Famous Birthdays

The original Famous Birthdays website was created by Edward Morykwas, a Michigan schoolteacher, in 1996. It offered e-cards. The site was updated to its current format in November 7, 2012, by Evan Britton, Famous Birthdays originally focused on more traditional celebrities (such as actors, athletes, musicians, etc.), but has since expanded to also feature internet personalities. This shift came after Britton discovered that visitors were searching for individuals unfamiliar to him; at first mistaking the traffic as spam, he realized that the searches were of people with online followings such as Cameron Dallas. ==Status==

In 2015, Britton's eighteen-person team attended VidCon. As of June 2024 the website received 20 million unique visitors each month. ==Features==

Despite its name, Famous Birthdays also includes entire staff-written biographies. Each page has a "boost" button—each visitor who clicks this button will "boost" the biography higher up into the "trending" or "most popular" rankings. Online celebrities may canvass their followers into swaying them higher into the rankings by encouraging them to press the "boost" button. Biographies tend to be of the same length, despite the relative fame of the individual in question. ==References==