Cory Williams is an American YouTube personality, vlogger, Let’s Play commentator, comedian, and charity fundraiser. Cory Williams’s YouTube channel name is ‘CoryxKenshin’. Since starting his channel on April 26, 2009, he has so far received more than 3 billion views and has accumulated over 6.8 million subscribers.
Birth Facts
On November 9, 1992, Cory Williams was born. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States. His sun sign is Scorpio and holds an American nationality. His real name is Cory Devante Williams. He has turned into a 27 years old man now. The parents of him are father Anthony K. Williams Jr., an employee at the Ford Motors Company and mother, Stephanie. He even has two younger siblings, a sister, Aleya, and a brother, Anthony. He is deeply religious and often adds Bible verse at the end of hid videos.
Caption: Cory Williams when he was a kid (Source: Instagram)
Education
Regarding William’s education, he enrolled in the Michigan State University to study Media Arts in 2010 and left in 2012. He then attended the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor from 2012 to 2016, pursuing a degree in Computer Science (Game Development), but dropped out for a full-time career on YouTube.
Career and Professional Life
The first video CoryxKenshin ever uploaded was on May 25, 2009, at the age of 16, where he talked about girls, dating, and the movie Hitch. At the beginning of his stint on Youtube, he was primarily a vlogger. He focused his content on his school life and then when he was in college, on that, often editing in snippets of videos of himself and his friends. He posted videos once or twice a week., which hasn’t changed much since then. Sometimes, they become even more sporadic than that, He took a break from YouTube in late 2011, returning in April 2013.
White Finger, a short survival horror/slasher, is the first game he recorded himself playing in October 2013. The first game series he did was on Super Punch-Out, a 1994 sports game. In 2015, fellow YouTuber, Caillou Pettis, helped him get verifies on YouTube. On July 6, 2017, he posted the video, Try Not To Laugh Challenge… TEARS FAM… TEARS; the video is his most popular video so far and has over 14 million views.
Since 2013, he truly has found his footing. He reached 700,000 subscribers in July 2016, and by October his subscriber signed on to become a samurai on November 19, 2016. He has set up a merchandise shop at the Spreadshirt.som, selling hoodies, t-shirts, coffee mugs, and mobile covers. He has been collaborating with Charity: Water, a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries and has done several fundraising videos.
Caption: Cory Williams working with his friend (Source: Instagram)
Net Worth
Cory Williams has a net worth of $6 million. He earns it from his YouTube channel CoryxKenshin. The channel has over 6 million subscribers as of 2020 growing by 8,000 new subs daily and has accumulated over 2.9 billion views so far. New videos are uploaded onto the channel almost daily. In a day, it gets an average of 2.2 million views from different parts of the world. This should generate around $11,000 per day ($4 million a year) from advertisem*nts. He also makes extra income through the selling of merchandise on his website.
There is also a program known as Google Preferred where deep-pocketed companies can target ads on the top 5% most popular content. The ad rates here are higher than normal. Apart from ads, YouTubers also generate extra from YouTube Red viewers who pay monthly fees to view premium content on YouTube plus watch videos without ads. Here they get paid based on watch time on their videos. The longer the viewers watch their videos, the more money they earn.
Relationship Status
Cory Williams was married to YouTuber Stephanie Roby from 2009 until 2011. In July 2014, he and his then-girlfriend Kristen Williams moved from Los Angeles, California to Anchorage, Alaska. They got married in 2015 and welcomed their first child, a daughter named Chell Marie, in June 2016. Two years later they welcomed a son named Atlas Cade in June 2018.
Body Measurement and Social Media
Cory Williams stands the height of 6 feet 3 inches tall. Regarding his weight, dress size, shoe size, and body measurements are still missing. He has a slightly fat body. Moreover, he has black curly hair and a pair of dark brown eyes. Also, he has a dark complexion.
Like his often presence on his YouTube channel, he is equally active on other social media platforms. He uses Instagram and Twitter. Currently, he has more than 6.88 million subscribers. On Twitter, he has 777.6 K followers and has 1.1 million followers on Instagram. He often shares pictures working and enjoying his life.
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