From “How-tos” to “How’d they do that?”, creators have made a variety of content for the YouTube platform. With this page, we hope to showcase to you a sample of creators with a variety of content, personality, and backgrounds.
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Channel Banner Visual Aid
YouTube is available on many devices and uses responsive design to keep the channel pages consistent across them. A single image is used and cropped to fit for each device. This creates a “safe zone” in the middle where text and logos can be placed to appear on all devices.
To help visualize this “safe zone” and how the banner will appear on different platforms, we created a visual aid that can be added as a new layer in Pixlr X.
YouTube Content Creators
Bethany Mota is a fashion-focused YouTuber, beginning her channel in 2009 when she was 13 years old. After being bullied by a friend, Bethany turned to YouTube as a place to express herself without worrying about what others said.
Her first videos started with her uploading videos showing off recent fashion purchases. Today her channel’s videos have expanded beyond fashion to also include DIY beauty, hair, and makeup tutorials, as well as general lifestyle updates.
Since starting YouTube, Bethany has expanded beyond vlogging to become a fashion designer and a singer. Currently, she has her own product lines for clothing, perfume, and accessories available through Aéropostale.
Dude Perfect is a collection of former college roommates (Coby, Cory, Cody, Garrett, and Tyler) who performed trick shots in their free time. After recording a collection of tricks, the compilation was uploaded to YouTube in April 2009. By the end of the week, the video had gone viral, achieving 200,000 views.
Dude Perfect continued to create and put out more elaborate trick shots, including world records. The group also produces sketches, head to head sports battles, and additional side challenges.
In addition to their YouTube channel, the group’s stunts have been used to help promote sports teams, athletes, events, products, and charities. In 2016, they started their own TV show, which now airs on Nickelodeon.
Minutephysics is an educational-based channel that uses a whiteboard animation style to demonstrate the concepts being taught. The topics are kept brief while explaining them in more general terms, making the videos great for all ages.
The channel’s creator Henry Reich combines his physicist background with animation skills to create the videos. Each video is created without the need for a camera, with just Henry lending his own voice to the videos.
In addition to Minutephysics, a second channel called MinuteEarth as well as Spanish versions of both channels. MinuteEarth was created to discuss other topics outside of physics. These videos are presented with a similar style but often include other narrators.
OffbeatLook is Camille Johnson’s YouTube channel. When she was 14 years old, she created her first channel (AmberLightsMakeup), but as her content expanded beyond makeup tutorials, she changed her channel to OffbeatLook to reflect the new direction.
Today her channel primarily focuses on hair dye tutorials, reviews, and tips. In addition, the channel has makeup tutorials, fashion styling tips, beauty routines, and lifestyle/health vlogs.
She has worked with YouTube to produce a series of videos helping others to get started on the platform as part of their Creators Academy.
PopularMMO is a gaming channel featuring Pat and Jen, a pair who frequently play Minecraft together. In addition to the PopularMMO channel, they also have the GamingWithJen channel where they play Roblox.
Videos typically involve Pat and Jen playing in adventure worlds, mini-games, or challenge maps. Their videos often have a storytelling element, with various characters they have created, like “Evil Jen” and “Bomby”, Pat’s pet creeper.
Beyond YouTube, they have released a series of books inspired by their storytelling, featuring their characters in Minecraft adventures.
The Vlog Brothers are John and Hank Green. Starting in 2007, the brothers started uploading vlogs (video blogs) to each other as a way to improve their relationship with each other (they called the project “Brotherhood 2.0”).
The brothers would take turns uploading videos, with each video starting with the brother addressing the video to the other and ending with “Don’t forget to be awesome”. The videos are typically commentaries about something they learned, social topics, or recent events.
Today the duo has branched out with over a dozen other channels. These channels are primarily educational ones, such as CrashCourse and SciShow.
