User:Brojam/Harry Lewis

Harry Christopher George Lewis (born 24 November 1996), better known as W2S, a shortened version of his online alias Wroetoshaw, is a British YouTuber and Internet personality, known primarily for his video game commentaries of the FIFA video game series and football challenge videos. Lewis is a member of the British YouTube group known as the Sidemen.

Lewis grew up in Alderney, Channel Islands, and relocated to Guernsey, Channel Islands, with his family when he was seven years old. After registering his current YouTube channel in July 2012, Lewis primarily posted video game commentaries and challenge videos of the FIFA series. His channel experienced substantial growth in popularity over the next two years and he reached 1 million subscribers in March 2014. He surpassed 10 million subscribers in April 2017. Over time, his style of content diversified to include football and real life challenges, vlogs, and comedy style videos.

, his main YouTube channel has reached over 15.9 million subscribers and 4.5 billion video views, ranking as one of top channels on the platform from the United Kingdom. In 2016, Business Insider listed him as the seventh most popular British YouTube star and called him "one of the biggest FIFA soccer video game vloggers on YouTube". Lewis holds the world records for "Most subscribed dedicated FIFA channel" and "Most viewed dedicated FIFA channel" from the Guinness World Records.

Early life and education
Harry Christopher George Lewis was born on 24 November 1996, in Guernsey, Channel Islands, and grew up in Alderney, Channel Islands. When he was seven years old, his family relocated to Guernsey, and he became involved in table tennis. In 2011, he reached the semi-finals of the under-18 open doubles at Guernsey's Table Tennis Championships. He attended Guernsey Grammar School, but left at age 16.

YouTube career
Initially, Lewis had set up many different YouTube channels since he was unsure what to focus on. On 26 July 2012, he registered the "Wroetoshaw" YouTube channel, which would later be shortened to simply "W2S". He has stated that the name "Wroetoshaw" is a contraction of the footballers Nicky Wroe and Tom Bradshaw. In his early years as a YouTube creator, Lewis focused on video game commentaries of the FIFA video game series.

In early 2014, Lewis joined the entertainment collective known as the Sidemen, which consisted of six British YouTubers: Vik Barn (Vikkstar123), Josh Bradley (Zerkaa), Tobi Brown (TBJZL), Simon Minter (Miniminter), JJ Olatunji (KSI), and Ethan Payne (Behzinga). The group produces online videos, most often consisting of challenges, sketches and video-game commentary, as well as selling exclusive Sidemen merchandise.

March 2014 saw his channel reaching 1 million subscribers, and by the end of the year it had reached 3 million subscribers. According to Tubefilter, Lewis' channel amassed nearly 2.5 million new subscribers and more than 460 million video views in 2014; an increase of 356 percent in subscribers and an increase of 857 percent in video views from 2013. The Guardian reported that Lewis' channel had gained the third most new subscribers in the UK that year. By 2015, his videos averaged 80 million views per month.

It all started in 2012 when Harry did a 50 hour Fifa 13 livestream for the charity BBC Children in Need and raised ₤560. On 14 January 2013 he uploaded his first video on his channel Wroetoshaw where he commentated whilst playing Fifa. After that he did a bunch of series like Road to glory, Forfeit Fifa and Squad Builders. His channel began to grow and Harry started to put more effort in his videos. He dropped out of school when he was 17 so he could focus more on his YouTube career. Throughout his videos Harry often wears his blue jumper, what later became his trademark.

On 17 September 2013 he started a second channel named BlueJumperGaming. It contains videos where he plays games such as GTA V, Trials Fusion and Flappy Bird and has over 600,000 subscribers. Later he changed the name of the channel to W2SPlays.

He has collaborated with YouTubers as KSIOlajidebt, Caspar Lee, and in 2013 Wroetoshaw and 6 other YouTubers (KsiOlajidebt, Miniminter, Vikkstar123, TBJZL, Behzinga and Zerkaa) teamed up as the Ultimate Sidemen. The Ultimate Sidemen are a couple of friends who play videogames, do challenges and make videos with each other.

In early 2014, Lewis joined the entertainment collective known as the Sidemen, consisting of six other British YouTubers, producing online videos and merchanise to a combined audience of over 92 million subscribers.


 * https://variety.com/2015/digital/news/jason-kilars-vessel-will-not-offer-long-form-tv-content-like-netflix-1201459055/

At the age of 17, Lewis dropped out of school and decided to do YouTube as a full-time job.

In December 2017, Lewis was featured in YouTube Rewind.


 * viral Internet challenges, such as the ghost pepper challenge

Lewis made it into the Guinness World Records 2018 Gamer's Edition for "Most subscribed and most viewed dedicated FIFA channel."

He has collaborated with multiple popular athletes including Conor McGregor.

Other ventures
In October 2016, Lewis and the Sidemen published Sidemen: The Book, which sold 26,436 copies within three days and topped the hardback nonfiction charts.


 * http://teneightymagazine.com/2016/10/26/the-sidemens-debut-book-hits-no-1-in-charts/
 * http://www.thebookseller.com/news/coronet-publish-team-youtube-royalty-sidemen-330708
 * https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/26/youtube-stars-the-sidemen-are-frontrunners-in-race-for-books-christmas-no-1
 * http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/youtube-sensations-sidemen-heading-newcastle-11921405

Charitable work
In November 2012, Lewis did a 50-hour FIFA 13 live stream on Twitch for the charity BBC Children in Need. In August 2015, he announced that he would give ₤50 to any student who sent him proof via Twitter that they had received top grades (A* or A) in all their GCSEs. Lewis has featured in several charity football events, including the Wembley Cup in 2015 and 2017. He has also co-organised and participated in three Sidemen charity football matches, which have collectively raised over £390,000 for various charities.

Personal life
Lewis has two siblings: a younger sister, Rosie, and a younger brother, Josh. Both along with their parents have appeared in Lewis' videos and Josh has a YouTube channel with over 1 million subscribers. As of March 2015, Lewis has split his time between his residence in Guernsey and London.

He is a supporter of Chelsea F.C., however, he pretends to support many teams to annoy people.


 * http://www.tubefilter.com/2016/04/27/top-100-most-viewed-youtube-gaming-channels-worldwide-march-2016/