From child roles in Tyler Perry's House of Payne to playing Uma across Disney's Descendants franchise and Lightning in The CW's Black Lightning, China Anne McClain has built a two-decade acting and music career alongside her sisters in Thriii.
From a YouTube channel called 'Hello Kylie' to starring as Red in Disney's Descendants: The Rise of Red and headlining her own 'Valley Girl Problems' tour, Kylie Cantrall has built a multi-platform career since age nine.
A U.S. Army veteran turned NBA 2K YouTuber, Duke Dennis built AMP into a streaming powerhouse and now teaches at Kai Cenat's Streamer University, landing on Rolling Stone's top-5 most influential creators of 2024.
From the viral 2007 '300-page iPhone bill' video to over 7 million YouTube subscribers and 1.5 billion views, iJustine has been one of the internet's longest-running tech and lifestyle creators since 2006.
From voicing Tuck on Wonder Pets! as a child to fronting a Covergirl campaign and voicing Bumblebee in DC Super Hero Girls, Teala Dunn built a lifestyle following of 6.2M+ on Instagram.
A props fabricator whose model work appeared in Star Wars and The Matrix Reloaded spent 14 seasons testing myths on television — then built a YouTube maker platform that outlasted the show that made him famous.
A gaming channel that pivoted toward 'Hey, Vsauce, Michael here' became one of YouTube's defining science-and-philosophy shows — good enough to earn its host a trip to the White House and a stage tour with Adam Savage.
A New Jersey high schooler screencasting product unboxings in 2008 became, per a former Google SVP, 'the best technology reviewer on the planet' — and, off camera, a World Games gold medalist in ultimate frisbee.
A kid who couldn't afford instruments at his local Guitar Center grew up to cover Slayer on banjo, drum in a Billboard-charting comedy band, and set a Guinness World Record for the largest guitar pedalboard ever built.
The song a 13-year-old recorded for $4,000 in 2011 was mocked as one of the worst ever made — fifteen years and two acclaimed albums later, the RIAA certified it Platinum.
A musical theatre graduate who spent years attending Jay Leno tapings just to study his comedic timing turned an audience-interview blog into a YouTube channel — and ended up interviewing President Obama from the White House.
A film-school dropout from Alabama toured internationally with a six-member YouTube supergroup, then went on to release a solo album with Snoop Dogg on it and publish his own memoir before landing on Twitch.
