subscribers, his most viewed video discussing four planets that could be better for life than Earth.
20. Miller Wilson – @MillerWilson
Subscriber count: 1.4m
Making content since he was 12-years-old, Gold Coast-based content creator Miller Wilson, 20, is a wildlife explorer who has gone viral for his videos travelling around Australia and documenting insane flora and fauna, from exotic birds and fish to Komodo dragons and massive sharks.
With over 170 videos and 1.4 million subscribers, some of Wilson’s most popular videos include documenting a stingray giving birth, surviving in the wild for 24 hours, and bowfishing giant catfish.
19. Shani Grimmond – @ShaniGrimmond
Subscriber count: 1.47m
One of Australia’s original beauty YouTubers, Shani Grimmond is a Brisbane-based model, fashion and make-up influencer, plus the founder of Sylk Swim swimwear brand, who has earned over 1.47m subscribers for her content sharing makeup tutorials, travel vlogs and beauty hacks.
Starting her account in 2011, Shani has uploaded over 450 videos, earning millions of views for some of her older videos including beauty hacks, makeup do’s and don’ts and ‘get ready with me’ videos alongside her long-time best friend and fellow influencer, Michael Finch.
18. James Oxley – @oxlee
Subscriber count: 1.54m
A musical artist, famous TikTok star and viral prankster, James Oxlee, better known as just ‘Oxlee’ is a Brisbane-based content creator who uploads his own music as well as vox-pop style interviews and social experiments, asking people their biggest secrets and offering strangers random prizes.
Since starting his YouTube channel in 2016, Oxlee has uploaded over 800 videos, mainly re-posting short-form videos as YouTube Shorts from his TikTok account where he has over five million followers.
17. Nick Fry – @_nickfry
Subscriber count: 1.55m
Born and raised in South East Queensland, Nick Fry is a 22-year-old content creator who has made a name for himself by producing entertaining videos where he goes fishing, solo camps, lives off the land and interacts with Australian wildlife, earning 12 million views on a single video where he solo camps for two days, eating only what he catches.
Passionate about animals and the ocean, Fry founded the company Shorehawk in 2019, a plastic-free clothing and accessories brand focused on connecting people to nature and raising awareness about environmental issues.
16. Marion Grasby – @Marionskitchen
Subscriber count: 1.76m
Making a name for herself as a competitor on MasterChef Season Two, Marion Grasby is a Thai-Australian chef who founded her own brand Marion’s Kitchen in 2010 and has since been sharing classic Australian and Asian recipes as well as foodie content on her YouTube channel to her following of more than 1.7 million people.
Currently living in Noosa, Grasby has released two cookbooks, Always Delicious in 2021 and Just as Delicious in 2022, and posts recipe and cooking videos multiple times a week, covering meals like spicy garlic shrimp spaghetti, Asian street food classics and the “best ever” roast potatoes.
15. Self Sufficient Me – @Selfsufficientme
Subscriber count: 2.11m
After working in the Australian Army for 21 years, Bellmere local Mark Valencia started the account Self Sufficient Me in 2011 to promote and teach his more than two million subscribers how to be ‘self sufficient’, covering a range of topics like organic gardening, raising animals and reducing waste.
Living on a rural property in Moreton Bay with his partner and two children, Valencia gets millions of views on his videos ranging from how to bury kitchen scraps, which are the best vegetables to plant at home and tips to grow fruit and vegetables like lemons and onions.
14. Ryan Williams – @RyanWilliamsOfficial
Subscriber count: 2.3m
Born and raised on the Sunshine Coast, Ryan Williams or ‘R-Willy’ is an Australian BMX rider whose videos of insane BMX jumps and tricks have seen him travel around the world with leading action sports company Nitro Circus and amass a following of more than two million people.
With nearly 550m views across all his videos, his most viewed videos range from him battling a mega ramp with a long scooter, to riding the world’s smallest scooter.
13. Whealth by Slaiman – @WhealthbySlaiman
Subscriber count: 2.33m
Brisbane-based YouTuber Slaiman Akl’s philosophy for his YouTube channel Whealth by Slaiman is to promote “whealth” or “health through laughter, happiness and health advice” which he shares mainly through prank videos with his wife Kate Martineau where he pretends to get arrested, forgets her birthday and pranks her with hot sauce.
Amassing a following of more than 2.3 million people, Akl and Martineau continue to post YouTube videos weekly and officially tied the knot in May 2022.
12. ArtSpear Entertainment – @ArtSpearEntertainment
Subscriber count: 2.52m
Producing comedic animated parody videos, spoofing movie trailers like Spider-Man No Way Home and Avengers: Infinity War, Joe Bauer and Rita Artmann are the brains behind Gold Coast independent production company and YouTube channel, ArtSpear Entertainment.
