She parlayed YouTube megafame into a late-night hosting chair, ushering a major network into a belatedly woke future.
list of richest YouTubers, with a reported $16 million net worth.
This year she’s been actively pursuing spiritual growth—“I feel like I’m in a really good place”—but admits it took her a long time to find her center. “I vividly remember one day, I’d just gone to the White House. I met with Mrs. Obama, did a video with her, came home, went on Facebook, and saw one of my cousins got engaged. And I felt like crap. Like, Oh my God, I am such a failure; what am I even doing with my life? ” She exhales, continues.
Coming out was a challenge like no other. “When I tweeted about being bisexual, a lot of people told me it’s bad, that I shouldn’t do that, especially because I have fans in cultures around the world that might not support it. And I remember making the decision, like, well, eff it, you don’t get to have an opinion about who I am.” Plus, she’d let too much sun in to start yanking down the shades. “Loving myself was a very hard lesson. I want to love myself, but I also want to be myself.
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