Liam Michael Thompson (born 25 April 2000) is a New Zealand

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personality. , he has over 2 million subscribers. Thompson's channel consists of a mix of different videos with no common theme; however, his most successful videos tend to include his pet

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, Max. He also often included his 20-year-old cat named Frodo (died 26 February 2022) and his 1-year-old cat named Samwise.

Early life

Liam Thompson was born in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand as the second of four siblings. He attended Balmoral School and

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, where he was a

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and involved in

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, competing successfully at many regional and national championships. In 2018, he was the inaugural recipient of the Service to MAGS Sport award. After graduating in 2018, Thompson began studying engineering. He soon dropped out to pursue YouTube while enrolling in Police college, moving furniture and considering film school. Thompson started a blog called ''Velterro'' in 2019, focusing on tips for self improvement, productivity, money and health. As of 2024, the blog is inactive.

YouTube career

Thompson has been actively posting on YouTube since mid 2019. His channel gained a large amount of traction in September 2019 after posting the video ''I Taught My Dog To Play

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'', which has over 22.3 million views as of February 2022. In an interview with New Zealand media outlet ''Stuff'', he stated that "It took me four months to get 80 ubscribersand, a week later, I had 150,000". Thompson subsequently decided to pursue YouTube full time. On 20 July 2020, his YouTube channel reached 1 million subscribers. He celebrated the next day with a video, in which he bought Max 1 million dog biscuits, most of which he donated. Thompson is among the top 10 YouTubers in New Zealand, with the 8th most subscribers in March 2024.

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