Michael Buckley Biography
Michael Buckley is a former YouTuber from the United States. Buckley was well-known for his vlog What the Buck!?, in which he remarked on pop culture events and celebrities, and he formerly had one of YouTube’s most popular entertainment channels.
How old is Michael Buckley? – Age
He is 47 years old as of 8 June 2022. He was born in 1975 in Wallingford, Connecticut, United States. His real name is Michael John Buckley.
Michael Buckley Partner
Buckley is a divorced pansexual. He resided in Connecticut with his ex-husband until 2017, when he taped the What the Buck?! program. He moved to Denver, Colorado, in December 2017 to be closer to his twin sister Debbie.
Michael Buckley Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Michael Buckley What the Buck!?
Buckley’s What the Buck?! is a celebrity gossip and comedy series of short films on YouTube. Buckley, who often made jokes while reporting on pop-culture news, was included in the series. Table for Two, a public-access cable TV show, launched the series in 2005. Eventually, snippets were put on MySpace as well as on a YouTube channel named peron75, where they were seen by a much larger audience.
The show was relocated from Cable TV to YouTube, and by May 1, 2007, the What the Buck?! the show had its own dedicated channel named “WHATTHEBUCKSHOW.” By 2008, the What the Buck?! YouTube channel was one of the top ten most-subscribed-to channels on YouTube, a position it held for about two years. The program had a total of 464 million episode views and 1.43 million combined channel subscribers at its peak. Buckley canceled the event in a video titled “The End,” which was put to YouTube on July 1, 2016.
Michael Buckley Book
Buckley released the instructive book HELP! in 2017. My Child Wants to Be a YouTuber!
Michael Buckley Minisode Maniac!
Buckley earned the moniker ‘The Minisode Maniac’ in January 2009 after discussing and promoting The Minisode Network’s material on the Minisode’s YouTube channel on Crackle. Michael released his final Minisode Maniac episode in mid-February. He raced around his backyard in a speedo in the snow to celebrate.
Michael Buckley Career
What’s going on? started out as a brief weekly segment on Table for Two and provided him with “a chance to riff and rant on his own.” After that, his cousin uploaded some to YouTube, and “it snowballed.” In May 2006, Buckley started his YouTube channel and began gaining followers. His main focus was on celebrities and pop culture, often satirizing and parodying them.
He began working as an online entertainer after quitting his low-paying day job as an administrative assistant for the music promotion company Live Nation on September 11, 2008. Edge Boston summed up his work as follows: He posts some of the snarkiest online commentary on celebrities and pop culture three to four times per week. He does it well. “irreverent, fast-talking, pop-culture-obsessed” has been a description of his high-energy and rapid-fire delivery style; “A living can of Red Bull” has been compared to him. Within the first five months of posting, he rose to become the second most popular comedian.
He was one of the vloggers with the most subscribers. His online success has led to more work in mainstream media, like DirecTV, Leeza Gibbons’ syndicated radio show, and a regular spot as a guest on Lips & Ears and Red Eye, Fox News’ weekly gossip shows. Lips & Ears host Courtney Friel discovered What the Buck?! and said to Buckley, “The beauty of YouTube… is that they have complete creative freedom,” before inviting him onto the show.
On September 6, 2007, “The Top (and Base) Gays of YouTube!”, Buckley posted the first all-gay collaboration video by YouTube’s most popular video bloggers to establish a “YouTube gay village.” The video, which featured James Majesty, Chris Crocker, William Sledd, and Matthew Lush’s “Gay God,” consisted of each blogger commenting on the other’s vlogging, with Buckley serving as the host for the various outtakes. On the social broadcasting website BlogTV, Buckley began hosting regular live shows on April 23, 2008.
Over 200,000 people have already seen his live shows. He switched to YouNow from BlogTV and appeared on Tuesday nights at 5 p.m. Eastern. However, he has stopped broadcasting on YouNow and is now using ConnecTV, a site where users can text chat live about TV shows. A spinoff of What the Buck?!, he has launched BuckNews, a YouTube channel. in which he included material from his other shows. In addition, Buckley produced two spin-off shows called “Pass the Buck” and “Buck Factor,” which encouraged interaction between him and his fans.
Since then, he has deleted his “BuckNews” account. In the category of “Best Web Series Host,” Buckley was up for a Streamy award in March 2010. In addition, Michael has launched a brand-new show dubbed “Dear Buck” in which he responds to inquiries posed via his website, Twitter, Facebook, and/or prior Dear Buck shows. He hosted the live online stream of the red carpet segment of the 2010 Teen Choice Awards in August 2010. During this time, he conducted interviews with web and television stars, including James Majesty.
He participated in the “Who is my YouTube Date?” contest in June 2011. project that Luke Cutforth is hosting. He was a visitor judge on Certifiable Ken with Whitney Port. In September 2011, Buckley had a visitor appearance as himself in the sitcom Spouses. March 2012 through October 2013 ISHlist, a web series that ranks the best music videos in a particular genre or topic, was hosted by him. On Live!, in July 2012, Buckley won the “Coast-to-Coast Co-Host Search” competition. amidst Kelly; On Tuesday, July 24, he co-hosted the morning show with Kelly Ripa. From September 2012-April 2013, he worked live talking on ConnecTV, an application utilized for visiting about Programs on a channel. As of August 2014, Buck’s videos have received 395 million views. Buckley came in at number 90 on the 2014 New Media Rockstars Top 100 Channels list.
