Before Ryland Adams would become one of the fastest growing YouTubers on the platform
Before he was a finalist for Vlogger of the year at the Shorty Awards
Before he would find a path in Entertainment as a producer and host on Clevver TV
Before he would have over 4 million subscribers, more than 1 million followers on Twitter and
close to 3 million followers on Instagram at the time of this recording.
And Before he would be engaged to his longtime boyfriend and one of the biggest creators
on YouTube, Shane Dawson
Ryland Adams grew up with dreams of becoming an actor.
He moved out to LA during college and got a few commercial gigs before realizing that
he wasn’t a very good actor…
His words, not mine!
But he did find his way onto red carpets where he interviewed some of Hollywood’s biggest
names.
And he started dating a pretty popular YouTuber.
Now, he is one of the most popular new vloggers on YouTube, but his original channel didn’t
do quite as well and it was a long road to success for Ryland.
But we’ll take a look at all of that in this video!
What’s going on good people in the comment section?
I hope you’re having one Hecht of a day, my name is Jeremy Hecht and today I’ll be
taking you through the life and career of Ryland Adams before internet fame.
If you’re new here, I’m the LA host for this channel and as always, the motto is better
with every video!
So let me know how I did and who I should cover next in the comments down below and
I’ll talk to you there.
We’ve covered other YouTubers like Shane, Mr. Beast and many more and we’re also going
to start asking a question at the beginning of the video, and you’ll have to stick around
until the end to find out the answer.
Today’s question is:
What was Shane’s Opening line on Bumble when him and Ryland first matched?
Alright, let’s get into the video!
Ryland Adams was born on May 14, 1991 in Denver, Colorado to his father Bruce and his mother
Vicki who was a receptionist and a photographer.
Rylan’s younger sister Morgan is actually a YouTuber also and does pretty well for herself
with over 2.7 million subscribers.
He went to Cherokee Trail High School where at the time, he thought he was in love with a girl
And he never looked back since.
After graduation he went to Metro State University of Denver where he studied broadcast journalism.
After watching the TV show Friday Night Lights, Ryland was inspired and decided he was going
to move to Los Angeles to work in the entertainment business.
During one summer of college when he was 19, he made it his goal to go out to LA and said
that if he made enough money to live out there during that summer, then he would drop out
of college all together.
One of his dreams originally was to become an actor and he even shared some of his old audition tapes
online:
Another one of his dreams was to become a print model.
I’m guessing he meant print like magazines and not a model for printers…
But could you imagine being a model for Printer companies.
Alright I’m gonna pose here and I’ll let the editing team turn my career around.
So just put a printer right here okay:
That’s uh… that’s some good paper huh?
stop!
Alright but since you didn’t come here to help kickstart my modeling career, you came
here for Ryland, here are some of his old modeling pics:
When he first got to LA, from the looks of his Instagram he loved going on hikes and
exploring the city.
And I can understand that because in Colorado, the hiking is probably a lot harder with the
air being so thin up there.
Now, he just loves to do Yoga…
But anyways, he was always focused on his true mission of making it in the business.
He got an agent in LA to help him find commercial gigs and he actually booked a couple of slots
when he got out to LA.
One of them was a commercial for the art museum LACMA.
He also booked commercials for State Farm and a few others.
Enough that he never went back to college.
But his first real gig was being a stunt double for Justin Bieber.
Yes, prime, bang wearing, Selena Gomez loving, J Biebs.
Ryland first met Bieber on the set of CSI.
If you don’t remember that episode, Justin got brutally murdered.
Yeah, well, Ryland took a bullet in the back for Justin…
As his stunt double for that scene.
And he actually acted as Justin’s double for 7 or 8 different projects, including a
Macy’s ad.
He started taking acting classes as well, and appeared in the film “3 times a charm”
in 2011 playing a student.
In 2012, Ryland actually auditioned for Modern Family!
But he soon realized that he was better at talking and hosting than acting.
He began creating content and working on his skills.
His first YouTube show was actually called “Instafixxx” with three x’s, and the
show was co-hosted by Kristen Wilson.
They only ended up creating 2 episodes and had 14 subscribers on their YouTube channel,
but hey, it was a start.
His first gig as a host came when he eemceed this K Jams Wild heart concert
In 2013, he began to work red carpets as a freelance host for companies like Maximo TV
and Shake It Up TV.
He interned for Maximo TV and says that that is where he learned a lot about how to conduct
interviews, and create good content.
He also took some hosting classes around LA and worked the red carpets of big shows like
The Voice, where he interviewed some pretty big celebrities, like Demi Lovato.
He was putting in the work.
That was also the year he finally got his California license plates
He also started a YouTube channel called Utubular talking about Hollywood and pop culture news.
In 2014, he shot a pilot for a show called Urban Chef with the description on his Instagram
writing, “Testing local eats vs college students!”
I don’t what happened to that show but it looked good and so did the food.
In June of 2014 he also created a new online show called The Emilie and Ryland show and
a show called Pop Talk.
He kept working on his skills as a host and putting out online content.
It just goes to show you that you’ve always got to put in the reps, so that when the opportunity
for something bigger comes around, you’ll be ready.
After gaining some more experience, he began working full time for the media company called
Clevver TV as a host and producer of their entertainment news programs and grew his portfolio
and his following online.
He also upset some YouTubers by talking about their lives on his news show…
I can see how that would happen…
But speaking of YouTubers...
In 2016, he started dating massive YouTuber Shane Dawson and this is the first picture
I found on Ryland’s Instagram of the two together.
After meeting a couple times in person, they actually truly connected on Bumble.
If you’re wondering what Shane’s opening line was, well…
And there’s the answer to the question from the beginning of the video!
The two recently got engaged so congrats to them!
The video Ryland posted called “The Story of Our Engagement” is currently the #1 trending
video on YouTube at the time of this recording.
Ryland started posting more consistent videos to his own YouTube channel and every video
he has now at least a million views, but most of them have many more.
He left Clevver and began creating more original content and he hasn’t looked back since.
But as for the rest of the story, well you know it because this is before they were famous.
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Dream Good, Live Better, I hope you have one Hecht of a day, and I’ll see you in the
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