Ray William Johnson (born August 14, 1981), is a YouTube Celebrity and comedian on YouTube who currently resides in Los Angeles. He became famous through his YouTube show, Equals Three, in which he provides humorous commentary on viral videos . He used to have an animated musical comedy group whose YouTube channel was called Yourfavoritemartian which recently ended after the beef between himself and Maker Studios. "BreakingNYC his old vlog channel, was his very first YouTube channel; RunawayPlanet is his current vlog channel, because of once again, the beef between himself and Maker Studios. He has over 2.4 Billion video views. He usually gained anywhere between 3K-15K subscribers daily, but after news of his retirement from hosting Equals Three, he has begun to lose 1-3 thousand subscribers daily. Ray has recently begun posting Runaway Planet/Runaway Machine related content on his main channel, including a 5 part web series called Riley Rewind, which he directed, starring his ex-girlfriend, youtuber Anna Akana. He has also begun uploading podcasts entitled, Runaway Thoughts, twice each week with Anna Akana and Derek Shelby, another member of Ray and Anna's production company. This podcast interacts with the audience, answers questions, and overall talks about different things, and usually get off-topic from a question, hence the name "Runaway Thoughts." Johnson announced that Equals Three will be ending in the middle of 2014. Ray's last episode of =3 was on March 13, 2014 saying that he will try to find a new host and production crew within two months. However, if the fans don't like the new host Ray will shut down the show for good. Currently, Runaway Thoughts has been put on hold as Ray is currently filming for a new movie. On July 6, 2014 a new host was announced, named Robbie Motz, who since starting has recieved mixed reviews by viewers, but with most of them being positive. In February 2015, Ray released two more shows on his channel. The first is Booze Lightyear which permired on February 11, 2015 the second show is Top 6 and the show premired on February 12, 2015.