Shay Carl Butler is a YouTube personality who is popularly known by his professional name Shay Carl. He is also a well-known author and vlogger who runs three different Youtube channels. Shay is the mastermind behind one of YouTube’s most famous family vloggers, Shaytards.
Shaytards which went live in 2008 currently has over five million subscribers and over two billion views since its inception. Besides Shaytards, Carl is also the mastermind behind Shaycarl, ShayLoss and even iphoneTARD.
Shay was born on March 5, 1980 and he is the eldest of four children born to Carl and Laurie Butler. After high school, he became a missionary in Barbados, Guyana, and Trinidad for two full years with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, before going to State University in idaho to attend college. Unfortunately, he gave up to start his own business.
Before finally embarking on a career in YouTubing, Shay worked multiple jobs to make ends meet. He worked as a school bus driver, installed granite countertops, and even worked as a radio DJ for Z103.
Carl’s Youtube fame grew after Philip DeFranco saw one of his videos and shouted it out. The shout-out not only announced Shay on YouTube, but also caused a surge in his subscriber base. By collaborating with the online sketch channel – The Station, his subscriber base quickly tripled.
His channels have been so successful that Forbes named Carl one of the most successful video entrepreneurs on YouTube. His YouTube channel ranked #13 on Rockstars Top 100 New Media Channels in 2014.
In 2009 he co-founded Maker Studios alongside Scott Katz, Kassem G., Philip DeFranco, Rawn Erickson II, Lisa Donovan, Ben Donovan and Danny Zappin. The studio was featured by The New York Times in 2011. In 2014, The Walt Disney Company purchased the studio for $500 million.
He collaborated with Corey Vidal to produce a 90 minute documentary – Vlogumentary which was released in 2016.
Carl originally created Shaytard to upload his funny sketch comedy, but it soon became a family channel that features Shay, his wife and their five children. The family started posting daily vlogs from March 2009 and kept their promise of posting daily vlogs for over six years before slowing down a bit.
In 2009, the channel at the 3rd Annual MashableOpen Web Awards won the award for Best YouTube Channel or Personality. Four years later, it was nominated for the ‘Best Non-Fiction Series’ or ‘Reality Series’ category at the 3rd Streamy Awards.
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What happened to Shay Carl and why did he stop making videos
After almost eight years of posting daily vlogs, Shay announced towards the end of 2016 that Shaytards would be leaving for a one-year hiatus which was to begin on March 5, 2017. Unfortunately, the supposed hiatus began a month sooner than expected following the scandal involving Shay.
Earlier in February, ahead of the scheduled hiatus, the veteran vlogger tweeted that he would be logged off to allow him to check into rehab to battle alcoholism.
After her lengthy tweet, YouTuber and adult webcam Aria Nina came online alleging that Shay sent her explicit messages and videos of himself masturbating.
To prove she wasn’t fabricating anything, Aria posted a series of images showing Carl making very sexual statements about her through a direct message conversation on Twitter.
It sparked an internet furor and ShayCarl at the time blamed his alcoholism for explaining his actions. In September (seven months later), Shay’s wife, Colette, posted a video, thanking fans for their support following the scandal.
She also revealed in the video that they are working on it, doing their best, taking it each day at a time and she can’t wait to share it with her fans. Two months later, Shay posted a YouTube video from his own page, apologizing to his fans and taking full responsibility for his actions.
In March 2018 (exactly 13 months), the family is back, they posted a video titled “Are we back?”. In the “Are we back?” video, Shay and his wife said they were once again committing to uploading videos, but it wouldn’t be a day-to-day affair anymore. The couple are also back on social media.
Her younger siblings, Casey, Carlie, and Logan, are also YouTubers. His younger brother, Logan, has his own YouTube channel called LoganMcKay.
