The internet recently granted us a little gift: the discovery of Austin's own Oscar-winning Matthew McConaughey's YouTube channel.
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As the Reddit user who found the link pointed out, the "Dazed and Confused" actor indeed has a verified YouTube channel. The weird thing is nobody had seemed to watch it. It wasn't until the Redditor's thread went viral that one of McConaughey's videos reached more than 1 million views — even then, the rest of the videos have fewer than 200,000 views. That seems really strange for a Hollywood actor of his popularity.
McConaughey joined YouTube in 2013, though he didn’t post his first video until more than a year later. In it, he pushes people to go to Whole Foods and purchase bottles from “I Am Waters,” which provides clean water to homeless public school children.
>> Click here to watch his first video
Most of the videos are him advocating for one cause or another. There's a second one of him talking about "I Am Waters" again. There are also a couple of videos where he talks about his Just Keep Livin' Foundation and #GivingTuesday, a movement to create an international day of giving after Thanksgiving in the United States.
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Aside from his charitable videos, he’s also posted a couple of movie trailers from movies he recently starred in — specifically, the animated movies “Kubo and the Two Strings” and “Sing.”
We’re not sure why his videos haven’t taken off in the past, but he seems to be using them for a good cause. Maybe that Reddit thread will give him the followers he deserves. But for now, we’ll leave you with McConaughey’s sign-off for every video: “Just keep livin’.”
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