Patty Mayo
Patrick Thomas Tarmey (born July 6, 1987), better known online as Patty Mayo, is an American entrepreneur, actor and Youtuber. Patty is best known for his scripted bounty hunting series Southland Bounty Hunters, in addition to his series portraying as a sheriff.
Patty Mayo | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | Patrick Thomas Tarmey July 6, 1987 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S | ||||||||||||
| Occupations |
| ||||||||||||
| Partner | Raven Walton (2022-present) | ||||||||||||
| Children | 1 | ||||||||||||
YouTube information | |||||||||||||
| Channel | |||||||||||||
| Years active | 2013–present | ||||||||||||
| Genres |
| ||||||||||||
| Subscribers | 10.6 million[1] | ||||||||||||
| Total views | 1.53 million[1] | ||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
Last updated: 14 May 2023 | |||||||||||||
Early life
Patrick Thomas Tarmey was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts on July 6, 1987.
History
Early days
Patty Mayo joined YouTube on November 12, 2013,[2] and spent the following two years producing roughly a dozen reasonably popular prank videos. Common speculation is that after Mayo began to experience significant demonetization issues affecting his earnings, he elected to begin a video series depicting his engagement in the duties of a Fugitive Recovery Agent (a.k.a "Bail Enforcement Agent" or "bounty hunter"). Mayo states in the series that his work as a bounty hunter is "one of the first jobs as an adult I ever had..." Mayo entitled the series, and later branded sociable merchandise, as the fictional "Southland Bounty Hunters" franchise, likely in reference to the geographic locale of southern California in which the show is set. The general synopsis for the series is various predicaments where Patty Mayo is engaging in the apprehension of fugitives from justice (under bail and awaiting trial) or the repossession of property used as collateral to secure bail.[3]
2017–2018
Patty Mayo's video output has reduced significantly in the latter half of November, 2017. This may be due to a number of extrinsic as well as internal issues in the YouTuber's personal life. Patty Mayo reported a paroxysmally appearing illness related to injuries he sustained in the course of his work. Patty Mayo decided to take a break from the videos and possibly any other professional endeavors to provide himself time to recover.Secondly, he and Kayla had simultaneously begun production of a live show related to their part-time work as stringers, documenting their attempts to capture footage of dangerous events and natural disasters in California.[4] Patty Mayo is also engaged in promoting products and advertising using his presence on social platforms, including indoor playgrounds for homes. After his hiatus and recovery appeared to be completed, Patty Mayo's channel is now focused on his produced DBSO series where he plays a Sheriff in fictional Central Oregon town.[5]
2018–present
Since 2018, Mayo's video output increased since 2018. Mayo took a hiatus from uploading content during 2020 because of the Covid 19 pandemic. In 2021, Southland Bounty Hunters returned, and latter moved to South Florida. Since 2022, he has also appears on Fox Recovery, that also has the same concept of Mayo's channel.[6]
Rise in popularity
Bringing along his longtime girlfriend Kayla as a camerawoman, Thomas began producing and writing 10-20 minute episodes centering around finding and apprehending bail fugitives, bond violators, and repossessing property. This series is seemingly exalting the exotic nature of the bounty profession. Episodes show evidence of average or above-average quality filming, editing, and finishing. All of this is likely to be directly attributable to Mayo's drastically rising view and subscriber count for his channel throughout the summer months of 2017.
In early June of 2017, Patty Mayo jointly collaborated in some videos with fellow YouTuber DeMar "Bounty Hunter D." This collaboration, along with the dynamics of the two YouTubers as they acted in roles for the Fugitive Recovery Agents together in the videos, including frequent seemingly dangerous scenarios that the YouTubers find themselves in, is likely to have led to an increase in viewership. By the later parts of the Summer of 2017, Patty Mayo had earned the followership of one million subscribers. According to Patty Mayo's own Twitter account, it was clear that the duo had briefly parted ways after a personal or professional creative differences amongst each other. Nevertheless, they publicly reunited, resolving any aforementioned malice, in November of 2017.
Equipment
Patty Mayo generally appears in videos wearing Southland Bounty Hunters clothing merchandise, augmented through the inclusion of various levels of body armor and weaponry. He wears a badge upon his vest portraying he is a "Bail Enforcement Agent" or, "Sheriff's Deputy".
Controversy
When Patty Mayo first created videos relating to his portrayal as a sheriff's deputy, there was speculation regarding the legitimacy of the content. The Oregon Sheriff's Office has come out to state that Patty Mayo is not affiliated with them and Patty himself has since stated that the DBSO videos are produced content and he is not associated with any sheriff's offices aside from alerting them about filming dates.
Patty has also admitted that all of the videos he created with Bounty Hunter D were also staged.
On Jan 12, 2019, a video was released to the YouTube platform of Patty Mayo speaking to his local news "KTVZ" about if he is real or fake. In this video Patty Released information that his videos are fake, and he calls the Police Department telling them the times they would be shooting videos. He stated "Our camera crew members wear bright yellow vests which say 'Film Crew' on them. " He also stated that they have a designated staff member who stands by the front of the property, these people are there to answer questions someone passing by may have.
Personal life
Patty Mayo dated camerawoman Kayla Pillar. In 2019, he began a relationship with reality star Raven Walton, in 2023 Walton announced on her Instagram that they were engaged. He also has a daughter from a previous relationship.