Paul Robinett, better known by his screen name

Stage name

A stage name, also called a showbiz name or screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers such as actors, wrestlers, comedians, and musicians.-Motivation to use a stage name:...

 Renetto, is an American vlogger and entrepreneur. Robinett's videos have attracted over 30 million views, and his YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

 channel has over 40,000 subscribers. His channel has been viewed over 3.9 million times.

How the Channel started

Robinett began posting videos on YouTube in mid-2006. Initially, he posted videos as the character "renetto", "a squeaky-voiced, intellectually challenged reviewer of others' YouTube videos." Robinett gained greater notoriety with a video called "Diet Coke+Mentos=Human experiment: EXTREME GRAPHIC CONTENT" posted in August 2006, in which he placed a large quantity of Mentos

Mentos

Mentos is a brand of mints, of the "scotch mint" type, sold in many markets across the world by the Perfetti Van Melle corporation. Mentos was first produced in the Netherlands during the 1950s. The mints are small oblate spheroids, with a slightly hard exterior and a soft, chewy interior...

 in his mouth and drank Diet Coke

Diet Coke

Diet Coke is a sugar-free soft drink produced and distributed by The Coca-Cola Company. It was first introduced in the United States on August 9, 1982, as the first new brand since 1886 to use the Coca-Cola trademark...

 at the same time, and implied that he suffered serious injury as a result. The video received over one million views within 24 hours of being released.

The Journey

He was once ranked on YouTube's "most subscribed"(41st All Time) list.

Robinett was nominated for the first YouTube Video Awards

YouTube Awards

The YouTube Awards are awards given out as formalizedic or comedy genres, as voted by the YouTube community. The awards were organized in 2007 to "call out some of the most popular videos and let the users choose which ones deserve some additional recognition"...

. He is also an official partner in YouTube's revenue sharing program.

Robinett is based in Canal-Winchester, Ohio, where he owned and ran a candle shop. In September 2007 he announced his move and challenged YouTubers to find him, and ended up in Ahwatukee, Phoenix, Arizona. He later returned to Ohio.

Real Life, Real Time, Uncut, Unedited, Unafraid

Where he would consistently post at least one video per day. As of 2011, the regular uploads seem to have ceased. Linked from his profile used to be vloggerheads.com, a website created and co-founded by Paul to give a separated community from Youtube. He began posting videos on Youtube regularly once again. It was stated by him that Youtube is just one of many platforms to utilize in terms of broadcasting social media. It matters not to him the platform used, but rather the internet as a community being able to watch people's readily available video content. He continues to progress in branding himself in incoherent ways, and develop his life streaming content to be more appealing to his target audience. However, his contributions got rare and his popularity amongst vloggers declined rapidly.

AdApption

In September 2010, in collaboration with developer Nick Long, Robinett co-founded AdApption, a company specializing in innovative smartphone applications. MyU2B, a full-featured video sharing application designed specifically for die-hard YouTube enthusiasts, was their first product. In 2011, Robinett and Long announced their latest project, GLMPS

External links

• Official website