Before Dwarf Mamba would collaborate with Logan Paul on dosens of Viral videos including
the time Evan made the trip from LA to Paris in Logan's suitcase.
Before Evan Ekenrode made an appearance in Hopsin and Futuristics music video Scrolling.
Before Evan set up his own YouTube channel which at the time of this recording is quickly
approaching 1 Million Subscribers.
Off of just 3 videos.
Woah woah woah, hold the phone.
I only have 1 million more Subscribers then Evan & I've pumped out over 1000 videos.
What the fuck is going on here?
I'd say it has something to do with my size but I'm the same height as Logan and he's
got over 11 Million Subscribers.
What the f am I doing wrong here?
Do I need to start smashing some plates?
You know what – that's exactly what I'm gonna do.
Everytime I say Dwarf in this video a plate is getting smashed.
What's going on guys, my name is Michael McCrudden, documenting the life and career of Evan Ekenrode,
better known as Dwarf Mamba...
Here for you on Before They Were Famous.
In the past we have made videos on both Logan & Jake and you guys requested this video like
crazy.
As always be sure to let me know whose next.
Now let's get into this bio....
Dwarf.
I'm gonna need more plates.
Evan Eckenrode was born on February 11, 1997, in small town Smithsburg, Maryland population
just 3K.
Evan is the second son to parents Kerry and Ekenrode who coaches high school football.
Evan grew up in a tight nit family hanging out with his cousins.
Evan Now from what I can tell Evan is the only member of his family who identified as
a DWARF.
I decided to do a little more research into DWARFisim.
It appears that Evan was born with the most common types of dwarfism, known as Achondroplasis
which occurs in about one out of 26K to 40K babies accoring to WebMD.com.
Other notable celebrities who were born with this condition include Peter Dinklage, Kenny
Baker and Jason Acuna better known as WeeMan.
Growing up, young Evan never let his size hold him back from doing what he loved which
mainly consisted of sports.
Still to this day the man is extremely active and plays every sport imaginable.
If you head on over to Evan's Twitter page you will see that he's a massive supporter
of Conor McGregor, Sydney Crosby and The Pitsburgh Penguins.
When Evan was just 10 years old he was watching an episode of Little People Big World with
his family and this was when he first found out about the Dwarf Athletic Association of
American National Games.
The next year Evan signed up and took home a silver medal in Volleyball his first year.
In 2009, he earned a gold in soccer, a silver in volleyball and softball throw then a bronze
in the 40 meter dash, there he picked up experience that would later come in handy and made some
life long friends.
Evan was only 12 years old when he competed in his 2nd DAAA competition held in New York
City, he made the trip with family and his brother Ryan even helped out as coach.
For highschool Evan attended Smithsburg High School and from what I can tell he was a hit
with the ladies.
No seriously though, check out the rocket he took to formal & here he is getting some
love down low.
It was while in high school back in 2013 that Evan got on Vine.
He had tons of different series but my favorite by far were these:
For Even it was never anything he took too seriously and never imagined that he would
become an online star.
He was just posting to Vine as a way to capture some funny moments while he was goofing off
with friends.
Then one night he was inspired by the classic Lil Bow Wow film Like Mike & Evan recreated
the scene in his own way.
The next day he woke up to 20K likes on the video so he continued to make more content
videos focused on his Dwarfisim.
Initially he was a little fearful that he would be offending others in the Dwarf community...
But Evan began to hear from others with Dwarfisim who loved his work and Evan began to see the
potential to bring more attention to his condition and it's associated organizations through
comedy.
As his numbers continued to balloon on Vine his parents didn't fully understand what it
all meant.
Once Evan surpassed 1 Million followers he was getting calls to do interviews and offers
to travel but his parents kept him grounded and told him to keep focusing on his studies.
Eventually Evan's Vine account would surpass 2 Million followers with 154 Million loops.
Evan did break away and began working with other YouTubers hitting it off with LoganPaul.
I'll let them tell you what it was like when the two first met.
From what I can tell, the two first met up during the 2014 DAAA competition held in San
Diego & they quickly got to work collaborating on Vine videos.
Evan even invitied his friends to join in on the fun and they filmed this:
Back home Evan was encouraged to get a practical degree so he enrolled at a college in Maryland
studying accounting.
Evan kept up his friendship with Logan and would go and visit him at 1600 Vine in Hollywood
where all the biggest Vine stars were living, the two got to work on Logan's now ballooning
YouTube channel.
That's a clip from when Evan traveling in a suitcase to France, definitley worth a watch.
The pair were such a dynamic duo that Logan kept encouragin Evan to put school on hold
and to move out with him to Hollywood to make their dreams come true.
That video ended up getting over 700K like at the time of this recording and Evan became
Logan's new roomate in June of 2017.
Together the pair have been having the time of their lives taking romantic trips to Hawaii,
Evan has shown of that he's got some serious road rage, they've broken guiness records
for smashing plates, Evn's been set up on dated and they've even hosted Dwarf wrestling
competitions.
Finally in August of 2017 Evan began posting to his own YouTube channel, a link is down
below.
So far he's been able to enjoy his own passion for sports and shine some light on the DCAA
which is the Dwarf Olympics.
A
link is down below to Evan's channel.
As for the rest of the story, well that's pretty much it because this is Before They
Were Famous.