Success Stories From YouTube: Karina Garcia
Did you know that almost 5 billion videos are watched on YouTube every single day?
YouTube gets over 30 million visitors per day. In an average month, 8 out of 10 18-49 year-olds watch YouTube. Somewhere among all these views, miracles happen! Well, not exactly miracles, most of the success stories include months even years of hard work.
Before you said "yeah, right! how much of a work someone needs to do to post a video? The answer is simple! A lot of work, from brainstorming ideas for the next video to how to distribute your content and keeping up with the comments, emails, suggestions, etc, etc.
So here we have an amazing girl who was a waitress and now guess what? She is a youtube star!
Karina Garcia has millions of views on her videos.
Beauty and lifestyle vlogger who runs a popular self-titled YouTube channel, formerly called TheKarinaBear, where she posts hauls, DIYs, and makeup tutorials for her 9 million subscribers.
She made her YouTube account in 2012 but didn't start posting videos until 2015. She gained followers incredibly fast thereafter, with more than 250,000 subscribers in six months.
Garcia is known as "the Slime Queen" and rakes in seven figures annually thanks to a YouTube channel that features slime videos, her own crafting line, and three books as well as multiple brand deals. She now has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Garcia said her family of eight, which lived in a two-bedroom mobile home, struggled when she was growing up. She said that almost four years ago, she was on a break from college and working as a waitress for her brother when she started making YouTube videos.
"I wasn't in school. ... I had like nothing going for myself," she said. "I remember thinking, like, 'What am I gonna do with my life?'"
Her sister was posting beauty videos so Garcia followed suit, making videos of her own DIY crafts. At the time, she said, her channel had around 60,000 subscribers.
Later that year, Garcia did a DIY slime video from a simple recipe she'd found on Pinterest. The video took off, mostly because there weren't many slime videos being posted to YouTube at the time, Garcia said.
Once she started posting slime videos, her subscribers hit 1 million.
"It was just so fast and it's funny because people call me 'Slime Queen' on YouTube or 'Slime Girl,'" she said. "I was so shocked when I started blowing up over slime. I was like 'Wait? What the heck?'... I was honestly shocked."
These days, Garcia doesn't just make slime. She experiments with different textures and scents and even puts slime into a balloon to create a stress ball.
"Slime has evolved a lot...It's not just a basic slime now. Now, they smell like cookies. Now, they smell like your favorite ice cream," she said. "A lot goes into it," Garcia said her income comes from her YouTube videos that now feature ads, her three books (two on slime and one on crafting), and her Craft City line as well as other deals.
The Craft City line, which she started in October 2017, was initially exclusive to Target but is now sold at other retailers including Michael's, Jo-Ann Stores and Ross.
Follow the link below to find her YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheKarinaBear/featured
information from: naibuzz and abcnews.go
P.S So you, my dear friend who keeps saying that you can't do it, I'm sure you can! Just do not give up!
YouTube gets over 30 million visitors per day. In an average month, 8 out of 10 18-49 year-olds watch YouTube. Somewhere among all these views, miracles happen! Well, not exactly miracles, most of the success stories include months even years of hard work.
Before you said "yeah, right! how much of a work someone needs to do to post a video? The answer is simple! A lot of work, from brainstorming ideas for the next video to how to distribute your content and keeping up with the comments, emails, suggestions, etc, etc.
So here we have an amazing girl who was a waitress and now guess what? She is a youtube star!
Karina Garcia has millions of views on her videos.
Beauty and lifestyle vlogger who runs a popular self-titled YouTube channel, formerly called TheKarinaBear, where she posts hauls, DIYs, and makeup tutorials for her 9 million subscribers.
She made her YouTube account in 2012 but didn't start posting videos until 2015. She gained followers incredibly fast thereafter, with more than 250,000 subscribers in six months.
Garcia is known as "the Slime Queen" and rakes in seven figures annually thanks to a YouTube channel that features slime videos, her own crafting line, and three books as well as multiple brand deals. She now has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Garcia said her family of eight, which lived in a two-bedroom mobile home, struggled when she was growing up. She said that almost four years ago, she was on a break from college and working as a waitress for her brother when she started making YouTube videos.
"I wasn't in school. ... I had like nothing going for myself," she said. "I remember thinking, like, 'What am I gonna do with my life?'"
Her sister was posting beauty videos so Garcia followed suit, making videos of her own DIY crafts. At the time, she said, her channel had around 60,000 subscribers.
Later that year, Garcia did a DIY slime video from a simple recipe she'd found on Pinterest. The video took off, mostly because there weren't many slime videos being posted to YouTube at the time, Garcia said.
Once she started posting slime videos, her subscribers hit 1 million.
"It was just so fast and it's funny because people call me 'Slime Queen' on YouTube or 'Slime Girl,'" she said. "I was so shocked when I started blowing up over slime. I was like 'Wait? What the heck?'... I was honestly shocked."
These days, Garcia doesn't just make slime. She experiments with different textures and scents and even puts slime into a balloon to create a stress ball.
"Slime has evolved a lot...It's not just a basic slime now. Now, they smell like cookies. Now, they smell like your favorite ice cream," she said. "A lot goes into it," Garcia said her income comes from her YouTube videos that now feature ads, her three books (two on slime and one on crafting), and her Craft City line as well as other deals.
The Craft City line, which she started in October 2017, was initially exclusive to Target but is now sold at other retailers including Michael's, Jo-Ann Stores and Ross.
Follow the link below to find her YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheKarinaBear/featured
information from: naibuzz and abcnews.go
P.S So you, my dear friend who keeps saying that you can't do it, I'm sure you can! Just do not give up!
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