Do we like them?Do we like Coby Cotton?
Our score: 6 out of 10. Nothing harmful or dodgy turned up, but we could only open a couple of pages, so this is a cautious middle-of-the-road score.
Coby Cotton is one of the five founding members of Dude Perfect, the Frisco, Texas-based group famous for over-the-top trick shots. It is a company as much as a channel now, and he is one of its faces rather than a lone operator.
The best-documented story we could open is his 2022 trip to space. Blue Origin offered a seat on its New Shepard flight through MoonDAO, which funded part of the trip, and the five founders settled who would go with a model rocket contest. Cotton had lost the previous two contests, and his rocket reached 7,412 feet to beat the others.
On the harm test, we went looking for anything he has said or done about LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants, public health or the planet, and for the company he keeps. Nothing harmful turned up under his name. That is an absence in a thin search, not a glowing reference, and we couldn't open enough pages to say anything bolder.
Nothing new has broken about him lately. The recent work we found is the group's kids' fiction series with the publisher Tommy Nelson, which announced a new series in February 2026. The characters are younger versions of the five members. That is wholesome family stuff, not a red flag.
On the good-person test, no conviction, court outcome or credible misconduct report about him came up. We saw a search listing for a copyright suit against the Dude Perfect company, but we couldn't open it, so we leave it out rather than guess. The group is also widely reported to run Make-A-Wish visits, but we couldn't open a dated page to cite, so we haven't put it in the boxes.
So where does that leave a reader who wants to know if it's safe to like him? Probably fine: a family-friendly YouTuber with no harmful record that we could find. The honest caveat is that this is a light-touch check, so a score in the middle reflects what we couldn't verify, not a hidden problem.