Durv Biography

Dylan Adam McEvoy, also known as Durv, is a popular YouTuber from England. He gained fame through his bottle flips videos, challenges, reaction-based videos, prank calls, and gaming content. Durv became a sensation with his viral video “My school is deleting my channel,” which garnered millions of views. However, he faced controversy when YouTube terminated his channel due to his involvement in a “Wanna join my free gift card giveaway” scandal, where he deceived viewers with fake giveaways. Despite losing a significant number of subscribers, Durv’s channel was eventually reinstated in April 2018. With a renewed perspective, he has vowed to refrain from using clickbait titles. In his personal life, Durv is known for his playful nature and enjoys teasing his friends and even strangers. Although he may have his fair share of critics, he remains a positive and confident individual. Currently, Durv’s channel has 7.8k subscribers.

Quick Facts

  • British Celebrities Born In March
  • Also Known As: Dylan Adam McEvoy
  • Age: 20 Years, 20 Year Old Males
  • Born Country: England

Rise to Stardom

Durv launched his channel in 2016 and gained fame with his video titled ‘My school is deleting my channel’. In this video, he described why his school authorities were against his channel and how they threatened him to bring the channel down. This video gained the YouTuber over 6 million views (before his channel’s termination). After this, many more videos with controversial titles followed, including ‘My teacher has a crush on me’, ‘YOUTUBE sent me the wrong play button’ and ‘I am dropping school on the age of 13’.

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Durv once again stole the limelight when he uploaded a video titled ‘Wanna join my free giftcard giveaway’. In this video, he introduced a giveaway in which he claimed to give his subscribers XBOX Live gift cards. However, an individual (name unknown) exposed Durv when he noticed that the XBOX Live gift card design was of an old gift card. This individual then went on to reveal other card designs that were fake as well. Several other points against Durv were mentioned by him and this ultimately proved the YouTuber guilty. As a result of this controversy, he lost several subscribers. Later on, he even admitted to using clickbaits to make money and accepted that he had been lying to people about the “free gift card giveaway”.

Controversies & Scandals

Durv has been heavily condemned for using clickbaits to earn views and subscribers. In September 2017, he released an official disstrack titled “Commentaries End” where he called out several other YouTubers. This video received several views before it was deleted and then reinstated. Today, it has hundreds of thousands of dislikes and a few likes.

Channel Termination & Reinstatement

On May 31, 2017, Durv’s YouTube channel was terminated for violating YouTube’s community guidelines. However, on April 12, 2018, his channel was reinstated and he welcomed his subscribers back with a video titled “Dear YouTube, I’m back…” In this video, he stated that he is done with gift card videos and will only make videos that the world would want to watch. However, despite his return, Durv has not been able to win back the love of his lost subscribers. Several people hate him and his comment section usually contains negative comments. The number of dislikes on his videos is more than the number of likes, indicating the level of hatred Durv is facing on his channel.

Personal Life

Durv was born on March 14, 2003, in Crawley, England. Besides this, no other information regarding his private life is available.

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