Jaiden Dittfach (born September 27, 1997) is an American

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and

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known for her story-time

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s channel, Jaiden Animations. She makes videos on a variety of topics, spanning from personal life experiences to

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stories. As of June 2025, Dittfach's main YouTube channel has 14.5 million subscribers and 2.8 billion views. Nominated for a total of six

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, she won in the Animated category at the

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in 2020.

Career

Dittfach created her YouTube channel in February 2014, when she was 16 years old. Prior to publishing her own videos, Dittfach animated for other YouTuber channels, including iHasCupquake. In 2016 and 2017, Dittfach's channel started trending on the website, becoming more prominent to bigger audiences. Dittfach mainly uploads animated YouTube videos that tell stories about her personal life. The videos sometimes discuss subjects such as toxic relationships,

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, and depression. She also creates videos centered on her travels and video games, such as ''

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''. In December 2017, Dittfach's animated character appeared in '' YouTube Rewind: The Shape of 2017'', the first ''

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'' installment to include YouTube animators. In December 2018, her character, this time voiced by her, also appeared in the following instalment, titled '' YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind''. She was positively received by the audience for including in her segment, the likeness of the chair belonging to

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, at the time the most popular Youtuber, whom, controversially, was not invited to the production. In September 2018, she also received a nomination in the Animated category for the

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. In March 2019, Dittfach participated in an

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tournament organized by YouTuber

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and sponsored by game developer

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. The event, organized in order to promote the release of ''

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'', featured 36 players, all of which were prominent YouTube influencers. Dittfach's team, which also comprised of TheOdd1sOut and

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, ended up winning $100,000 in one of two rounds of the competition, with Dittfach herself firing the winning shot. In December 2020, she won at the

in the Animated category. In January 2021, Dittfach appeared on ''YIAY Time: The Game Show'', a YouTube Original comedy program hosted by Jack Douglass ("jacksfilms"). She also frequently appears on the

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game show ''Scribble Showdown'' with TheOdd1sOut, Domics, RubberRoss,

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, and Emirichu. With fellow YouTuber TheOdd1sOut, Dittfach is a part of the "Animation Squad", a group of animators who frequently create videos together. Her channel is managed by the

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On June 1, 2021, her YouTube channel reached 10 million subscribers. She received a nomination in the Animated category for the 11th Streamy Awards in December 2021. In 2022, she signed with the

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. YouTube ranked her video "Being Not Straight", among their list of the "top trending videos" of 2022, as it reached over 17 million views by the end of the year. In 2023, together with

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, she created WILD/CARD, a channel dedicated to bringing attention to the smaller content creators that the two of them considered friends. This collaboration included gsmVoiD, Weegee Plays, Giwi, SunflowerSmith, Captain Kidd, Fyrus, and Vulpixie. In July 2024, Dittfach won another competition organized by

, this time in the video " 50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000" in which she competed against 49 other YouTubers for $1,000,000 to give away to their subscribers. She pledged to use the prize money to send some of her subscribers to

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. Later that month, for the tenth anniversary of her first video upload, Dittfach announced that she does not plan to continue creating content indefinitely.

Charitable activities

In April 2019, Dittfach published a video encouraging people to donate to Bird Gardens of Naples, a non-profit

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in Florida, via a

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campaign. Within nine weeks, the campaign had raised over $22,000. Dittfach was also among many social media figures who donated to the

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fundraiser in 2019. For

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in April 2020, Dittfach participated in #HopeFromHome, a charity livestream initiated by fellow YouTuber Jacksepticeye that raised over $260,000 for

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relief. In October 2021, Dittfach participated in a charity tournament for the video game ''

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'' hosted by YouTuber

and Coney of the

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organization Panda Global, playing as the character

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. In her campaign, she raised over $73,000 after uploading a now-deleted video asking for donations to help choose CatDog as the character she wished to play for the tournament.

Personal life

Jaiden Dittfach was born on September 27, 1997, and grew up in

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, United States. She is partially of Japanese descent. In video, posted in 2018, she stated that she moved to

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. In December 2022, she purchased a $4.8 million home in

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, California with fellow YouTuber

. In 2025, she sold a fully updated property in Eagle Rock for $2.6 million. In 2017, Dittfach spoke out about her experience with

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and

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in a video titled "Why I Don’t Have a 'Face Reveal, as well as a song titled "Empty" in 2018, recorded together with

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. In 2022, in her video titled "Being Not Straight", she publicly

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and

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. In 2024, she publicly announced that she was diagnosed with

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and

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Filmography

Television and web series

Ludography

Discography

* 2018: "Empty" (with

)

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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Jaiden Animations
at

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