Representatives of the millennial generation are characterized by the maximum enthusiasm for computer games, "echo boomers". It is not surprising that even the surname Oblomov among modern youth is associated not with the novel of the same name, but with a popular video blogger.
Young people who appeared in the world after 1981 are fully involved in digital technologies. For representatives of this generation, television programs and printed publications have been replaced by the Internet, in particular by the video hosting YouTube. One of the most famous channels on it is the "Glorious Friendship Oblomoff" created by Oleg Grigoriev. The author has long been called by subscribers by the name of his creation, Glorious Friendship.
Start of activity
Oleg is in no hurry to share the details of his own biography. He was born in 1990, on October 4. However, nothing is known about the place of birth of the video blogger. His family also remains a secret. After school, Grigoriev decided to receive his education in St. Petersburg.
After graduating from the university, the graduate received the profession of an architect, but by that time the young man was not interested in this kind of creativity. The guy was making good money with web programming. Oleg created his own video blog and began to maintain it even before he appeared on the successful and famous hosting of monetization.
The young man called his hobby for cooking an exciting hobby. The idea was not even considered as the main source of income, especially making a permanent profit with the help of videos. The first channel was registered in 2010. At that time, Grigoriev did not have either expensive cameras or high-quality editing.
He recorded it himself, so the shooting was amateur, not professional. So, in one of his debut videos, the author creates cutlets in Kiev. The creator of the recording honestly warned the audience that he could not cook, since he had never been a cook.
The arrival of popularity
In reality, the charismatic blonde, as before, does not come to associate himself with Gordon Ramsay. He admits that he considers his own skills to be amateurish. Fans have already heard the blogger's frank admission that Oleg does not have a professional culinary education, he cooks, in his words, "crooked", and calls the level slightly advanced amateur.
However, fans are sure that the ready-made dishes of the Glorious Friendship from the restaurant products of chefs, if they differ, are quite a bit different. And the popularity of the channel is likely due precisely to the fact that its creator learns to cook with subscribers. So, in one of the videos, Grigoriev made the Uzbek traditional pilaf with barberry for the first time. The culinary specialist appreciated his creation as good, but admitted that he had shifted the cumin. The audience reacted quickly enough, and Glorious Friend received recommendations from them on how to improve the traditional recipe.
In 2013, recognition came to the video blogger. He created the Glorious Review column. Like the popular TV program "Revizorro" Oleg transformed himself into a strict "undercover" inspector and arranged checks at local sushi bars and restaurants. Institutions that had already created big names for themselves were under his supervision. It was no coincidence that the blogger came to this idea.
He really loves to cook. However, sometimes he simply does not have time to create culinary masterpieces. In this case, the young man orders food. Incomplete correspondence of the quality of such food to its cost has become a common phenomenon. The Glorious Friendship is very strict. He pays attention to the delivery time, the taste of the dish, its temperature, weight, the number of napkins and toothpicks.
New turns
Numerous subscribers of the channel are looking forward to new interesting recipes, and Oleg does not disappoint viewers. With the passage of time, Grigoriev began to present not only "classic" dishes like barbecue, shawarma, Caesar salad or chicken wings, but also exotic. He talked about cooking huge lobsters and overseas octopuses.
The blogger is used to impressing subscribers. The Glorious Friend himself lives in a rented apartment. He dreams of his own real estate, but at the same time he spares no expense on Japanese marble wagyu steak. The food is prepared using the flambé technique on cognac. The channel's frequent guests were the well-known YouTube members Dmitry Larin, Yuri Khovansky, Goblin, Kuzma.
Since 2015, Oleg has been traveling the world with his friends and filming the cuisine of the countries he has visited. During a trip to Thailand, Druzhe tasted tom-yam, a classic hot and sour soup, tasted exotic fried caterpillars. Subscribers saw reviews of culinary masterpieces of Spain and Vietnam in 2017.
Druzhe publishes all pictures of the tasted food on his Instagram. For a long time, the blogger does not stay anywhere, moving as far as possible to new exotic places. Oleg created two more channels under the names "Oblomoff-stuff" and "The fly did not sit." At the first, the blogger answers subscribers' questions, gives recommendations and shares stories from his life. On the second, he reviews phones, laptops and various technical devices.
Plans and accomplishments
Like the biography, the personal life of the Glorious Friends remains a secret. The blogger is in no hurry to tell journalists about the past and plans for the future. Attractive girls are often involved in the blogger's videos, but Oleg treats them in a friendly way, nothing more.
Only the most attentive viewers were able to find out that Grigoriev began and continues an affair with a girl named Evgenia. So far, there is no information about their plans to create a family and have a child.
In 2016, the famous culinary specialist Stalik Khankishiev turned to Oleg. The author of the books considered that the video in which Druzhe cooks minced meat for kebab with a blender is disrespectful to the traditional recipe.
The blogger confirmed his reputation as a non-conflict person, agreeing with the master's remark. In his videos, Oleg promised not to refer to Stalik's name.
The popularity of vlogging is not diminishing. The channel has collected over three million subscribers. The work of Glorious Review and Recipes from Glorious Friend continues.
