Zach King

Zachary Michael "Zach" King (born February 4, 1990) is an American internet personality based in Los Angeles.

He is most known for his "magic vines," which are six-second videos digitally edited to look as if he is doing magic.

He calls his videos "digital sleight of hand."

He began posting videos on YouTube in 2008 and in 2013 he started posting videos to Vine.

King started his website, FinalCutKing.com in 2008, to offer training and tips about using the editing software Final Cut Pro as he was unable to find tutorials for the software on the Internet.

At the same time, he started using his YouTube channel to give tutorials for visual effects using the Software.

After gaining an audience for his website, he began selling training seminars and used the money to pay for his college.

King won the Hewlett-Packard commercial contest in 2010, and got a trip to the red carpet at the London Film Festival.

In 2011, he posted a video titled Jedi Kittens on YouTube that he produced with a college friend.

The video showed two cats fighting with lightsabers.

The video gained over a million views in three days and went on to have over 18 million views.

A sequel of the video titled Jedi Kittens Strike Back gained over 27 million views.

He graduated from Biola University with a Cinema and Media Arts Major in December 2012.

He participated as a contestant on an episode of Viral Video Showdown that aired on Syfy in 2012.

In 2013, he won YouTube's NextUp Creators contest.

A third part of the video, Jedi Kittens – The Force Awakens was posted in 2013, which has gained over 28 million views.

King's official YouTube channel is named Zach King.

He was named by YouTube as one of the 25 most promising young film-makers in America in May 2013.

As part of its Next Up Creators contest, YouTube awarded King $35,000 as well as a trip to New York City for a four-day YouTube Creator Camp.

His submission to the contest was titled Contest Entry Gone Wrong.

In the video, he appeared to dodge an assault by airstrikes and ground fire as he pleaded his case to be selected for the YouTube award.

As of February 2024, he has 27.6 million subscribers and 531 videos with 9.47 billion views.

King posted a short video as part of YouTube Shorts which gained over 1.2 billion views.

It is often referred to as "Zach King's graffiti video" on the internet by fans and netizens.

King made his account on Vine on September 9, 2013, when he saw that many of his friends had an account on the social media website.

After creating an account on Vine, he decided to create one Vine each day for the next thirty days.

After the success of his first few Vines, he decided to continue with creating and posting new Vines.

He appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on January 29, 2014, and made several Vines with the crew of the show.

In 2015, King and his wife Rachel Holm competed in the 28th season of the American reality game show The Amazing Race.

They were eliminated during the ninth leg of the race being placed sixth in the overall standings.

According to Insider, King was TikTok's 5th most followed content creator in Aug 4, 2021.

King was born and raised in Portland, Oregon.

He is of half Chinese descent from his paternal side, one quarter Austrian and one quarter Nicaraguan descent from his maternal side.

He is also ambidextrous, mostly being right-handed.

King's mother homeschooled him and his three sisters, including one adopted sister, while his father worked in their home office.

When he was seven, King made his first film using a home video camera.

When he was fourteen, he purchased video equipment including a Mac computer, cameras as well as a tripod and started making and editing videos.

King posted his first video to TikTok (then known as musical.ly) in 2016, and has since attracted over 90 million followers, making him the sixth most-followed individual on the platform.

In December 2019, King baffled the internet with a video of himself apparently flying on a broomstick.

The video was viewed over 2.1 billion times on TikTok in 4 days.