About
Draw My Life is a YouTube video fad including sped-up recorded hand-drawn stick figure pictures.
Start and Spread
The first “Draw My Life” video was created by Sam Pepper (username: OFFICIALsampepper) on 8th January 2013. The first video response was submitted by Emily Bland (username: emilybland88). In the description of Sam’s video, he tagged Caspar Lee (username: dicasp) and Louis Cole (FunForLouis) to “Draw Their Life’s” and so, they did it, too. Other YouTubers, who joined the idea, tagged other people as request.
Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg (username: PewDiePie) also joined the fad on 31st January 2013. His video has more than 4 million views as of April 2013. Anthony Padilla’s video has 4.5 million views and it was front-paged by YouTube. The recent most popular Draw My Life video is from German Alejandro Garmendia Aranis (username: HolaSoyGerman) with 8.8 million views.