Oliver Walker is a filmmaker, musician, writer (of scripts, blogs, books, and songs), artist, actor, internet comedian, producer, graphic designer, and curator from West London, United Kingdom.
Oliver began creating at the age of 4 years old. He made his first short film, “The Best Movie Ever”, when he was 9 years old. Over the subsequent years, he made over two-dozen short films by himself or with his childhood friends, including the “Supertron” trilogy, “The Boy On The Beach”, and “The Impossible: A Boxing Movie”. During this time, he also developed a passion for making music, beginning on a drum set before making an a cappella album titled “Mismatch Made In Heaven” and slowly learning how to play guitar and piano in his spare time.
During high school, between the years 2017 and early 2020, he developed his music production and writing skills via his secret SoundCloud account. Under the names Oli Cee, DJ Squared, OG OLI, and No Hate More Love, Oliver released numerous projects. By 2020, he had released just over 25 albums on SoundCloud. However, he removed the majority of them before rebranding to Oliver Walker, a stage name developed while eating a bag of ‘Walkers’ crisps. The only releases remaining online from before the birth of Oliver Walker are DJ Squared remix albums (comprised of Sufjan Stevens, Minecraft Soundtrack, Hip-Hop, and M83 remixes as well as original dance, rap, and electronic records). In 2018, Oliver met Marceli, Rarebowy, and Lil Shmooo online through Soundcloud and YouTube. These are all artists he would go on to collaborate with to different extents. Rarebowy is the reason Oliver started releasing his own beats onto YouTube for people to purchase.
In 2019, Oliver wrote, directed, edited, and released a semi-documentary, semi-fictional feature film titled “This Is The Stuff” while in high school. Shot over the course of three months, the film follows a group of friends during their last year of secondary school in the UK. It was originally edited to only be viewed by close friends, but was later re-edited and uploaded publicly for a limited amount of time, amassing around 2000 views before being removed for copyright.
Oliver began posting instrumentals on Soundcloud that he would produce from scratch, as well as “Type Beats” on YouTube, which allowed artists to purchase the rights from him and use them in their own songs. This quickly became a successful business with Oliver keeping this up until 2022 when he wiped a majority of the beats from public view and instead kept them in an unlisted folder due to his desire to focus on his own music and making art for himself. Also in May 2020, Oliver helped artist AYAZ release his first track. By August 2020, Oliver was hanging out with his friends in a home studio that he and his dad had made. What started out as a partial joke turned into a serious attempt at recording music with his voice again, and by October 2020, at the age of 16, Oliver had his first mixtape, The Older I Get, ready for release.
By the time 2022 rolled around, Oliver was gearing up to finish College and head to university. In the first six months of the year, Oliver made the short film “In Search of Bigfoot” and the comedy pilot “Insert Title Here: A News Show”. He also released his third (and subsequently final) mixtape titled “Since Last Year” on all platforms. Since Last Year was the first project to be mostly produced by Oliver Walker himself, and had numerous features from artists around the world. It was his most personal project to date, as well as his most fleshed out. Oliver began working at a cinema in the summer of 2022 before joining university.
In September 2022, Oliver Walker joined the University of Kent, Canterbury, and embarked on a three-year journey via their Film Course. While living in the Darwin College dorms on campus, Oliver met Jonah Ozanne and Dylan Chapman. They quickly bonded over a mutual love for making music and their adoration for offbeat comedy. After spending the year getting stoned together, the three of them began conceptualising the very early bare-bones version of what would become their own TV show called “Crackers”.
In March of 2023, Oliver released a short film titled “We Should Talk Before You Leave” on YouTube, which garnered over 3,000 views in a week and a positive response. He subsequently released a Medium blog post about the making of the film. The short film was made for Joel Haver’s “Make a movie during the Oscars Challenge” and was conceived and shot in 3 hours.
