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Cody Ko makes a living as a social media star with 5.5 million YouTube subscribers and 2.3 million TikTok followers.
He attributes his success as a creator in part to his past as a Duke-educated developer.
Ko s background in software engineering helped him realize I can make anything I want to make.
Over the past seven years, Cody Ko has captivated a huge following of bored young people online with his often-crude videos involving silly bits with friends, sexual innuendo, and jokes about internet culture.