Who is connor franta

By Marc Malkin. Connor Franta shot to internet stardom as a YouTube personality. Since launching his channel in , Franta, who was born and raised in Minnesota but moved to Los Angeles in , has amassed more than 20 million followers across his social platforms. Depression, and the ultimate darkest side of that is suicidal thoughts. I do a lot of running. I do a lot of walking. I also go for a five- to mile run every morning. I would love to do something that has nothing to do with being about me.

People who care about step one to step 1, I love what Donald Glover makes. Same with Michaela Coel. You started on YouTube. On July 7, , Connor left Our2ndLife stating that for the past few months he was unhappy and felt that his content wasn't satisfactory. He went on to explain that YouTube had started to become too much like a job, rather than for fun, so he made the decision to focus on his personal channel.

Although he is no longer part of Our2ndLife, he stated that he will continue uploading to his main channel and will stay close friends with Ricky, Sam, Jc, Trevor, and Kian. A few months later on December 8, , Connor made a video coming out and announcing publicly that he is gay. He revealed that he has never felt anything special between himself and women and has known for the majority of his life that he is gay.

He has only just came up with the courage to come out. He mentioned that he had tried for a long time to admit it to himself, and only within the past year was able to say it to himself out loud and to other people. Currently, this is the second most viewed video on his channel with about 10 million views as of May He was also in the YouTube Rewind of in the ballpit scene. On January 17, , he announced that he wrote a second book titled "Note to Self" that will be released on April He "accidentally" wrote the book when he spent the fourteen previous months taking photos and writing poetry just for fun.

Connor found himself in a big emotional change and began to write about it in literal and abstract forms. Connor Joel Franta was born in Wisconsin, on September 12, and shortly after his birth, his family moved to La Crescent, Minnesota, where he grew up. Over the past few years, Connor has made himself an internet icon through the making of YouTube videos.

In August of Connor uploaded his first video to his YouTube channel "ConnorFranta" out of his interest in the concept and also boredom. Little did he know his channel would only grow from there. He quickly started to gain viewers and subscribers, eventually securing a partnership with YouTube. Making videos has not only become his career, but his passion. With over 4 million subscribers, he has made himself extremely well-known on the internet. Out of the many great things that have come from his YouTube career, two major ones are the movie O2L Forever , a film based off of the YouTube collaboration channel in which he was a member of, and also for his New York Times best selling memoir, A Work in Progress Sign In.

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