Originally from Niceville, Florida, he is currently based in Los Angeles, California, and is best known for his YouTube videos as well as a number of television and film roles.
As of May 2, 2013, Turner has over 3 million subscribers in his main channel, "Tobuscus" and 2 billion video views over his three YouTube channels.
Internet videos
Toby Turner first joined YouTube on May 14, 2006, when he created a channel under the name of "Tobuscus".
The first video he uploaded was a sketch based on the 2006 film Click entitled What I'd do with the remote from Click.
One of Turner's most popular early videos is Don't Tase Me, Bro!, a remixed recording of the University of Florida Taser incident in which his classmate Andrew Meyer was stunned with a taser gun by a police officer.
Interviewed about the video by MTV, Turner explained that, after watching the clip, "as soon as he heard Andrew yelling, he knew it would fit in a hip-hop song", and that he "wanted to give Andrew the profits" from sales of related merchandise.
Having begun his video-making career in Niceville, Turner moved to Los Angeles, California in 2008.
In April 2009 he began using his "TobyTurner" channel for daily unedited vlogs dubbed 'lazy vlogs', and in July 2010 he registered his fourth (third in use) YouTube channel under the name "TobyGames", designating it for a new series of Let's Play videos.
The channel has featured playthrough videos of numerous games since its inception, including the long-running Minecraft and Happy Wheels series.
As of May 2, 2013, the Tobuscus channel has over 3.6 million subscribers, the TobyTurner channel has over 1.3 million, and the TobyGames channel has over 4.1 million.
Turner's Literal Trailers series is one of his most popular, earning him mainstream recognition from CBS News, who described his rendition of the Dead Island trailer as "amazing" and "hilarious", and Wired, who praised the Iron Man 3 video.
The latest Literal Trailer that Turner has released is The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on April 30, 2013.
