Ethan Schulteis
Ethan Schulteis (born: 2002-8-25), better known online as The Amagi, is an American YouTuber and entrepreneur who gained popularity online for his anime reviews and videos where he explains the lives/origins of characters, locations, groups, and abilities from various anime and manga franchises; he particularly likes creating videos about the Naruto and A:TLA franchise.[1]
As of December 2022, his channel has amassed over 1,600,000 subscribers and over 400 million views.[2]
Ethan is the founder and CEO of Amagi Publishing, a media company that produces content for his channels along with multiple others including: The Amagi 2, The Amagi Hindi, ChannelFrederator, Cinematica, and more. In total he manages channels with over 6 million subscribers and 1.5 billion views.
Personal Life
Ethan Schulteis was was born on August 25, 2002 in Wisconsin, USA. He is the first child to Tim and Shelly Schulteis. [3] He participated in his local baseball, soccer, wrestling, bowling, and cross country teams as a kid and was also involved in musical theatre. He claims to have created multiple youtube channels as a child before eventually creating The Amagi.[4]
Creating The Amagi
Ethan Schulteis's dream job as a child was to be an animator/show runner. He claims in his video "The History Of The Amagi" that he tried to pitch a show to Nickelodeon at 12 years old. When Ethan didn't get a response from them he decided to create the show himself. He signed up for an animation class and created the first episode of his animated series titled "The Amagi". He created a channel of the same name and posted the episode to it. Due to the videos poor performance Ethan decided to not continue the series.
The channel laid dormant for 2 years until Ethan decided to begin posting again in 2018. Ethan explained that he was constantly trying different video formats to see what worked and what didn't. During this time period Ethan posted: Top 10 videos, news videos, and interviews.
On May 28, 2019 Ethan tried out yet another video format, covering fictional histories. He posted "The History Of Lavabending", and the video went viral amassing over 1 million views.[5]
After seeing the success of that video Ethan dived full force into that format creating over 150 videos going over the Avatar franchise in the following months.[6]
Due to the success of his Avatar videos, The Amagi passed 100,000 subscribers on
External Links
References
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkbrlVKUj1hjQ9Bat0CvJLQ/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkbrlVKUj1hjQ9Bat0CvJLQ/
- ↑ http://pikastar.com/ethan-m-schulteis-height-facts-weight-measurements/
- ↑ https://youtu.be/BMxe3MeOa7M
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zOB7GhwQsM
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxjgtEU22VZengDIjgaYPhl0bKYRERQlm
