About
An American tech creator from Monroe, Michigan. He posts short videos so consumer tech is easier to follow.
He grew up there and attended a Catholic high school in Monroe, reported as St. Mary Catholic Central. He is Black. Claims that he is white come from vandalized wiki edits, not reliable biographies.
He has said he posted four TikToks a day since he was 14 and had not missed a day. A June 2026 Mashable profile described about six years of that pace. The two reports do not name the same start date, so this page does not pick one.
After the audience grew, he moved from Michigan to Los Angeles to be closer to the tech world, according to Mashable.
The videos stayed short and direct, and the topics grew: phones, consoles, cars, AI data centers, and big-tech opinions. His real YouTube name, @actuallycarterpcs, is there so people can tell it apart from copycat channels.
Dates and follower counts change by source. Treat the list above as a short reference. The timeline below is the sourced version: zoom a year, then an event, and the write-up names where each fact came from. History is the longer archive, with filters and the gaps left visible. Milestones keeps the shorter fan list.
Click a year to zoom in. Click an event for the detail and the source. Tracker counts are estimates from the day they were read.
Timeline
All years. Zoom a year, then an event.
Carter Ryan Smith is born in Monroe, Michigan. This reference uses August 8, 2005. He later attended a Catholic high school in Monroe, reported as St. Mary Catholic Central.
Published ages line up with that year. In January 2024 Business Insider describes him as 18. On June 2, 2026 Mashable describes a 20-year-old. On February 9, 2026 Dexerto reports that he said he was 20 and would turn 21 later that year.
He grew up in Michigan. The profile calls him 20.
He said he was 20 and would turn 21 later in 2026. That fits an August 2005 birthday.
The story describes Carter Smith as 18, which also fits a 2005 birth.
Social Blade, vidIQ, Socialcounts, and Tubegrade each list February 26, 2020 as the day @actuallycarterpcs joined YouTube. That date is what those trackers publish. It is not a figure copied from YouTube Studio.
His own channel is the place to check titles and uploads. His Linktree is the creator-linked list, including Discord and product links. Linktree does not date the channel.
Original videos, titles, and upload history.
Creator-linked Discord and product links.
Lists the channel as created February 26, 2020.
Same created date: February 26, 2020. Its subscriber and view totals can differ from Social Blade.
Joined February 26, 2020. A same-day reading put the channel near 3.80 million subscribers, 9.64 billion views, and about 4,849 videos.
Joined February 26, 2020. Its October 12, 2026 row listed 3.76 million subscribers.
He has said he posted four TikToks a day since he was 14 and had not missed a day. Dexerto published that quote on February 9, 2026, from videos on his secondary account.
Mashable, on June 2, 2026, described about six years of four posts a day. The quote and the profile cover the same habit and name different spans. This timeline keeps both and does not collapse them into one start date.
Mashable says that after growing up in Michigan he moved to Los Angeles at 18, to be closer to the tech world. The profile gives the age and leaves out the moving day.
With the August 8, 2005 birthday this page uses, age 18 runs from August 2023 to August 2024. The move sits in that window.
Relocated to Los Angeles at 18 after growing up in Michigan.
Mashable quotes a 2023 TikTok. He said he is not an engineer, not a product designer, and does not have a degree that would prove he knows what he is talking about.
What he claimed instead was a passion for the technology pushing the world forward, and sometimes backward.
The profile dates the quote to a 2023 TikTok. The original clip is the check for the wording.
He checked a YouTube channel named @carterpcs that was reuploading his videos. Dexerto reported about 253,000 subscribers, roughly 20,000 more than @actuallycarterpcs. The copy used his TikTok name. His real YouTube name is the longer one.
He said he had contacted them about suing. Dexerto ran the story on January 1, 2024. Business Insider ran it on January 3 and treated the clip as an example of impersonation and reposts.
253,000 subscribers on the copy, about 20,000 more than his channel. He said he had raised a lawsuit.
Same clip, posted December 30, 2023. The copy had more than 250,000 subscribers.
He and Nathan Espinoza were both near 1 million YouTube subscribers and talked about it in public. Fans turned the numbers into a scoreboard.
This page keeps it as a fan-followed race. A fan wiki says he reached the million first. That timing stays off this timeline because the wiki does not show a source strong enough to date it.
Both creators were near 1 million in June 2024. The scoreboard is the audience’s, and the page does not call it a personal feud.
Mashable quotes a 2024 TikTok: tech content is technical, nuanced, and complex, and it does not have to be boring.
The line is a useful statement of how he frames the videos. The profile is the source for the wording. The original TikTok is the check.
