When Castro decided to quit her job for YouTube, it wasn't because she'd gone viral, or had hit a subscriber milestone. It was because making YouTube videos was the one thing she truly loved to do.
Creators on the Rise
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Creators On The Rise: $7,000 rent? $20 strawberries? All in the budget for Silicon Valley Girl.
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Creators On The Rise: Jeanelle Castro left her job to make content. YouTube Shorts turned her channel into a new career.
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Creators On The Rise: How two talking corgis are taking over the internet
Chris Equale never set out to make the world wide web fall in love with his corgis.
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Creators On The Rise: The animators behind The Land of Boggs gave up trying to make it on YouTube. Then their channel got 300 million views.
Back in January, Brent Sievers and his team gave up on turning YouTube into The Land of Boggs.
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Creators On The Rise: Meet the guppy enthusiast behind YouTube and TikTok’s “fish portals” craze
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Creators On The Rise: ichvse always thought he’d get his first million followers on Vine. He found them on TikTok instead.
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Creators On The Rise: Doobydobap’s “don’t yuck my yum” approach to cooking celebrates down-home Korean dishes
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Creators On The Rise: For self-dubbed “bad animator” Devon St. Arnaud, YouTube is an archive of progress
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Creators On The Rise: Jenna Sinatra and Will DeVane put a Gen Z spin on creating as a couple
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Creators On The Rise: As an ICU nurse, Hunter Prosper has seen it all. Now he’s sharing his story on TikTok.
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Creators On The Rise: Steven He got 3,000 rejections as an actor. So he decided to catch studios’ attention by going viral.
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Creators On The Rise: Moms Ebony and Denise joined YouTube to share an emotional vlog about Barack Obama. Then their daughter stole the show.
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