Amateur Weatherman Frankie MacDonald Earns YouTube Silver Play Button Award

Be Prepared. Amateur weatherman Frankie MacDonald has taken over YouTube by storm. Back in February, MacDonald was awarded the YouTube Silver Play Button by achieving more than 100,000 subscribers to his “DogsandWolves” channel. On February 8th, Frankie opened his mail to discover that he had received the honor from YouTube. 

His YouTube channel highlights his hilarious comedy routines of him singing and dancing and weather forecast. Although it may be good fun, MacDonald also suffers from Autism, but that never stopped him. Frankie has managed to drum up over 24 million views in a matter of six years, and he’s just getting started. His YouTube channel’s description gives his followers a little insight to who he is and why he loves announcing the weather.

“My name is Frankie MacDonald and I am from Sydney Nova Scotia, I do my Own Weather Reports Especially During Winter Months including Blizzards and Winter Storms and in the summer I do my Hurricanes and Typhoon Weather Reports as well and I do my own dancing videos and my own comedy Show When I was a little boy I want to be a Weatherman when I grow up and I do my Own Videos.”

On February 8th, MacDonald took to his YouTube channel to relay a message to his subscribers, “I want to thank all my fans. Pretty soon, I will be reaching up to one-million subscribers before I know it.

 MacDonald’s climb to superstardom started when he began posting his videos to The Weather Network. Currently he has achieved more than 47,000 followers on Twitter and 79,000 likes on Facebook.

The next level in play button is Gold, which is when users obtain 10 million subscribers and if he keeps it up, he could go for the Ruby Play Button which is when users achieve over 50 million subscribers. The only person to receive that award is Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, a.k.a. PewDiePie.