Anthony Michael Quintal was born on May 24, 1999, in
Melrose, Massachusetts. Quintal started making YouTube videos at age 10 using his parents' computer, which he originally edited with
iMovie and later with
Final Cut Pro. His username, Lohanthony, is a portmanteau of the last name of actress
Lindsay Lohan The video was recreated in 2015 by model
Kate Moss and designer
Marc Jacobs. Quintal also posted a video in which he
came out as gay. Also in 2014, Quintal co-hosted the
Teen Wolf After, After Show, an
MTV companion series to their
teen drama television series
Teen Wolf, with
Morgan Evans. By 2014, he had one million subscribers on YouTube, and had one and a half million subscribers by the following year. He released
Landscapes: A Music Compilation by Lohanthony, a
compilation album of other artists' music, in September 2015 on the
Heard Well label. The album debuted at number three on
Billboards
Dance/Electronic Albums after selling over one thousand copies in its first week. That same year, he also starred in the
comedy-drama film
Miss Stevens as Sam, an insecure teenager. He was also popular on the video-sharing service
Vine before its shutdown in 2016, and was nominated as Best Viner for
Tiger Beats 19 Under 19 program that year. In 2020, Quintal removed most of his past videos and posted a 41-minute-long video titled "Jesus Delivers – Surviving Sexuality" in which he renounced his earlier videos and homosexuality, stating that he had been "trying to find God's love" by pursuing homosexual relationships, which he described as "sexual immorality". He compared them to his being addicted to alcohol, marijuana, and attention at the time, and said that he would be opting for a life of "Christian celibacy" instead. The video received largely negative reactions from fans and fellow YouTube stars such as
Tyler Oakley, who speculated that he had been a victim of
conversion therapy. He denied attending conversion therapy in a subsequent video titled "Conversion Therapy and God's Truth", stating that he was "abandoning consuming lusts, both homosexual and heterosexual alike". ==Public image==