įrom March to October 2013, Oakley co-hosted a weekly pop-culture news update – 'Top That!' – with Becca Frucht for PopSugar. As of February 1, 2021 he also had more than 5.6 million followers on Twitter and 5.6 million on Instagram. SocialBlade, a website that rates YouTube and Instagram accounts, ranks his YouTube channel, As of February 1, 2021, with a grade 'B', subscriber rank of 1,434th, video view rank at 7,022nd, and a SocialBlade rating of 345,254th. He was featured in the 2014 Frontline investigative report 'Generation Like', a follow-up on how teenagers are 'directly interacting with pop culture' to the 2001 report, 'The Merchants of Cool'.
Oakley, who is openly gay, is a former member of the successful collaboration channel '5AwesomeGays', where he produced the Friday video for over three years. Since uploading his first video in 2007 while a freshman at Michigan State University, his channel has over 683 million views, and, at his peak, over 8 million subscribers. Oakley regularly posts material on various topics, including pop culture and humor. Much of Oakley's activism has been dedicated to LGBT youth, LGBT rights, as well as social issues including health care, education, and the prevention of suicide among LGBT youth. Mathew Tyler Oakley (born March 22, 1989) is an American YouTuber, actor, activist and author.
