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William L Sledd (born October 11, 1983) is an American video blogger and internet celebrity, made famous by his online videos and blogs, which include the popular "Ask A Gay Man" series launched in 2006, which made him one of the first YouTube celebrities.〔(Breaking News – William Sledd to Star in Bravo Reality Pilot "Hey Bitches" | TheFutonCritic.com )〕〔(Forget Katie Couric, Here's William Sledd – Forbes )〕〔(Why William Sledd Trumps Seventeen Mag On YouTube – Business Insider )〕〔(OUTLOOKS Magazine: Interview with William Sledd )〕 Since the late 2000s he has been vlogging under the title ''What William Thinks'', and focusses on his work as a social media manager.〔(Televisual | Graduating from YouTube Hard Without Big Media Support )〕〔(Hiring a 25-year-old "non-banker" is one strategy that has helped this bank make a splash on Facebook )〕 Sledd lives in Paducah, Kentucky, and worked at clothing retailer Gap. GAP products are occasionally featured in his program although he has declared he is not paid for product placement or advertising by the company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 The Truth about William Sledd )〕 Since 2009 he has been a social media manager for a bank.〔(The Journey of William Sledd: From The Gap to YouTube Stardom to Bravo to…the Local Bank — Tech News and Analysis )〕〔(First-gen YouTube celebs: Where are they now? | Internet & Media – CNET News )〕 ==YouTube vlogging== Sledd got an iMac in 2004/2005 and started experimenting with making videos.〔(''Watch Isaac'', Isaac Mizrahi interviews William Sledd )〕 He self-taught his video skills.〔 He says he did not have a set goal but was speaking his mind on fashion, also it was like a secret diary when he first started, unknown to anyone in his hometown.〔(These guys draw a YouTube crowd )〕 He first posted almost weekly, and asked viewers to submit questions which become the subjects of future episodes.〔(Before you wear that, he's got a few words – Los Angeles Times )〕 Subsequently he posted every two weeks, and each video ran four to five minutes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Balitmore Sun ) edition of June 10, 2007 of ''The Baltimore Sun''〕 Each of Sledd's videos regularly achieved in excess of 50,000 views and as of July 2007, his most popular video "Ask A Gay Man: Denim Edition" had attracted over 3,000,000 views.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Ask A Gay Man: Denim Edition )〕〔 He puts a lot of work into each video, the ''Los Angeles Times'' noted his 4 1/2 minute denim video took four hours just to shoot.〔 As an openly gay man, he explains the latest trends in fashion and occasionally goes on location to point out fashion "don'ts" as part of his ''Fashion Victim'' editions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.glamour.com/fashionbeauty/slideshows/2007/07/williamsledd )〕 His ''Ask a Gay Man: Fashion Edition'', was the fourth-most subscribed to blog on YouTube in April 2007,〔(''Details Magazine'' (June) – The Ultimate Guide to Jeans / Who Says All Gay Men Are Stylish? )〕 and was nominated for best series in the first YouTube Awards.〔 In February 2008, Sledd was the 12th most subscribed user of all time and the sixth most subscribed advertising partner of all time.〔(YouTube Hunting for Magazine Partners )〕 According to Social Blade's YouTube statistics Sledd, as of January 2014, has nearly 88,000 subscribers, and nearly 25 million views although that total does not include views before his channel was hacked in 2006.〔(WilliamSledd Monthly YouTube Statistics – Socialblade YouTube Stats )〕〔(YouTube's Early Stars: Where Are They Now? )〕 Sledd was one of the fastest growing and most viewed director/bloggers on YouTube, ranking in the top ten Most Subscribed (All Time) category as of November 2006. On September 23, 2006, his personal YouTube account was illegally hacked and all his content (including videos, comments, honours, etc.) was deleted. Sledd then recorded a brief response to the criminals and went on to re-upload select videos. On June 1, 2007 he posted a video to celebrate Gay and Lesbian Pride Month asking for viewers to respond with their own pride stories or even to come out, there was an "outpouring" of support.〔(The Kindest People Who Do Good Deeds: Volume 2 )〕 Sledd states he gets lots of emails from young gay and lesbian teenagers that see him as a role model.〔 ''Advocate'' magazine noted that along with other openly gay YouTube celebrities, Sledd's rising fame also brought a lot of anti-gay commenters, which it ascribed to John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. It regards the online disinhibition effect, in which Internet users exhibit unsociable tendencies while interacting with other Internet users. Krahulik and Holkins suggest that, given both anonymity and an audience, an otherwise regular person becomes aggressively antisocial. In 2013, Holkins gave the corollary that "Normal Person – ''Consequences'' + Audience = Total Fuckwad". In September 2007, "The Top (& Bottom) Gays of You Tube!", the first all-gay collaboration video by YouTube's most subscribed video bloggers, was posted by Michael Buckley ("What The Buck?!") to create a "YouTube gay village."〔 Featuring Chris Crocker in a heavily affected persona, William Sledd, and "Gay God" (Matthew Lush), the video consisted of each of the four bloggers commenting on the others' vlogging, with Buckley acting as host for the various outtakes.〔 In February 2008, the channels were among the most popular on YouTube when "What The Buck?!" was 6th, Crocker's channel 8th, Sledd 13th and "Gay God" in 25th. As of January 2014, the video has been viewed over 1,218,300 times, with over 9,000 comments. In 2007 he was offered a deal to produce an original Bravo series for ''Ask a Gay Man Anything'', the network had been building it's reality show and online properties including "seven show-specific mobile Web sites" in conjunction with Time Warner Cable.〔(New initiative at Bravo – The Hollywood Reporter )〕 It premiered in June 2007.〔(Ask A Gay Man comes to Bravo's OutZone site )〕 Later that year he was offered his own reality-show, and shot pilot episodes, documenting his rising fame and possible move to the fashion world in New York City.〔(YouTube star gets docusoap on Bravo )〕 Ultimately Bravo folded OutZoneTV.com and focussed online funding to derivative efforts rather than original series.〔〔(More YouTubers Get Gigs — Tech News and Analysis )〕〔(Gap Manager Ruins Gayness For Everyone )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Sledd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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