Yousef Erakat

The original You-sef-Tuber.

Yousef Erakat, known online as FouseyTube, is a Palestinian-American content creator who rose to prominence in the early 2010s as part of the first big wave of YouTube comedy channels.

His prank videos, sketches and vlogs drew millions of subscribers and helped define what an independent online entertainer could be before the term "influencer" was in common use.

We include him here for one simple reason: before this website existed, he had already proven that "Yousef" and "YouTube" belong in the same sentence.