Zach King Biography
Zach King is a Los Angeles-based internet personality, filmmaker, and illusionist. He is best known for his “magic vines,” which are six-second videos that have been digitally edited to appear as if he is performing magic. He refers to his videos as “digital sleight of hand.” Other TikTok influencers include; LilHuddy, James Charles, JoJo Siwa, Jacob Sartorius, Charli D’Amelio, Marzia Kjellberg.
Zach King Age
King is 32 years old as of 2022. He was born on 4 February 1990 in Portland, Oregon, United States.
Zach King Height and Weight
King stands on a height of 5 feet 8 inches and weighs 130 lbs(59 Kg).
Zach King Family
King is half Chinese on his father’s side, one-quarter Austrian on his mother’s side, and one-quarter Nicaraguan on his mother’s side. While his father worked in their home office, King’s mother homeschooled him and his three sisters, including one adopted sister.
Zach King Education
King made his first film with a home video camera when he was seven years old. He began making and editing videos when he was fourteen, after purchasing video equipment such as a Mac computer, cameras, and a tripod. In December 2012, he graduated from Biola University with a major in Cinema and Media Arts.
Zach King Wife
While pretending to make a video advertisement for one of her brands, King proposed to his girlfriend, Rachel Holm. In 2014, they married. Both King and his wife have adopted siblings, which inspired her to work as an adoptive and foster-care case manager. The couple has fostered several children and has both an adopted and a biological son.
Zach King Magic
On September 9, 2013, King created his Vine account after noticing that many of his friends had accounts on the social media website. He decided to make one Vine per day for the next thirty days after creating an account on Vine. Following the success of his first few Vines, he decided to keep creating and posting new Vines. On January 29, 2014, he appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and made several Vines with the show’s crew. King used to make Vine videos for a living out of his garage. In an interview with The Independent, he stated that he would like to direct feature films in the future, preferably action-adventure films.
King’s Vines have been featured in a variety of media outlets. “This guy’s stuff is pure magic,” Chez Pazienza wrote of King. “Vine star and filmmaker Zach King may not perform magic in the traditional sense, but his expertly-edited six-second videos could put David Blaine to shame,” Mashable’s Laura Vitto wrote of his work.
J. Duaine Hahn wrote for Complex magazine, “While people have hit Vine stardom for skits or splicing together commentary with popular YouTube videos, King has gone the extra mile to use his six seconds to create magic or the closest thing you can get to it with on a smartphone.” Zach stated in an interview that producing a Vine usually takes up to 24 hours, with three to four hours of filming.
Zach King Net Worth
Zach has an estimated net worth of $6.5 Million.
Zach King YouTube
In 2011, he uploaded to YouTube a video titled Jedi Kittens, which he co-created with a college friend. The video depicted two cats battling with lightsabers. The video received over a million views in three days and eventually surpassed 18 million views. The video’s sequel, Jedi Kittens Strike Back, has received over 27 million views. A third installment of the video, Jedi Kittens – The Force Awakens, was released in 2013 and has received over 28 million views. Zach King is the name of King’s official YouTube channel.
In May 2013, YouTube named him one of the 25 most promising young filmmakers in America. YouTube awarded King $35,000 as part of its Next Up Creators contest, as well as a trip to New York City for a four-day YouTube Creator Camp. His contest entry was titled Contest Entry Gone Wrong. In the video, he appeared to avoid an attack by airstrikes and ground fire while pleading his case for the YouTube award. He has 11.2 million subscribers and 1.19 billion views across 350 videos as of July 2021.
Zach King TikTok
On February 28, 2016, King uploaded his first video to TikTok, formerly known as Musical.ly, in which he escaped from a jail cell. “Need help posting bail, oh wait, nevermind,” he captioned his video. He had over 66.3 million followers on the popular app as of November 2021, making him the third most followed user on TikTok.
On December 9, 2019, Zach King also had the most views on TikTok. He was riding a broomstick in the video, but he later reveals that he was actually using a mirror. “They rejected my application to Hogwarts, but I still found a way to be a wizard,” the video caption read. The video has been viewed over 2 billion times, according to estimates.