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Agnes Yulo Diego (born February 16, 1993), known online as Akidearest, is an American YouTuber. She is best known for discussing anime, manga, otaku culture and Japanese-related content on her YouTube channel.[3][4][5]
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![]() Diego in 2018 | ||||||||||
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Born | Agnes Yulo Diego February 16, 1993[1] Bakersfield, California, U.S. | |||||||||
Occupation | YouTuber | |||||||||
Partner | Joseph Bizinger | |||||||||
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Also known as | Aki | |||||||||
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Location | Tokyo, Japan | |||||||||
Years active | 2014–present | |||||||||
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Subscribers | 2.87 million[2] | |||||||||
Total views | 494 million[2] | |||||||||
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Last updated: November 1, 2023 |
Diego was born in Bakersfield, California, on February 16, 1993, to parents of Filipino descent, and was raised in Virginia before then eventually moving to Las Vegas, Nevada. Growing-up, Diego got into creating Anime music videos (AMV) and had a prior YouTube channel that hosted some of her work. She completed a degree in psychology at university, and later went to college again for graphic design. However, after her channel blew up, Diego decided to pursue YouTube as her career instead.[3][5]
Diego created her second and current YouTube channel "Akidearest" on December 18, 2014, with a focus on discussing anime, manga, and otaku culture; her first video, "REACTION: DMMD Love Scene," in which Diego reacts to a scene in Dramatical Murder, was released on December 26, 2014.[6] Considered as her break-out video, "5 Songs That Will Change The Way You See Vocaloid," was released on January 12, 2016; the video delves into serious topics that fans to causal listeners of Vocaloid might not expect.[3][5] On August 21, 2017, Akidearest hit one million subscribers.[7] From 2017 to 2018, Diego co-hosted a weekly SBS podcast titled, The Anime Show, with Joseph Bizinger (The Anime Man), which ran for 68 episodes that discussed about anime, manga, and otaku culture.[8][9]
In January 2019, Diego moved to Japan, at which time her channel expanded to include her experiences while living in Japan.[5][10][11] In same year, Diego also made an in-game cameo appearance in The World Next Door, by Rose City Games.[12]
On November 4, 2016, both she and fellow YouTuber Joey Bizinger announced that they were in a relationship.[13][14]
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