Sam Golbach Bio

While in school, Sam Golbach, along with his friend, Colby, started discussing ideas to produce a number of videos that had the shock value to engage viewers. All of these were prank videos that basically included the duo causing trouble in all sorts of places, from a mall to the local Target store to the park fountain. They shot these pranks with their phone cam, kept them short and sweet, and started uploading them to Vine. Very soon, they amassed quite a following, with one of their videos Following Fat People gathering a record view of 10 million! In the video, Sam followed random people at a supermarket while playing the saxophone, often receiving quite a verbal bashing from their targets. By the summer of 2014, their Vine account was receiving 5,000 to 6,000 followers per day. By the time Vine was taken down, they had more than 1.6 million fans. Sam then moved on to YouTube, where he continued to make more prank videos and also started making personal vlog entries on various subjects. Currently, his YouTube channel has 2.59 million followers. He is also popular on Instagram and Twitter where he has 1.9 million and 984k followers respectively.

In November 2014, Sam and Colby launched their collaborative Youtube channel under the name ‘Sam and Colby.’ Their first video was titled “Intro Video” which has now amassed over 642k views. The duo posts exploration vlogs where they “explore” some of the haunted and spooky places around the world. The channel currently hosts over 9.3 million subscribers.

The things that make Sam Golbach so special are definitely his cute looks coupled with a killer sense of humor. He is funny and at the same time goofy in an irresistible boy-next-door sort of way. His blue eyes and unruly blonde locks have the girls swooning, some even putting up strong displays of emotion just so they can meet him. His pranks are elaborate and extremely funny and they reveal a sharp brain behind the whole execution. At the same time, Sam Golbach is focused on making teaching, his other passion in life, a reality. Together with Colby, Sam has introduced The Life Project which focuses on teaching people to build healthier life skills through engaging videos and has been featured by news agencies like BBC, Huffington Post, etc.

Sam Golbach and Colby have been under scrutiny from social media for their content which they often designate as juvenile, offensive, and disruptive. While titles like Following Fat People caused protests from specific groups of people, disruptive pranks like placing a couch inside the elevator resulted in them being banned from the particular Oak Park mall. In November 2015, fellow YouTuber Sam Pepper played a prank on Sam that involved his best friend Colby being kidnapped and shot in the head in a made-up scenario. That video received a lot of admonition from the media for spreading negative imagery across the internet. Sam Golbach has since changed his social media motto to “upward and onward” and aims to focus on the good aspects of life rather than just pranks and mischief.

Sam Golbach hails from a small town in Kansas, USA called Leewood. Brought up by amazingly supportive parents Cindy and Kirk, Sam has an older sister named Allison. He went to Blue Valley High School along with his best friend Colby. He moved to Los Angeles to focus on his career late in 2015. In a video uploaded in January 2017, Sam Golbach introduced his then-girlfriend Katrina Stuart, who is a pop singer. The couple parted ways in 2023.