General Info

Olajide William Olatunji who is known as KSI. He shortened his name to JJ. He was born on the 19th of June 1993 in London, England. However, he grew up in Watford, England, about 20 miles away from London.



History/Past

His online name is now KSI which used to be KSIOlajideBT. KSI was what his old halo (gaming) clan used to be called which was one of the biggest in its time. Olajide is his last name and BT stands for british telecom. JJ started his YouTube channel July 24th, 2009 where he uploaded Modern Warfare videos and used to rap over some of his videos as well. He then moved onto Fifa which is what originally blew his channel up, in fact within two years he had made 150,000 subscribers which was a big achievement back then (It still is today, but was fairly rare back then) He also had over 39 million total views, which was also crazy. He also started some of the most successful series on his channel such as "Race to division one (RTD1)" and "Top 5 Goals of the Week". He also incooperated rapping into his videos, so rapping has been a part of him since the beginning and is not just a recent project.







Education

JJ went to a private/indepenant school called Berkhampsted School. He claims to have been an introvert which is the polar opposite of him today. He also says he got very good GCSE's however he failed his A-Levels which his parent were fuming at smashing plates, doors and whatever else was in the room. He also met lifelong friend and Sidemen member Simon Minter (Miniminter)



Health

KSI has a condition called trypophobia which is the fear of irregularly placed small circles. He and others with the same condition feel uncomfortable when they see these irregular images.



The Sidemen

The Sidemen is one of the most succesful youtube groups to date and heres how they formed. KSI and Miniminter (Simon Minter) met during school at Berkhampsted and Miniminter helped KSI make a lot of his videos before he made his own channel even making some appearences from time to time. Zerkaa (Joshua Bradely) and Tobi Brown (TBJZL) were also friends at school with gaming being a great passion of theirs. They eventually started playing GTA V with KSI and Miniminter and talking on Voice Hangouts. They then added Behzinga to the group being a gaming streamer on Twitch. JME is a popular UK Grime MC and Zerkaa used some of his music in his videos, JME then having a spike in his viewing and Zerkaa comments flooding his channel then messaged Zerkaa and then started playing with the GTA group. He is considered the unofficial member of the sidemen as he has dedicated himself to BBK which is one of the best UK Grime groups. Wrotoshaw (Harry Lewis) and Vikkstar (Vikram Barn) were added in similar fashion. JJ, Zerkaa, Miniminter and Vikkstar moved into the first sidemen house together making more IRL videos and the same combination of people moving into the "second sidemen house". They have decided to keep this house as private as possible to avoid trolls/fans.



Acting Career

KSI stared in comedy film Laid in America in released 26th September 2016. The movie was great feedback however there was a huge piracy issue, being on the most priated films of all time, this may be because he creates content on the internet which is the home of piracy, he also heavily promoted the film on the internet rather than targeting the film industry and media such as TV. The film also stared popular youtuber Caspar Lee.



He also appeared in youtube mini-series 5 Aside for the ThisIsDRAMA youtube channel.







Music Career

KSI has been into rapping since he was a kid. He has realsed multiple EP's and his style of music evolves each time an EP releases. He has performed with artists such as P Money and Waka Flocka Flame. His mentor for his music career is none other then Sway.



Boxing

On the 3rd of February 2018 KSI was the main event in a white collar (Not professional, not amateur) boxing match against fellow youtube Joe Weller. On the night KSI out boxed his opponent and won by TKO. It set the record for the biggest white collar match in the UK in term of number accumalating a million live viewers at a single moment and over 15 million views as a video afterwards. He says that he will continue his boxing career after the fight and has called out various people such as Jake Paul,Logan Paul and Rio Ferdinand.



Relationships

KSI has been known for getting with a lot of girls being a young millionaire, however he has been in public serious relationships before some of who has appeared on camera. First of which was Seana Cuthbert. He was with her for around 2 years around 2012 -2014. They filmed many videos together. For years after their breakup Seana still recieve fans tagging KSI in her instagram photos which must have been difficult to deal with. He has also revealed his new girlfriend called Lois Sharpie in 2017, however i'm assuming they're broken up now as JJ has talked about getting other girls in videos since then.



Controversy

KSI is a controversy expert some real and some that is somewhat fabricated. A reason why his channel is so succesful is becuase of this controversy. A major controversy that changed the course of his career was a vlog during popular gaming convention Eurogamer in 2012. He had posted content like this vlog previously but this one picked up particular bad media press and ruined sponsorship deals with big companies including Microsoft and still affects his sponsorships to this day. He also changed the life of ex-footballer Emile Heskey by creating comedy videos about his footballing skills and the situation blew out of proportion, people making fun of him because of these videos and eventually it got so bad for Heskey that he had to move country with his wife and kids. KSI and Emile Heskey met in 2017 in a charity football match and he didn't seem to show much anger. Another controvertial topic includes hiim and enother ex youtuber called Gujon Daniels. In short Gujon became friend with JJ but then got obessed witht he view from his videos and eventually for a interview for kick TV he dissed KSI regardless of all he had done for him which sparked a rage of internet hate in which he never recovered from over 5 years later.







Books

KSI has written his own book called I'm a belled which is a super funny book including tips and tricks based on his life experience. He has also written a book with the other members of the sidemen which at one point was an Amazon best seller. In this book you get to know a little about each of the sidemen's past but the majority is just fun activities. Check out the links below to buy his book and the sidemen book.