During this time, Oliver met Marcellus Almazar, who was in the midst of shooting his own short film, “Last Friday”, which had just lost its main actor halfway through the shoot. Oliver came aboard and helped rewrite the script and became the main character of the movie, Thomas. The film was later released in October of 2023 on YouTube. Oliver spent the summer of 2023 releasing numerous singles and EPs, including “For Another Day”, “Abacus”, “YAMRUS EP”, and “Smile With Me”, working on his debut album, and releasing sketches and short films on YouTube, including “Try Not To Laugh” which saw Oliver shoot his friend in the head for failing the challenge. In September 2023, Oliver performed at Servant Jazz Quarters to an almost sold-out crowd.
In October of 2023, Oliver revealed that he was accepted into AWAL’s distribution program, moving all of his music from Distrokid to their service. With this, he released a new EP, “TEETH”, which became his most popular release at the time. “TEETH” was a mix of hip-hop and pop tracks that leaned into political commentary and comedy more than his other projects. Also this month, Oliver released the short film “CLICK AT TIME’S EDGE”, a comedic parody of Adam Sandler films, which acts as a semi-sequel to the film Click, starring Sandler. Oliver also starred in the experimental short film “I SEE RED”.
In November 2023, Oliver performed live once again, this time at Katzpace. The night was mostly a success until a fight broke out during Oliver’s set between the headliner, Pretty V, and a random gig-goer. It’s unclear what caused the fight or what the fallout was, but this event inspired a song on Oliver’s debut album, “Home”, titled “Cat Space”. In December, Oliver released the short film “Consume Consume Consume” to his YouTube channel to a positive response.
In the early days of December 2023, Oliver rebranded his YouTube channel to “Blob Frank”. That same month, he released the four-episode “A Work In Progress” web-series which acted as an anti-commentary video series, tackling internet topics in a subversive manner.
Before the New Year rolled around, Oliver also released the first six episodes of “Losing My Mind” and the first two episodes of “Shot by OLIVER”. “Losing My Mind” sees Oliver sitting alone, talking to nobody, perhaps the viewer, it’s up to you to decide, about anything in the world. A sort of through line was thought about before shooting, though it’s unclear what the narrative connective tissue is supposed to be — and that’s on purpose. “Shot by OLIVER” is a collection of shots that Oliver had left behind from various projects, released and unreleased, all edited into short videos, including original or pre-existing music. These three web series were the first pieces of art branded as Blob Frank releases. Oliver welcomed 2024 with Next Year We’ll Win, which is an installment of the “Shot by OLIVER” series.
In January 2024, Oliver released the YouTube video “We Need To Talk About Blacky Speakz”, partly as a joke, making fun of commentary videos that take themselves too seriously when talking about unserious topics. The video became a small hit, garnering 30,000 views in less than three weeks. This helped grow his channel to 1000 subscribers in a month. Because of this, he started the series “The Internet Is Dead” where he discussed topics spanning the internet. This series finished in June after Oliver lost interest in continuing it and started to venture into more creatively fulfilling areas. Also in the same month, he released “Prepare For The Worst”, an experimental, mostly silent film with an original score about a man having a bad time on edibles — inspired by a true story. The soundtrack was released under the artist name “The Compass Book” — Oliver’s own record label founded in 2021 — on all platforms.
In March 2024, Oliver released the short film “25 Minutes”, again shot in three hours for Joel Haver’s challenge. He also released the well-received documentary “Uforia” about a man in Canterbury who believes in UFOs. Both short films were written and directed by Oliver, with Jonah Ozanne and Dylan Chapman co-writing the former. In April 2024, Oliver and Dylan Chapman finalised the idea for “Crackers”, their own TV show they would make for the Blob Frank YouTube channel. In May 2024, Oliver finally released “The Search”, with a new ending having been shot a week prior to the release.
