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Ariella Zykov (born May 16, 1993) is an American YouTube entrepreneur, Assistant graphic designer for Rockstar Games and artist.

Early life
Ariella was born in Clearwater, Florida to her mother Annemarie, a art teacher and Russian born father Adrian Zykov, a mechanic. Ariella is the second-youngest of two sisters, Adrianna (age 22) and Adalia (age 17). Ariella started art when she was 6, she was inspired by her mother who is a artist herself. Ariella started Tampa Art School & Design School, she then attended the University of Florida and graduated with the bachelor in the fine arts. Ariella started YouTube in 2008 by playing the 2004 life simulation pc game The Sims 2, she then started The Sims 3 and gained 200,000 subscribers. Afterwards she started the sandbox indie game Minecraft and gained 500,000 subscribers. As of September 2013, Ariella has more than 800,000 subscribers. Ariella started dating Zach Jepson who she met in 10th Grade. Zach proposed to Ariella in April 2013 and are planned to get married at Christmas 2013.