Subject: English Form 3 Topic: Famous Personalities Prepared by: Izzati binti Jusni

4. Ryan Higa is a famous Japanese/American
YouTube personality and actor. He is known
for his YouTube comedy videos, which have
been viewed over 2.5 billion times. As of
January 2016, Higa's YouTube channel,
nigahiga, has over 16 million subscribers.

5. Born: June 6, 1990 (Age 25), Hilo, Hawaii, US
Height: 1.74 m
Movies: Agents of Secret Stuff
Siblings: Kyle Higa
Parents: Wendell Higa, Luci Higa

6. Higa and Sean Fujiyoshi started posting
YouTube videos of themselves lip-synching to
songs in mid-2006 while attending Waiakea
High School. They quickly expanded beyond
songs, with a variety of other comedic pieces.
Occasional guest appearances were made by
Tim Enos, Ryan Villaruel, Kyle Chun, and
Tarynn Nago

7. On Christmas Eve of 2008, Higa and
Fujiyoshi's two most popular videos, How To
Be Gangster and How To Be Emo, were
removed due to copyright violations. On
January 21, 2009, the nigahiga account was
temporarily suspended and was required to
remove more copyrighted videos. Because of
this, Nigahiga's lip synching videos were all
removed (with the exception of You're
Beautiful, which was audio swapped), along
with most of his other videos that included
copyrighted music.

8. Since then, Higa started composing the music
himself. How to be Gangster and How to be
Emo were put back on nigahiga's channel in
late August 2009, only to be removed a few
days later, along with How to be Ninja and How
to be Nerd. In Spring 2010, How to be Ninja, How
to be Gangster and How to be Emo were made
public once more.

9. After Higa moved to Las Vegas to study
Nuclear Medicine at University of Nevada, Las
Vegas, most of the Nigahiga videos were solo
efforts, usually featuring collaborations with
other YouTube users. Since 2012, Higa has put
together a production company, Ryan Higa
Production Company (RHPC), which includes
Sean Fujiyoshi, that works together to make
content for the nigahiga channel.

10.  The nigahiga YouTube channel was created on
July 20, 2006 by Higa, Fujiyoshi, Enos, and Nago
(known collectively as "The Yabo Crew"). By
December 21, 2010, it had reached 3 million
subscribers, the first channel to do so. According to
Higa, his channel name is a combination of "Niga",
which means "rant" in Japanese, and his last name,
"Higa".
 He created a second channel, under the name
HigaTV, in 2011, where he posts video blogs and
behind the scenes videos. In January 2016, it had
over 3.9 million subscribers.

11.  Holds a black belt rank in Judo
 Won 2nd place in a Judo competition
 Won 1st place in a wrestling
competition

13. “If you always say no, you’ll never say
yes.”
- Ryan Higa