Louis Cole (YouTuber)

In 2019, Louis restarted his FoodForLouis as a Vegan cooking channel.

Beyond Borders involved flying to 22 cities with his friend and pilot Juan-Peter Schulze (JP) over a period of 60 – 90 days. The journey began in Kern Valley, California, USA on 21 August 2017. The journey has been concluded and the film documenting the trip can be found on discovery+

On 22 March 2017, Cole announced on his YouTube channel that he is starting a Kickstarter campaign to fund a documentary flying around the world called Beyond Borders - A Film Celebrating Unity with JP. The £100,000 goal was reached before the kickstarter ended with a total amount of £111,563 raised by 1,666 backers.

In 2016, Louis co-founded The Solvey Project with Dave Erasmus with the aim of funding social entrepreneurs.

At the beginning of 2016 while driving in New Zealand with his girlfriend Raya, he was pulled over for speeding 41 km/h over the speed limit. While the officer caught him travelling at 141 km/h (87 mph), he used discretion to officially register it as 139 km/h. Since he was registered under 40 km/h over the limit, under New Zealand law Cole received a NZD$400 fine instead of automatic loss of licence. The story made national headlines in New Zealand.

In August 2016, Cole was criticized for his vlogs from his visit to North Korea. He was accused of promoting North Korea and his videos were described as propaganda for the North Korean regime. He has stated that he disagrees with the ideology of the regime and that the content was not funded by the North Korean government.

Discovery signed Cole to its Digital Seeker Network in 2015.

Find The Nomads was a clothing company founded by Cole, Steve Booker and Jake Evans. It was started on 9 May 2014, and dissolved on 28 June 2016

Cole started to post daily vlogs on to his channel FunForLouis on December 31, 2012(10 years ago) (2012-12-31). He has released over 1486 vlogs consecutively as of 25 October 2017. Through this, Cole has managed to gain over 1.92 million subscribers as of 28 May 2017.

In April 2012 he posted a video of himself to his YouTube channel Food For Louis that showed him eating a live goldfish. This caused the RSPCA to prepare a case against him under the Animal Welfare Act 2006. Since he had previously only eaten invertebrates, the fish was the first incident in which he may have broken the law. The case was settled: he admitted his "guilt" and received a caution, avoiding a trial and a possible criminal record. He has received death threats from some animal lovers.

In 2007 Cole purchased and renovated a double-decker bus, equipping it as a mobile centre to help homeless youth with music and video game facilities. The Boombus project now receives funding from local council wards.

Louis John Cole (born 28 April 1983), better known by his original online alias FoodForLouis, then later rebranding as FunForLouis is an English-born film-maker and YouTube personality based in San Mateo, Costa Rica. He has a following of over 2 million on YouTube and is best known for posting a daily video blog on the channel FunForLouis, which documents his life and travels adventuring all over the globe. Cole originally found fame through filming eating stunts on another channel, FoodForLouis, but has since taken these videos down to focus on the positive message of FunForLouis.