But I am honestly a little bit impressed with how I have learned that a lot of times, they’re just saying stuff to vent, or they’re going through things in their own life that they feel like they need to project onto other people. Rachel: There are definitely times when people can be hurtful. That’s why I’ve shifted into just making videos that I’m really, really excited about and learning new crafts because even if it doesn’t do well by my own fake standards in my brain, it’s something that I had a ton of fun with making. There’s always that potential disappointment when you think something is gonna do really well and it doesn’t. Something maybe did well the first time you posted it, and then not so well the second time. Or, comparing your own content to months before. It’s so easy to fall into the trap of comparing your content to other people’s. Rachel: A huge part of being a content creator online is the mental game that goes with it. Photo: Tara Morris for Mozilla On mental health It’s weird to think that many people actually care about what I put out into the world. I thought if I ever hit a million, that’d be crazy. It’s wild because it was sort of this mythical number that I had just in my head from when I started my channel. Rachel: I hit 1 million subscribers I think back in August. I was escaping into my own projects, and also allowing that escapism for other people. So being able to provide soothing, calming videos of just something silly was a way for me to combat the scariness of real life. Everything else in the world really, really just sucked, and it was chaos. People were sort of craving that wholesome corner of the internet. But then the work part of me was really able to, since I was home all the time, delve into projects. I think everyone was really frightened and didn’t know what was going to happen. I had my personal life, which was scary and unpredictable. Rachel: So the pandemic for me was kind of a 50-50 split. Photo: Tara Morris for Mozilla On viewers taking comfort from her channel I remember handing my two weeks to my boss, and he was very confused. The prize money that I won, I decided to use as a cushion to make the leap into YouTube full-time, which was absolutely terrifying. There was this makeup competition that I ended up winning. I was also exploring vintage fashion, and I decided to start a YouTube channel mostly doing vintage hair and makeup tutorials. So I started making really embarrassing little YouTube videos.Īfter film school, I ventured into Boston film jobs. Rachel: In high school, there were these few YouTubers that I would watch all the time and I would think, “How cool would it be just to be able to do that?” I don’t think I even thought about making it a job because I was 14 or 15. Read more from Rachel about being a content creator: On YouTube as a career How I dress now, I’m kind of just making myself my own main character.” “It’s a lot more fun to put together outfits when you get to choose. “Even though the fashion that I choose has changed over the years, I think my theme has always been that I always wanted to express myself,” Rachel said.

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