Who is Bobby Burns? Everything You Need to Know

Quick Facts

Girlfriend: Jordanne Leigh

Age: 27 Years, 27 Year Old Males

U.S. State: Tennessee

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Rise to Stardom

Bobby Burns began his YouTube career in May 2014 with movie, trailers and album reviews. He started out with a review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle trailer. Thereafter, he posted reviews of films such as 'X-Men', 'Olympus Has Fallen' and 'Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith'.

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He later started collaborating with the YouTube channel 'CinemaSins' and produced series such as 'My Thoughts On Movies', through which he expressed his opinion about recently watched movies; 'How To Make A ____ Film', in which he parodied certain directors by attempting to make movies like them; and 'Does____ Actually Suck?', in which he dissected movies to see how good or bad they were.

According to most fans, this was the peak point of his YouTube career. After he started commenting on YouTube culture, he got himself into a serious controversy which caused major mental breakdown in early 2018, but he has since then recovered and has began producing more content for his viewers.

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Controversies & Scandals

Bobby Burns courted controversy in late 2017 after he uploaded a video titled 'Shane Dawson the "Conspiracy Theorist"' on November 22 and criticized the popular YouTuber known for his mini-series in which he explores haunted places. In the video, he went on to say that Dawson gets views by making videos on trending topics even though he has "terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible content." He quickly drew the ire of Dawson's 12 million-plus subscribers at the time, who posted hateful comments about Burns on various social media platforms. Dawson, however, invited Burns for a face-to-face conversation after watching his video and posted a three-part series in which he learnt about Burns' content and then confronted him about his comments.

In the second part of the series, Burns admitted to being a longtime fan of Dawson, following which some claimed that he used the bigger YouTuber's fame for publicity. Nevertheless, Dawson offered his 'hater' Burns to post a video every week on his own channel on Sundays starting in March 2018. Dawson also gifted him an expensive car, which further made his fans angry as they believed that another regular YouTuber on Dawson's channel, Destery Smith, deserved both the gift and the Sunday slot. In fact, they hated Burns so much that after the news came out that he had an accident with the new car, not only they blamed him for being ungrateful about the gift, they were also disappointed that he survived the accident. After Burns stopped posting videos on Dawson's channel on Sundays, the YouTuber 'Standard Procedure' spread the rumor with one of his videos that Dawson had fired Burns. However, Burns clarified on Twitter that he was not fired, and Dawson stated that the show was on hold and that they were still friends and would work together again. According to Burns, the creator of 'Standard Procedure' had apologized to him through email.

Family & Personal Life

Bobby Douglas Burns was born on January 26, 1997, in Columbia, Tennessee, United States. He is the oldest of five siblings. He lived in Buffalo, New York for some time before moving to Los Angeles, California to further his YouTube career.

He was in a relationship with Jordanne Leigh during the mid-2010s when she often appeared on his YouTube videos and his Instagram feed. She later started her own YouTube career in 2018 and began posting lifestyle videos. However, they eventually broke up in late 2018, following which Leigh posted a live stream on her channel about it. Interestingly, a few months ago, in August 2018, Burns had revealed himself to be bisexual in a video titled 'Coming Out'.

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