Draft:Beluga (YouTuber)

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Submission declined on 10 June 2024 by Dan arndt (talk). This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia. The content of this submission includes material that does not meet Wikipedia's minimum standard for inline citations. Please cite your sources using footnotes. For instructions on how to do this, please see Referencing for beginners. Thank you. Declined by Dan arndt 5 months ago.

• Comment: Likely to be notable, but current sources are insufficient to establish this. Greenman (talk) 12:31, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: YouTube, Vidpros and SocialBlade are not acceptable or reliable independent sources. Dan arndt (talk) 13:31, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Beluga
File:Beluga Real Life.webp
Personal information
Born	Braden Boyko (2002-03-04) March 4, 2002 (age 22) United States
Nationality	American
Website	belugacat.com
YouTube information
Channels	Beluga Explore Lucid Dreaming
Years active	2021 – present
Genre	meme videos
Subscribers	10.2 million[1]
Total views	2.2 billion[1]
Contents are in	English
Creator Awards 100,000 subscribers 2021 1,000,000 subscribers 2021 10,000,000 subscribers 2024
Last updated: Nov 7, 2024

Braden Boyko^[2], better known online as Beluga, is an American YouTuber with over 10 million subscribers, well known for his skits revolving around various topics with the use of Discord. His videos mainly feature relatable situations.^[3]

Beluga's profile picture is a cat meme from 2018 known as "polite cat", due to its smile. The smile turned out to be photoshopped. The cat's actual name is Ollie and it is a domestic short hair tabby cat. ^[4]

In January 2017, Beluga created a channel named "Survival Mode" which would remain dormant until 2021.^[1] In September 2017, Beluga started a channel named "Explore Lucid Dreaming", a channel which teaches people about Lucid Dreaming. This was his main channel until 2021. He uploaded 77 videos on this channel between 2019 and 2021.^[5]

Beluga's channel was first created in January 2017, however, Beluga did not upload any videos on the channel until 2021. In February 2021, Beluga posted his first video on his channel Survival Mode. Beluga's early videos were on various topics such as a reaction video of a man being attacked by goose and a commentary video on Dream's cheating scandal. In May of that year, he changed the name of the channel to Beluga and said that he would be posting "some of the best videos on the Internet."^[6] On June 12, 2021, Beluga began uploading Discord content, which gained millions of views and the channel gained 740k subscribers in June alone.^{[7] [8]} Beluga later became one of the fastest growing YouTube channels.

In 2021, Beluga came 4th place as Breakout Creator Of 2021 For YouTube.^[9]

• Beluga's channel on YouTube
• Explore Lucid Dreaming's channel on YouTube
• Braden Boyko's channel on YouTube