As part of its Next Up Creators contest, YouTube awarded King $35,000 as well as a trip to New York City for a four-day YouTube Creator Camp. He was named by YouTube as one of the 25 most promising young film-makers in America in May 2013. King's official YouTube channel is named Zach King. A third part of the video, Jedi Kittens - The Force Awakens was posted in 2013, which has gained over 28 million views. A sequel of the video titled Jedi Kittens Strike Back gained over 27 million views. The video gained over a million views in three days and went on to have over 18 million views. The video showed two cats fighting with lightsabers. In 2011, he posted a video titled Jedi Kittens on YouTube that he produced with a college friend. The video was viewed over 2.1 billion times on TikTok in 4 days. In December 2019, King baffled the internet with a video of himself apparently flying on a broomstick. He participated as a contestant on an episode of Viral Video Showdown that aired on Syfy in 2012. After gaining an audience for his website, he began selling training seminars and used the money to pay for his college. At the same time, he started using his YouTube channel to give tutorials for visual effects using the Software. King started his website, in 2008, to offer training and tips about using the editing software Final Cut Pro as he was unable to find tutorials for the software on the Internet. He graduated from Biola University with a Cinema and Media Arts Major in December 2012. When he was fourteen, he purchased video equipment including a Mac computer, cameras as well as a tripod and started making and editing videos. When he was seven, King made his first film using a home video camera. King's mother homeschooled him and his three sisters, including one adopted sister, while his father worked in their home office. He is of half Chinese descent from his paternal side, one quarter Austrian and one quarter Nicaraguan descent from his maternal side. King was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. They were eliminated during the ninth leg of the race being placed sixth in the overall standings. In 2015, King and his wife Rachel Holm competed in the 28th season of the American reality game show The Amazing Race. In 2013, he won YouTube's NextUp Creators contest. King won the Hewlett-Packard commercial contest in 2010, and got a trip to the red carpet at the London Film Festival. King posted his first video to TikTok in 2016, and has since accumulated over 45 million followers, making him the fifth most-followed individual on the platform. He calls his videos 'digital sleight of hand.' He began posting videos on YouTube in 2008 and in 2013 he started posting videos to Vine. He is most known for his 'magic vines,' which are six-second videos digitally edited to look as if he is doing magic. Zach King (born February 4, 1990) is an American internet personality, filmmaker, and illusionist based in Los Angeles.

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