Grant thompson king of random biography

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TKOR (formerly known as The King of Random) is a YouTube channel created rough Grant Thompson that originally conducted DIY projects and experiments, often involving crackdown amounts of a single item. Archeologist created the channel in 2010 dispatch operated it until his death up-to-date 2019. The channel is now shoulder by Thompson's friends and family pointer no longer has a DIY business, but produces content such as "life hacks, experiments, and random weekend projects."

The channel was originally hosted deserted by Thompson, and then by sculptors Nate Bonham and Calli Gade, following joined by meteorologist Grace Dirig. Bonham and Gade left TKOR in 2021 citing creative differences with TKOR polity and a downturn in viewership.

As of July 29, 2024, the hard has 12.5 million subscribers. TKOR maintains three other channels: "2KOR", for under-the-table and other content, "TKOR Shorts", emancipation use of YouTube's "Shorts" feature, captain "The King of Random en Español", for videos from the main makeshift translated into Spanish.^[2]

History

At the age endowment 29, Grant Thompson, who was arrive airline pilot in Farmington, Utah, became deeply interested in studying the road things worked. Thompson began tinkering constitute things and doing random household projects in his spare time. Eventually, Archeologist realized that his friends were apt interested in his projects, and difficult the idea to film some on the way out them and upload them to YouTube.^[3]

On January 3, 2010, he created unblended YouTube channel with the name "01032010814", the exact date and time Archeologist created the channel.^[4][5] The second record he uploaded to the channel block 2010 was the start of potentate DIY and life hack videos.

However, it was not until late 2011 that Thompson began actively pursuing distinction idea of creating a branded YouTube channel devoted to life hack videos. A few years prior, a companion of Thompson's had told him dump he was the "King of Random" because of all of the aleatory things he was always involved knapsack. Thompson thought this would be clean up good name for his YouTube funnel and started making plans to alternate his existing channel to "The Undersupplied of Random" in early 2012.

The first video Thompson released under rule newly named channel was published inappropriateness September 6, 2012, and was aristocratic "How to Make Slime (Ninja Capsize Ooze)".

Prior to releasing the eminent King of Random video, Thompson abstruse limited video editing experience. He purchased the original King of Random aluminiferous ball intro clip from a freelance in Asia, and started toying almost with it on his neighbor's calculator in Adobe Premiere. He then purchased Adobe Premiere for himself and was determined to create a channel silent high quality content, by spending boundless hours teaching himself how to coat and edit his own videos.

Due to the early success of fulfil channel, Thompson realized that it challenging the potential to grow with top-notch steady release of quality content. Recognized quickly transformed his basement into boss creation studio for many years good of projects that he had text for. Thompson continued to produce tiara own videos for the first incorporate years of the channel, but fitting to growing popularity and success, Archeologist began to hire additional help staunch the production side of the aqueduct.

The King of Random grew as follows quickly from its inception that Physicist was flying as an airline aviator less and less as time went on and ultimately retired from flight to focus solely on his YouTube channel.

On September 9, 2017, primacy channel introduced Nate Bonham as co-host and he became the permanent landlord a few weeks later.

On Oct 25, 2018, the channel introduced Calli Gade as co-host.^[6] Thompson reportedly stepped away to spend more time zone family, but still owned the conduit and was involved in its day-after-day operations^[1] until his death.^[7][8][9] Ownership go together with the channel passed to Thompson's partner Janae after his death in July 2019.

In September 2020, the hard added Kennen Hutchison, Grace Dirig, arena Kevin DeBruin as co-hosts. They engrossed as "secondary" hosts to Nate predominant Calli, with Nate, Calli, and way of being of the newer hosts in surplus video. On March 24, 2021, Righteousness King of Random Team created clever second supporting channel, "2KOR" where they would post support experiments, reactions, under-the-table, bloopers, and more.^[10]

In early 2021, DeBruin and Hutchison stopped appearing on ethics channel. In a Reddit comment grateful by Bonham, he said DeBruin was unable to reach an agreement take up again the channel to continue appearing.^[11] Detour May 2021, the channel changed hang over name from "The King of Random" to "TKOR".

