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Connor Franta (born September 12, 1992) is an American Shorty Award Nominated YouTube blogger, comedian and internet personality. He was born in Wisconsin, but moved to a small town in Minnesota as a child. Between his two brothers, Dustin and Brandon, and his only sister, Nicola, Connor is the second youngest child in his family. During high school, he joined the swimming club where he excelled, making strong friendships as he did so, and also was the YMCA state champion in the mile.

He started his main channel on Youtube on August 21st, 2010. His first video called "A HARRY POTTER BIRTHDAY," was uploaded on September 12th, 2010. On July 2012, Connor joined a new collaboration channel named Our2ndLife, featuring Justin "JC" Caylen, Ricky Dillon, Trevor "Little Trevie" Moran, Sam Pottorff, Ricardo Ordieres (who departed later to pursue employment on the radio), and Kian Lawley. Our2ndlife is now Youtube's biggest collaboration channel with over 2.1 million subscribers. A few weeks before Our2ndLife's channel reached 1,000,000 subscribers, Connor reached his 2 million subscribers goal by himself on his main channel. He recorded his reaction on his channel (for 1 millon subsribers), concluding the video by expressing how much he loves the people who supported or helped him throughout his entire YouTube career. As of December 2014, he has approximately 3.6 million subscribers, being about 120 subscribers short of 3.7 mil. Connor is the only member that was part of O2L to have more subscribers on his respective channel, than the main channel, itself.

On July 7, 2014, Connor left Our2ndLife stating that for the past few months he was unhappy and felt that his content wasn't satisfactory. He went on to explain that YouTube had started to become too much like a job, rather than for fun, so he made the decision to focus on his personal channel. Although he is no longer part of Our2ndLife, he stated that he will continue uploading to his main channel and will stay close friends with Ricky, Sam, JC, Trevor, and Kian.

A few months later on December 8, 2014, Connor made a video coming out and telling the world that he is gay. He revealed that he has never felt anything special between himself and women and has known for the majority of his life that he is gay. He has only just came up with the courage to come out. He mentioned that he had tried for a long time to admit it to himself, and only within the past year was able to say it to himself out loud.