Zaid Ali
Zaid Ali | ||||||
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Born |
Zaid Ali Lahore, Pakistan | |||||
Nationality | Pakistani, Canadian | |||||
Occupation | Motivational speaker, YouTuber | |||||
YouTube information | ||||||
Pseudonym | ZaidAliT | |||||
Channel | ZaidAliT | |||||
Years active | 2010-present | |||||
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Subscribers |
424,117 (24 January 2016) | |||||
Total views |
47,262,919 (24 January 2016) | |||||
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Subscriber and view counts updated as of 24 January 2016. |
Zaid Ali (Urdu: زید علی ) better known by his YouTube pseudonym ZaidAliT is a Pakistani-Canadian YouTube personality and social media figure from Waterloo, Ontario best known for his YouTube videos.
Career
The Desi culture, and especially the culture of Desis living in the west, is the main inspiration for Ali's videos. He has gained a lot of popularity, mainly through Facebook and YouTube. Ali also creates vlogs on a separate channel called ZaidAliTV Vlogs. As of January 2016, his YouTube channel has over 420,000 subscribers and more than 47 million views. His Facebook page, where he also posts links to his videos, has more than a million likes. In addition to making YouTube videos, Ali has also started to perform on-stage. In January 2015 he was offered a role in a Hollywood film in which there was a kissing scene but he turned it down, elucidating that he could never imagine doing something of the sort.[1][2] In March 2015, he posted a video with the title "Bollywood dialogue in real life'" on YouTube which went viral after that video was tweeted by Sonakshi Sinha.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ "Zaid Ali T vs Hollywood". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
- ↑ "His lips are sealed: Zaid Ali says no to Hollywood". DAWN.com. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
- ↑ "Zaid Ali's video got viral after Sonakshi Sinha tweeted". The News Teller. Retrieved 4 May 2015.