KevJumba

Kevin Wu (born June 12, 1990) is a retired American YouTuber best known under his former username KevJumba.

The San Francisco Chronicle ' s Jeff Yang has noted that Wu is not a comedian in the conventional sense but that by "just talking [he] is, well, pretty hilarious" due to his deadpan vocal delivery, animated facial expressions and tendency toward unexpected digressions.

Wu was born on June 12, 1990, in Houston, Texas.

His father, Michael Wu, a Taiwanese immigrant, is a computer engineer.

Wu previously appeared on The CW Television Network's short-lived Online Nation and co-starred with Jessica Lee Rose and Philip DeFranco in Hooking Up from HBOLabs (the online arm of HBO) in 2008.

Wu graduated from Clements High School in Sugar Land, Texas in 2008 and attended the University of California, Davis for two years before dropping out.

He was living in downtown Los Angeles while in the entertainment business but later relocated back to Houston.

On February 26, 2008, the Los Angeles Times compared the web series Quarterlife 's viewership to Wu's. At the time Wu was a "semi-well known YouTube blogger" and had received 450,000 views for a video describing how he broke his shin.

Quarterlife, which had been picked up by NBC, had received only 100,000 views on MySpace and 50,000 views on YouTube.

By May 29, 2008, Wu had become one of three East Asians under the age of 21 to be in the top five of YouTube's all-time most subscribed users with 187,000 subscribers and more than 5.9 million views.

By June 5, 2008, he had become the number one subscribed comedian on YouTube, and third most subscribed uploader overall.

Wu's videos have received replies from Ella Koon, Jessica Alba, and Baron Davis.

In 2008, Davis created a "longest stare" contest for ibeatyou.com, a site that he and Alba's husband Cash Warren co-founded.

The contest began with Davis challenging Wu, who then challenged Alba, who responded to the challenge.

In 2010, Wu and his father, Michael, competed as a team on the 17th season of The Amazing Race, placing seventh out of eleven teams.

In 2011, Wu began performing with Yesterday, Today, Forever (YTF) along with other YouTube personalities.

The group performed their first concert on October 9, 2011, in Honolulu, Hawaii.

In June 2012, Wu began starring in YouTube videos on a new channel called YOMYOMF.

He stars in his own series titled KevJumba Takes All.

In 2013, Wu ceased production of YouTube content.

As of September 27, 2013, KevJumba has remained inactive with no new uploads to the channel.

In 2014, Wu starred in crime drama film Revenge of the Green Dragons (executive produced by Martin Scorsese).

As of August 2014, Wu had more than 3,000,000 subscribers and more than 350 million combined views on the videos in his main channel.

His combined video views total over 343.9 million.

Wu was severely injured in a car crash in June 2015.

In 2016, Wu returned for a brief period of time on social media.

In May 2019, Wu completed his bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of Houston.

Wu was known for posting humorous videos on YouTube.

When Wu's "I Have to Deal With Stereotypes" video was featured on YouTube's home page, his number of viewers began to increase.

In this video, Wu talks about stereotypes he has to deal with as an Asian-American.

He tries to disprove his cheapness by bragging about the recent purchase of a "brand new, top-of-the-line, TI-84 calculator".

He acknowledges that this might make him nerdy but dismisses this stereotype too as he does not "make all A's...in school today [he] made a B+."

He is then greeted by a voice that was supposed to be his mother calling him a loser and accusing him of dishonoring their family.

Wu goes on to say he can prove his predominant social life with the constant ringing of his cell phone.

At this point, his phone indeed rings, he answers it, and the voice on the other end to Wu's disappointment says, "Hey, why did you tell me to call you?"

Wu has collaborated with fellow YouTube comedian Christine Gambito (HappySlip), making five videos with her.

Following his video, "Butthash Hero", Wu introduced his father, PapaJumba, onto his YouTube channel, and his father made several appearances in candid video clips taken by his son.

Responding to Wu's father's growing popularity among viewers, his father made a debut in "I Love My Dad", and has been featured alongside his son many times since.

Wu began uploading videos onto YouTube during his junior year of high school.

In November 2020, Wu created an account on Twitch, originally titled cybermuse.