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Internet Celebrities

When you think of the word internet celebrity what usually comes to mind maybe it's someone that got famous off a viral video, or there famous off a reality show or someone that post comedy videos. It doesn't take much for someone to go viral off trends, challenges, or recording someone doing something that made you laugh. Social media is evolving everyday and so are the people, a few of the biggest platforms out their are Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat and Tick-Tok. Now people are aware that you can make a pretty good profit from these platforms so tons and tons of new and old influencers are either trying to make a name for themselves. Or trying to stay relevant of changing times a good example was vine everyone has heard of vine this use to be the place where you could find the funniest videos. A lot of influencers who are really big now started here, they used the platform to show millions of people what their talents were and why you should stay connected with them. King Bach had over 15.8 million followers, Lele Pons 11.17 millions followers, Rudy Mancuso 10.54 million followers and Logan Paul 9.35 million followers.They posted sketch comedy, impersonations they were a fresh generation of comedy stars who wanted people to know who they were.From Vine they went over to Instagram on this platform they continued creating their content and there supporters grew tremendously into the YouTube community. Once entering the YouTube community large brands started to reach out to them, so now they were able to travel with different brand deals, promote the brands and earn a profit.That also gave them the room to expand on their content, while also showing others what they did and what they are doing in order to be successful in the industry.

So what is YouTube and how was it able to help impact these influencers lives, well YouTube is a platform where people can post different content based on what their supporters enjoy watching such as food-related videos,funny-videos,or real events in day-to-day lives.So this new fresh generation took advance of this opportunity and made a prominent difference in people’s lives from there posts.The supporters enjoyed watching  their lives and all the success in the filming and entertainment industry that came along. It was something that was different for people to see so that is what kept bringing them back; Social media platforms allows them to reach larger audiences, which makes communication  with supporters way easier than before. Once someone liked the video then possibly shared it influencers become worldly widespread, and this is what bring them even more supporters. If people know who you are from around the world, you are now in the spotlight and consider a internet celebrity. But the clear difference between those who become a viral hit and influencers is how they can use that attention to help promote themselves for the better.

When it comes to Instagram couples, models and comedians these influencers  love to provide unique content for their supporters,  they want to do whatever it takes to bring bigger and better content. Supporters may suggest to the influencers to create a YouTube channel where they can bring their unique content ,make longer videos, and overall expand on their ideas. Once YouTube is made the influencers promote their content off Instagram so there supporters will come over to their channel and this will bring more people to discover who the influencer is and then subscribe. A prime example of a couple trying this out is YouTube couple De’arra & Ken this couple started off on Instagram then transited to YouTube with the support of their supporters, once they made there channel their career took off.The channel is called DK4L which stands for De’arra and Ken for life, so they started this channel on December 11,2014, they later created another channel called DK4L VLOGS which is a channel where they could post longer videos and show more of their day to day lives which was more-so vlogging. Their journey to were they are wasn't easy but with their drive and willingness to be better and do better is the reason for their success.So as of now their vlog channel has 2.49 million subscribers and their main channel has 5.8 million subscribers(on this source it says 3.6 million but it has grown form then.)This couple is growing and their success is the result of it.

De’arra and Ken have been in a relationship for three years De’arra who is 23 years and her man Ken who is 25 years old, their have different personalities that is what drew this couple together. De’arra is very entertaining and really outgoing and loves to trying different things.Ken is more like the mature one in the relationship, but he still brings the fun with different travel ideas, pranks, challenges. This is one of many couples out their building a platform for themselves not only from YouTube but different social media platforms; Social Media networks has helped millions of people create unique content that is  shared around the world, since their lives are out their for the public to see. It also come with negativity, people feel like they have the right to talk about people's life because it is out their for them to see.What influencers are now trying doing is taking time off to better themselves, and get a break from the internet focus more on their mental health. This topic about health whether it is mental health, physical health are things that are so important for people to understand needs to be talked more about. Mental health is now talked about more than ever before it has become the new normal to speck to others about certain things that a person may go through. Being in any social media platform having a good mental health status, knowing how to handle negativity, and still being able to grow and expand on who you are as a person is powerful. More light should be shined on people are overcoming all these odds and is still keeping a smile on their face while living their best lives, overall social media is a place. Where anyone can go to see different things and learn something new, but it should also be a place where people lift each other up when they fall rather than bring each other down.

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