Thomas Sanders (entertainer) Wiki, Biography, Age, Spouse, Height, Net Worth, Fast Facts

Personal life

Sanders was born and raised in Gainesville, Florida and currently still lives there. His great-grandfather on his mother’s side was born in Ireland. His great-grandmother was a Ziegfeld Follies girl, something Sanders called his “ancestral connection with stage”. Sanders’ father is a teacher. Sanders has three brothers named Patrick, Christian, and Shea. He started singing in public and took his first steps in acting in middle school at Kanapaha Middle School, located in Gainesville, singing in several choruses and appearing in several school plays. In his high school, Buchholz, he started combining acting and singing by doing his first roles in musical plays. Later, Sanders combined his studies at the University of Florida with community theater, joining the Gainesville Community Playhouse from 2006 until 2015. When he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering in 2011, he subsequently combined his daytime job as a manufacturing engineer at a pharmaceutical development company in Alachua with his night-time job in theater, until his success on Vine prompted him to leave that first job and focus on Vine and theater. In June 2017, he publicly came out as gay.

Vine and Sanders Shorts

Thomas Sanders made his debut on Vine as “Foster Dawg”, named after his first dog, Foster, on April 14, 2013. An impression of Stewie Griffin from Family Guy in a drive-thru was his first Vine to go viral, leading to continued success on the app. He later rebranded his channel to “Thomas Sanders”. His channel reached 1 million followers on Vine in October 2013. His biggest success on Vine was the Narrating People’s Lives series, also known as Storytime, where he approached random strangers, comically narrated everyday activities they were doing, and showed their reaction. Other Vine series he is known for are Disney Pranks with Friends, Pokémon Pranks, Misleading Compliments, and Shoutout Sunday, among others. By April 2015, Sanders’ Vine account had over 5 million followers, which made Thomas Sanders the 17th most followed Viner at the time.

When Twitter announced that it was closing Vine down at the end of 2016, Sanders announced that he would continue making Vines until the app’s last day. When Vine was shut down on January 17, 2017, Sanders had reached 8.3 million followers. Since that date, his short videos, now known as the Sanders Shorts, are first released on his Instagram, where as of November 2018 he has 2.5 million followers.

On February 24, 2015, Sanders appeared as a guest on The View in a segment featuring Vine stars, where he was interviewed about his popularity on Vine, and one of his Vines was featured on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in their section Vine after Vine. Sanders has collaborated with Viners such as Vincent Marcus, Brandon Calvillo and Amymarie Gaertner, and featured cameos and appearances from figures such as Sean Bean, Nicolle Wallace, Stacy London, Nick Pitera (with whom he did a series of Vines, Unexpected Duets), Brizzy Voices, Gabbie Hanna, Tara Strong, E. G. Daily, Jim Cummings, Dan and Phil, Adam Pascal and the main actors from Hamilton, Teen Titans Go! and Steven Universe, among others.

YouTube[edit]

Sanders opened his official YouTube account on March 15, 2009. After amassing a following through Vine, he started publishing more frequently through YouTube. He had his first YouTube collaborations throughout 2015, consisting of pranks, games and challenges. Up until 2014, his subscriber count grew at a lower rate, with around 80,000 subscribers at the end of that year. From that date, his user count growth started progressively accelerating, having 200,000 subscribers by April 2015 and more than 700,000 subscribers at the end of 2015.

From the second half of 2016, at the same time his Vine activity slowed following Twitter’s announcement of Vine’s forthcoming closedown, Sanders announced he would be focusing on his YouTube content from then on in order to create more diversely formatted content. As of October 2021, his channel has 3.49 million subscribers.

On October 29, 2018, he debuted a second YouTube channel called “Thomas Sanders & Friends”, which would be dedicated to the monthly Sanders Shorts compilations and the unscripted, guest-oriented shows he had done previously on his main channel. The main channel would thereafter be dedicated exclusively to scripted series and shows as well as his music videoclips. His second channel has 396,000 subscribers as of August 2021.