# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-buckley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:30:05.425Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-buckley"
name: "Michael Buckley"
slug: "michael-buckley"
description: "Michael John Buckley is an American former YouTuber. Noted for his vlog What the Buck?!, Buckley commented on pop culture events and celebrities, at one point holding one of YouTube's most popular entertainment channels. Buckley \"broke all records\" of YouTube ratings when four of his shows ended up on the week's ten top-rated videos. He has appeared in magazines and newspapers such as The New York Times discussing Internet entrepreneurship and The Advocate discussing homophobia on the Internet. In 2008, he won a YouTube Award for best commentary with the video \"LonelyGirl15 is Dead!\""
tagline: "YouTube personality"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Buckley_at_Steamy_Awards.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1975-06-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           67.14
  momentum:             0.3415783274440518
  historical:           11.89827466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 906000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/heybuckhey"
    handle:    "heybuckhey"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3098153/"
    handle:    "nm3098153"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzDIsPJjO0K5P00jG8JjlRg"
    handle:    "@whatthebuckshow"
    followers: 906000
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    title: "Michael Buckley (YouTuber)"
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    title: "مايكل بوكلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%DA%B5_%D8%A8%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "مایکڵ باکلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Buckley"
    title: "Michael Buckley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Buckley"
    title: "Michael Buckley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Buckley_(YouTuber)"
    title: "Michael Buckley (YouTuber)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Buckley"
    title: "Michael Buckley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مایکل باکلی (ستاره اینترنتی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Buckley_(acteur)"
    title: "Michael Buckley (acteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Buckley"
    title: "Michael Buckley"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Buckley"
    title: "Michael Buckley"
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  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Buckley"
    title: "Michael Buckley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Buckley"
    title: "Michael Buckley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Buckley"
    title: "Michael Buckley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1766148"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2601581"
    title: "Michael Buckley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump