Alfred Sidney Deyes (born 17 September 1993) is an English YouTuber, vlogger and businessman. On 4 September 2014, he released his first book, The Pointless Book. Since 2014, he has released three books in the Pointless Book series and one autobiography.
From 2013, along with a number of other YouTubers, he appeared in the Style Haul series The Crew, described by teen website Sugarscape.com as "the male version of Loose Women, but a bit less pervy".
In 2013, Deyes was a member of the "Guinness World Records OMG!" channel (GWRomg) and held a number of , including "Most bangles put on in 30 seconds by a team of two", along with YouTubers Marcus Butler and 'Laurbubble' (which they still hold); and "Most party poppers popped in 30 seconds" with a count of 29, beating the previously set record by 1 (he subsequently lost this to Ashrita Furman in October 2013), and filling the most pancakes in one minute, with chocolate sauce and bananas, which was 7.
Deyes was included in the 2015 Debrett's 500, listing the most influential people in Britain, under the New Media category. In 2018, Deyes uploaded a video to his YouTube channel called "Living on £1 for 24 hours" in which his aim was to spend only £1 for a full day. He received criticism from viewers and the media who claimed that Deyes was making a mockery of poverty, both in his language used and the fact he did things such as going shopping for clothes during the video, continuing to use luxury items such as his car and was given free food after being recognised. On 18 June 2018, Deyes uploaded a video to his vlogging channel titled "Lets talk about the £1 video", in which he apologised for his actions and claimed he did not mean to mock poverty. He subsequently removed the original video from YouTube and donated all revenue from that video to charity.
A sequel to The Pointless Book, The Pointless Book 2, was released on 26 March 2015 and features similar content. It became the second best selling non-fiction book in its first week of release.
Deyes released a standalone autobiography, The Scrapbook Of My Life, on 24 March 2016. In 2017, Deyes announced a third and final book in the Pointless Book series titled The Pointless Book 3. It was released on 13 July 2017.
Deyes was part of the 'YouTube Boyband' that raised money for Comic Relief.
2014 | "Ariana Does My Makeup" with Ariana Grande | Teen Choice Award for Choice Web Collaboration | ||
2015 | Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards | UK Favourite Vlogger | ||
2015 | BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards | Best British Vlogger |
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