Anwar Jibawi

CTL-E-5725 · Person · other · 1991–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07000 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5725.

Anwar Jibawi, born August 9, 1991, in Chicago, Illinois, is a Palestinian-American YouTuber and comedian. Raised in Bell, California, in a Muslim family of Palestinian descent with five brothers, he began posting six-second comedy videos to Vine in 2013 and built about 3.7 million followers there before the app closed. In July 2016 he launched his YouTube channel under Shots Studios; the channel's published statistics, last updated in May 2026, stand at 15.6 million subscribers and 8.7 billion views, and he has more than 20 million Instagram followers. Jibawi helped launch Mike Tyson's YouTube channel in January 2017 and has appeared frequently in Tyson's videos and Tyson in his. He acted in the film Keys of Christmas, directed music videos for artists including Anitta and Aitana, earned a 2019 Streamy Award nomination for Best Comedy, and in 2021 opened the Los Angeles restaurant Anwar's Kitchen with his mother.

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Fill 500 Lists Wave 4, Tier 1 — 747 Program). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Anwar Jibawi entity in the live graph at 3,409 entities (exact/normalized/alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5725 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Fill 500 Comedians gap #31 — the final Tier 1 ledger position. Vital status: LIVING — verified by his active channels (statistics updated May 2026) and no death report in any source consulted. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): 15.6 million YouTube subscribers and 8.7 billion views, channel statistics last updated May 13, 2026 — Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16. Net-worth figures EXCLUDED (aggregator estimates only, ranging $4–5M across the pages consulted — shown here as an excluded conflict, not a fact). MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate named in the packet — Wikipedia carries a 2019 portrait; its file page was not read in this pass); chart FILLED; video HELD; audio HELD. The collaborated_with edge to Mike Tyson (CTL-E-5680) rests on the documented January 2017 channel launch and recurring mutual appearances. Blocked edges documented in the packet: Lele Pons, Rudy Mancuso, Hannah Stocking (documented collaborators; no graph entities). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Persons receive no maps (media-layer rule carried from the CULTGRAPH packets).) | visual_assets = HELD: No Commons file page could be read at file-page level in this pass, so the slot is HELD rather than cleared on | chart = FILLED (Built only from this record's own sourced, dated facts; data table printed in the packet.) | video = HELD (No CTL Short for this subject — checked against the CTL Shorts Link Map catalog (2026-10-15) by full name and ) | audio = HELD (No matching-entity audio with a verified rights basis located in this pass (no CTL-owned audio; third-party st)

Relationships

• Mike Tyson — collaborated with
  Jibawi helped launch Mike Tyson's YouTube channel in January 2017, and the two have appeared frequently in each other's videos.

Sources

• Wikipedia, “Anwar Jibawi” — born August 9, 1991, Chicago, Illinois; Palestinian-American YouTuber; Vine first, then YouTube; 15.6 million subscribers and 8.7 billion views (channel statistics last updated May 13, 2026); 20M+ Instagram followers; managed by John Shahidi of Shots Podcast Network — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Jibawi (build store)
• FamousNamesPedia / BabyNamesPedia, “Anwar Jibawi” — born Chicago, August 9, 1991; Vine from 2013, among its top 100 most-followed users; Shots Studios partnership 2016; collaborations with Lele Pons and Mike Tyson; Keys of Christmas; 2019 Streamy nomination for Best Comedy; Anwar's Kitchen opened 2021 — https://www.babynamespedia.com/famousname/anwar-jibawi (build store)
• Sportskeeda Wiki, “Anwar Jibawi” — Chicago-born YouTube comedy creator with Shots Studios; Keys of Christmas alongside Rudy Mancuso, DJ Khaled, and Mariah Carey — https://wiki.sportskeeda.com/tiktok/who-is-anwar-jibawi (build store)

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