Jon Cozart

Jonathan Charles Cozart, also known by his online alias Paint, is an American YouTube personality, musician, and comedian. As of November 2025, his main YouTube channel has 4.5 million subscribers.

Cozart was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and raised in Houston, Texas, from the age of six. After graduating from Cypress Creek High School in 2011, he moved to Austin, Texas and studied film at University of Texas. Cozart took piano lessons as a child.

Cozart is bisexual, and came out publicly in June 2017.

In late January 2022, he announced on Instagram that he has been in a relationship with Sarah Sharpe since early 2021.

His YouTube channel "Paint", an account gifted to him by his brother, was created on December 27, 2005, and has over 4.5 million subscribers as of November 2025. Cozart's career in video started in middle school as a way to avoid writing papers, offering to make videos instead, and he continued this through high school.

On July 17, 2011, Cozart uploaded "Harry Potter in 99 Seconds", which quickly became a viral video, with 65 million views as of November 2025.

Cozart grew his audience on YouTube with his Disney parody videos, which place Disney Princesses into modern circumstances through a cappella layering of his own voice to supply the music. "After Ever After" was uploaded in 2013, and has amassed 97 million views as of November 2025. "After Ever After 2" was released in 2014 and "After Ever After 3" was released in 2018. He then went on hiatus after November of that year, but returned in October 2020 with the video "If Trump Was In Hamilton."

In 2015, Cozart performed his own one-man show, "Laughter Ever After", at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His live performance of musical comedy was well-reviewed by attendees, stating, "Jon Cozart delights with his witty, heartfelt music."