Beluga (YouTuber)
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| Born | Braden Boyko March 4, 2002 United States | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
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| Channels | Beluga Explore Lucid Dreaming | ||||||||||||
| Years active | 2021–present | ||||||||||||
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| Subscribers | 10.7 million (as of July 15, 2025) | ||||||||||||
| Views | 2.4 billion (as of July 15, 2025) | ||||||||||||
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Last updated: November 7, 2024 | |||||||||||||
Braden Boyko, better known online as Beluga, is an American YouTuber with over 10 million subscribers, well known for his skits revolving around various topics with the use of Discord. His videos mainly feature relatable situations.[1][2]
Beluga's profile picture is a cat meme from 2018 known as "polite cat", due to its smile. The smile turned out to be photoshopped. The cat's actual name is Ollie and it is a domestic short hair tabby cat.[3]
Career
2017-2021: Explore Lucid Dreaming
In January 2017, Beluga created a channel named "Survival Mode" which would remain dormant until 2021. In September 2017, Beluga started a channel named "Explore Lucid Dreaming", a channel which teaches people about Lucid Dreaming. This was his main channel until 2021. He uploaded 77 videos on this channel between 2019 and 2021.
2021-present: Beluga
Beluga's channel was first created in January 2017, however, Beluga did not upload any videos on the channel until 2021. In February 2021, Beluga posted his first video on his channel Survival Mode. Beluga's early videos were on various topics such as a reaction video of a man being attacked by goose and a commentary video on Dream's cheating scandal. In May of that year, he changed the name of the channel to Beluga and said that he would be posting "some of the best videos on the Internet." On June 12, 2021, Beluga began uploading Discord content, which gained millions of views and the channel gained 740k subscribers in June alone. Beluga later became one of the fastest growing YouTube channels.
Awards and nominations
In 2021, Beluga came 4th place as Breakout Creator Of 2021 For YouTube.
References
- ↑ https://m.economictimes.com/magazines/panache/youtuber-invites-833000-people-to-edit-an-assignment-on-google-docs-internet-chaos-that-followed-will-leave-you-in-splits/articleshow/118582311.cms
- ↑ https://wiki.sportskeeda.com/youtube/who-is-beluga
- ↑ https://www.pluggedin.com/youtube-reviews/beluga/