Alan Chikin Chow

About

Alan Chikin Chow (born November 15, 1998) is an American actor, digital creator, producer, writer, and influencer. He is the highest-ranking YouTube shorts creator with over 101 million subscribers and the creator of the YouTube series Alan’s Universe. As of May 2025, he has the 17th most subscribed channel on YouTube, placing him in the top 50 most-subscribed YouTube channels and among the most viewed YouTube channels in the world. Chow has appeared in TV series and films that include Grey’s Anatomy, Mean Girls, I Didn’t Do It, and Into the Dark.
Alan has been ranked in multiple top creator lists, including Forbes Top Creators, Forbes 30 Under 30, and TIME100 Creators. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has referred to his impact as a “powerful symbol of the broader shift happening in the entertainment industry”.
Bloomberg has described Alan’s content as having the “DNA in classic American tween series such as Boy Meets World, a coming-of-age ’90s sitcom [and] the South Korean high school drama Boys Over Flowers” and compares it to the Disney Channel or Nickelodeon of the new age.

== Early life ==
Alan was born and raised in Plano, Texas. His father is an engineer at NASA and his mother is the…