James Rallison

Robert James Rallison (born May 14, 1996), known online as TheOdd1sOut, is an American YouTuber, cartoonist, animator, author, and voice actor. He is best known for producing story-time animations on his YouTube channel, which, has 20.8 million subscribers and 5.86 billion views. He is also the co-creator and executive producer of the Netflix animated series Oddballs (2022–2023), on which he voiced the main character James.

Early and personal life Robert James Rallison was born in Chandler, Arizona, on May 14, 1996, to a Mormon family. His mother is author Janette Rallison. Rallison is no longer Mormon and never had a desire to go on a mission. He has a twin sister, Faith, and three other siblings: Luke, Kate, and Arianna.

He attended Perry High School in Gilbert, Arizona. In 2018, Rallison moved to Glendale, California. By September 2016 he had written around 400 strips. Rallison described the characters in his comics as "marshmallow people" because of their white, roundish look. His comics tended to focus on lighthearted themes, such as taking famous puns literally, or poking fun at social clichés. In April 2016, his channel gained over 278,000subscribers, giving him a total of over 400,000subscribers. In July 2016, his channel reached 1 million subscribers. At some point, Rallison dropped out of college to make videos full-time. and TheOdd1sOut reached 10million subscribers in January 2019.

In early 2026, Rallison downsized his animation team, citing reduced output and work available for the team. While this initially prompted backlash from fans who were under the impression that Rallison fired the entire team without notice, Rallison clarified that he still has an animation team and that all of the animators that were let go were informed in advance and those affected who were working full time were given severance packages.

Collaborations

Rallison has collaborated with others to produce two songs and their accompanying music videos: "Life is Fun" in July 2018 with David "Boyinaband" Brown; and "Good Person" in December 2020 with Joel "Roomie" Berghult.

His animated character appeared in the credits scene of YouTube Rewind: The Shape of 2017 and in YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind where he has a speaking role. In March 2019, Rallison was in MrBeast's $200,000 YouTuber Battle Royale video. He was on a team with Jaiden Animations and Anthony Padilla and they won the first round. Rallison gave the earnings he made from the YouTuber Battle Royale to Team Trees, a non-profit started by MrBeast that aimed to plant 20 million trees by the end of 2019.

Other work Rallison wrote a book titled The Odd 1s Out: How to Be Cool and Other Things I Definitely Learned from Growing Up, which was released in July 2018.

Rallison also worked on board games Can't Catch Harry and Cafe Chaos, and, on November 22, Rallison announced and released his mobile game named TheOdd1sOut: Let's Bounce!.

In June 2022, Rallison announced that an animated series, Oddballs, based on his character, would premiere on Netflix later in the year.

Public image

As of December 2022, Rallison's main YouTube channel had over 19.5million subscribers, and his secondary channel had over 2.7million subscribers.

In 2017, Dave Trumbore of Collider named Rallison one of five YouTubers who were "poised for mainstream success". In 2018, Kristin Brantley of Culturess reviewed his channel and webcomics favorably, writing, "You'll be glued to the screen watching all of these hilarious clips and reading all his great comics."

Awards and nominations Year Organization Award Recipient Result Ref. 2016 Streamy Awards Animated Himself

Boxing record

Books TheOdd1sOut: How to Be Cool and Other Things I Definitely Learned from Growing Up (July 2018) TheOdd1sOut: The First Sequel (March 2020) TheOdd1sOut Doodle Book (March 2022) The Odd 1s Out Journal (October 2022) Oddballs: The Graphic Novel (April 2023)

Discography "Life is Fun" (with Boyinaband) (2018) "Good Person" (featuring Roomie) (2020)

Filmography