Donnie Gogo

Donnie Gogo (born Donovan Gordon Sampson, July 11, 1994) is a Canadian Internet personality, fashion designer, makeup artist, and comedian based in the United States. He is often noted for his flamboyant, persona and  voice. Gogo is best known for his content, which includes makeup tutorials and, but also makes commentary videos and short comedy videos.

Gogo's online career includes several controversies, including a highly publicized feud with drag queen and fellow beauty YouTuber Sasha Boom. In March 2023, Gogo announced that he would be taking a hiatus from YouTube and following several months of content creators accusing him of.

Early life
Donnie Gogo was born Donovan Gordon Sampson on July 11, 1994 in. He is the son of Darren Sampson (born 1960), an author of and  descent; and Aika Sampson ( Tanaka; born 1963), a cartoonist of  descent.

Gogo attended, and graduated in 2012. In a December 2016 interview with Indie News, Gogo said that he was bullied a lot in secondary school for being "that queer kid in the class". The Sampsons moved to Ontario in 2013, and in 2014 he began attending the. He graduated in 2018.

Career
Gogo created his channel and  account on January 2, 2016. Originally, he used his Twitter account solely to promote his YouTube videos, which at the time consisted entirely of makeup and fashion tutorials and short comedy videos. A photo of him wearing a custom-made dress went viral on Twitter and Instagram in June 2016.

In February 2017, his Twitter account reached one million followers, and his YouTube channel had reached 1.8 million subscribers. In May 2017, he did American rapper Young Jack's makeup for the cover of his third studio album, Young Soul II. Shortly after, he began doing cover photo makeup for several other musical artists, including Lucy Luv (Off My Side, "Kiss Kiss"), Dang Dave (Doing This a Second Time and Look at Me When I'm Talking to You), Zee Zee (Stink!), and Shawn Smoke (The Amazing You). In late 2017, he appeared in the music video for Lucy Luv's single "Kiss Kiss", as he had also done her makeup for that single's cover.

During a trip to the on June 7, 2018, Gogo appeared as a guest on the TBS's talk show The Michael Hubert Show, and on June 14, 2018, he was interviewed on the  talk show High Point with David Bauer. Gogo reached five million YouTube subscribers on January 29, 2019.

In December 2021, shortly after he reached six million followers on, Gogo posted a video of himself while singing along the song "Love That Body" by Nicki Derbez, after which he lost over 16,000 followers. Various comments called the video "crude", "disgusting", and "disturbing". Gogo responded by posting a tweet saying, "I'm sorry I twerked. I won't do it again."

Gogo has made collaboration videos with many prominent content creators, including Ashton Wales, Barry Abrams, Connie Crist, Daniel Barnes, Gloria Fernandez, Joebro, Kevin Song, TooLongTom, Tonyjoe, and Yusuf Safadi.

Feud with Sasha Boom
In April 2020, beauty YouTuber and drag queen Sasha Boom, who formerly was friends with Donnie Gogo, posted a 28-minute YouTube video called "bye bye b*tch" where she criticized him for being rude to her on, claiming that on several occasions he tried to force her to be in his videos. Gogo responded with a 48-minute video titled "Listen here, Sasha Boom..." in which he denied the claims and instead criticized Sasha Boom for supposedly lying to her audience, and called "bye bye b*tch" a "poorly edited, unconstructive rant".

Three days after Gogo uploaded his response video, he posted a TikTok video of himself tearing a photo of him and Sasha Boom in half and urinating on the part with her on it. Afterward, he lost over one million YouTube subscribers and over 1.7 million TikTok followers, only strengthening support for Sasha Boom. Gogo then tweeted "LOL, it's just water w/ yellow food coloring. Chill the fuck out". YouTubers Lexi Meyers and Mark de la Cruz and TikToker Darren Novak corroborated Sasha Boom's statements, while Connie Crist and model Marina Croft stood with Gogo.

In January 2021, Shea White, another YouTuber Donnie Gogo collaborated with, criticized him for "taunting" Sasha Boom repeatedly, and announced on Freepost that she had cut all ties with him. Later that month, Gogo tweeted a screenshot of the post, accompanied by the text "KEEP TELLING YOURSELF THAT!!!!!" In March 2021, Sasha Boom uploaded a 19–minute YouTube video called "The Real Donnie Gogo" that compiled recordings of Gogo acting volatile toward Sasha Boom and repeatedly screaming at the someone else standing off-screen to "turn the ducking camera off". Gogo lost over 4.1 million subscribers in the 24 hours following the video's publication. Gogo commented on the video saying, "not true but ok".

In late December 2021, Gogo uploaded a video titled "Sorry, boo." In that video, he apologizes for being volatile toward Sasha Boom and spreading lies to destroy her reputation. Sasha Boom simply commented on the video, "I have no words."

Personal life
Gogo openly identifies as gay. In a May 2019 TikTok post, he said he originally wanted to pursue a career as a, but he "got too invested in the makeup and fashion itself". In February 2022, he purchased a US$4.5 million mansion in,. He has a net worth of US$10.1 million as of March 2023.