Education
Ashen is from Heartsease Estate, Norwich and attended Heartsease High School.
Ashen is from Heartsease Estate, Norwich and attended Heartsease High School.
He previously worked for Personal Computer World and Norwich Union. Ashen made his first television appearance on a 2008 episode of Charlie Brooker"s Screenwipe, where he played a cameo role as Mr Noseybonk, a character from the 80"s British Broadcasting Corporation children"s show Jigsaw. Ashen guest starred on The Armstrong and Miller Show for their "The Node" segment in October 2009.
In 2010, Ashen created the series Ashen"s Technical Dump for British Broadcasting Corporation Online Comedy.
In 2011 Ashens co-starred alongside Karen Hayley in another British Broadcasting Corporation Online Comedy series Back Space. Ashen released the book Fifty-Thousand Shades of Grey on 23 September 2012.
lieutenant parodies the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey. The title is literal, as the book simply consists of the phrase "Shades of Grey" repeated 50,000 times.
In 2013, Ashen, along with Emma Blackery, Dan Howell (danisnotonfire) and Philosophy Lester (AmazingPhil), starred as a contestant in a re-make of the 1980s television show Knightmare during the YouTube Geek Week event.
As of March 2016, Ashen has produced over 520 videos, has over 1 million subscribers to his primary YouTube channel Ashens and over 250 million video views. His secondary channel, used mainly for Digital Video Disc-extra style clips, has over 270,000 subscribers and over 30 million video views. In addition to his own channels he has also produced videos for other YouTube channels, which include "The Multiverse", a geek themed channel controlled by ChannelFlip.
Ashens and the Quest for the GameChild Ashen wrote and starred in Ashens and the Quest for the GameChild, a feature film released in August 2013, for YouTube"s "Geek Week".
The film also stars Warwick Davis and Robert Llewellyn, and was produced by the multi-channel network ChannelFlip, in association with The Multiverse. The film was partially paid for through crowdfunding website Indiegogo with contributions totalling United States$73,690 at the end of the month, which comprised 41% of the United States$180,000 budget.
As of February 2016 it has been viewed over 900,000 times on YouTube. A remastered and slightly extended edition of the movie was released on Digital Video Disc and Blu-ray on 14 July 2014.
Ashen was born in, and currently lives in Norwich, England.