With more than 180 videos, Bauer and Artmann have collected over 500m views on their content, using their skills in animation to create comedic skits using famous characters, mainly from the Marvel universe and other popular franchises including Star Wars, DC and Game of Thrones.
11. Blender Guru – @blenderguru
Subscriber count: 2.55m
With content solely dedicated to the 3D computer graphics software tool Blender, Andrew Price is the brains behind the YouTube channel Blender Guru where he posts free and informative videos on how to approach 3D animation.
Starting the account from his Brisbane bedroom in 2004, Price’s channel has gained more than 2.5m subscribers and features hundreds of tutorial videos about 3D animation and technology, including how to make realistic furniture, textures and beginners guides to Blender.
In addition to his YouTube channel, Price is also the CEO of Brisbane-based tech company Poliigon that helps 3D artists make better renders.
10. Bella Fiori – @bellafiori
Subscriber count: 2.58m
Hailing from Brisbane, Bella Fiori is a YouTube content creator who mainly specialises in true crime content, creating long-form videos of around 30 minutes each discussing famous true crime cases like the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and 11-year-old English serial killer Mary Bell.
Starting her account in 2015, Fiori posts a range of fashion, beauty, cooking, travel and lifestyle content in addition to her true crime video essays, uploading makeup tutorials and fashion inspiration to her 2.5 million subscribers.
After getting engaged to her partner Kerry Jull in November 2022, Fiori recently moved overseas with her fiance and is renting an apartment in London.
9. Jackson O’Doherty – @JacksonODoherty
Subscriber count: 2.67m
A notorious prankster and OnlyFans star, Jackson O’Doherty is a social media-famous content creator known best for his practical joke videos and party boy antics, hosting crazy parties at his former Playboy-style Gold Coast mansion ‘Jackson’s Playground’.
With more than two million subscribers, O’Doherty’s content consists of mainly pranking videos including when he made his friend a ‘floating bedroom’ on the water and began a series of prank wars with his housemate.
O’Doherty also has a second vlogging channel Jackson O’Doherty Vlogs and a podcast named the Outspoken Show, where he interviews well known social media influencers like Alex Hayes, Mitchell Orval and Harry Jowsey and posts the live recordings onto YouTube.
8. My Cupcake Addiction – @MyCupcakeAddiction
Subscriber count: 3.05m
Elise Strachan is the creative director behind YouTube channel and cooking blog My Cupcake Addiction, which has seen her write her own cookbook Sweet! Celebrations, collaborate with brands like Google, Disney and Nestle, as well as appear as a TV personality on SBS Australia and Food Network USA.
Since starting her cupcake business in 2011, Strachan has become a multi-platform content creator, producing and starring on TV series The Sweet Life on SBS and co-hosting the Spotify podcast Bake My Day with co-host and fellow baker Nick Makrides.
Hailing from the Gold Coast, Strachan has gained more than three million subscribers for her dessert recipe videos like how to make a Skittles rainbow cake or a giant Twix bar slice, and now documents her life travelling around the country in a stylish van on Instagram.
7. Andy Cooks – @andy_cooks
Subscriber count: 3.15m
Originally from New Zealand, Andy Hearnden is the cooking mastermind behind YouTube channel Andy Cooks, where the professional chef has earned more than 1.2 billion views on his videos ranging from recipe content, cooking challenges, cooking tips and food reviews.
Residing in Queensland, Andy Hearnden is the executive chef at Kilcoy Global Foods near Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast, with years of experience working in a number of restaurants in Auckland, London, Sydney and Melbourne including French restaurant Entrecôte.
Leaving school in Year 10 to pursue cooking as a full-time career, Hearnden has gained millions of fans across YouTube, Instagram and TikTok for his videos making classic recipes like chicken biryani, fish and chips, beef Wellington and seven-hour slow cooked lamb shoulder.
6. Sheet Music Boss – @SheetMusicBoss
Subscriber count: 3.19m
Founded by Griffith University graduates Samuel Dickenson and Andrew Wrangell, Sheet Music Boss is a YouTube channel with a sole focus on piano content, sharing tutorials on how to play hit songs in popular culture which have collected over 1.3 billion views total.
Based in Brisbane, Sheet Music Boss produce piano tutorials on a scale of easy to extremely difficult, covering songs such as the main theme from The Office television series and Peaches from the new Super Mario Bros movie, as well as being known as the composers of the viral and impossibly hard song ‘Rush E’.