Dates the quote to a 2024 TikTok.
He posted “Welcome back” on YouTube. He introduces himself as Carter PC Smith, age 20, and traces the PC interest to wanting Minecraft to run. He says that six years later he is still showing that technology, four times a day.
In the same clip he says that particular four-a-day run had lasted 27 days. That sentence describes the welcome-back stretch. The longer streak he describes elsewhere is the separate claim, sourced under 2020.
Primary clip. Title, date, and the spoken intro.
A YouTube short on his channel is titled “I got scammed by a $139 fake iPhone on Amazon.” A TikTok of the same story uses a public post id that decodes to about December 30, 2025 UTC. That decode is a clue from the id. It is not a date printed on the video.
A research pass over Socialpruf listed about 34.0 million plays for this title. The Socialpruf YouTube page read on October 16, 2026 showed channel totals and did not repeat that play count, so 34.0 million stays one tracker’s figure.
The short itself. Use it for the title and the claim in the video.
Same story on TikTok. The date is inferred from the public id.
About 34.0 million plays in that pass. The October 16 page text listed 3.80 million subscribers and 5.79 billion views for October 16, 2025–October 16, 2026, which is a 12-month window, not a lifetime total.
He said @carterpcs, then at 6.1 million followers, was removed. The reason he was given was a community-guidelines violation, with nothing more specific. He kept posting on @carternotpcs and said the streak was not over.
He guessed at censorship or an automatic flag, and said he hoped it was the flag. He did not confirm a cause. Later 2026 reports show the main account with a following again.
Ban date, the 6.1 million figure, the guidelines line, and his comments from the secondary account.
The main account. Later 2026 listings show it with a following again.
Nicole Cammorata’s Mashable 101 profile is the fullest news write-up this timeline uses. It puts TikTok near 6.3 million, Instagram at 830,000, and YouTube past 2 million on the day of the piece.
The same article is the source for the six-year posting pace, the move to Los Angeles at 18, and the 2023 and 2024 quotes elsewhere on this timeline.
Audience figures are the magazine’s, for that day. They are already behind later tracker readings.
A research pass over Socialpruf named four titles and play counts: “I swapped my keyboard’s WASD with a joystick” at about 39.5 million, the $139 fake iPhone at about 34.0 million, “He thought he had the best gaming PC” at about 31.6 million, and a short on the claim that the human eye can only see in 24FPS at about 30.8 million.
The Socialpruf page read on October 16, 2026 did not repeat those four play counts. They stay one report’s figures. The hooks people notice in the titles — a visible mod, a scam, a PC comparison, a familiar myth — are a reading of the titles, not a claim he published. Confirm each video on his channel before treating the view count as current.
Channel page for video-level metrics. Plays move, and this tracker’s window is not the same thing as lifetime views.
Where the four titles can be checked against the videos he actually posted.
Read on October 16, 2026. The totals do not agree, because the sites update on different days and measure different things. A 12-month view count is a different number from lifetime views.
Social Blade’s daily row for October 11, 2026 listed 3.75 million subscribers, 9,472,178,822 views, and 4,833 videos. Socialpruf’s YouTube page the same week listed 3.80 million subscribers, and its 5.79 billion views were for the year ending October 16, 2026. Its TikTok page listed 7.36 million followers, with 2.82 billion views in that same kind of year window. vidIQ and Socialcounts, in readings gathered the same day, put lifetime views near 9.6 billion and subscribers near 3.79 to 3.80 million.
This site’s own late August 2026 snapshot said about 7 million on TikTok and 3.3 million on YouTube. A separate pass remembered Social Blade near 3.81 million subscribers and 9.66 billion views. That pass and the October 11 row can both be real readings taken at different times. Use the dated row.
3.75 million subscribers, 9,472,178,822 views, 4,833 videos. Channel created February 26, 2020.
3.80 million subscribers. 5.79 billion views in that window, across the videos the page counted for the year.
7.36 million followers. 2.82 billion views in that window.
About 3.79 million subscribers and about 9.6 billion views. Compare the date before setting it next to Social Blade.
About 3.80 million subscribers, 9.64 billion views, and about 4,849 videos.
About 7 million on TikTok and 3.3 million on YouTube. Already behind the October readings.
Unofficial fan reference. His channel and Linktree are the check for what he published. Social Blade, Socialpruf, vidIQ, Socialcounts, and Tubegrade are cross-checks, and their methods differ. SPEAKRJ, SubSub, and CreatorDB are the same kind of tracker: useful when a figure was actually read, and weak when the text is modeled or undated.