Tyler Zed (real name Desmond Janousek) was born in Minnesota in 1990. He served in the United States Air Force as a medical technician from 2011 to 2015. After getting out of the military, he attended the University of Minnesota where he began creating YouTube videos as a hobby under the alias “Tyler Zed.” Years later, his channel, Zeducation, has garnered over a million subscribers and continues to get millions of views a week.