Directors of Sheet Music Boss, Dickenson and Wrangell met while studying music composition at Queensland Conservatorium in 2010.
5. Two Set Violin – @TwoSetViolin
Subscriber count: 4.04m
Both raised in Brisbane, Brett Yang and Eddy Chen are the musical prodigies behind the violin duo Two Set Violin, a YouTube channel where the two musos share a mix of classical music content and comedic skits about classical music to make their art form more accessible to contemporary audiences.
With more than four million YouTube subscribers, the two classically trained musicians post a range of content on their highly popular YouTube channel, including skits pretending to be an ‘Asian Mum’, posting their reactions to child prodigies playing difficult violin pieces and one of their most well known videos where Yang sings in competition with a professional opera singer.
Yang, 31, and Chen, 30, have both worked professionally as musicians, playing with the Queensland Conservatorium Orchestra and Queensland Symphony Orchestra, in addition to hosting their first ever crowd-funded classical world tour in 2017, playing in concerts in New York, London, Singapore, Berlin and more.
4. x2Twins – @x2Twins
Subscriber count: 6.03m
Based in Brisbane, Jordan and Jesse Eckley are better known by their YouTube channel @x2Twins where the two brothers share videos of their gameplay of the popular online game Fortnite Battle Royale, posting multiple times a week to their more than six million subscribers.
After finishing school in 2017, the twin brothers decided to pursue professional gaming full time, signing with professional e-sports team Renegades in 2018 and beginning to upload gaming videos to YouTube where they’ve gained over 1.4 billion views across their nearly 1000 videos.
Their most viewed video earned 9.4m views where they set a Fortnite world record for 88 eliminations in a single duos game.
3. Primitive Technology – @primitivetechnology9550
Subscriber count: 10.8m
Born and raised in Far North Queensland, John Plant is the mastermind behind the Primitive Technology YouTube channel where the self-taught primitive technician makes tools and buildings using only natural materials.
Since starting his account in 2015, Plant has earned more than 10 million subscribers and over one billion views for his videos where he shows his audience how to make charcoal, produce an iron knife, create a mud hut, and other survivalist tasks, using only materials from the Queensland bushland.
With previous experience as a soil tester as well as work experience at a pottery shop and powder coating factory, Plant is skilled in various niche areas that saw him release a book Primitive Technology: A survivalist’s guide to building tools, shelters and more in the wild in 2019.
2. Supercar Blondie – @SupercarBlondie
Subscriber count: 11.9m
Born and raised in Brisbane and now living in the United Arab Emirates, Alex Hirschi is the co-founder of the brand Supercar Blondie, a YouTube channel with a mission of “hunting down the world’s coolest cars” and encouraging a generation of women to lead in male-dominated industries, such as, automotive.
After studying journalism and business at Queensland University of Technology, Alex moved to Dubai to work as a broadcast journalist for ten years before deciding to found Supercar Blondie with her husband Nik Hirschi in 2017, growing the brand to a company of 35 people and an audience of 95 million.
The 37-year-old car enthusiast has racked up over 3.7 billion views on her videos, featuring incredible vehicles, from concept cars, Rolls Royces, Lamborghinis and a real life Batmobile.
1. Lachlan Power – @lachlan
Subscriber count: 14.8m
A gaming superstar and founder of professional e-sports team PWR, Lachlan Power has gained a following of nearly 15 million on YouTube for his videos playing the popular first-person shooter game Fortnite Battle Royale, becoming the first Australian to reach over 10 million subscribers on the videostreaming platform.
Born and raised in Shailer Park, Power is the son of the Mayor of the City of Logan Darren Power and uses his YouTube channel to share solely video game content, sharing gameplay and commentary on Fortnite and other games like Halo, Fall Guy and Minecraft.
In 2020, Fortnite gifted Power an ICON Series Fortnite skin – a gaming avatar that allows users to play as Power in the online game, an honour awarded to major names like LeBron James, Ariana Grande, Travis Scott and fellow Australian Fornite players, Lazarbeam and Loserfruit.
Power currently lives in a $4.4m apartment in the Brisbane CBD and won the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award for Favourite Aussie/Kiwi Content Creator in 2019.
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The Sunday Quiz: What is the tallest waterfall in the world?
Peter Dutton became Opposition Leader in what year? Which car firm makes the Camaro model? Put your knowledge of trivia to the test with The Sunday Quiz.
Hell and high water: Inside ground zero of North Qld’s flood nightmare
In the dead of night, as most of Ingham slept, a torrent descended. Nothing will ever be the same again. This is the untold true story of how the North Qld spirit conquered unimaginable tragedy and heartbreak.