Alex Wassabi

About

YouTuber who runs the extremely popular channel Wassabi, which has earned over 11 million subscribers. The channel features challenges, vlogs that provide updates on his life and a number of collaborations with other popular YouTubers. He also has a self-titled vlogging channel which has amassed another 2 million subscribers.

Before Fame

He launched his channel as Wassabi Productions originally with his former comedy partner Roi Fabito.

Trivia

He developed a substantial following on the 6-second video app Vine, uploading his first video to the platform on May 1, 2013.

Family Life

His real name is Alex Burriss. He grew up in Lexington, Kentucky. His brothers Andrew and Aaron also became popular web video stars. He also has a sister named Mariah. He dated fellow YouTuber Lauren Riihimaki for about three years before breaking up in September 2018. He briefly dated CaELiKe in 2019. Singer Lexy Panterra became his girlfriend in 2020 but they split later in 2021. He started dating Alexxis Lemire in 2022.

Associated With

With Roi, he frequently created parody videos of top artists' songs, including the incredibly popular video "Carly Rae Jepson CALL ME MAYBE - Rolanda & Richard (Parody)" which accumulated more than 80 million views in two years.