YouTube is a lot more than just people screaming over video game footage and young men ranting about feminism in six-hour live streams. Sometimes there are people with genuine talent who manage to make a mark on the site, despite parent company Google increasingly making moves towards forcing its content creators to put out daily, low quality videos until they have nervous breakdowns.
We thought we’d focus on some of the very best female video makers available to view on the sit, with the following women each having established sizeable audiences for themselves as a result of their funny, intelligent or simply downright interesting videos they feature on their channels to their millions of viewers.
Here are 6 amazing women you should follow on YouTube:
Anna Akana
Anna Akana is known for her short films, sketch comedy and dry humor, with her honing her skills in stand-up before moving over to YouTube, accumulating over 1.5 million subscribers in the process.Anna’s videos veer from laid-back and honest to unexpectedly dark, with her having produced both frank discussions regarding her anxiety and self-esteem issues, along with sketches involving mutated alien babies that feast on human flesh. She even made a small appearance in Marvel’s Ant-Man.
Nikki Glaser
Nikki Glaser may not be a YouTube star as such, with her predominantly producing sketches for Comedy Central, but videos from her show Not Safe With Nikki Glaser have attracted quite a bit of attention over the past year. It’s understandable why this is the case, with her creating genuinely laugh-out-loud funny skits that include her asking her friends if they’d have sex with her in a lie detector test and, in her most hilarious series of videos, enlisting fellow comedians to help her create live dialogue for a porn shoot.
Jenna Marbles
Jenna Marbles is arguably the most famous female YouTuber, with her channel ranking among the top 25 most subscribed on the entire site with a staggering 16.5 million subscribers. Unlike most successful YouTubers the content on her channel doesn’t follow a particular pattern, with her instead simply uploading whatever she feels like. This results in bizarre comedy skits, beauty tutorial parodies (her video ‘How to trick people into thinking you’re good looking’ was her breakout viral hit back in 2010) and cameo appearances from her trio of dogs.
IISuperwomanII
IISuperwomanII a.k.a. Lilly Singh produces high-budget comedy videos, having amassed over 10 million subscribers thanks to videos such as the one above, which features appearances from the Stranger Things kids. Lilly’s one of YouTube’s breakout stars, having won an MTV award and set to release her debut book in early 2017.
Chez Lindsay
Lindsay Ellis is most famous for her turn as “Nostalgia Chick,” who created video for Channel Awesome alongside her male counterpart, Doug “Nostalgia Critic” Walker. Now Lindsay has broken out on her own, introducing the Chez Lindsay YouTube channel which, while it may not drive in the same numbers, features much more in-depth and entertaining videos that feature Lindsay offering critical analysis of a variety of subjects, from films through to comics and politics. Her Loose Canon series is her best work on the channel thus far, with her diving into subjects from the X-Men villain Mystique through to Jack The Ripper.
communitychannel
communitychannel’s Natalie Tran is without a doubt one of the funniest YouTubers we’ve come across, and though she boasts an incredibly healthy 1.8 million followers it’s still a minor tragedy that she doesn’t have more. Natalie has been on YouTube for a whopping 10 years now, with her mix of monologues and sketches having endured the test of time. We imagine she’ll be around for many more years to come, and she should definitely be high on your list of channels to watch.
