Ryan Higa aka Nigahiga

 Ryan Higa, known as Nigahiga on YouTube, is an amazingly funny person from Hilo, Hawaii. His videos used to feature his friends from Hilo including '''Sean Fujiyoshi, '''Tim Enos, '''Tarynn Nago (known collectively as "The Yabo Crew"), and '''Bryson Murata. Since relocating to Las Vegas to study filmmaking at UNLV, Higa's videos are usually solo efforts except during school breaks when he sometimes visits Hilo and collaborates with the Yabo Crew. Chester See (chestersee), J.R. Aquino (JRAquino music), Victor King (victorvictorkim), D-trix (theDOMINICshow), Kevin Wu (Kevjumba), and Andrew Garcia (andrewgarcia) aka YTF (Yesterday, Today, Forever) also appear on Ryan's videos. They are known for their YouTube comedy videos, which have been viewed over 573 million times. By August 2010, Higa got to +2,000,000 subscribers and counting, and is the first user to reach the 2 million subscriber mark. As of June 2011, Higa's YouTube channel, nigahiga, has over 4.9 million subscribers and is the second most subscribed YouTube channel of all time ahead of such prominent Youtube users as Shane Dawson, Fred, and Smosh . He now has over 10 million subscribers.
Higa is now 23 years old. He was born on June 6, 1990.

Popularity

Higa and Fujiyoshi's YouTube channel, nigahiga, was created on July 20, 2006. By March 2010, it had over 2,000,000 subscribers, the first channel to do so. In December 2010, Ryan had over 3,000,000, in July 2011, over 4,000,000 making it the second most subscribed channel. In February 2012, he had over 5,000,000. By November 2008, their videos had been viewed over a billion times.