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Before KSI, there was Olajide Olatunji – “JJ” for brief. Before the YouTuber, gamer, rapper, boxer, promoter and vitality drink magnate, there was the affable class clown in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.

“I remember we did a production of Sweeney Todd,” considered one of his schoolmates tells The Independent. “He played the judge, and when he died at the end, he was twitching and doing the worm across the stage. Everyone was in stitches. He was funny, a nice guy – everybody liked him for that. He was popular, but not like, ‘I’m the s***’; he was confident but also a nerdy, endearing, sweet guy.”

With these qualities, JJ was tailor made for YouTube, the place he launched his channel ‘KSIOlajideBT’ in 2009 – 4 years after the platform’s inception. Fifteen years previous on the time, JJ shortly garnered a following by filming himself taking part in Fifa – the well-known soccer online game – at his mother and father’ home in Watford. His bewitching cackle was a key characteristic in every add. “He always had that very distinctive laugh,” his schoolmate recollects. “I remember that. He would laugh at something during morning registration, and the teachers would be like, ‘JJ, please!’”

By the top of 2009, Olatunji had amassed 1,000 subscribers. That quantity had tripled by the top of 2010, and Olatunji’s progress accelerated at a startling tempo in 2011, as he reached 150,000 subscribers, and in 2012, when he crossed the million mark. JJ had develop into KSI – standing for ‘Knowledge Strength Integrity’ – and he would quickly develop into arguably probably the most well-known YouTuber in Britain.

More on his journey, right here:

KSI additionally used his “Good Morning Britain” screentime to make an essential level about his vitality drink, Prime – which he launched alongside Logan Paul.

There are significantly better boxers on the market who can educate you tips on how to throw a punch, after all, however KSI provided some tips about “Good Morning Britain” at present:

The press convention is about to kick off at 4pm BST and can be streamed throughout numerous social-media channels and platforms. This consists of KSI’s YouTube channel and the Misfits Boxing YouTube channel.

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Logan Paul has primarily been concerned within the WWE in current months, although he has expertise boxing (he even fought KSI in 2018 and 2019), having fought Floyd Mayweather two years in the past.