Lucas started creating videos at an early age and to take this hobby a step further he started uploading them on YouTube. He created a character called Fred with his brother and started uploading videos as Fred in the first person. He started his channel in 2008 and in just a year his subscriber count reached to 1 million.

At the end of 2009, he was so popular that his channel became the first channel on YouTube to surpass the 1 million subscriber count. In 2009 he made a movie named Fred: The Movie. The next year Nickelodeon purchased the rights from Lucas for a very handsome amount of money at aired his movie to their channel. Nickelodeon also financed the second sequel of the movie titled Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred in 2011.

Seeing this, many people realized what a great platform YouTube is to make money. Many YouTubers who were not so serious about their channel started taking it professionally. Since then the quality of content on the YouTube has improved a lot, some even bypassing that of some movies. Other YouTubers like Pewdipie, Smosh, Nigahiga came to the scene and started making huge amounts of money by producing quality videos.

Google even gave Lucas the Silver play button after reaching 1 million subscriber counts. Currently, the subscriber count of his channel stands at 2.5 million. He is not active these days as he has other business to take care of but he uploads videos from time to time for his fans. Currently, the honor of having the most number of subscribers goes to Pewdipie who has almost 55 million subscribers.

On august 20 2013 Lucas came out and announced of being gay. His current boyfriend is Mathew Fawcus whom he works with as well. He let the viewers know that his friends and family had already known about him being gay so he did not feel the need to tell this to the whole world. Still, he did it as it was weighing in his mind a lot. He announced this through a video message which was uploaded to his channel. He has had a girlfriend in past but he doesn't want to make her name public. Besides doing 3 movies Lucas has appeared on some TV shows as well, like Hannah Montana and Super Ninjas. Lucas was originally working with two of his cousins and has named their production house as JLK production, but it appears that he has left the group and has started his own channel called Lucas. This new channel has 2 million subscribers as of now which is expected to grow as he is an active uploader.

There is no information about any salary that he gets from the companies that he promotes. His net worth is estimated to be around $5 million. His biography can be obtained from the Wikipedia page and his bio can also be read on IMDB page.