Kurtis Conner

Kurtis Matthew Kenneth Conner^{[P 1]} was born at North York General Hospital in the North York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada,^{[P 2]} on May 4, 1994,^{[P 3][P 4]} and grew up in Hamilton, Ontario^{[P 5][P 6]} before moving back to Toronto.^[2] He has an older sister.^{[3][P 7]} His stepfather died on June 6, 2023.^{[P 8]} Conner first performed stand-up comedy in 2013, at the age of 19, and later joined Humber College's Comedy Writing and Performance program.^[4]

Conner began social media on Vine,^[2] an app exclusively for short form videos which existed from June 2012 to January 2017.^[5] He amassed around 350 thousand followers on the platform, but later decided to attempt to create longform content on YouTube.^[2]

Conner uploaded the first video on his channel in 2014.^{[P 9]} He originally made videos for fun after his full-time office job, uploading around every week. His channel began to gain momentum in 2017 when one of his videos gained 600 thousand views in two days, leading him to increase his video output. Conner decided to take a risk and quit his office job to become a full-time YouTuber.^[2]

His channel has become known for his critique of content perceived as problematic on YouTube, and for making fun of those who wish to marginalize groups of people.^[6] In 2019, he and his friend and fellow comedian Jacob Sharpe criticised TikToker Sebastian Bails and Bails's girlfriend Lauren Godwin for making light of domestic abuse on their YouTube channel. Conner and Sharpe were both disturbed by the content, frequently commenting in the video that they found it difficult to make light of such a serious subject. Conner later said he would raise $10,000 for the domestic abuse charity loveisrespect and then match it with his own donation, with over $16,000 being raised and Conner making a donation of $26,000 overall.^[7]

Conner also criticised a "female Viagra" trend on YouTube, which involved YouTubers administering a claimed aphrodisiac for women by spiking their girlfriend's drink without their consent. His video was later removed from YouTube as it showed the controversial behaviour, although other "female Viagra" videos were still available on the platform at the time.^[8]

Conner has made more lighthearted videos, and says that his favorite content is film criticism.^[2] He has made content about the TikTok Hype House, manipulative tactics used by Justin Bieber's team to promote his song "Yummy", the 22 Convention (a "convention for women" run by anti-feminist men's rights activists),^[2] and pick-up artist Russell Hartley (whom Conner dubbed "misogynist of the year").^[9]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Conner posted a video detailing how to become famous online.^[10] In April 2021, he and Danny Gonzalez produced the song "In Love with a Creeper", which features them competing for the affections of (and eventually having a threesome with) a creeper from the video game Minecraft.^[11]

Conner also hosts a podcast entitled: Very Really Good.^[12]

Kurtis Conner was described by Lindsay Dodgson of Insider as "one of YouTube's most popular commentators". Like YouTubers Drew Gooden and Danny Gonzalez, he took a more lighthearted and comedic approach to the commentary genre and uses a deadpan delivery.^[2][13]

Conner began performing stand-up shows all over Canada in 2013.^[4] He self-released his debut comedy album Cuppla Jokes in 2016, which reached No. 1 on the iTunes comedy charts and No. 6 on the Billboard comedy charts.^[4] In 2019, he was a special guest and opening act for his friends and fellow YouTubers Danny Gonzalez and Drew Gooden during their We Are Two Different People Tour.^{[2][14][15][16]}

Conner started dating Jenna Allard on December 11, 2014.^{[P 10]} They were married in Tuscany on October 19, 2022.^{[P 11][P 12]} The two have a dog named Kiwi^{[P 13]} and they live together in Ontario, Canada.^{[P 14]} Conner has stated in a video that he identifies as agnostic.^{[P 15]}

Conner expressed solidarity with Palestine during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. In May 2024, Conner and many other Internet personalities participated in a campaign to raise money for Palestinian relief.^{[P 16][P 17][P 18]}