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KevJumba Accident: A Near-Death Experience

KevJumba became famous after becoming one of the first breakout stars on the YouTube platform and appearing in a Scorsese-produced film. 

The Asian-American adolescent YouTuber mysteriously disappeared from the site in 2014, leaving his followers and the industry in the dark.

However, Wu was beginning to pull back online and offline by the time Revenge debuted in Toronto in 2014. 

After a year of not updating his enormously successful YouTube channel, he made it private. According to his account, the priority should have been on full-length movies.

For example, he says, “I didn’t see YouTube as my end goal,” citing the example of Donald Glover, who gained fame through viral videos of his sketch comedy routines but left YouTube before the site could come to define him. 

He said, ‘My time at the top of the online popularity charts would be temporary. Maybe I got sick of seeing my face on camera because I didn’t think that format would last.’

Instead, he wanted to focus on “personal growth” he felt like he was missing

What happened to KevJumba?

The once-Hollywood-friendly YouTube sensation has been offline since 2014.

He has become a mystical ghost to the internet generation which made him famous. 

However, in June 2015, he was taking a stroll in Los Angeles when he was hit by a car. 

According to him, he completely derailed his goals.

His spine was fractured, his lungs were crushed, and his will was broken in the near-fatal collision. 

In the beginning, he was bed bound, but determined to keep on. 

He had previously assured himself. “I’m still going to go to school after I get out of the hospital.” 

As the saying goes, “I’ve got to get on with my real life.” His organs, however, were failing, and he needed two big operations to repair the damage.

Who is KevJumba?

Kevin Wu, born in the United States on June 12, 1990, is a popular YouTuber named KevJumba. 

Jeff Yang of the San Francisco Chronicle has pointed out that despite Wu’s lack of traditional comedic training, “just talking  is, well, pretty hilarious” because of his deadpan vocal delivery, lively facial gestures, and inclination toward unexpected digressions.

In 2008, Wu acted alongside Jessica Lee Rose and Philip DeFranco in the HBOLabs original film Hooking Up. 

Before that, Wu had a small role in The CW’s short-lived series Online Nation. 

Wu and his dad, Michael, were a part of the cast of the 17th season of The Amazing Race in 2010. 

They ended up finishing in seventh place out of eleven teams. 

Revenge of the Green Dragons, a crime film starring Wu and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, was released in 2014. 

Wu stopped making videos for YouTube in 2013. In 2016, Wu made a brief comeback on several social media platforms. Wu’s Twitch channel, which he initially named Cybermuse, was launched in November 2020.

Where is KevJumba now?

Kevin Wu (KevJumba), an early YouTube star, has spoken out to elaborate on his time away from the platform.

On March 15, Kevin posted a video to his channel titled “Hope,” he discussed being hit by a car the previous year, which knocked him out for 45 days and required him to spend time in the hospital.

In the video, the YouTuber described the traumatic experience, shared his helplessness while in rehabilitation, and thanked his father, who had taken him back to Texas to heal.

There was no point in continuing because I was so traumatized and in pain… I owe a great deal to my dad since he got me out of a terrible situation and back to Houston.

Kevin, who disappeared from the online video-sharing platform in 2013 to focus on his studies and Buddhist practice, is back with a new video on his channel.

The YouTube star, now known as Kev rather than Kevjumba, has returned to his acting roots and promised more videos in the future.

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Zora Stowers

Update: 2024-05-19