Matthew Santoro Wiki, Biography, Age, Family, Height, Net Worth, Fast Facts

Channel history

Santoro most frequently uploads top ten lists, such as “10 Forbidden Places You’re Not Allowed to Visit!” and “10 Extremely BIZARRE Phobias People Actually Have!”.

Personal life

Santoro grew up in Welland, Ontario and later moved St. Catharines, Ontario. He is of Italian descent through his father, while his mother is French-Canadian. In May 2015, he moved to Toronto, Ontario. A fan of Drake and hip-hop culture, Santoro often refers to Toronto as “The 6ix”.

In January 2016, he uploaded a video titled My Abuse Story. He tearfully talked about an unnamed romantic partner, who he claimed was manipulative and forced him to turn his friends and family away in favour of her and she had also psychologically and physically abused him during their relationship. It was claimed by his friend, Rob Gavagan (né Dyke), that the “unnamed partner” mentioned in the video was Nicole Arbour.

Santoro moved to Los Angeles in the first week of January 2017 and possesses a U.S. green card but maintains Canadian citizenship.

On October 21, 2017, Santoro released a video revealing that he suffers from clinical depression. He has made several update videos explaining his progress and he has since been doing better.

On July 27, 2020, Santoro explained that after moving back to Toronto, someone or some group stole a trailer from the moving company that housed most of his belongings, leaving him nothing other than what he had moved back to Toronto with himself. The stolen trailer was found on July 30,  and its contents were returned to Santoro on July 31, although some items were still missing, and several were damaged.

Notable collaborations

Santoro has been a special guest narrator on CinemaSins’ Everything Wrong With… series. He was featured in the Underworld: Evolution video which was published on October 10, 2014. He also collaborated with Matthias, creating a song, “The Booty Song”, and Barely Political in their video, “YouTube Complaints 2015”. Santoro and Vsauce3 collaborated with The Muppets, in a video titled, “What if Quicksilver Ran Past You?”, which was the first video in the Muppet collaboration initiative on YouTube.

He collaborated with Lilly Singh, Olga Kay, Toby Turner, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, among others, in Terminator Genisys: The YouTube Chronicles, a promotional series for the 2015 film Terminator Genisys.

In July 2018, Santoro released the 100th episode of his “50 Amazing Facts” video series; for the occasion, Santoro had each fact presented by a different YouTuber. Those who took part included Rhett and Link, Kanwer Singh, Daym Drops, MatPat, Hank Green, iJustine, and the Fine Brothers.

Other work

Santoro is the host of Quest Nutrition’s “Food for Thought” webseries.^[30] The first episode, “10 Incredible Facts About Chicken”, premiered on May 28, 2015.^[

Santoro, along with Yousef Saleh Erakat, Soledad O’Brien and will.i.am hosted the Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day event. On September 26, 2015, Santoro, along with AsapScience, Stephen Colbert and Hugh Jackman hosted the Global Citizen festival.

In June 2015, Santoro obtained a global publishing deal from Penguin Books for his book, titled MIND=BLOWN, which was released on August 9, 2016.

Santoro retired with the title of #1 “most loved” Periscoper in the world with over 177 million hearts on the live streaming app Periscope on November 11, 2015.