Shonduras

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Shaun Todd McBride (born July 7, 1987), better known by his online alias Shonduras, is an American entrepreneur and social media personality from Clearfield, Utah.[1] He is best known on Snapchat for his finger-drawings, filming his life on YouTube, as well as being the owner and founder of his own esports organization, Spacestation Gaming.[2][3] Shaun McBride owns ten companies within the Spacestation: Shonduras,[4] A For Adley,[5] Spacestation Animation,[6] Quarter Machine,[7] Moonwalk Media,[8] Remarketing Space,[9] Spacestation Investments, Spacestation Integrations,[10] Spacestation CPG,[11] Spacestation Gaming.[12] He's also a skateboarder and snowboarder.[13]

Discovery[]

In 2014, Shonduras had made a Snapchat account to share his adventures with his family.[14][15] He started drawing on Snapchat, and sent his drawings to only his friends and family. He started getting popular after he had doodled an elderly woman into a My Little Pony character with rainbow hair.[16] He had sent it to his sisters, and they showed it to their friends at school. They started adding him to see more of his Snapchat art which is where his audience first started to grow.[17] Shonduras' audience became so big that by advertising through Snapchat, it had become his job.[18] Shonduras was one of Snapchat's first content creators to gain a following.[19][20] In 2015, he bought a Canon 70D DSLR to start vlogging his life and is still doing it to this day with the same camera. The Shonduras YouTube channel has over 2 million subscribers.[21] Shonduras has 3 kids with his wife Jenny McBride; Adley May McBride, their oldest, who has a channel called "A for Adley"; Niko Bear McBride, the second oldest; and their third, Navey May McBride.

Snapchat[]

Shonduras created content on Snapchat. He did share the adventures he had on Snapchat to not only his friends and family, but his fans as well. His stories have included him walking a tiger and riding an elephant in Thailand. He flew in a helicopter over glaciers in Alaska, started multiple virtual thumb wars with one of the Jonas Brothers, Kevin Jonas.[22][23][24][25] Shonduras also shared experiences at Disneyland and Disney World and was invited backstage at the Austin City Limits Music Festival.[26] However, the stories he created and shared were entertaining and would show him gaming with friends, skateboarding with friends, going to the dentist, or waiting 7 hours at an airport for his flight to leave. No matter what he was up to, he turned it into a Snapchat story. He created a series called, "Make My Monday" where he completed dares that were sent to him by his fans every Monday.[27] Shonduras participated in "SnapperHero",[28][29] SnapperHero was Snapchat's first original series.[30] He uploaded some of his Snapchat story compilations to his YouTube channel.[31]

YouTube[]

Shonduras started his vlogging career on August 5, 2015 which is also his first daughter's birthday,[32] he started vlogging his week and would post every Sunday. He would shortly transfer to daily vlogs that are called "Best Day Ever" to be uploaded starting in November 2015.[33] In the Best Day Ever's, Shonduras shows his life from traveling, family time, as well as what he does at his office called "Spacestation". On March 4th, 2017, he hit one million subscribers on his YouTube channel.[34][35] Since early 2019, he has shown his more of his family life and less of traveling as well the Spacestation as fans have been loving the family content ever since he made the switch.

Nominations and awards[]

In the 5th annual Streamy Awards, Shonduras was nominated for both "Best Short Form Creativity" and "Best Snapchat Storyteller." SnapperHero, which he participated in, won the Streamy Award for "Best Short Form Creativity." In both the 5th and 6th annual Streamy Awards, he won the "Snapchat Storyteller" Streamy award.[36][37] In the 7th annual Shorty Awards, Shonduras was a finalist in "The Best Snapchatter" category.[38] In 2016, he was nominated in The Ghosties for both "Snapchatter of the Year" and "Best Storyteller", he won the "Snapchatter of the Year" Ghostie award.[39]

Collaborators[]

References[]

  1. ^ Northern Utah social media sensation ‘Shonduras’ named to Forbes 30 Under 30 | Local News | standard.net Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  2. ^ Weissman, Saya. "Meet the Michelangelo of Snapchat". www.Digiday.com.
  3. ^ Piper, Matthew. "Utah sales rep creates witty Snapchats in traveling downtime". www.sltrib.com.
  4. ^ "Shonduras Website". shonduras.com. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  5. ^ "home ⋆ A for Adley". A for Adley. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  6. ^ "Spacestation Animation". www.spacestationanimation.com. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  7. ^ "Quarter Machine | NFT". quartermachine.io. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  8. ^ "Moonwalk Media". Moonwalkmedia.com. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  9. ^ "Remarketing Space – The Future of Influencer Marketing". Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  10. ^ "Spacestation Integrations". Spacestation Integrations. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  11. ^ "Spacestation CPG". www.spacestationcpg.com. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  12. ^ "Spacestation – From the creative mind of Shonduras and his ride or die business partner Holladay, the Spacestation is a collection of companies powered by creativity and drive and led by a team of masterminds". Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  13. ^ "Shonduras's Instagram video: "surrounded by fresh pow and friends!! snowboard shred day with Jenny and SSG Crew best vlog ever coming tomorrow