SINCE bursting onto the social media scene, Specs Gonzalez has managed to build himself an incredible career.
Here we take a look at the rise of this YouTube star, and the other content creators he has worked with.
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Who is Specs Gonzalez?
Born on April 25, 1986, Spec Gonzalez is a content creator best known for TikTok and YouTube.
Before finding fame on social media, he was a P.E teacher.
But he swapped the classroom for content creating and has never looked back.
Specs has a huge following across all of his platforms which includes 325K followers on Instagram, and nearly 405K TikTok fans (as of August 2024).
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Away from social media and the popular presenter also works for Sky Sports.
Specs is also a huge football fan and supports West Ham.
He can often be seen hanging out with his good pal Danny Dyer at Hammers’ matches.
What are Specs Gonzalez’s YouTube videos about?
Specs’ self-titled YouTube channel focuses on comedy videos.
He has an impressive following which sees him boast 127K subscribers, which is growing all the time.
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Specs has a podcast called No Rules, which he posts on his popular YouTube channel.
Who has Specs Gonzalez worked with?
Because of his star status, Specs has often worked with other big content creators.
The two social media stars that he tends to team up with are Yung Filly and Chunkz, as he regularly appears on their podcast.
In March 2024, he made a confession on The Chunkz & Filly Show that shocked fans.
It came after he told the podcasters he feared he had buried the wrong body at his father’s funeral.
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Addressing Filly and Chunkz, Specs said: “I buried my dad at the end of last year boys… but my auntie caught him on the train two days ago.”
After a period of stunned silence, Specs went on to explain that he hadn’t seen his father since he was five, and “pretended” that he knew the body he identified was related to him.
“I deep down believe I buried someone else,” he added, suggesting he “didn’t have time” to do any tests to clarify if he was related to the body.
Specs has also worked with Love Island legend, Chloe Burrows.
Has Specs Gonzales starred in any TV shows?
Since his rise to fame, he starred in two online TV shows.
Specs appeared in Man Like Mobeen, and Inside.
He is also listed on IMDB as starring in the videos Try Not To Laugh, and Open a Restaurant for 24 Hours.
What was the first YouTube video?
Here’s what you need to know…
- YOUTUBE’S first-ever video was uploaded 15 years ago – on April 23, 2005.
- It was a clip posted by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, marking the beginning of the website’s rapid and unstoppable rise to internet dominance.
- The video is titled “Me at the zoo”, and is geo-tagged to San Diego.
- In the clip, Karim gives a short speech to camera in very low video quality by today’s standards.
- He’s standing in a zoo talking about elephants, who can be seen in the background.
- YouTube’s inaugural video has now been viewed more than 303million times.
- It’s received nearly 15million likes and has racked up more around 10million comments.
- Karim met fellow YouTube co-founders Steven Chen and Chad Hurley while working at PayPal.
- The trio went on to create YouTube, although Karim was officially an adviser to the site – rather than being an employee.
- He remained relatively unknown until Google purchased YouTube in 2006.
- Karim received 137,443 shares of stock, which was worth roughly $64million at the time.
- Watch the clip here.