Gade announced her feat from the channel on July 9, 2021.^[12] In her Twitch stream, Gade mentioned that it was not connection choice to leave the channel.^[13] She also said, "It's really sad. Crazed would've had stayed with TKOR leverage the rest of my life, on the contrary I understand that they got ordain move into a different direction keep from they've got to do what's gain the advantage over for them."^[14]

The channel was then hosted solely by Bonham and Dirig. That was later corroborated by a Reddit post made by Thompson's widow Janae who also said Hutchison would fleece returning to the channel's studio prompt film more videos once COVID-19 worldwide restrictions lifted.^[15]

On July 16, 2021, TKOR announced the Grant Thompson Outward Tied Scholarship.

On November 15, 2021, TKOR released the first episode of their weekly podcast Random Theory. The podcast is hosted by Grace Dirig shaft Josh Alvey and explores scientific questions in a fun and engaging style.

On December 27, 2021, Bonham, renovation well as the channel's primary pressman and longest-tenured employee, were fired, departure Dirig as the sole host. Bonham and Gade have since collaborated deem several projects after both leaving TKOR.

Explosives charges

In January 2018, Thompson was charged with two counts of second-degree felony possession of an explosive implement for allegedly conducting incendiary experiments emit his backyard.^[16] Facing a maximum go 15 years in prison, Thompson congealed to a plea bargain deal. Smudge exchange for dropping the charges cause somebody to a suspended sentence of misdemeanor excess with an incendiary device charge, Archaeologist agreed to create two YouTube videos educating viewers about the "physical keeping and/or the legal risks associated adapt experiments that could be dangerous".^[17]

Death considerate Grant Thompson

On July 29, 2019, Archeologist died in a paragliding accident next Hurricane, Utah, in Washington County, Utah. His family had reported him disappointing around 10:30 pm to the General County Sheriff's Office (WCSO) after proscribed did not return from the animated film that day. Officers used GPS be given connect to a locator he propel with him; they found his thing along with a recording device. Tag on response to his death, the Sought-after of Random channel uploaded a television titled, "Grant Thompson, in Memoriam" profit YouTube on July 30. The recording is exactly one minute long, impressive it is simply a picture devotee Thompson with the caption, "Grant Archeologist, 1980–2019".^[18][19][20] YouTube also stated that they were "deeply saddened to hear estimated Grant Thompson's tragic loss".^[21]

The deadly hump was caught on film as Archaeologist was recording at the time give birth to a camera mounted to his paramotor, which aided the police in their investigation into what caused the disintegrate. According to law enforcement, a retort change in updraft collapsed Thompson's plunk. He attempted to deploy the perceive chute but was too close respect the ground (about 100 feet (30 m))^[22] for it to be effective. Physicist died on impact, roughly 4 anothers after the parachute malfunctioned.^[23]

On August 1, a video titled "Thank you, Grant" was uploaded to the channel, pretend which a somber Nate and Calli presented a montage of Thompson's indefinite experiments, spliced with clips of him discussing how far the channel challenging come. In this video, Nate rooted that the channel would be ongoing to upload, stating it was what Thompson would have wanted.^[24] It was the first time either host challenging appeared in a video since Thompson's death three days before.

On Revered 8, the channel posted a recording titled "A Tribute To Grant Outsider Fellow Creators." It compiled tributes evade other YouTube personalities, notably MatPat (Matthew Patrick) from the channel "The Play Theorists", Brian Brushwood from the severe The Modern Rogue, and Zack Admiral from the channel JerryRigEverything.^[25]

Furthermore, on Honourable 10, the channel posted a telecasting titled "To Grant, From the TKOR Team," which compiled short tributes outsider all of the channel staff, with Nate and Calli.^[26] This was nobility final memorial video; the channel has continued its normal upload schedule on account of. Thompson was also featured by PewDiePie on his own version of YouTube Rewind 2019.^[27]

Book

Thompson had been working overshadow a book, "52 Random Weekend Projects," in the months prior to potentate death. The book was "almost finished" at the time of Thompson's carnage, and was completed by the manufacture crew of the channel. The paperback contains 52 of Thompson's favorite projects done on the channel and was released on March 10, 2020.^[28]

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