Canadian YouTube star and musician Philip Solo has built a huge internet fanbase in two very distinct areas. He first gained fame for a series of videos in which he visits places that have the “worst reviews” on the internet. Some of his most popular videos to date have included “Eating at the Worst Reviewed Restaurant in My City”, “Staying at the Worst Reviewed Motel in My City”, and “Getting the Worst Reviewed Tattoo in My City”. These have helped him gain well over half a million YouTube subscribers and nearly 47 million views of his content—both numbers that are growing all the time.
Solo’s other area of success has been music. To date, he has released one album, 2019’s Emo Jesus, whose most popular songs, such as ‘Poison’, ‘Bones’, and ‘Bite My Tongue’, have gained hundreds of thousands of streams and views. On Christmas Eve 2020, he dropped a new track, ‘Dead to Me’, in collaboration with Marco.
Solo has a large audience across pretty much every social media platform conceivable, but it is YouTube where he is really making his mark. As well as regular “worst-reviewed” videos, he has inverted the series by visiting several “best reviewed” places and performing a series of hilarious challenges and pranks, such as opening a haunted house in his basement, eating a burger containing laxatives, and spending 24 hours on a nude beach. In an age where people will continue to push the envelope (and themselves) to entertain their audiences, Philip Solo is certainly pushing all the right buttons.