In June 2024, Oliver filmed and released “BREAD”, a short film about a man who befriends a talking loaf of Bread, a number of new “Shot by OLIVER” episodes, and a short film titled “Slow And Steady” that follows his pet tortoise on a walk outside accompanied by an original score — also available to stream under The Compass Book on Spotify and Apple Music. In the same month, he returned with new music via the single, “You Sound Dumb”, and the announcement of his debut album, “Home”. The single, “You Sound Dumb” — produced by Oliver — was a relative success and was accompanied by a music video directed by Oliver alone in his room. The single release also meant the launch of Oliver’s website, The Forever Archive, as well as a number of clothing items being available for purchase based on the song and upcoming album.
In August 2024, Oliver finally released his debut album after years of pushing the release back. HOME was 10 tracks long and is mainly a rap record, though it delves into pop, alt-rock at times, and post-modern folk music. The album was accompanied by a slew of new music videos and merch releases.
In September 2024, CRACKERS was finally released on YouTube, beginning September 11th. The show was a relative hit for Oliver, Jonah, and Dylan, with people excited for each week’s release. Because of this, they started planning the next set of episodes. Originally, they planned on having two more seasons, with season three being a Twin Peaks-esque mystery, moving away from a strictly comedic show. However, due to scheduling, they couldn’t fit the shoots in between their planned feature film shoot in 2025, which meant that the show was shrunken down from three seasons to two. The second season was shot from December 2024 to March 2025, much longer compared to the first season’s two-day shoot for all five episodes.
October 2024 marked the end of the HOME marketing push and creative journey with the release of the “What’s The Rush?” music video on YouTube and the final release of merch relating to the album. A vinyl release was originally planned, but was rescheduled for his second album after he realised that he was ready to release it relatively soon. Oliver wouldn’t return with new music until December. By the end of October, as well as the entirety of November, Oliver wasn’t uploading to Blob Frank, or releasing any projects anywhere else due to the planning of Crackers 2 being in full effect and the promotion for season one and his music taking place on TikTok (to relative success).
December 2024 was a busy and stressful month for Oliver. Crackers 2 began shooting, with episode two being first on the schedule. “Kids Under Management” was shot across four days in total, double the length of time it took for them to shoot the entirety of season one, “Inspector Calls” had half of the episode shot by the end of the year with the rest being filmed in the New Year, and “Boyz Night” was shot in two days with a camcorder as opposed to their usual cameraman and Panasonic LUMIX used in the other episodes. Also in December, Oliver released the single Movie Girl and announced that his second album, “Misery Machine”, would be released on all platforms on February 14th and would be produced entirely by Oliver Walker, something that would remain the same forever after this (ignoring collaborators' projects and band participation). He also edited and helped promote Toby Bula-Edge’s short film “A Slice of Love”, marking the second time the two worked together.
Disaster struck towards the end of 2024 when Blob Frank, the YouTube channel, was taken down, and Oliver was permanently blacklisted from the website. Despite countless appeals, even talking to a senior supervisor based in the UK, his channel was never brought back to the website — and Oliver couldn’t make new channels, or ever monetise his content on their platform again. The channel’s takedown was due to the episode “Boyz Night”. Oliver had uploaded a test version of the episode to check the quality compression (due to it being shot on a camcorder and edited at 4k resolution). Despite it being set to private, YouTube flagged it for nudity (due to a brief scene including a Pornhub video — it was not because of the sex game scene, despite what some people believe), which led to the entire channel being taken down. Because of this, Oliver decided to denounce YouTube and create his own website, still titled Blob Frank, which officially launched in April 2025 after months of delays. Oliver’s DMs and email were flooded with questions about Blob Frank’s “death” which led to him starting a “RIP BLOB FRANK” and “KILL YOUTUBE” campaign on TikTok and Instagram — something which got him in hot water with YouTube again. The channel takedown was also referenced in the final episode of Crackers Season 2, as well as the trailers for the season.
