He had intuition, and he had range. CAA set Wu up with acting coaches, auditions and meetings with noteworthy producers, including one who began developing a TV comedy based on his relationship with his family. There were talks with content producers both traditional Cartoon Network and digital Xbox Entertainment Studios, which shuttered in Brands paid him five figures for three-minute videos, and combined with his other revenue from YouTube views and touring, Wu bought a loft downtown.
He was getting invited to parties; the industry wanted to meet him. But by the time Revenge premiered at Toronto in , Wu was starting to withdraw both online and offline. He made his wildly popular YouTube channel private, after not posting any new videos for about a year. To hear him tell it, he wanted to focus his resources on feature films.
He also was embarking on a search for purpose. With all the different revenue streams available to him, Wu was easily poised to make millions, say Ma and other insiders familiar with his career. Video type: Although he only launched his channel in , Ray William Johnson became wildly popular in less than a year thanks to his YouTube series called "Equals Three.
Where they are now: Johnson stopped producing "Equals Three" and other popular series in , which led to his popularity to drop. He continued to use his YouTube channel to vlog through , and also uploaded some music under the name "Fat Damon.
Video type: DeFranco has been around for a decade as a bonafide news anchor for YouTube, delivering roundups of headlines about current events in both light-hearted subjects like celebrity gossip and heavier issues such as politics.
Where they are now: DeFranco's popularity on YouTube has only skyrocketed in the past decade, now going by Philip DeFranco instead of "sxephil. DeFranco is now married to former vlogger LinzLoves , and has two young children. Video type: Dawson's early work comprised short comedy sketches in which he would don accents and wigs to play different characters.
However, many of these characters — with names like "Barb the Lesbian" and "Shanaynay" referred to as a "ghetto girl" , and gangster S-Deezy — were viewed as problematic , and were criticized for drawing on offensive stereotypes about people of color and other minority groups. Where they are now: Dawson's YouTube presence has grown and changed over the decade , and he hasn't posted to his ShaneDawsonTV channel in over three years.
On his channel, simply titled "shane," Dawson has shifted to making multi-part documentary series investigating conspiracy theories and the lives of YouTubers, including Tana Mongeau, Jake Paul, and Eugenia Cooney. Dawson also came out as bisexual in , and got engaged to fellow YouTuber Ryland Adams in Video type: The comedy duo collectively known as "Smosh" were behind some of the most popular and viral comedy skits circulated on YouTube in the platform's early days. Where they are now: Smosh has since expanded beyond its two original creators to feature a group regular cast members that creates and appears in comedic content for Smosh and its multiple spinoff channels.
One of the Smosh founders, Anthony Padilla, left the channel in June Video type: Cruikshank created hilarious videos as his online persona Fred Figglehorn , a dysfunctional six-year-old with a high-pitched voice, who regalled viewers with stories of his life and doing simple day-to-day activities. Where they are now: Cruikshank stopped producing content starring Fred in , and hasn't posted to that YouTube channel since I think, you know, I achieved youtube success at 17 and from there I just kind of, education became on the back… my YouTube views, my subscribers and my interactions with my viewers and stuff became my threshold and my priority.
I realized when I was 22 or 23, when I tried to be a serious actor and do films, that I still was very lacking knowledge in terms of telling a minute story. So it was very clear to me that I needed to educate myself, and so taking a step back and clearing my mind and putting my ambitions aside so I could focus on friends and family. Has your faith and spirituality taught you anything about your spiritual background? Did it change how you identified with the Asian community?
I was studying a lot of Eastern traditions. Being Asian American, I only focus on the American side, growing up here and trying to fit in, being one of the few Asian people in my school. Spiritual life lets you focus on it on a very deep level. For some, it's far too easy to give in to the temptations of TV, social media, and other distractions when earning a degree from the comfort of home.
I am saying one thing that I am thankful each day for until Thanksgiving. You try it to it will bring you joy. November 1st, I am thankful for God and Jesus.
I put my faith in them, they protect and help me through the happy and the sad in life. I could not imagine a world without them. November 2nd, I am thankful for sweets. I love them. Sweets can make me joyful when I am upset. They make my sweet tooth go at ease.
Especially Lava Cakes. November 3rd, I love my family. They push me to be the best I can be. My family supports me and always cheers me up when I am down. My family cares so much about me and will do anything for me if it is legal. I really couldn't imagine a world without them. November 4th, I am thankful for my teachers. They might give me a lot of hassle and work to do.
Yet they come through by trying to help however they can. Teachers can be funny and kind of cool. November 5th, I am thankful for my character traits. My hard-working trait, my try to be amazing at things trait, my sweet trait, my fashion trait, and my smart trait, and my love trait. But I also am thankful for those who stick around when my bad traits come out like my sassiness, my moody trait, my sensitiveness, my grumpy trait, my angry trait over dumb things, and even my trying to be amazing at things trait because I always try to be perfect.
Thanks, friends, and family for sticking around. Arthur Bozikas has penned a memoir that is heart-breaking and gutsy, as well as being full of hope and gratitude.
This book is guaranteed to lift up readers and have them believing in the resilience and transcendence of the human spirit, making it a must read for years to come. When reaching adolescence, most teenagers want more freedom, independence and control in their lives.
For Arthur, it was the opposite, as he discovered that his lifespan would only last up to adulthood. After becoming an adult, Arthur was waiting for his death. It was at the eleventh hour, at the age of twenty-one, when Arthur was introduced to a miracle treatment, but only after the damage of iron overload from all the blood transfusion was done to his body.
Grateful to be given a chance to survive for a few more years, Arthur decided to do something with his life; to get married, buy a house and also to have children, knowing he had no prospect of any future for himself. At the age of sixty, Arthur and his wife Helen celebrated their thirty-five-year marriage anniversary.
Recently we caught up with Bozikas so we could learn more about this amazing human and very talented writer. Why was you story Iron Boy one that you felt you needed to share with the world? I promised myself if I made it to the age of 40 years old, I would put it all down in writing. I didn't know it will take me another twenty years to do it? When reading Iron Boy, the book struck me as a story on struggle, but more so about survival and endurance.
How has that challenges you faced growing up helped shape you as an individual today especially as it pertains to business and entrepreneurship?
This is the first of its kind worldwide, from the prospective of a patients' point of view and not from a specialist or doctor.
I wish I had something like Iron Boy when I was young and very afraid of my prospects! As a professional CEO for over twenty years, the challenges in business is that you need to equip yourself with the right information or you are dead in the water! People with my condition now do have my book to prepare for the future because there is one and it's up to the individual to believe!
Being married for 35 years is a huge accomplishment, what is the secret to your success that you can share with younger couples looking to hopefully have the same success in their marriages? I think if both couples feel like they can't wait to share a new idea with one another or are not prepared to go anywhere without their partner by their side, then this is the only secret that any younger couples must desire for a successful marriage!
These two examples will resolve all arguments that every couples get into a marriage too or later! From a life lesson perspective what are some of the key points that you hope others can take away from your story 'Iron Boy' and even more so what is something that you hope you leave behind to your children that you hope they can apply to their own lives? My children have been raised to see the person, and not the disability, that they have.
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