LeJuan James

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About

LeJuan James is a Vine personality known for his comedic depictions of Hispanic childhood and lifestyle.

Origin

LeJuan James is the Vine account of Latino comedian Juan Atiles of Orlando Florida. On deciding to go into Vine comedy, he said:

Honestly, I got started on Vine. I was playing around. It wasn’t something that I was thinking about doing. I was a full time student/full time retail manager….I got my family involved and people started gravitating to it.^[4]

Online Presence

Atiles launched his Vine account on May 11, 2013, with a video about his hero, LeBron James., which has over 600 likes and 12,000 loops as of May 2015.

He launched his Twitter feed two months later, in July of 2013.

Spread

As of May 2015, LeJuan James's Vine account has over 470,000 followers and over 97,600,000 loops. His videos have been featured on Buzzfeed, Telemundo, CNN Español and Huffington Post, who named him a "Latino You Should Be Watching on Vine."^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Various Examples

Please note that most of LeJuan James’ Vines feature monologues and dialogues in Spanish. If you'd like to provide transcription in English translation for the following videos, please request editorship.