Vitaly Zdorovetskiy

Vitaly Zdorovetskiy (Вита́лий Здорове́цкий; born March 8, 1992), better known by his YouTube username VitalyzdTv, is a US-based Russian YouTube personality, content creator and website owner.

His YouTube videos, as of November 2021, have reached over 1.8 billion views and over 10 million subscribers, while his video blog channel has more than 270 million views and 1.93 million subscribers.

Zdorovetskiy was born in 1992 in Murmansk, Russia.

He is of Russian Jewish and Polish descent.

As a child, he lived in Odesa, Ukraine.

He grew up in Boca Raton, Florida and attended Park Vista Community High School.

Zdorovetskiy attempted to become a professional skateboarder at an early age but quit due to injuries.

In the video titled "Why I Did Porn!", he tells his audience he got his first job at age 15 as a garbage collector making $5.00 an hour.

His second job was a sign-spinner dressed as Uncle Sam making $20 for 3 hours of work.

After that, Vitaly picked up a job as a bus boy at a restaurant in Miami, Florida.

Shortly after turning 18, Zdorovetskiy took part in an adult film scene with pornographic actress Diamond Kitty for the adult entertainment company Bang Bros in 2011.

In 2012, Zdorovetskiy received his first significant success, with the video "Miami Zombie Attack Prank!"

Inspired by the cannibal attack of a homeless man in Miami in May 2012, he dressed up as a zombie and traveled to some of the poorest neighborhoods in Miami to scare random bystanders.

On June 16, 2012, Zdorovetskiy and cameraman Jonathan Vanegas filmed the "Russian Hitman Prank".

As part of the prank, Zdorovetskiy approached a Boca Raton Resort man and informed him they had 60 seconds to get away from a briefcase he placed on the ground.

After Zdorovetskiy revealed the whole thing to be a prank and that there was a hidden camera nearby, the man started attacking him and his partner and called the police.

Zdorovetskiy was arrested by Boca Raton police department, facing a maximum of 15 years in prison on charges of threatening to detonate a bomb.

Shortly after taking the deposition of the alleged victim, the case was dismissed by the prosecutor.

At the time of the prank, Zdorovetskiy's YouTube channel had only about 100,000 subscribers, but after the incident his channel grew to over four million subscribers within just over a year.

On July 20, 2013, Zdorovetskiy released the video "Extreme Homeless Man Makeover", in which he befriends a homeless man named Martin and provides him with new clothes and a hotel room.

The video posting resulted in a job offer that Martin accepted.

He was also reunited with his wife.

The project also included an attempt to raise money to have Martin's teeth fixed, for which Zdorovetskiy was able to raise about $10,000 online.

The fundraising campaign was canceled before it was completed, because of Zdorovetskiy's criminal history.

However, Zdorovetskiy received several offers from surgeons to do the dental work for free.

The surgery and the video story was featured on television news casts including the Good Day LA Fox morning show.

His "Gold Digger Prank", featuring a woman who rejects his advances until she believes he drives a Lamborghini Gallardo sports car, generated more than 18 million views in its first week of posting, making VitalyzdTV the third most watched YouTube channel in the world during that week with over 45 million views.

On October 15, 2014, Zdorovetskiy pulled a prank which involved himself dressing up as Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, pretending to saw off the legs of Hanhart syndrome patient Nick Santonastasso with a chainsaw in front of unsuspecting witnesses.

The prank went viral, receiving over 30 million views in 3 weeks.

By January 2015, the "Miami Zombie Attack Prank!"

had been viewed more than 30 million times.

A sequel video prank was produced in Columbus, Ohio.

While being in Croatia in 2015, he pranked former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader, while Sanader was leaving Remetinec prison where he was serving his sentence for corruption charges by jumping on Sanader's car while he and his lawyers were inside.

In November 2015, Lionsgate officially acquired worldwide distribution rights for a film in which Zdorovetskiy starred, Natural Born Pranksters.

In 2022, Zdorovetskiy became an active member on the subscription-based website OnlyFans.

On 2 July, he announced on Twitter that he was about to release a sex tape.

Zdorovetskiy subsequently released a series of pornographic videos with fellow OnlyFans content creator Delia Rose, advertising themselves on Twitter.

Since 2024, Zdorovetskiy started streaming on Kick.

He currently has around 90,000 followers on platform.

In 2015, Zdorovetskiy was arrested for invading the field during the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final between Germany and Argentina in Brazil.