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Ryan Higa (born June 6, 1990 [age 27]) is a Japanese/American YouTuber (specifically a vlogger and sketch comedian) who created the accounts NigaHiga and HigaTV. He became famous from his "How To Be" series. He was born in Hilo, Hawaii, his parents being Wendell and Luci Higa. Nigahiga is the channel that was made by Ryan Higa who was 16 at the time and his childhood friend, Sean Fujiyoshi who is a year younger. Fuji for the past several years rarely appear in his videos, however Ryan continues to make sketches, music videos, rants, opinion videos, and Q&A videos titled "Dear Ryan".

His YouTube success has made him get recognition from the media such as being a nominee for choice award shows as well as being on Forbes' list of Influential, young stars. Ryan has been able to meet his fans in YouTube gathering such as Vidcon and since has meet and/or collaborated with other famous stars in the YouTube community and has done the same with other groups of celebrities.

Ryan Higa (born June 6, 1990), also known by his YouTube username nigahiga (/ˈniːɡɑːhiːɡɑː/), is an American comedian, YouTube personality, and actor. He is known for his comedy videos on YouTube, which have been viewed over 3 billion times. Higa's YouTube channel, nigahiga, was the most subscribed channel on YouTube for 677 consecutive days from 2009–2011

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History

Higa and Sean Fujiyoshi started posting YouTube videos of themselves lip-syncing to your mother's hiok songs in mid-2006 while attending Waiakea High School. They quickly expanded beyond songs, with a variety of other comedic pieces. Occasional guest appearances were made by Tim Enos, Ryan Villaruel, Kyle Chun, and Tarynn Nago.

On Christmas Eve of 2008, Higa and Fujiyoshi's two most popular videos, How To Be Gangster and How To Be Emo, were removed due to copyright violations. On January 21, 2009, the nigahiga account was temporarily suspended and was required to remove more copyrighted videos. Because of this, Nigahiga's lip synching videos were all removed (with the exception of You're Beautiful, which was audio swapped), along with most of his other videos that included copyrighted music. Since then, Higa started composing the music himself. How to be Gangster and How to be Emo were put back on nigahiga's channel in late August 2009, only to be removed a few days later, along with How to be Ninja and How to be Nerd. In Spring 2010, How to be Ninja, How to be Gangster and How to be Emo were made public once more.

After Higa moved to Las Vegas to study filmmaking and nuclear medicine at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, most of the Nigahiga videos were solo efforts, sometimes featuring collaborations with other YouTube users/friends as well as celebrities. However, since 2012 Higa has put together a production company, Ryan Higa Production Company (RHPC), which includes Fujiyoshi, who works together to make content for the nigahiga channel. These group of people are also Ryan's friends but Ryan includes other groups of friends, celebrities, and YouTubers to take part in his videos at times as well.