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Shay Butler (born March 5, 1980), known professionally as Shay Carl, is an American vlogger and YouTube personality. Butler has five YouTube channels, two of which ("shaycarl" and "SHAYTARDS" ) have over one million subscribers. Butler and ApprenticeA are currently developing a documentary called "Vlogumentary" on a $200,000+ budget that was funded with an Indiegogo campaign and raised by mostly his viewers. Forbes called Butler one of the "most successful video entrepreneurs on YouTube" and in 2011 The New York Times featured Butler's production company Maker Studios.

Butler frequently hosts and spices up events, such as the pre-show of the American Music Awards of 2012, and the largest bowl of pasta event at Buca di Beppo.

Early life
Butler was born on March 5, 1980, in Logan, Utah to Carl and Laurie Butler. At the age of four, the family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where his father attended school for electrical engineering. After his father graduated, the family moved to Pocatello, Idaho. After graduating from high school, Butler served a full-time, two year mission to Barbados, Trinidad and Guyana with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He briefly attended Idaho State University, but dropped out to start working on his own. Prior to his activities on YouTube, Butler installed granite countertops for a living and worked as a school bus driver. He also worked as a radio DJ for Z103.

YouTube popularity
Butler became more popular on YouTube after Philip DeFranco had watched one of his videos and gave him a shout-out. The shout-out resulted in a rise of Butler's subscribers and also in a friendship between him and DeFranco. By working with other YouTubers at The Station, Butler more than quadrupled his subscription base. Butler later joined the YouTube Partner Program and co-founded Maker Studios. In November 2009, he collaborated with Midi Mafia to create a flash mob at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. In 2009, Butler's "SHAYTARDS" channel won "Best YouTube Channel or Personality" at Mashable's 3rd annual Open Web Awards. In 2013, the same channel was one of the nominees in the "Best Non-Fiction or Reality Series" category of the 3rd Streamy Awards. Butler and his wife, Colette, run a very popular podcast called "When the Kids Go to Sleep", where they interview YouTubers and celebrities such as Terry Crews and Bas Rutten. In February 2013, actor Matt Damon made a guest appearance in one of Butler's vlogs after he and Damon had collaborated on a video to promote a Water.org project. Butler sometimes creates sponsored videos, in which he promotes brands or companies in exchange for financial benefits. Examples of such so-called "brand deals" he has made are with General Electric, Foot Locker, Kia and Skype.

Personal life
Butler lost 112 lbs in the space of a year and subsequently ran three marathons, one of which he ran with motivational speaker Dave Ramsey, with whom he is good friends. Butler documented his weight loss journey on his "ShayLoss" channel. Butler is married to Colette ("Katilette") and has four children with a fifth, a boy, due October 22. His family is known as the "ShayTards" and as "YouTube's first family". Shay is the oldest of four children and his siblings Casey, Carlie and Logan are all active in the YouTube community. In a March 2012 episode of Anderson Live, Butler stated his youngest child Brock is "like the real-world Truman baby" because Brock has been recorded since minutes after his birth. His daughter Emmi ("Babytard") was featured on the front cover of James Blunt's album Some Kind of Trouble. In February 2013, Butler rope swing jumped off a canyon cliff, a stunt described by Will Goodman of CBS News as "extreme and slightly insane".

YouTube channels
Butler has five YouTube channels. His "shaycarl" and "SHAYTARDS" channels have over one million subscribers. For his "shaycarl" channel, Butler frequently works with celebrities such as retired basketball player Charles Barkley and retired mixed martial artist Bas Rutten. As of August 2013, the statistics for his channels are as follows.

Filmography
Butler has also done voice acting work for Cartoonium's Shay Beard cartoon series, which features Butler as a Viking. He also starred alongside Steven Tyler, Jane Lynch, Kiss and others in a public service announcement of the Adopt the Arts Foundation.