Cullen Cullen & Katie

Cullen was born on October 27, 1982, in Birmingham, Alabama to Arthur Howard “Gerald” Byington, III and Berry Anne Byington. He has three sisters: Rachael, Annie, and Britany. His father had been an active U.S. Marine stationed in Okinawa, Japan before coming back to the U.S. and completing his education. He subsequently worked as an accountant for several years and then opened his own business. Howard Byington III died of cancer on March 26, 2015.

Cullen and Katie met at a football game sometime in the early 2000s. While they found each other attractive, Katie was in a relationship at the time. A few months later, after she and her previous boyfriend had broken up, her friend Brooke told her about a party which Cullen would be attending. At the party, they got reacquainted and started dating soon after. After only ten days of dating, they professed their love for each other. At the time, he still resided in Birmingham whereas she lived in Tuscaloosa. For the following two years, they maintained a long-distance relationship.

They broke up at one point for two months as neither thought that the other person was right for them. Despite the split, Cullen called Katie every day, eventually making her realize that she could not live without him. They resumed their relationship in August 2005 and he subsequently moved to Tuscaloosa to be with her. He later proposed to her at the same spot where they had their first date. She accepted and they got married on May 12, 2007.

It was during their stay in Tallahassee that Cullen and Katie became interested in YouTube for the first time. It was originally created to keep in touch with their friends and family. Katie set up the channel under the username bamachick1101on September 13, 2006, and the first video was posted on 20 September. Titled ‘Kitty Flipping Out’, the video shows one of their pet cats playing with Cullen. In the ensuing months, they posted sporadically.

They began vlogging on May 27, 2011. In these early years, their videos received only a few thousand views each. While there were some videos that garnered tens of thousands of views, they were very rare. About a year after they started vlogging, Cullen made the decision to be a full-time YouTuber.

It was a while before the channel found success. By 2014, most of their videos had started getting tens of thousands of views. Their subscriber count was expanding exponentially as well. Since then, they have emerged as one of the most successful family vlogging channels on YouTube. The most watched video on their channel is ‘Chuck-E-Cheese Birthday Celebration!’, with 10 million views.

Cullen is equally active on other social media platforms. He has 105 thousand followers on Twitter and about 240 thousand followers on Instagram. Their Facebook page has accumulated more than 50 thousand followers.

Besides their main channel, Katie runs a personal channel as well, where she posts videos on pregnancy, motherhood, cooking and hauls. Cullen and Katie are good friends with fellow family vloggers Bryan and Missy Lanning from the ‘Daily Bumps’ channel and Ellie and Jared Mecham from the ‘Ellie and Jared’ channel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rly6oOlfafQ