Ruhi Çenet

Ruhi Çenet — Biography

Ruhi Çenet is a YouTuber, independent documentary maker and traveler who built a wide audience with videos exploring hard-to-reach and out-of-the-way places. Trained as a software engineer, he is among the most-subscribed YouTubers in Turkey; in 2025 he took the title of Turkey's biggest YouTuber, first briefly and then again on November 29, 2025.

He spent his childhood in Manisa and Bandırma, went to India in 2007 for university, completed his software engineering studies there and returned to Turkey in 2011. In 2012 he opened the channel "Ruhi Çenet Videoları" and began producing informative, educational and documentary videos; in 2018 he received the Silver Play Button. As of January 2022 he also broadcasts in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

One of his most-watched documentaries, Dünyanın Merkezine Yolculuk, follows him and his team on an eight-day expedition with a group of speleologists into Krubera, thought to be possibly the deepest cave in the world. More than 188 people took part in the production, which was released on December 12, 2024, and drew over 53 million views in its first months. As an actor he appeared in the films Enes Batur Hayal mi Gerçek mi? (2018) and Enes Batur Gerçek Kahraman (2019). In July 2026 he filmed and reported on reconstruction work in the earthquake zone. He is married with two children.