“The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.” - Zoe Sugg
YouTube is a growing platform and has become a source of living for many influencers. May it be education, social awareness, arts and entertainment, or promoting products/services, this social media platform has covered it all. Just like celebrities, YouTubers too have an immense number of fan following. So let’s have a glimpse of the journey of Top 5 Youtubers in India:
1. CarryMinati aka Ajey Nager
CarryMinati with Akshay Kumar (Image Source: koimoi)
Ajey Nagar, who goes by the name CarryMinati was born on June 12, 1999, in Faridabad, India. He studied at Delhi Public School (DPS) but skipped his board exams, fearing that he will fail his Economics paper. CarryMinati started his Youtube career in 2014 at the age of 10. At that time, AddictedA1 was his channel’s name. Just like a teenage boy, he uploaded gaming videos and reaction videos, but due to his lack of knowledge in content creation and promotion, he didn’t gain much audience. Then he moved to the channel CarryDeol. Gaming videos were uploaded here too, but the content was different and way much better than the previous. Hence, this proved to be more engaging. After this, he started roasting people which basically attracted huge number of traffic towards his channel.
CarryMinati says there is no big story behind this name. This was the creation of his mind and it seemed cool. His growth over the years has been tremendous. Today he has a diamond button for his YouTube channel.
2019 - Time's 10 Next Generation Leaders #10 and 2020 - Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia.. These are his achievements along with being a YouTube influencer having 36.9M subscribers and 16.1M followers on Instagram.
2. Ashish Chanchlani
Ashish won “Best Social Media Influencer” at the ITA awards, 2021 (Image Source: Twitter)
Ashish was born in Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra on December 8, 1993. Since childhood, he was passionate about acting. He got enrolled in B. Tech in Datta Meghe College of Engineering, Navi Mumbai. He always had a special corner for acting as he grew up watching Bollywood movies in his father’s theatre, Ashok-Anil Multiplex. Hence, later he was admitted to Barry John Acting Studio, Mumbai, to polish his acting skills.
He started his YouTube Channel in 2014 and was the fourth Indian YouTuber to get a diamond play button. He has 28.7M subscribers today. He won Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Award for ‘Best Digital Influencer – 2018. Also, he had the chance to make a video with his favorite star Akshay Kumar and has made similar videos with other celebrities like Kartik Aryan, etc. Currently, he has 14.6M followers, which makes him an Instagram influencer too.
3. Amit Bhadana
Amit with Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgan (Image Source: startuptalky)
Amit was born on September 7, 1994, in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh. He pursued law at Delhi University. When he received plenty of likes, comments, and shares on a dubbed video posted on Facebook, he decided to start his Youtube channel. He uploaded his first full video “Exams Be Like. Boards preperation be like” in 2017, which has over 5.5M views.
Amit confessed that he was terrified to tell his parents that he didn’t want to become a judge or lawyer. As a result, his parents didn’t know about Amit’s YouTube channel, until one of the family members saw his video when he started getting famous. He made videos with many Bollywood stars, such as Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgan. Dubbed video of Eminem’s song and a reply to “hello” by Adele was another success that lead others to follow his suit. Not only comedy, but Amit also tried his fortune in the music industry. He released his first music track “Parichay” with Ankit Singh Patyal in 2019 and “Aamtmvishwas” in 2021 with Badshah. Being appointed as the brand ambassador for Mobile Premier League in 2020 and enlisted as “Most Popular Indian YouTubers” in 2021, Amit has secured his place in the hearts of the masses.
Currently, he has 8.5M followers on Instagram and 24.1M subscribers on Youtube.
4. Bhuvam Bam
This young man was born in Baroda, Gujarat in 1994 but was brought up in Delhi, where he completed his studies. He has a degree in History from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College of Delhi University. Realizing his passion for music, he took training in classical and other forms of music. He started singing in bars and was very patient during his growth. His video mocking the reporter from the Kashmir floods went viral, and the idea of BB ki Vines came unexpectedly. His 2 to 12 minutes video named Titu talks has different characters like Bancho, Titu Mama, Bablu Janki, etc.
His success in the YouTube journey motivated him to enter in the music industry as well. His songs "Teri Mere Kahaani”, “Sang Hoon Tere”, “Safar”, “Rahguzzaar” and “Ajnabee", received millions of views.
Bhuvan Bham’s Movie poster – Plus Minus (Image source: Startup Talky)
In 2018 Bhuvan Bam also played the role of Captain Harbhajan Singh in the movie "Plus-minus". The movie was about the conversation on a train of a woman frustrated by her mother-in-law and captain Harbhajan Singh. He was also on the 30 under 30 list of Forbes India in 2020. Today he has 25.6 M subscribers and 14.8M followers on Instagram.
5. Harsh Beniwal
Born on 13 February, 1996 in New Delhi, Harsh completed his education in his hometown. He did Bachelor in Computer Application from Shri Aurobindo College New Delhi but dropped out in the second year as he wanted to become an actor. He started his journey in 2015, and by 2018, he earned 1M subscribers on YouTube. Not only did the Youtube creator get the diamond button, but Harsh also got the “Rising Star Award” in 2019 by MTV India and IwmBuzz. He also received the “Dadasahab Phalke Award” in 2018 for best YouTuber.
Harsh as Poggi with Tiger Shroff (image source: indianexpress)
His debut movie was “Student Of The Year 2” in the role of Poggi. Additionally, he got roles in Campus Diaries and Who’s Your Daddy as Soggy, etc. Beniwal now has 15M subscribers on youtube and 5.6M followers on Instagram.
All these personalities are different in creating their content, but they convey the same message, that is to follow your heart and success will follow you with time.
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