Kassem G.

About

Kassem G. (real name Kassem Gharaibeh) is a popular YouTube user who does various interviews and comedy sketches.^[1]

Origin

He was born in Jordan and lived in Saudi Arabia for a short time before moving to Florida when he was four years old. Before his YouTube career, Gharaibeh worked at a Best Buy and did stand-up comedy on weekends, usually performing in small venues like restaurants. Kassem G created his YouTube channel on Oct 24, 2006 and uploaded his first video on Jan 16, 2008. The short video was of a guy trying to jump a sign but falling over with the sign as Kassem laughs in the background (shown below). In 2009 he co-founded Maker Studios along with Shay Butler and Lisa Donovan.

Online Presence

KassemG’s official Facebook account is updated regularly and has been liked over 316k times.^[6] He has stated in his personal interests that “I’m interested in becoming so rich that I can hire a white housekeeper for my Mexican housekeeper” and his short description is “I’m very cute and popular.” His Twitter account kassemg has over 356k followers and has produced more than 9k tweets.^[7]

Kassem’s main YouTube channel is KassemG. The majority of the channel’s content consists of celebrity interviews and discussions with other YouTubers. The channel has nearly 2.7 million subscribers and nearly 470 million views as of July 2015.^[2] The most viewed video on his channel, entitled “ASAAKIRAGOESDEEP”, has gained over 13.3 million views as of July 2015 (shown below, left). Kassem’s second channel, KassemGtwo, consists of videos answering comments and vlogs. The channel has over 500k subscribers and over 36 million views as of July 2015.^[3] As of July 2015, the most viewed video on the channel has over 1.1 million views (shown below, right).

Guest Appearances

Kassem G has also made appearances in the series Epic Rap Battles of History, rapping in the episode “The Final Battle. Nice Peter vs EpicLLOYD” (shown below, left). The other videos he has made cameos in are “Cleopatra VS Marilyn Monroe”,^[8] as well as “Hitler vs Vader 3”,^[9] Kassem also hosted an episode Ray William Johnson’s show popular show Equals Three on June 13, 2011 (shown below, right). He has also hosted three episodes since then on June 16, 2011,^[10] and on January 13, 2012.^[11]

On December 1, 2013, Kassem G did an interview with fellow YouTuber Doug Benson on his show Getting Doug with High (shown below). In the video Kassem gets high off of marijuana. The episode has gained nearly 650,000 views as of July 2015.^[5]

Fandom

On Tumblr there are several fan-made blogs for Kassem, such as Uncle Kassem,^[12] We Love Kassem G,^[13] and Going Deep With Kassem G.^[14] On DeviantArt there are only around 83 results for “KassemG”.^[15]