.nailogical has nearly seven million subscribers who watch her comedic videos. But from Monday to Friday, she's a crime stats analyst for StatsCan.
Cristine Rotenberg stands at the front of a stanchioned crowd, posing for photos with squealing teenage girls and giving out hugs and autographs. Around 250 people are in a line that snakes across a cavernous room in the Anaheim Convention Center in California. Rotenberg, 30, is no famous musician or movie star . She’s a YouTuber at VidCon 2018, an annual three-day convention for creators on the platform to meet each other and their fans.
Rotenberg started her YouTube channel after finishing her master’s degree in sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa, where she lives, sharing elaborate nail-design tutorials with a loyal audience. Eventually, she shifted her focus to the comical, painting her nails in unconventional places like the gym or a Calgary Flames home game. Like many online celebrities, Rotenberg shot to fame after a viral moment.
“She’s really just connecting with an audience and telling good stories,” says Corrado Coia, co-founder of Buffer Festival, an annual YouTube festival that takes place in Toronto. That intimacy is often what catapults regular people to stardom on the platform. Think full-time YouTubers like Scarborough, Ont.’s Lilly Singh or Swedish creator Felix Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie. Movie stars make films for themselves, says Coia. YouTubers make videos just for you—or so it seems.
Her fans know about Rotenberg’s not-so-secret life as a crime stats analyst. She mentions her academic background in several videos . And some are curious about her day job. So, naturally, she filmed a YouTube video with her team director at Statistics Canada, now viewed 3.9 million times.
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