FRED (YouTube Channel)

FRED is a YouTube channel that was created to host the Fred YouTube series and was later used as a community collaborative channel showcasing family friendly content. The channel is officially verified by YouTube. The channel was created by Lucas Cruikshank.

History
The channel was originally created on October 1, 2005. The first Fred video was released on October 30, 2006 on JKLProductions and, along with other Fred videos posted there, it was reuploaded to the Fred channel on April 30, 2008.

It was not originally created by Cruikshank; according to Fred in the first non-reuploaded video, "Fred on May Day," he had asked YouTube for the Fred channel and they had given it to him.

On April 7, 2009, the Fred channel was the first to reach one million subscribers. It later became the third one to reach two million subscribers in late September 2010, behind Ray William Johnson and Ryan Higa (nigahiga).