Kelli Maple on becoming a YouTuber with over 1.8 million subscribers

Published: Nov. 8, 2021, 1:07 p.m.

Kelli Maple is a YouTuber with 1.8 M subscribers, her content mainly focuses on reborn dolls, baby alives, and vlogs of her life.

Kelli's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/KelliMaple

Kelli's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellimapleyt/

Grateful Living Info:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hn4ttttmbWfVqAhWh4Jhi

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1503185956

My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aroy81547/?hl=en

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gratefulliving4

Time Stamps:

0:00 Intro

0:38 Kelly’s childhood + YouTube channel

1:04 First introduction to YouTube

1:50 Take Us to Making Your First Video in March 2014

3:10 Have you always been creative?

4:20 How did you keep yourself creating content throughout the first year?

5:36 Growing from 26 subscribers to 40,000 subscribers in 9 months

7:13 Are you able to make content for yourself or are you keeping your audience in mind?

8:21 Family reaction to be a content creator at a young age

10:00 Dealing with judgment

10:55 Managing school and content creation

12:41 Managing posting different types of content

13:48 Building community advice

14:43 Balancing privacy of personal life

16:13 Finding authentic friends

17:00 Do you tell people you’re a content creator?

17:52 Burnout

19:04 Weight on you as a creator

20:05 Monetization

21:00 Week in the life of Kelli

21:43 Managing social media accounts

22:38 Eating disorder

23:50 Camera research

25:00 Advice to someone starting out

26:00 Mental health advice for creators

26:57 How long does it take you to produce a video?

27:41 Covid

29:19 Baby Alive, Reborn

30:13 Decompress from social media

31:07 Contextualizing the impact you’ve had (videos of 25 million people watching)