Nick Shirley (YouTuber) Age, Family, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Earned Name	MAGA Influencer
Profession(s)	YouTuber, Content Creator
Physical Stats
Eye Colour	Blue
Hair Colour	Light Brown
Career
Award(s)	The “citizen journalist of the year” at the Citizen Journalism Gala organised at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Estate (2025)
Personal Life
Date of Birth	4 April 2002 (Thursday)
Age (as of 2025)	23 Years
Birthplace	Farmington, Utah
Zodiac sign	Aries
Nationality	American
Hometown	Farmington, Utah
School	Farmington High School, Farmington, Utah, United States (2020)
Religion	Christianity
Food Habit	Non-vegetarian
Social Media	• Instagram • Facebook • YouTube • Twitter
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Unmarried
Family
Parents	Mother- Brooke Shirley (content creator)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Nick Shirley

• When he was sixteen years old, Nick Shirley began a YouTube channel, posting fun videos and pranks with high school friends.

• In many of his videos, he performed big stunts.

  

  Nick Shirley while performing a stunt in one of his old videos

• In 2021, Nick Shirley quit working on his YouTube channel to attend a two-year church mission in Chile.

• In 2022, he tried to sell his videos, including January 6 riot footage, to news outlets like CNN and HuffPost.

• In 2023, he returned to YouTube, making only political videos.

• Most of his videos showed him conducting street interviews at protests, migrant spots, and city areas. He calls his content independent reporting, which shows the failures of the government.
  

  Nick Shirley while interviewing an immigrant on the US border in one of his first videos on politics

• Once, a media outlet reported that Nick Shirley often gets criticism from the media industry for calling himself a journalist since he has no background or experience in news.

• In 2024, during the elections, he created many videos supporting Donald Trump.

• Reportedly, Nick Shirley paid some immigrant men $20 each to hold pro-Biden and pro-immigration signs near the White House as a stunt to help Donald Trump.

• When a media outlet asked him if he exploited them, Shirley stated that he gave migrants a chance to share their views.

  

  Nick Shirley with some immigrants with pro-Biden and pro-immigration signs near the White House

• Nick Shirley then titled one of his videos as ‘Portland fell to Antifa control.’

• He then made headlines for filming watch sellers, whom he called illegal scammers, on Canal Street in New York City. After that, these sellers were arrested by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

• An American media outlet called his titles sensational and stated that he promotes xenophobic and Islamophobic views.

• CNN once labelled some videos anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim.

• Once, in an interview with Fox News, Nick Shirley talked about his work. He said,
  

  Fraud is fraud, no matter the race—we work hard and pay taxes, not to enable scams.”

• In 2025, James O’Keefe of Project Veritas named him citizen journalist of the year.

• After covering and sharing his Minnesota fraud video on X, he blamed the mainstream media as the enemy of the people. He wrote,
  

  I am not an enemy of the people, they are.”

• On 26 December 2025, Nick Shirley posted a video from 16 December in which he claimed that a big fraud had occurred at child care and health firms run by Somalis in Minnesota.

• The video was connected to a federal investigation of the Feeding Our Future nonprofit organisation, where people were arrested for stealing millions which were meant for poor kids during COVID.

• His video showed empty or shut-down sites, interviews with local people who saw no kids there, and public payment records.

• Soon after the video went viral, it earned more than 135 million views on Twitter and 3 million on YouTube.
  

  Nick Shirley while speaking about child care and health firms run by Somalis in Minnesota

• After that, DHS and FBI started investigating all the daycare centres which were operated by Somalis in Minnesota.

• On 30 December 2025, Whitney Wild, a CNN journalist, interviewed Nick Shirley outside a Minneapolis daycare for Anderson Cooper 360. She questioned his methods and how he knew that his claims were true. He replied
  

  We showed you guys what was happening, and then you guys can go ahead and make your own analysis.”

  

  Nick Shirley in an interview on CNN

• In January 2026, reports claimed that US President Donald Trump planned to buy or take Greenland as an important Arctic acquisition.

• During the same month, some of his old videos from January 2025 went viral on social media.

• In the videos, he was asking Greenland locals the question: Do you want to join the US or stay independent? The answers increased the curiosity among viewers. ^[1]The Times of India

  

  Nick Shirley while questioning Greenlanders in January 2025

• Nick Shirley likes travelling to distant places, reading books, and swimming in his free time.
  

  Nick Shirley during a trip