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Barnum Smith (born Barnum G Nixon Smith; July 20, 1995) is a British Youtube actor, comedian. Smith is known for making comedy videos for his channel TheFreckleHeads and more serious content on his channel AtomsInTime. Smith curvently does not hold any titles to his name in YouTube but works to achieve a award in the near future. Smith's career began when he and a close friend, Liam Anderson, began experimenting in 2009 by reversing clips of themselves. He made multiple clips with Anderson that year. In 2012, he had uploaded over 40 videos to YouTube so far and intends to create many more.

Personal life
Smith grew up in Brightlingsea, Essex, where he attended Brightlingsea Junior School. Smith doesn't reveal a lot about his personal life in his videos, mainly appearing as characters created by himself. Many bloopers and behind the scenes footage exists but kept only on Smith's personal computer. He currently works at The Walls Shop and has done so since 2005 when the family moved up to The Shetland Isles, Scotland for the second time. His parents own the shop and Smith frequently works there. In 2010 Smith met Mathew Nicolson, a peer in his class at Aith Junior High School. Nicolson and Smith were always placed together in classes such as P.E. and other classes where team working was involved, this was because both had few friends.

A friendship developed over the year as both, once again, became friends with Liam Anderson, along with Stephanie Goudie, Maegan Johnston and Timothy Ferguson. The six remained close friends until 2011 when they changed school, when Ferguson left school. The five continued to remain close friends until the summer of 2012, when Anderson and Johnston left their school.

Smith still remains close friends with Goudie and Nicolson

Videos
Smith and Nicolson began making videos in 2010, just using a very basic camera with simple editing software, iMovie. It was this year that they decided to create a YouTube channel named AtomsInTime, after a project started by the two under the same name.

Atoms In Time
Atoms In Time was an internet TV series idea created by Smith and Nicolson in January, 2010. It was to be a spin-off of the BBC One program, Doctor Who, which both were fans of. This series was to focus around a Time Lord called The Author and his companion John Miller. The two spent the whole of that year script writing and planning for the series, which was planned to enter production in early 2011. However, for an unknown reason, the idea was discontinued and forgotten. For this project, Smith was credited as the Head Prop Maker, Location Scout and Set Designer. This role included the creation of a TARDIS interior, a task Smith attempted and to cut down on costs was to build it completely out of cardboard. Smith came close to completion of the console, however, when Atoms In Time was discontinued Smith halted work on the prop which was later destroyed to create space.

YouTube
Smith and Nicolson, having created a YouTube account for the failed internet TV series, decided they would not put the channel to waste and began writing and creating a series of unrelated videos. These consisted of short, 5 minute sketches starring both Smith and Nicolson. Since 2010, the two have released over 30 videos starring themselves and have reached 13 subscribers.

TheFreckleHeads
Smith's younger sibling, Baillie Smith, was interested in becoming involved with YouTube and after receiving a number of negative comments on previous channels decided to join forces with her brother, Barnum. After careful consideration, the pair came up with the name 'TheFreckleHeads' since both have freckles. They have since made a number of videos and contain more comedic sketches to Smith's other channel, AtomsInTime.

Music Projects
In 2011, Smith released his debut spoof, Santa Clause Is Coming To Town, based on the classic Christmas song with the same name. It starred Smith, and his sister, and was released onto TheFreckleHeads channel with a music video. The song was composed and filmed all in one day and took a further day to edit. Smith is currently working on a number of original music projects and hopes to release them on the music store, iTunes once he has composed them. He plans to release an album containing four of his original tracks: Secret love, You're So Annoying, Why? and I'm Unimportant. Smith revealed in an interview: "I base all my songs on my close friends and family, using real stories and events they've told me. I've chosen to keep their identities hidden as many of the songs could be quite offensive to them if they knew it were written about them!" - Barnum Smith, April 15, 2012