Lorenzo Ostuni (; born 7 April 1995), known online as Favij () or FavijTV, is an Italian

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. With over six million subscribers and four billion views, Ostuni has been described as one of the most popular YouTubers in Italy. He is also the most followed Italian YouTuber.

Life and career

Internet career and milestones

Ostuni was born in

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, and took a computer course at ITIS Carlo Grassi. In 2011, he and two friends began a

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channel called "TheSharedGaming". Although they typically played

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, Ostuni did a video playing the indie horror '' Slender: The Eight Pages'' (2012). This video's popularity spurred him to create a solo channel named "FavijTV" on 9 December 2012, with more of a focus on indie games. This channel reached 100,000 subscribers in 2013 and one million subscribers in 2014, the first Italian to cross the milestone. The same year, Ostuni also acted as a correspondent for ''

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'' at

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, and won the in the "Gamer" category, In December 2018, Ostuni reached five million subscribers, becoming the first Italian YouTuber to do so; he also appeared on ''YouTube Rewind 2018''. He created a second channel named "JIVAF" in 2019, which was renamed "LORE". By 2021, his channel was managed by the agency Webstars Channel. Ostuni is the first professional YouTuber in Italy, as well as the most followed. He lives in

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. In 2021,

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gave him a new gaming-oriented house to promote their Game Now 5G platform.

Other work

In 2015, Ostuni made his acting debut in '' Game Therapy'' and

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published his first book, an autobiography titled ''Sotto le cuffie''. His second book ''The Cage'' was released three years later. Ostuni has also dubbed characters in

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films such as ''

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'' (2018) and '' Onward'' (2020) and was a judge on the 2019 ''Just Dance'': ''World Cup''. He has a line of collectible stickers from

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Internet content

Ostuni's content mainly consists of

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s, but he also began creating reaction videos and vlogs. After becoming a professional YouTuber, he has stopped using profanity in his videos. Besides YouTube, Ostuni also has followings on

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and

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