In January of 2025, Oliver released the first single from his sophomore album, Misery Machine, titled 236. The artwork uses a picture of the “Friends” TV show set with the number 236 across it, in reference to the number of episodes of the show. The song is loosely based on Matthew Perry’s experience during the making of the show. In February, the second single, Getaway Car, arrived before the entire album was released on Valentine’s Day. The album was a moderate success and saw the release of a number of new music videos and alternate versions of songs, including a scrapped song titled Content With Death in March. These additional tracks were eventually added to the album via a second disc on all streaming platforms.
In March of 2025, shooting began on Oliver’s first feature film, The Short Life Of Jaxon Blume. During the first week of shooting, Oliver secretly began shooting another feature film, Looking For Love, which wrapped filming a month later in April. The Short Life Of Jaxon Blume was shooting from March up until the end of June. The Blob Frank website was originally scheduled to launch in January 17th before being pushed back to February 14th, the same day as his sophomore album, before again being pushed back to March 28th. However, due to prolonged health issues and scheduling conflicts with the shooting of his two feature films, a short film, and the development of his first musical, the launch was again pushed back to April 9th. This didn’t stick either, and the website was finally launched on April 16th, now called Blob Frank Day.
The first “Blob Frank Day”, held Wednesday April 16th 2025, consisted of: the announcement of “The Short Life Of Jaxon Blume” via a short teaser video and two posters, the announcement of “Looking For Love” via a short teaser trailer and a teaser poster, the first trailer for “Crackers Season Two” — now titled Crackers: Folie à Trois, and the launch of the Blob Frank website. Despite being promoted as such, there was not a “Resurrection of OJ Simpson” stream, instead Oliver made jokes about ‘false allegations’ of him doing said stream, referencing the events of The Trial of OJ Simpson. The website launched on the same day, a place where you can watch short films, web-series, listen to podcast episodes, and exclusive music, as well as look at the upcoming releases. Also on the website was a shop with clothes, accessories, and subscriptions for the site, which acted like a streaming service mixed with a Patreon subscription. The teasers for “The Short Life Of Jaxon Blume” and “Looking For Love” were playing on loop on their respective pages. Throughout the day, Oliver also released parody-PSA videos about Blob Frank and their “mission” which also promoted the subscription element of the website and the upcoming second season of Crackers.
In March and April of 2025, Oliver starred in the short film “The Girl Of My Dreams” and co-directed the short film “Clarissa And Robert”. On April 18th, he released a new single titled “A Part Of You” which featured additional vocals by Marcellus Almazar. This was joined by a lyric video and an eventual lo-fi music video. A week later, on the 25th, he released another single, this one titled “Two Long Weeks”. Both of those songs share similar cover arts and were for a planned project that was scrapped. The leftover songs for that project were packaged as an extended play, “The Very Real Fake Thing” which found its way onto streaming platforms and physical copies a mere two (long) weeks later. Both songs have heavy LGBTQ+ themes, with “Two Long Weeks” specifically being about bisexuality.
In May of 2025, the second trailer, new posters, and an official date announcement for Crackers: Folie à Trois were all unveiled on the Blob Frank website and Instagram page. Also that month, Oliver returned with a new EP and alternate mix of one of the songs titled “The Very Real Fake Thing” and “A Good Lie - Alt. Mix” respectively. The Very Real Fake Thing consists of six acoustic tracks recorded across the span of a year.
In June 2025, “Crackers: Folie à Trois” (Season 2) began airing on the Blob Frank website with a two-episode premiere, “An Inspector Calls” and “Kids Under Management”. Also in June, Oliver started two podcasts, “Blobcast Podcast” and “IF YOU FIND THIS PODCAST DON’T TELL ANYONE”, the former of the two is a reworking of a different podcast called ‘WHITELISTED’ while the latter is a ‘secret’ podcast with no promotion or external links. Blobcast Podcast is a more traditional podcast, although it doesn’t have a strict release schedule, only releasing episodes when he has something to say. IF YOU FIND THIS is what Oliver describes as “an anti-podcast podcast” where he dissects different things he has made in the past. Both podcasts were revealed to be jokes — similar to Modern Man — and have never had another episode since their pilots.
