His mother was a history and geography teacher and his father, Jackie Thavaud, was a culture promoter and head of a local cinema school.

His videos have been viewed billions of times, enabling him to be paid by the YouTube internet website and to attract national media attention.

Unsurprisingly, he participates in the one-man videos of the former members of his group, Hugo Dessioux and Marc Jarousseau, on their YouTube channels.

Cyprien, the best known French YouTuber in terms of number of subscribers [3] has invited Norman to participate in only one of his videos, even though they performed together as part of Le Velcrou.

The Palmashow are a comic duo, composed of Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais, who also originated on the internet but now broadcast their sketches on the D8 TV channel.

In December 2011, Norman was invited to the Les Arcs European Film Festival with other YouTube stars such as La Ferme Jerome, Cyprien, Maxime Musqua, Mistertel, as well as the Palmashow.

On 12 January 2012, Norman organized Zapping Amazing, a show at the Grand Rex (a major venue in Paris) in which he gathered some web-comedy friends with whom he has performed (Palmashow, Kemar, Cyprien, PV Nova, Julfou, Mister V, Volt, Backstage Rodeo, LeGrandJD, Spicy Marguerites and La Ferme Jerome).

[4][5] She announced that she had filed a complaint in Canada against Norman for "luring a child and sexual exploitation of minors" and that she had forwarded all the messages and photographs exchanged with the video artist to the police.

[12] Thavaud told the investigators that he had received "death threats, hordes of insults and cyber harassment" since the media coverage of the case began.