Jaiden Animations

Jaiden Dittfach (born September 27, 1997) is an American YouTuber and animator known for her story-time animations channel, Jaiden Animations. She made videos on a variety of topics, spanning from her experiences to personal stories. She now primarily creates videos centered around video game stories.

As of December 2024, Jaiden Animations's main YouTube channel has amassed over 14 million subscribers and 2.6 billion views. Nominated for a total of six Streamy Awards, she won in the Animated category at the 10th Streamy Awards in 2020.

Early life

Jaiden Dittfach was born on September 27, 1997. Prior to working on her own channel, Jaiden worked with other YouTubers on their channels, including iHasCupquake.

Career

2014–2017: Anonymous channel

Jaiden created her YouTube channel in 2014, when she was 16 years old.

In 2016 and 2017, Jaiden's channel started trending on the website, becoming more prominent to bigger audiences. Jaiden mainly uploads animated YouTube videos that tell stories about her personal life. The videos sometimes discuss subjects such as toxic relationships, body positivity, anxiety, and depression. She also creates videos centered on her travels and video games, such as Pokémon.

2017–present: Rise to prominence and collaborations

In December 2017, Jaiden appeared in YouTube Rewind: The Shape of 2017, the first YouTube Rewind installment to include YouTube animators. In September 2018, she received a nomination in the Animated category for the 8th Streamy Awards. In YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind, she made an animation featuring PewDiePie's chair.

In March 2019, Jaiden participated in an airsoft gun tournament organized by YouTuber MrBeast and sponsored by game developer Electronic Arts. The event, organized in order to promote the release of Apex Legends, featured 36 players, all of which were prominent YouTube influencers. Jaiden's team, which also comprised Anthony Padilla and close friend James "TheOdd1sOut" Rallison, ended up winning the competition, with Jaiden herself firing the winning shot.

In January 2021, Jaiden appeared on YIAY Time: The Game Show, a YouTube Original comedy program hosted by Jack Douglass ("jacksfilms"). She also frequently appears on the improv game show Scribble Showdown with TheOdd1sOut, Domics, RubberRoss, Egoraptor, and Emirichu. With fellow YouTuber TheOdd1sOut, Jaiden is a part of the "Animation Squad," a group of animators who frequently create videos together. Her channel is managed by the Channel Frederator multi-channel network.

Jaiden (right) at VidCon with TheOdd1sOut (left), Domics (2nd from right), and other YouTube animators

On June 1, 2021, her YouTube channel reached 10 million subscribers. She received a nomination in the Animated category for the 11th Streamy Awards in December 2021. In 2022, she signed with the Creative Artists Agency. YouTube ranked the video among their list of the "top trending videos" of 2022, as it reached over 17 million views by the end of the year.

In 2023, she joined forces with Alpharad to create WILD/CARD, a channel dedicated to bringing attention to the smaller content creators that the two of them considered friends. This collaboration included gsmVoiD, Weegee Plays, Giwi, SunflowerSmith, Captain Kidd, and Fyrus.

In July 2024, Jaiden won another competition organized by MrBeast, this time in the video "50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000" in which she competed against 49 other YouTubers for $1,000,000 to give away to their subscribers. She pledged to use the prize money to send some of her subscribers to art school. Later that month, for the tenth anniversary of her first video upload, Jaiden announced that she does not plan to continue creating content indefinitely.

Charitable activities

In April 2019, Jaiden published a video encouraging people to donate to Bird Gardens of Naples, a non-profit bird sanctuary in Florida, via a GoFundMe campaign. Within nine weeks, the campaign had raised over $22,000. Jaiden was also among many social media figures who donated to the Team Trees fundraiser in 2019. For World Health Day in April 2020, Jaiden participated in #HopeFromHome, a charity livestream initiated by fellow YouTuber Jacksepticeye that raised over $260,000 for COVID-19 relief.

In October 2021, Jaiden participated in a charity tournament for the video game Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl hosted by YouTuber Alpharad and Coney of the esports organization Panda Global, playing as the character CatDog. In her campaign, she raised over $73,000 after uploading a now-deleted video asking for donations to help choose CatDog as the character she wished to play for the tournament.

Personal life

In 2016, she stated in a video that she resides in Arizona. In another video, posted in 2018, she stated that she moved to California. In December 2022, she purchased a $4.8 million home in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California with fellow YouTuber Alpharad.

In 2017, Jaiden spoke out about her experience with anorexia and bulimia in a video titled "Why I Don’t Have a 'Face Reveal'", as well as a song titled "Empty" in 2018.

In 2022, in her video titled "Being Not Straight", she publicly came out as aromantic and asexual. In 2024, she publicly announced that she was diagnosed with ADHD.

Filmography

Animation

• 2017: YouTube Rewind: The Shape of 2017
• 2018: YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind

Voice acting

• 2018: YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind as herself
• 2024: Shrek 2 Retold as Fairy Godmother

Reality shows

• 2020: The Creator Games as herself
• 2021: YIAY Time: The Game Show as herself

Discography

• 2018: "Empty" (with Boyinaband)Template:Efn
• 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	Ref(s).
2018	Streamy Awards	Overall Award Template:En dash Animated	Template:Nominated
2020	Streamy Awards	Subject Award Template:En dash Animated	Template:Won
2021	Streamy Awards	Subject Award Template:En dash Animated	Template:Nominated
2022	Streamy Awards	Subject Award Template:En dash Animated	Template:Nominated
2023	Streamy Awards	Subject Award – Animated	Template:Nom
		Individual Award – VTuber	Template:Nom

External links

• Template:Official website
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• WILD/CARD on YouTube