The middle-schooler had a mountain of homework to tackle and couldn't sleep. As she scrolled through YouTube , searching for something to help her focus and relax, she stumbled on a strange video of a girl with a microphone with ears on the side. What microphone has ears on it? She started researching and discovered a whole community obsessed with the videos on YouTube.
How This Colorado Teen's ASMR YouTube Channel Catapulted Her to Stardom
ASMR Teen "Life With MaK" Quits YouTube After Videos Removed
Ask any tween or teen what they want to be when they grow up and you may get some of the typical answers: athlete, veterinarian, and police officer. A recent survey by British firm First Choice revealed that 34 percent of kids age would like to be a YouTube personality, while one in five wished to start their own channel. But how safe and lasting is a career for a YouTube star? The cards are stacked against most people vying for that kind of income and stardom.
Makenna Kelly , a year-old YouTuber who has attracted over 1. Kelly, who has become a popular meme online thanks to videos of her sipping from a can and rattling it with her fingernails or chewing absentmindedly on a box of sticky honeycomb, told BuzzFeed News that 12 of her ASMR videos have been taken down in the past three months alone by YouTube. The honeycomb video attracted over Kelly said she recently stopped eating certain foods and wearing certain clothes in her videos because she feared that they would be removed by YouTube.
Having grown up with social media, teenage YouTubers appeal to a demographic, Generation Z, that loves online video. On average Generation Z members, those born in the early s, spend 17 hours a day looking at screens. Popular teenage YouTubers ages are constantly creating videos for their highly engaged peers and reaching out to their viewers.