Jaiden Animations Biography 2020: Age, Relationship, Net Worth, Family, Height, YouTube Career, Awards and Nomination
Jaiden Dittfach, born on September 27, 1997, is recognized on the internet as Jaiden Animations.
She is an American YouTuber and animator famous for her story-time animations.
Her video content covers a wide range of subjects, from personal experiences to anecdotes.
Currently, she mainly focuses on creating videos revolving around video game narratives.
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| Born | Jaiden Dittfach September 27, 1997 | ||||||||||||
| Origin | Arizona, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
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| Website | jaidenanimations | ||||||||||||
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| Location | Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Years active | 2014–present | ||||||||||||
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| Network | Channel Frederator | ||||||||||||
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| Last updated: March 9, 2024 | |||||||||||||
As of March 2024, Jaiden Animations’s main YouTube channel has amassed over 12 million subscribers and 2.4 billion views.
Nominated for a total of six Streamy Awards, she won in the Animated category at the 10th Streamy Awards in 2020.
YouTube Career
Jaiden established her own YouTube channel in 2014 at the age of 16.
Over the years, her channel gained popularity, reaching a wider audience in 2016 and 2017.
Jaiden’s content primarily consists of animated videos that revolve around her personal experiences, covering topics like toxic relationships, body positivity, anxiety, and depression.
Additionally, she shares videos documenting her travels and gaming adventures, particularly focusing on Pokémon.
As of June 1, 2021, Jaiden’s channel hit 10 million subscribers, leading to a nomination in the Animated category at the 11th Streamy Awards in December 2021.
In 2022, she signed with the Creative Artists Agency and her videos were recognized by YouTube as one of the “top trending videos” of the year, accumulating over 17 million views.
Jaiden is also a member of the “Animation Squad” alongside TheOdd1sOut, collaborating with other animators.
Her channel is under the management of the Channel Frederator multi-channel network.
In December 2017, Dittfach was featured in YouTube Rewind: The Shape of 2017, marking the first time YouTube animators were included.
She later received a nomination in the Animated category at the 8th Streamy Awards in September 2018.
In YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind, she created an animation showcasing PewDiePie’s chair.
In March 2019, Dittfach took part in an airsoft gun tournament organized by YouTuber MrBeast and sponsored by Electronic Arts to promote the release of Apex Legends.
The tournament included 36 players, all of whom were prominent YouTube influencers.
In January 2021, Dittfach made an appearance on YIAY Time: The Game Show, a YouTube Original comedy program hosted by Jack Douglass (“jacksfilms”).
She is also a regular guest on the improv game show Scribble Showdown alongside TheOdd1sOut, Domics, RubberRoss, Egoraptor, and Emirichu.
In 2023, Dittfach teamed up with Alpharad to launch WILD/CARD, a channel aimed at highlighting smaller content creators who they considered friends.
The collaboration featured gsmVoiD, Weegee Plays, Giwi, SunflowerSmith, Captain Kidd, and Fyrus.
Philanthropy
In April 2019, Dittfach released a video urging individuals to contribute to Bird Gardens of Naples, a non-profit bird sanctuary in Florida, through a GoFundMe campaign.
Within a span of nine weeks, the campaign successfully amassed more than $22,000.
Dittfach was also one of the numerous social media influencers who generously donated to the Team Trees fundraiser in 2019.
Furthermore, on World Health Day in April 2020, Dittfach actively took part in #HopeFromHome, a charitable livestream organized by fellow YouTuber Jacksepticeye, which managed to raise over $260,000 for COVID-19 relief efforts.
Moving forward to October 2021, Dittfach enthusiastically participated in a charity tournament for the video game Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, which was hosted by YouTuber Alpharad and Coney from the esports organization Panda Global.
During the tournament, Dittfach played as the character CatDog and successfully raised an impressive sum of $73,000.
She achieved this by uploading a now-deleted video where she appealed for donations to support her choice of playing as CatDog in the tournament.
Personal Life
Jaiden Dittfach was born on September 27, 1997. In a video from 2016, she mentioned that she lives in Arizona.
However, in a separate video from 2018, she revealed that she had relocated to California.
In her video titled “Being Not Straight” released on March 20, 2022, Jaiden publicly announced that she identifies as aroace, which means aromantic and asexual.
Later, in December 2022, she and fellow YouTuber Alpharad purchased a $4.8 million home in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California.
On March 29, 2024, in the description of her video “Pokemon sent me to Japan!”, Jaiden disclosed that she had received a diagnosis of ADHD, a topic she had previously mentioned as a possibility.
Filmography
Animation
Voice acting
- 2018: YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind as herself
Reality shows
- 2020: The Creator Games as herself
- 2021: YIAY Time: The Game Show as herself
Discography
- 2018: “Empty” (with Boyinaband)
- 2021: “Rise Above” (with Rainych)
- 2022: “Rise Above (English Version)” (with Rainych and Illberg)
- 2022: “Rise Above (Japanese Version)” (with Rainych and Illberg)
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Result | |
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| 2018 | Streamy Awards | Overall Award – Animated | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Streamy Awards | Subject Award – Animated | Won | |
| 2021 | Streamy Awards | Subject Award – Animated | Nominated | |
| 2022 | Streamy Awards | Subject Award – Animated | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Streamy Awards | Subject Award – Animated | Nominated | |
| Individual Award – VTuber | Nominated |
Notes
The music video for “Empty” has been made private.