Also in June, Oliver wrapped filming on his debut feature film “The Short Life of Jaxon Blume” after four months of shooting. The original cut of the film was 2 hours and 32 minutes before being shortened for its official release. A documentary about the making of Jaxon Blume was also announced on his Instagram. The final episode of Crackers was released in the early weeks of July ‘25, which received the lowest rating of the entire show (averaging around a 5.5 on IMDb).
In August 2025, the first teaser trailer for The Short Life of Jaxon Blume was released to the public on Blob Frank and YouTube. It was revealed that it would be releasing Spring 2026, as opposed to the originally announced Winter 2026 release date. With this came the new release date for Looking For Love, which was now scheduled for a December 2025 release. In September of 2025, ‘Clarissa and Robert’ was released on Blob Frank and YouTube. Directed by Oliver Walker and Toby Bula-Edge, the short film marked their first collaboration as writer/director.
Also in September, Oliver launched the brand Być (meaning To Be in Polish) with his partner, Gabi Gaura — who is a photographer, writer, graphic designer, director, and cinematographer in her own right. Być is primarily a fashion brand but is also listed as a production company due to the profits of the brand mostly being used to fund film, TV, and music projects. The first collection, labeled SEZON ONE, was released across the next few months, culminating in around 50 products by January 2026, with “SZN II” following soon after in February.
September saw the end of the Wix-run Blob Frank website after the revelation that Wix had been helping to fund the genocide in Palestine, had their HQ based in Tel Aviv, and had multiple apps on the website-builder that would add a fundraiser for Israeli Government-led support charities. Oliver made a statement announcing the shift to a new website host via the Blob Frank Instagram and also announced an indefinite hiatus while they figured out what to do next.
In October 2025, Oliver released his latest extended play, All Of This All The Time, which featured his two biggest songs to date, “Lost Dog” and “Everyday” on the 4-song track list. The EP was accompanied by merch via Być as well as a limited edition vinyl. The same day as the EP also saw Oliver releasing the song FANS, a collaboration between him and director/musician Callum Heron. The song was made for Callum Heron’s electronic solo album, SONOSPHERE II, which had been released around the same time. Oliver also released a music video for Lost Dog the same month on YouTube and later on Vimeo.
In November 2025, Blob Frank returned with a new website, much more stripped down than the previous one, that focused less on “bits” and more on the work of Oliver and his friends. Alongside the new website came pre-orders for Looking For Love as well as a slew of new merch via the Być label, marking the first time Blob Frank clothing had an independent label. The launch of the site was a major success.
In December 2025, Oliver performed his first and last gig of the year at Folklore Hoxton titled ONLY THE HITS, which marked the start of Oliver’s first ‘mini-tour’ that would span all of 2026 called “Oliver Walker…The Tour” with each show having a new subtitle. On December 12th, Looking For Love was released to a mostly positive reception alongside a small merch capsule. The preview screening for The Short Life of Jaxon Blume was also announced to be set for February 24th at Curzon Camden, marking the first theatrical performance of one of Oliver’s films.
In January 2026, Być announced that SEZON ONE would be coming to an end at the end of the month and that SZN II was now complete and ready to be released. Oliver announced the next show in his mini-tour titled Oliver Walker is STILL TRYING at Folklore Hoxton, which saw him playing with a live band for the first time. He appeared in two segments on the news station KMTV talking about The Short Life of Jaxon Blume, and the state of employment as a post-graduate in the United Kingdom. A new art piece by Oliver was released online at the end of the month. The piece, titled Reform Yourself, saw five people from the Reform UK bubble depicted as modern-day Hitlers. The piece was accompanied by a written article published on Medium that discussed the indoctrination of young people in the UK and how he escaped it himself.
